What Is Fitness Racing?
A category that barely existed a decade ago and now has its own calendar. What these events have in common, where they differ, and who they are for.
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A category that barely existed a decade ago and now has its own calendar. What these events have in common, where they differ, and who they are for.
Both combine running with functional fitness. But HYROX asks how much faster you can get at the same test, and TYRUN asks how complete an athlete you can become when the test keeps changing.
Four questions that narrow the field faster than reading every event website. Start with what you are bad at.
The most common way to have a bad day is to have a great first ten minutes. How to build a pacing plan that survives contact with the second half.
If the format appeals but the event does not fit — wrong city, wrong date, sold out, or too much running — here is what else exists and how it differs.
What is actually available if you are racing in Belgium, and what to check before you enter any of it.
Where the format came from, why it grew, and what it is actually testing that a running race and a gym competition each miss.
Every listing in our directory carries a date. This is what that date means and why we would rather leave a field empty than guess at it.