Deadly Dozen 2026–2027: fechas, sedes y entradas

## Deadly Dozen ##### Oct 03, 2025 (0:06:04) 💥 DEADLY DOZEN — Where Strength Meets Endurance 💥 The Deadly Dozen is one of the toughest physical challenges on the planet — 12 brutal workouts, completed back-to-back, against the clock. This is more than a race. It’s a test of grit, athleticism, and relentless determination. Athletes must combine raw power with unbreakable stamina to push through lifts, runs, carries, and high-volume bodyweight movements — all without stopping. There are no rest periods. No shortcuts. Just you vs. the work. ### Transcript {ts:0} sold out season. What are your thoughts? Yeah, fantastic. It was it was {ts:5} incredible. So, nine sold out races and and ready for 24 plus next year, including world championships and UK {ts:12} championships. So, yeah, first and foremost, obviously, we always thank the judges and everyone involved. But huge ... {ts:59} incredible. But the one thing I will say is that we get such good feedback about the race having that chilled vibe and {ts:67} that it you know people constantly say to me don't lose what this has. You know what and I said you know what's {ts:73} so good about Deadly Dozen is that we won't lose that because we're not scaling to 2,000 3,000 5,000 10,000 {ts:80} people away. There's a limit of what we can do on a track. {ts:83} Yeah. … We're gonna have a backdrop at every race because people have asked {ts:129} for it transfers on the day. So we our transfers are free. You can do them yourself on the dashboard and we don't {ts:135} charge for transfers and but there's a week cut off because we've got to send all the data to the timing companies and … What we do need to do is certain things even {ts:211} better. Yeah. Backdrop transfers on the day. {ts:215} More photographers and videographers, bigger media team, so we get more photos, but remains free. {ts:221} Prices will not increase next year. Championship races will be will be slightly more expensive. Obviously, big {ts:227} cash prizes that I'm going to have to pay out for. It's doing what we do even better. Keeping the vibe because the {ts:233} vibe is there. We have got a we have got a a what's the term for it? We have got a a really good culture, really good {ts:241} vibe. Yeah. And we're going to keep that. We're just going to have more {ts:244} photographers. We're going to have more infrastructure, more merchandise. We're going to keep them mores and we're {ts:250} going to keep um you know the patches and the stickers and all that good stuff. We're going to improve the finish {ts:255} line and you know we're going to maintain the prices that we've got. {ts:259} Yeah. So the headlines from this and the takeaways is everything that you love now about the race stays the same. {ts:267} Exactly that. ... And actually we're going to reinforce that because we're going to {ts:287} the photos are going to be free but there's going to be more photographers. We're going to lean harder into the {ts:291} athlete story. And not just the athletes, the elites. Like we've said before, it's almost 85 15% elite side. … There's going to be backdrops of people. There's going to be transfers on the {ts:313} day. We're going to have that same race, the same vibe that everyone's grown to love, which is, you know, I'm lost for {ts:320} words with how much positive feedback we get through, you know, the whole race experience.

##### Sep 01, 2025 (0:16:35) 💥 THE DEADLY DOZEN — World Championships Announcement Interview IN FULL 💥 The Deadly Dozen is one of the toughest physical challenges on the planet — 12 brutal workouts, completed back-to-back, against the clock. 🏟️ The impact of racing in huge stadiums with elite athletes breaking records. 🥇 Why having the world’s best matters — and how “The People’s Race” balances grassroots with elite competition. 💰 The launch of major championships: UK Champs (£60,000 prize fund), USA Champs, and the World Championships at Crystal Palace (£120,000+ prize money!). 🌍 How the qualification system works for national and world events — no wildcards, just leaderboard results. 🔥 Why this race could rival CrossFit and Hyrox as the ultimate test of fitness. … ... 💰 The launch of major championships: UK Champs (£60,000 prize fund), USA Champs, and the World Championships at Crystal Palace (£120,000+ prize money!). ... {ts:15} Um it was just a big event. It just I think the stadium just added to it and obviously we will be going there again. {ts:21} So we're in the process. Everyone's asking we're going to go there again. It's important for us to be everywhere, {ts:27} you know, at the smaller stadiums, but also at these big stadiums because they do have an effect. … ... And obviously there'll also be prize money for second and third across the overall. Um that's going to bring in {ts:259} the competitors and and we're going to we're going to look to keep scaling that. You know, following that, we're {ts:263} going to eventually do an invitational in Dubai where we invite some of the best athletes from the around the world. … {ts:302} to have done a deadly dozen within that category we will not have wild cards or invitations that's what the invitation {ts:307} will be so Dubai next year there'll be an invitation we'll invite you know all the sort {ts:313} um great athletes across different sports and fitness influencers to come and take on the deadly dozen. … So {ts:378} there's three races in April next year that have still got lots of spaces for that will be the last chance to qualify. {ts:384} So, everyone that's done Deadly Dozen through 24 through 25, if they're on the leaderboards and they're in the top {ts:391} amount, they will qualify for the UK champs and we'll send them an email for them to sign up. April next year is your {ts:398} last chance to qualify and we're going to have awards and prizes for age groups as well as this. {ts:405} So, one thing is with Deadly Dozen is at the normal races, we're planning on having, you know, thousands of races {ts:410} every year. … You got to be a really {ts:666} good runner. Deadly Dozen sits in the middle where it's just fast runs, fast 400s, and high reps. like them weights {ts:674} aren't particularly heavy for someone that is an elite fitness race and they're going to look at it and go {ts:679} that's easy. ... It's it's a single loop. {ts:691} And like we were talking about at the weekend, it could be the most exciting fitness race, you know, spect experience

### Date: 28 June 2025 Deadly Dozen events feature track and gym-based challenges designed to test physical endurance and strength. **The Deadly Run, the main event, combines 12x 400m track runs with 12 Labours (exercise stations)**. Gym races include Deadly Strong, focusing solely on the 12 Labours, and variations like Deadly ERG races, which integrate rowing, skiing, or biking, between Labours. From high-intensity intervals to mixed-modality endurance, these events offer participants diverse, rigorous challenges to push their limits in unique fitness competitions. The next event takes place at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Track. #### Author: Pedro van Gaalen

# Deadly Dozen Global Race news ### Race updates from around the fitness racing world # The Deadly Dozen triumphs in Texas **Saturday, 22nd March 2025** marked a huge milestone for Deadly Dozen—our first-ever race in the USA! Hosted at the athletics track in Waller, Houston, this event brought together just over 100 competitors ready to take on the challenge. It was incredible to see athletes from both the U.S. and Mexico line up for this landmark event.

##### Mar 21, 2025 (0:04:59) Brandon Bonine, owner of Bold Fitness, joins us to explain the "Deadly Dozen" race—an intense competition combining 12 exercises with 400m running between each. Joe Figueroa, athlete and fitness expert, demonstrates the moves, and the anchor takes on the challenge! Get a taste of what it's like to compete in this international fitness event, now making its U.S. debut in Houston! ### Transcript {ts:6} Welcome back. ... The deadly doesn’t fitness {ts:13} >> The deadly doesn’t fitness race is taking place. Joining race is taking place. Joining me live in studio 8 this me live in studio 8 this morning to talk about what this {ts:19} morning to talk about what this fitness competition consist of fitness competition consist of ... >> So the deadly doesn’t was {ts:39} >> So the deadly doesn’t was founded in the UK. It’s a founded in the UK. It’s a hybrid fitness competition held hybrid fitness competition held on a 400 meter track. It {ts:44} on a 400 meter track. It consists of 12 400 meter runs consists of 12 400 meter runs and 12 work out. So you start and 12 work out. So you start and the 400 meter run go inside {ts:51} and the 400 meter run go inside the infield. Do your workout the infield. Do your workout and then you come back out on and then you come back out on the track and do another 400 {ts:57} the track and do another 400 meter run and you do that 12 meter run and you do that 12 times. … {ts:83} each do 3 runs and 3 work out. So there’s a modification here. So there’s a modification here. Yeah, people can do what about Yeah, people can do what about prescribed? Wait for men and {ts:88} prescribed? Wait for men and … of that 60 60 reps and then of that 60 60 reps and then going run and you’re going and going run and you’re going and then come back and then you do {ts:129} then come back and then you do the next the next And you have a push press and a And you have a push press and a new 60 push presses as well. {ts:136} And what’s the prescribe to And what’s the prescribe to weight again, 30 pounds that 15 weight again, 30 pounds that 15 foot female. Looking at 60 {ts:144} foot female. Looking at 60 … Wow, that’s a major deal. So it will be held in {ts:187} deal. So it will be held in Waller, Texas tomorrow. How Waller, Texas tomorrow. How many people are participating many people are participating tomorrow? We have about 120 {ts:194} tomorrow? … Yes, register through today. Yes, okay. And you can register at {ts:204} okay. And you can register at deadly doesn’t dot com and deadly doesn’t dot com and again, this is something you again, this is something you can do to challenge yourself or {ts:208} can do to challenge yourself or

**Deadly Dozen** began in Macclesfield as the world’s first fitness racing **Track Race**. What started as a single event has grown into a global movement, now raced across multiple countries while staying true to the same accessible, universal, and scalable format that defined the original. - #### At its core, the Deadly Dozen Track Race is deliberately simple: **12 × 400m runs paired with 12 Labours**. No technical barriers. No complex rules. Just honest work, repeated under fatigue. ... A fast, brutal mile-long challenge: **400m Lunges + 400m Burpee Broad Jumps + 400m Bear Crawl + 400m Run**. Not the whole Track Race — but every bit as demanding. ... A scaled version of the Track Race for **12–15-year-olds**, featuring all 12 runs and 12 Labours at reduced volume and weight. *Guardians must be present.* ... A 12-hour ultra event where athletes attempt to complete **12 full Deadly Dozens** within the cutoff. Enter as **Solo, Pair or Relay**. *One of the hardest hybrid events in the world.* ... Please be aware that there is a NO REFUND, NO DEFERRAL policy on all races.