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Hyrox, Europe’s largest hybrid fitness and strength racing series, is coming to the UK for the first time, with events in London on 25 September, Birmingham on 30 October, and Manchester on 29 January. The race series, backed by big-name sponsors including Puma and Red Bull, has been hugely popular all over Europe and America. The events combine endurance and functional fitness in a single race, with contestants completing a series of one-kilometre runs divided between eight bouts of functional exercises: 1,000m on the ski erg, a 50m sled push, a 50m sled pull, 80m of burpee broad jumps, 1,000m of indoor rowing, 2,000m of kettlebell farmer’s carries, 100m of sandbag lunges and 75-100 wall ball throws. Find out more at hyrox.com