It happens that you write a post about a product or service, and then you start using it yourself. This weekend I was invited as a spectator on! And now I understand that next time I will go to participate. For three hours I watched with envy as office plankton swam in fat, fit athletes, serious adults and students overcame the obstacle course.

The race was held in Alabino near Moscow. And this is not the only place where people can shake off the office dust and pass the test of soldier's strength. This year, for example, the team of the League of Heroes holds its races in 14 cities at once. One can only admire her diligence, because even one sport's event per 1000 people - it is no longer easy, but they manage to do it all over Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka.

"Race of Heroes" is a competition on an obstacle course similar to the one where special forces are trained. Participants need to run over rough terrain and at the same time jump over walls, climb ropes, swim over pits with mud and so on (you have probably seen something like this in films about the American army).

Just look at the layout of the track and the number of obstacles! Next, I will tell you about a small part, since it is simply impossible to remove and insert everything into a post) You will not have enough traffic to upload all the photos!

You can participate alone or in a team. All people over 18 years old are allowed to run, regardless of physical fitness.

You need to buy a ticket for the race only if you are going to participate in it, spectators have free admission. There is no age limit for spectators, so you can bring your children and show them how you turn the heat on the obstacle course. There is a lot of entertainment for guests, so no one will be bored. Adults can watch the military demonstration organized by the organizers before the start of the race, and children can have fun in the children's area.

The event begins with the registration of participants. There are different options for participating in the Race. You can run the obstacle course for yourself in an individual race (but this is only for Moscow). Or you can run as a whole platoon team of 10 people (in Moscow in teams of 20 people). You can assemble your own team or join one that lacks members.

The teams here are called platoons. There is also an opportunity to participate in the championship. This is the same as team races, only with stricter timing and obstacle judging. The winners of this format of participation will be able to compete at the final of the Race of Heroes in Moscow on September 10. The prize fund is 1 million rubles. :)

Luggage storage and changing rooms are provided for participants. The organizers recommend taking with you a comfortable sportswear and shoes.

Before going on a distance, you can try your hand at all kinds of activities. For example, they pull "Ural"

The whole competition is based on the army theme.

Even while passing the distance, there are obstacles such as smoke screens, ambushes and blank shots from tanks. Have you ever heard a tank shoot? Loudly!

Since the competitions are held at a real military training ground, there are many operating equipment.

A general warm-up is required before the race. And then you can go into battle!

Start

The first team went!

Teams start at intervals of several minutes.

Next is an endless series of obstacles. The entire route is 10 km long. Someone passes it in a little over an hour, and someone leisurely runs for 4 hours.

Many people face such challenges for the first time in their lives. In such an environment, you recognize yourself from the other side!

View from above!

After months of working in the office, this is not easy!

Here you have to jump into the water ...

One girl was afraid and the whole team persuaded her for 10 minutes. In general, the most correct thing is to gather a team and run together, so it's more fun and at a difficult moment friends will help.

But how proud they are after passing the tests!

Here we need teamwork! So if you do not know how to unite your work collective, feel free to send it to the “Race of Heroes”.

Each platoon is supervised by an instructor who is a professional athlete.

It often happens that a participant who decides to participate in a team race meets his teammates just an hour before the start. But at the finish line after so many tests, they are already like family to each other!

During a simple solo team run, some obstacles can be skipped if you are not confident in your abilities. In the championship race, everything is much stricter: you cannot skip obstacles, all violations are recorded by the judges.

In total, about 1000 people took part in the races, and there were many girls among them.

Some of them were tested not just on a par with men, but even better!

Equipment

By the way, doctors are on duty along the entire route, just in case.

Look at these happy faces!

Friends will be jealous!

Ford

Here is the finish!

Here each participant receives a real token.

After the race, a field kitchen awaits all participants. The menu includes buckwheat with stewed meat and sweet tea. Then you can take a hot shower.

Overall, the event is very well thought out. For participants, transfers are organized, and for those who are by car, there is a huge free parking.

All this is already included in the ticket price: transfer, parking, shower, meals, rewarding tokens and photography. You will also receive medical insurance and uniforms: a shirt-front with an individual number and gloves.

In general, I decided to put together a team of bloggers. Let's get 20 people and we'll run at the end of summer!

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Race of Heroes will run all summer, right up to September. (you can follow the news at

On July 16, 2016, I took part in the annual Race of Heroes, which takes place in Alabino near Moscow. To finish, me and my platoon had to overcome 10 kilometers and 49 obstacles... For those who want to take part for the first time and test themselves for stamina, strength and endurance, but have not yet decided - I will leave this review. I think it will be useful to you.

Personal review of Race of Heroes 2016

A little background. At the beginning of the summer, I came across in the group of my city VKontakte an offer to take part in the Race of Heroes. Responding to the call (it was boring to sit at home) after a couple of days, all the volunteers gathered at the sports ground in the city center.

At the first meeting, we got to know each other, decided on the approximate date of participation in the race and decided Train 2-3 times a week in the evenings. We had about 2 months to prepare.

In the summer, the Race of Heroes takes place almost every week. We had a choice to participate in the Championship, Team or Individual race.

1. Championship - a platoon of 10 people, passing for a while without the ability to bypass obstacles. The final time is fixed by the last member of the team. The best platoon gets to the super final (20 km and 64 obstacles) at the end of the season with a prize fund 1 million rubles.
2. Command - the same platoon, only free passage for the sake of fun.
3. Individual - when you run for yourself, some tests are simplified.

At first, we thought to go the track just for fun, but after several weeks of training we felt the strength to participate in the Championship. I will not say that everyone had perfect physical training... But the desire to work and the support of the team made me become stronger and more enduring with each training session. The excitement appeared!

First month we did crossfit: circuit training with jumps, squats and push-ups. And closer to the race, once a week, they began to run a track of 10 kilometers.

Before the race, I was ill for 2-3 weeks and hardly exercised. I was already thinking of making a replacement so as not to let the guys down (yes, and vacation was just around the corner)... And "Oh gods!" literally in last days got to his feet before the race. Our reconnaissance team received the scheme of the Race of Heroes 2016 track.

We also watched some videos about Race of Heroes 2016 with obstacles and challenges. We discussed the strategy for their passage. Good video off the track, quite a lot of obstacles are shown with good Nickelback music!

How to dress

Then I went to the full! The main thing was to choose clothes so that it covered the knees and elbows. But according to the stories of experienced ones, that it will do in shorts too - I suffered peeling off my body at every second obstacle :)

This post, about how to dress correctly for the Race of Heroes, I saw only when I returned home. It's a pity.

Physical fitness and obstacles

Although I am drishchevat, but out of 49 tests I could not pass only 2-3 tests. What should be the focus? For myself, I noted 3 main components:

1. it endurance and a breather just to run 10 km.
2. Be able to pull up and throw your carcass over the fence. If you can't, the team will help you as a last resort.
3. Strong grip and brushes, as there are many "rods". No one will help you much here.

How to get there and register for the start

Yeah, I forgot to say that participation in the Race of Heroes is paid! It seems we were throwing off 3-3.5 thousand rubles from each. The captain registers the team according to the passport data of the participants and it is better to do this 2-3 weeks in advance.

1-2 days before the start, a letter is sent to your E-mail, where your platoon number and the start time are indicated. We left in the morning in three cars. We drove from Korolev to the Alabino test site without traffic jams in an hour and a half.

Come and get into the parking lot. Going to register a platoon (have a copy of your passport with you!) and get a bib with your number. Then you can change in the parking lot or in a special locker room where you put things in a garbage bag, glue a sticker with your number and hand it over to the storage room.

Behind every platoon assigned Instructor, who, with mutual agreement, yells and gives in the ass so that you run! He also records the passage of the tests and writes down the penalty points for the obstacle that you did not pass. Vladimir gave us a briefing, warm-up and helped to raise the fighting spirit!

Passing the Challenges Race of Heroes

From the outside, everything seems fun and amusing, but on the track at some moments you really worry about the safety of your health. Fractures, serious bruises and derailments are not uncommon here. So if the whole team ran to the finish line with just a hundred bruises and scratches, this is already a good result!

I will leave here some tips about passing challenges:

1. Be sure to warm up your muscles well before starting to avoid injuries and sprains. My shoulder has been healing for two months now. Unsuccessfully twisted his hand.

2. You can run with gloves. But it is better to take them off on the "rukhods". When you walk on your hands, knock off dirt and sand so that you don't slip.

3. Those who fail the test receive a penalty on the team (1 point is 15-30 seconds of penalty time). Everyone has 3 attempts. If you didn’t get it the first time, you can try again, but it’s better not to use the third attempt, as there will be no strength and you will simply waste time.

4. On high fences and walls at the end, leave the tallest or strongest, so that he himself can climb without support.

5. Some tests have plugs. Therefore, if you are running next to another team, try to get around it so that you do not have to waste time queuing.

6. Do not lose the laggards, decide who will be the rearmost.

7. After passing the water tests, sand is hammered into the crosses. If you can catch your breath, it's best to lacing and shaking out your shoes.

8. Treat your opponents with respect, mutual assistance is welcome!

9. Jump on bent legs, especially in the water!

10. On the last test "Everest" if 2-3 participants manage to climb up. The rest can be pulled up by standing on the rope knot.

In custody

At the finish line you will be met by the organizers and awarded with commemorative tokens, and the soldiers will treat you to the field kitchen. But first of all, it is better to go to a hot shower and change clothes, as the muscles cool down and begin to shiver.

At home, a portion of photos from the track awaits you (I'll leave a couple below good shots) , and after a week the results. In the Championship we took 15th place out of 34 teams... And if they just participated in the team competition, they would take 2nd place. I think next year we will continue the tradition and go through the Race of Heroes 2017.

That's all, there was a rehabilitation course in Cyprus ahead of me, but this is already a topic for the next article :) Thanks to the team, I am proud of my heroes!

31.05.2016 16:00

More than a thousand people came to the military training ground "Alabino" to test their strength in the "Race of Heroes" - a team survival game. Among the volunteers were 93 employees of Vnesheconombank.

The Race of Heroes is a unique event in the world of mass sports. Office workers, waiters, auto mechanics and other civilians had to overcome ten kilometers and 48 obstacles of various difficulty levels on the track intended for training special forces of the army. Firstly, it is incredibly difficult, and secondly, the game takes place in the conditions of imitation of hostilities. While you are crawling under barbed wire or storming a three-meter wall, you can hear bursts of automatic fire and explosions somewhere nearby. The race is served by conscripts - they are the ones who shoot clip after clip, throw smoke bombs and even shoot from a tank, so that you can feel yourself in the epicenter of the battle.

The place itself - the Alabino training range - immerses you in the atmosphere of army life. There is a barrier at the entrance, soldiers are inspecting cars and buses with the help of a trained dog. Next, you see tanks and artillery guns of different models lined up in a row, as if in a museum of military equipment under open air... Young guys in uniform are helping to find the way. "Guys, is the stadium on that side?" "Yes sir!" - they answer in a familiar phrase. And at the stadium, where the race begins, everyone can assemble and disassemble the machine, do exercises with weights and squat with chains. The highlight of the program is the tug of war with the truck. Teams of five are invited to temporarily move the eight-ton "Ural" twenty meters long.

So that the teams of the Race of Heroes, or, as they say here, platoons, do not interfere with each other on the track, they all start at different times. It is impossible to win or lose in the competition, the main thing is to reach the end. And those wishing to compete can overcome the same distance on other days as participants in the championship. Their rivals will be teams that enter the Race of Heroes track not only in the Moscow Region, but also in other Russian cities: St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk , Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk, in the Crimea. According to the results of passing the distances, the platoons gain points, for mistakes in overcoming obstacles they are deprived of these points. Winners at the end of the season receive cash awards: the prize fund of the championship - 1 million rubles.

This time, however, the teams had to participate in the competition outside the standings. And while some were conquering the first sections of the route, others were just warming up, including four platoons of Vnesheconombank. Its chairman, Sergei Gorkov, together with other employees came to the test site to test their strength. “For me, this is already the third Race of Heroes,” Gorkov told FP. - Two years ago I took part in it for the first time, but did not reach the finish line - I broke my leg. Then I set myself the task of improving, and after a year everything turned out well. So now "Race of Heroes" is a tradition for me. "

According to the chairman of Vnesheconombank, participation in these competitions is a rather serious test, and not everyone is able to withstand it: “I can say from my own experience that this is a challenge to myself. When you go the distance, you feel that you are changing. And then you realize that you can change the world around you. This is very important for us at Vnesheconombank. Employees must improve themselves in order to develop the company, because the world does not stand still. The bank needs energetic strong people to adapt to new conditions ”.

In addition, the "Race of Heroes" contributes to the development of the corporate spirit, because everyone does not act alone: \u200b\u200bthe team helps you overcome obstacles, you help the team. This is how a sense of solidarity is born. "Did you own the idea to hold a Race of Heroes for bank employees?" - we ask Sergei Gorkov. “No, this is entirely the initiative of the employees. The guys themselves created a team, trained and prepared, which I am infinitely happy about. Any employee of the company could take part, but no one was forced here by force, ”he replies.

Reaching the finish line in a competition is really not an easy task. Nearly fifty obstacles on the way require a variety of skills and abilities of the fighter. Somewhere you need to be able to climb vertical walls, somewhere, on the contrary, - crawl, bent low to the ground: under tanks, for example, or in a pipe underground. Some obstacles can only be overcome with the help of your hands, since there is a water moat under you, and the only way to get over it is to cling to the rings above your head.

It is impossible for a clean man to get off the track, and the main reason for that is the “Well” stage. The water in this "well" is by no means potable, because about half of it consists of clay, which is why its color is bright brown. To overcome the obstacle, you need to immerse yourself in all this. Most of the tests on the track were created by human hands, some, however, are of natural origin. "River ford", for example. True, in fact, this ford is more like a swamp, because it passes through a quiet backwater, strongly smelling of mud.

One way or another, but by the end of the obstacle course, all the participants in the race no longer looked like themselves. Exhausted, dirty, but happy, they desperately stormed Everest, and those who succeeded helped their teammates, literally lifting them with a rope to an eight-meter height. This is the essence of the game: it doesn't matter how you overcame the obstacle, the main thing is that you did it. Platoon help is welcome, because team spirit is more important than individual strength.

“Race of Heroes” is one of the brightest moments in my life, - one of the participants of the competition shares her impressions with FP. - At the same time, I would not say that my life is boring. I travel a lot, but today's race is very different from anything that happened before. The hardest part was to climb Everest. Even with fresh strength, I could hardly cope. And when you can barely stand on your feet from fatigue, it seems that this is generally impossible! But Race of Heroes is a team game, and nothing is impossible for my team. I am very grateful to my colleagues for their help. "