Hell On The Humber

Hell On The Humber The official page of Hell On The Humber Event Series. Next race - Helloween - Saturday the 25th of October 2025 - 6 night endurance race 6pm - Midnight

Hell On the Humber, or HOTH as it’s affectionately known by the competitors who return year after year to test themselves against this brutal event, takes place on the world famous Humber Bridge, and is truly an endurance race like no other. Competitors start the race on a Saturday in August and run, jog, walk or crawl their way through 6, 12 or 24 hours of soul destroying and body breaking 4 mile

laps of the bridge walkway, racking up as many miles as they can before crossing the finish line at 7am on Sunday. It’s tough, it’s challenging, and it hurts like nothing else you can imagine, and you will hate the race at some point. We can guarantee that whether you’re a novice, or the most experienced of Ultra runners, you will hurt and you will want to quit. You’ll rationalise and reason to find a way out; or your body will simply start to fail. Have you got what it takes to keep going and join the small and exclusive group of HOTH finishers? We don’t call HOTH an Ultra event as such, though it’s entirely possible that it could be for you, if that’s your choice. We prefer to refer to HOTH as an endurance race, as everybody is different and you don’t necessarily need to complete a distance over 26 miles to challenge your own endurance. As long as you meet the minimum requirements and follow the rules, you’re welcome to step forward and put your name on the list. Don’t let the enormity of the challenge intimidate you, with preparation and a positive mind you can achieve your goal and finish this most challenging of events. Do it on your own, or as a team of three, whichever race format you choose is equally as testing, just in different ways. Want More? HOTH Reloaded – Helloween Madness

On the last Saturday in October we reload HOTH and run a special 6 hour version of the race, called Helloween Madness. Competitors are usually invited from those who have completed the longer race in August, and the event is always fancy dress. It may be shorter but it’s no less of a challenge, the cold temperatures take care of that. Be warned – HOTH SELLS OUT EVERY YEAR!

***HO HO HOTH 2025 - Entries Open and Selling Fast!***As many of you know, HOTH is taking a year off in 2026 while the b...
31/10/2025

***HO HO HOTH 2025 - Entries Open and Selling Fast!***

As many of you know, HOTH is taking a year off in 2026 while the bridge is maintained, tidied, polished, and generally cared for (essential engineering by works, in other words), which means that the December 6 hour race is the last opportunity to run the bridge with us until 2027!

So, if you want to question your life choices while running, walking, or crawling for 6 hours on a soft, cushioned, and flat course 🤥 now’s the time to act. Especially as it’s payday and all…

If you’re a hardcore HOTH addict who needs a fix, you’re a new inductee that loved Helloween so much you simply ‘must’ do it again, or if you’ve been absent a while and were thinking or a return, you’re all welcome. As are those who are yet to give it a try, but always wanted to, and want an adequate recovery period afterwards…

We’ll play Christmas music (I can’t make promises about the singing), and we’ll have mince pies and other festive treats at Event HQ, and if you’re really lucky, we can try and book in some -5° temperatures with snow and ice. Or, just some good old fashioned wind and rain, depending how the vote goes. Either way, it kicks off at lunchtime and is all over by 6pm! Meaning you can probably sleep in your own beds, and get home in time for takeaways and onesies while watching terrible Christmas films.

See you there?

HO HO HOTH Reloaded - 6 Hours of day racing on the world famous Humber Bridge. The world's most painful Santa run...

***HELLOWEEN 2025 - IT ISN’T TOO LATE!***It’s the 1st of October, and the long, hot summer seems like years ago, replace...
01/10/2025

***HELLOWEEN 2025 - IT ISN’T TOO LATE!***

It’s the 1st of October, and the long, hot summer seems like years ago, replaced overnight by a year that jumped straight to winter and gave autumn a miss. Naturally, this means that it’s Helloween month, and the most fun 6 hour event in the calendar is marching with I’ll deserved confidence over the horizon.

So… As it was only just pay day, and you still just about have some money in the bank despite having done a food shop for the week and paid the electric bill, why not sign up and come join the fun?

6 hours, finishing at midnight, sleep in your own bed, and wake up on Sunday feeling quite wonderful. What’s not to like? It doesn’t even start until 6pm, so you can sleep in the day of the race, and spend your day eating in preparation.

Anyway, enough of that. Now’s the time to enter if you’re going to, and for those who have already, the merch order is going out later this week!

Oh, and we may have a C word HOHO HOTH in the pipeline.

Helloween link below!

HOTH Halloween - 6 Hours of night racing on the world famous Humber Bridge from 6pm - Midnight. Run, walk, or crawl, it's up to you...

***HELLOWEEN 2025***Tickets to this year’s 6 hour Halloween night race are live and selling, so if you want to come and ...
06/09/2025

***HELLOWEEN 2025***

Tickets to this year’s 6 hour Halloween night race are live and selling, so if you want to come and join the fun of 6 hours walking, running, crawling, and questioning your life choice, now’s a good time to sign up and join the fun.

It’s ‘only’ 6 hours, what’s the worst that could happen?

HOTH Halloween - 6 Hours of night racing on the world famous Humber Bridge from 6pm - Midnight. Run, walk, or crawl, it's up to you...

***HOTH Helloween - Ellie On The Humber 6 Hour Night Race 2025 - Entries Open!***Maintenance schedules meant that Hellow...
14/08/2025

***HOTH Helloween - Ellie On The Humber 6 Hour Night Race 2025 - Entries Open!***

Maintenance schedules meant that Helloween 2025 wasn't supposed to be going ahead this year, but just when you thought it was safe to plan for autumn evenings on the couch watching horror films, while eating your own bodyweight in snacks after a long and hot summer of running, walking, working, or just good old fashioned living, here it is. Back with the excitement and confidence that only Helloween deserves, thanks to the management team at the Humber Bridge squeezing us into their schedule.

6 hours to run, walk, and / or crawl your way to midnight through the darkness of late October, and do it all with a smile on your face, whether it be real or painted on. In return you get a medal, a t shirt, and the type of swagger that shows everyone just how awesome you are for taking part in a 6 hour night race.

Want to really get into the 'spirit' of Helloween? Well, so do we, which is why many who attend the event (and there are a surprising number of repeat offenders) like to wear fancy dress for some or all of the race. This year's theme? Well, it's the one that everyone seems to love to hate, or hate to love, and as Helloween 2025 has popped up like a surprise from a jack in a box, we thought clowns could be a good idea... Fancy dress isn't mandatory, of course, what sort of clown would insist on that? IT is popular, though, and makes six hours of running or walking just a little more fun.

Entries are limited, and popularity is extensive. Helloween is EVERYONE’S favourite! So, come and join the fun, and give yourself something to look forward to in the long, dark misery of autumn.

HOTH Halloween - 6 Hours of night racing on the world famous Humber Bridge from 6pm - Midnight. Run, walk, or crawl, it's up to you...

***HOTH 2025 - Entries, Entries, Entries!***In just about a month from now, some very lucky and very special people are ...
14/07/2025

***HOTH 2025 - Entries, Entries, Entries!***

In just about a month from now, some very lucky and very special people are going to be running across the bridge for hours on end during the night… Want to be one of them?

Last push for 6 & 12 Hour HOTH entries, link below! I’ll be putting out a Merch order tomorrow, so keep watching.

It’s 6 or 12 hours. At night. How hard can it be???

The HOTH - Hell On The Humber Night Endurance Race 2025

***The HOTH 2025 - Entries Open!***Well, this wasn’t in the script… Due to a change in the maintenance schedule at our b...
08/06/2025

***The HOTH 2025 - Entries Open!***

Well, this wasn’t in the script…

Due to a change in the maintenance schedule at our beloved bridge, the management team have been very kind in supporting us to put on the traditional August HOTH event before they get on with the things they need to do.

Taking place on the weekend of the 16th of August 2025, we’ll have a 6 & 12 hour night race (Ouzo included) to help you top up the ridiculous tanks before we go into hiatus during the maintenance works. Both events will start at 18:00 on Saturday the 16th, with the 6 finishing at midnight, and the 12 going through until 6am on Sunday the 17th. There aren’t any day options because, well, I’m not stupid enough to do two 24s in one year!

Usual rules of 1 x 4 mile lap per 4 hour segment of the event stand, and all the usual understated attitude, insults, and abuse will be offered according to need. Oh, and you’re welcome to either walk it as you please, or chase a record. Your call.

Entries are out later than usual, and will be closing at the beginning of August if they haven’t sold out. Merch orders will go out in July. There are limited entries available, as usual (last year’s list of people missing out was rather long!)

So… Anyone fancy coming out to play in August?

The HOTH - Hell On The Humber Night Endurance Race 2025

***Mad Hatter 2025 - IT'S ALMOST HERE!***The only HOTH event of 2025 is almost upon us, and entries are selling fast!Wit...
02/03/2025

***Mad Hatter 2025 - IT'S ALMOST HERE!***

The only HOTH event of 2025 is almost upon us, and entries are selling fast!

With 6 , 12 and 24 hour events on offer, there's something for everyone with an incurable itch to run, walk, or crawl across everyone's favourite bridge.

There aren't many entries left, and when they're gone, they're gone, and if you miss out in March, the next HOTH isn't until Spring 2026!

If you like company, or you're scared of the dark, you'll be happy to know that there are plenty of people signed up for the 24 and 12, who will be running through the night. Whether they're the type of people you want to hang around with is another question...

Merch orders will be going out in the next week, too. So don't hang around!

Karl

Saturday 29th March 2025 - Hell On The Humber, known 'lovingly' as HOTH, is back for 2025 with the Outrageously Mad Hatter race!

***HOTH - OUTRAGEOUSLY MAD HATTER!***With only one HOTH event in 2025 due to maintenance works on the bridge footpaths, ...
02/02/2025

***HOTH - OUTRAGEOUSLY MAD HATTER!***

With only one HOTH event in 2025 due to maintenance works on the bridge footpaths, everything’s being rolled into one at the Mad Hatter, and which will see 6, 12, and even 24 hour events running on the 29th of March!

Entries are coming in fast, with regulars and those wanting to take on the bridge making sure they get in for the only event this year, so why not click the button and join the fun?

Entries are limited, and there isn’t a waiting list or any ticket transfers, so you’ve got to be in it to win it, and by win it I mean get sore muscles and cry a bit.

Bring a tent, some spare clothes, bring a friend? and maybe a sense of humour, and give it a go. You don’t need to run it, walking is fine, and the minimum is only 8 miles (two laps of the bridge), so why not? However… If you want to race it and push for a course record, you’re welcome to do that, too. Just don’t bring your ego! The medal and tees are cool, as always, and there’ll even be merch available recognising this oddity of a race year!

Tick, tock… Coming out to play?

Saturday 29th March 2025 - Hell On The Humber, known 'lovingly' as HOTH, is back for 2025 with the Outrageously Mad Hatter race!

***HOTH Event Series 2025 - Important Announcement***I’ve been informed that due to significant engineering works starti...
10/11/2024

***HOTH Event Series 2025 - Important Announcement***

I’ve been informed that due to significant engineering works starting next year, events that use the footpaths either side of the bridge will not be able to go ahead beyond the 1st of April 2025. The works are expected to extend into 2026, though we won’t know how that will be I’ll impact the HOTH event series until closer to the time

Unfortunately, that means the following HOTH series events will not be going ahead in 2025:

The HOTH (August)
Helloween (October)
HOHO HOTH (December)

As a contingency, we’re working to not only make sure The Mad Hatter goes ahead on the weekend of March the 29th 2025, but to expand it into a ‘really’ Mad Hatter with the addition of a 12 hour night race, and a 24 hour race (subject to numbers) Subject to the 24 hour race getting the numbers, there’ll also be a 6 and 12 hour day race option, so we meet everyone’s needs.

So… If you want to race HOTH in 2025, you have just one opportunity! Put it in your diaries, make your excuses to your family, and buy yourself a tent if you don’t already have one. It’s going to be a long weekend in March for us all!

If you want a 6 hour Christmas themed daytime HOTH anytime in the next couple of years, it’s this year’s HOHO HOTH on Saturday the 7th of December, 12 noon until 6. Places are filling up, so get yourself booked on!

I’ll be opening entries to Mad Hatter as soon as possible, and as always, entries will be limited.

HO HO HOTH Reloaded - 6 Hours of day racing on the world famous Humber Bridge. The world's most painful Santa run...

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