Glasgow is the Latest UK City to Join Rat Race Clan

Press Release / 27.04.2011

The Rats will be taking to the rivers in 2011 with the news that Glasgow will be the 10th city in the UK and Ireland to host a Rat Race.

The Scottish city follows in the footsteps of Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, Belfast, Galway, Edinburgh, Manchester, Stockton-Teeside, London and the event’s inaugural city Edinburgh, which hosted the first race on 17th July 2004.

The 2011 Urban Rat Race Series will feature three events - Glasgow, Stockton and the two day London Rat Race - the finale - which is sponsored by Redwood Creek. The Glasgow and Stockton races heavily feature the Rivers that dominate the cities while London will also take advantage of the River Thames with water-based activities interspersed with fiendish challenges through the network of sprawling city streets and expanse of the capitals suburbs.

The first race of the season sees the Rat Race Adventure Sports Team heading for Scotland and the inaugural Glasgow River Rat Race on Sunday 21st August.

The Rat Race Adventure sports team has partnered with See Glasgow and the new Riverside museum to create a route that features a 10k course along the banks of the River Clyde. The route will be broken up with adventure activities alongside, and sometimes in, the River itself. Kayaks will be provided but competitors can also expect to get wet.

Everyone will complete the same route, stretching into Glasgow city centre and then winding its way back down along the river via a myriad challenges and obstacles back to the stunning new building that houses the Riverside Museum.

The team then moves onto Stockton on Sunday 28th August with the Stockton-on-Tees River Rat Race. Competitors will start and finish from the event base at the Riverside Park near Stockton-on-Tees town centre and the route, encompassing both banks of the River Tees, makes full use of the surrounding iconic structures.

The activities range from walking the plank into the river at Captain Cook’s replica ship HM Bark Endeavour, short episodes of kayaking and wet dunkings, to scaling the mighty Newport Bridge via an exciting ladder climb.