The Fitness Race Lanzarote

Event information

About the race

The Fitness Race Lanzarote is a hybrid race: 6 kilometres of running split into eight legs and, between them, eight strength stations. The fifth edition was held on Saturday 11 April 2026 on Plaza de las Naciones in Puerto del Carmen, Tías, with more than 650 competitors from Lanzarote, the rest of the Canaries, mainland Spain and abroad.

It is organised by Club Deportivo The Fitness Hybrid together with the Paleotraining Tías, The Jungle Box and Hybrid Box Siroco gyms, with support from Tías town council. The race has moved around the island: it started in Costa Teguise, went to Tías in 2024, was held in February 2025 at the Campo Municipal Agapito Viera in Arrecife with around 500 competitors, returned to the Campo Municipal de Tías in August 2025, and in 2026 set up in the centre of Puerto del Carmen.

The format

A closed 700 metre loop. Eight laps, 6 kilometres in total, and eight workouts in between:

• Row, 1,000 m
• Farmer carry, 200 m
• Sled pull, 4x10 m
• Ski erg, 1,000 m
• Burpee broad jump, 100 m
• Atlas run, 200 m
• Sandbag walking lunge, 100 m
• Wall ball, 100 reps

In the doubles format both partners run the 6 kilometres together, while the workouts can be split between them however they like. Running at different paces carries a 3 minute penalty, so you pick your partner on running pace, not only on strength.

Categories, weights and age

In the 2025 edition the categories were individual women and men, women’s, men’s, junior and mixed pairs, mixed relay teams of two men and two women, and battle teams. All over the same 6 kilometres. The minimum age is 16 on the day of the race in the doubles format.

Doubles weights: farmer carry 16 kg women and 24 kg men and mixed; sled pull 50 and 75 kg; atlas run 20 and 30 kg; sandbag lunge 10 and 20 kg; wall ball 3 and 6 kg. The rowing damper is set to 5 in women’s doubles and 6 in men’s and mixed.

There is an overall ranking by category and a ranking by age group, so there is more than one podium to aim at.

Entry

There is no official website and no published price, and the fifth edition never got a listing on Sportmaniacs, the platform used for earlier editions. The rulebook is published, without dates or fees. No date has been announced for the sixth edition, and the history warns that it can land at any time of year: there have been editions in February, April and August.

Contact: thefitnessracelanzarote@gmail.com and the @thefitnessracehybrid account.

On the day

A 700 metre loop in a town square gives you something point to point races cannot: whoever comes with you sees the whole thing from one spot, lap after lap, and you pass your own bag eight times. Use that and leave water and a cap there.

April in Puerto del Carmen is already warm in the midday sun, and the rower and ski erg stations are done in full sun straight after running. Bring shoes with real grip for the sled and the sandbag lunges, and put sunscreen on before the start.