Story · Run · Ride
Thirty-miler
48.3 km
The last test to become a Royal Marine.
Run or ride 48.3 km. Thirty miles, like the moor crossing.
- It stands on
- Fox's crossing run, Fox's crossing ride
What it takes · Running
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Fox's crossing
- Weekly distance
- About 48 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long run
- 22 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Fox's crossing counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
What it takes · Cycling
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Fox's crossing
- Weekly distance
- About 48 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long ride
- 36 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Fox's crossing counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
The Royal Marines' last commando test is 30 miles across Dartmoor. Recruits must finish in under eight hours. Officers get seven. Source: Forces News.
The ladder
Running
- 5 km/
- Forager's day/
- First flight/
- Mawson's last miles/
- 10 km/
- Gold march/
- Hunter's day/
- Nut grove/
- Twelve-miler/
- Wallace's Line/
- Wildebeest's day/
- Half Marathon/
- Toutle avalanche/
- Roland's pass/
- Olympus Mons/
- Dawes's ride/
- Laki fissure/
- Royal Road/
- Legion's march/
- Persistence hunt/
- Norwegian thirty/
- Chalk Gate/
- Racing the horses/
- Rim to rim/
- Barclay's walk/
- Long fall/
- Nijmegen day/
- South Georgia/
- Marathon/
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler
Cycling
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler