The best pictures as thousands take part in huge three-day fitness event in Cardiff
The event combines running and functional exercises and sees racers run 1km followed by a workout station repeated eight times, 8km in total, aiming to be the fastest.
The workout stations include a 1000m SkiErg, a 50m sled push, a 50m sled pull, 80m burpee broad jumps, 1,000m row, 200m farmers carry and 100m sandbag lunges.
Since it was first created in 2017 by Christian Toetzke and Olympian Moritz Fürste, the sport has as many as 200,000 competitors taking part worldwide. Events take place all throughout the year in Europe and the UK, but this weekend Wales had it's first ever Hyrox event.
Welsh athlete, Afan Humphries was there and wakes up at 4am for training, we caught up with him, here. Also, our reporter, Taite Johnson had a go at Hyrox to tell us just what it's all about - read her account of the trending training regime, here.
See the best pictures from this weekends event below.
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