Boston strongman Dean: Success is in the boring things

Dean will be overseeing Boston’s Strongest this Sunday.

The event includes free entry and a food festival, and will take place in the market place from 10:00 to 18:00 BST.

Dean says the event attracts “full crowds” and there will be different categories of competing groups, including women’s, beginners, novice, inters and opens category.

Challenges will include pulling trucks with a harness, a car deadlift where competitors aim to lift a car as many times they can, and a sack toss, where five bags have to be thrown as high as possible over an apparatus.

Boston’s Strongest Man will then be crowned from the opens category.

“There’s big competitors – you never know, there could be another England’s Strongest Man coming from Boston,” Dean says.

Despite coming joint fourth this year and losing the title, Dean is aiming even higher and hoping to secure victory at UK’s Strongest Man 2026 in August.

He says: “Normally if I meet someone who says you’re big, do you lift, I say I was England’s strongest man.

“They normally just laugh. I say ‘no actually look, I’ve got a trophy’.

“It feels like when you’re in school, even when I say it. But I actually was.”

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