Built backwards from race day
Eight stations, eight 1-km runs. Sled push and pull with explicit progression, wall balls scaled to your bodyweight, run intervals that match the race.
[ Alnwick · North East ]
There are 10 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Alnwick, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Scottish Event Campus (SEC), roughly 170 km away, and every session is dated backwards from it. Built by HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland. See your Week 1 before you decide anything.
Eight stations, eight 1-km runs. Sled push and pull with explicit progression, wall balls scaled to your bodyweight, run intervals that match the race.
Your programme counts back from Glasgow. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.
Ben races in the HYROX Elite 15 Doubles with his brother Harry. The programming you follow is the structure he uses, scaled to your level.
[ Training in Alnwick ]
Where to run your 1 km repeats
A Hyrox is eight 1 km runs with a station between each. Running them on flat, measured, repeatable ground is worth more than any single session you will do indoors. These are the closest measured 5 km courses to you.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Alnwick, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Scottish Event Campus (SEC)
Glasgow · March 2027
Roughly 170 km from Alnwick in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Alnwick to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Alnwick ]
Enough choice in Alnwick to find one that suits the training rather than the other way round. Ring ahead and ask about sled space and a wall you are allowed to throw at, because those two decide more than anything on the membership page.
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Alnwick. We have not audited what equipment each site holds, so treat this as where to start ringing rather than a verified kit list. Gym data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
[ Training in Alnwick ]
10 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Alnwick. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have No Limits, Tru Physio & Yoga and Alnwick Squash Club, the nearest of them about 0.1 km out. Ring before you join and ask two questions: is there floor space to push a sled, and can you throw a ball at a wall. Those answers decide more than any membership tier.
Alnwick Squash Club and Willowburn are listed as sports centres rather than gyms. Multi-use sites are usually where the floor space is, which tends to be where the sled and carry work ends up happening.
The Pastures parkrun, roughly 0.6 km from the centre of Alnwick, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
Scottish Event Campus (SEC) is the nearest venue at roughly 170 km, so racing means a weekend away. Enter early, book the room at the same time, and treat the travel as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
With the race that far out, the local parkrun does more work than usual — it is the only regular measured effort you will get without a train ticket, so it carries the whole benchmarking job.
Plenty of people train one town over, whether that is a better gym, a flatter route, or simply the one on the way home from work.
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Alnwick
Hourlysession by session
Suth Performance
Tailoredto you
Local rates vary; typical advertised prices, not quotes. Suth Performance is a programming platform, not a substitute for in-person supervision where you need it.
[ Alnwick ]
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