Hyrox training in Belfast,
built around your race.

Where to train in Belfast

20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Belfast. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.

Closest to the centre you have Hench, Better Gym Belfast and ECA Belfast Gym, the nearest of them about 0.4 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.

Shaftesbury Community & Recreation Centre and Shankill Leisure Centre 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.

Better has a site here, so an existing membership may already cover you. If you are joining from scratch, a rolling monthly contract is worth the few extra pounds while you work out which sessions you actually turn up for.

Where to run around Belfast

You are well served for measured running around Belfast. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Ormeau parkrun, Waterworks parkrun, Belfast and Paisley Park parkrun are the closest three, Ormeau parkrun being about 1.3 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.

All of them sit within about 5 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.

Racing from Belfast

Your nearest race is Royal Dublin Society (RDS), about 143 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.

Between the race and the 20 places to train listed here, the constraint is rarely equipment. It is the calendar, which is why the programme is dated to a day rather than numbered by week.