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.
[ Blackwall · London ]
Hyrox training in Blackwall,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Blackwall, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Blackwall hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. Built by HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland. See your Week 1 before you decide anything.
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- HYROX Elite 15 athlete
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- Coaches beginner to pro
Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from London. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.
An Elite 15 athlete behind the programming
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 Blackwall ]
Blackwall hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX London ExCel: dates, venue and when to start →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.
- Greenwich Peninsula parkrun1.1 km
- Mile End parkrun · Mile End Park, London2.4 km
- Beckton parkrun · Beckton District Park South3.4 km
- Southwark parkrun · Southwark Park4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blackwall, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
The race comes to Blackwall. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.
Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Blackwall ]
Where you can train in Blackwall.
Blackwall has plenty of choice, which means you can be picky. The thing to look for is not a Hyrox sticker on the door, it is a sled lane long enough to push on, a spare wall for wall balls, and a rower nobody queues for at 6pm.
- Oxbow Gymgym0.4 km
- Elaskogym0.4 km
- Aberfeldy Boxing Clubgym0.5 km
- London City Island Gymgym0.6 km
- Hum Yogagym0.6 km
- The Strength Roomgym0.6 km
- London City Island Poolsports centre0.6 km
- Chain Storegym0.7 km
- Poplar Public Bathssports centre0.8 km
- Toca Socialsports centre0.8 km
- iFlysports centre0.8 km
- Clip n' Climbsports centre0.8 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
20 sites within reach of the centre of Blackwall; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blackwall. 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 Blackwall ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Blackwall.
Where to train in Blackwall
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Blackwall. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Oxbow Gym, Elasko and Aberfeldy Boxing Club, 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.
London City Island Pool and Poplar Public Baths 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.
Where to run around Blackwall
You are well served for measured running around Blackwall. 5 parkrun courses sit within reach: Greenwich Peninsula parkrun, Mile End parkrun and Beckton parkrun are the closest three, Greenwich Peninsula parkrun being about 1.1 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 4 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Blackwall
Blackwall hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.
Having both a race and 5 measured 5 km courses on the doorstep is the combination that makes a season easy to plan: benchmark locally through the build, then race without travelling.
[ Near Blackwall ]
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.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Blackwall
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Blackwall
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
Suth Performance
Tailoredto you
- Full week-by-week personalised programme
- A fraction of what weekly PT sessions add up to
- Free consultation first, cancel anytime
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.
Common questions
[ Blackwall ]
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