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.
[ Blaenavon · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Blaenavon,
built around your race.
There are 2 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Blaenavon, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, roughly 34 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.
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Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from Cardiff. 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 Blaenavon ]
The ground you actually train on in Blaenavon.
Your nearest race: HYROX Cardiff →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.
- Llanfoist Crossing parkrun5.5 km
- Aberbeeg parkrun · Ebbw Valley Cycle Track8.1 km
- Pontypool parkrun · Pontypool Park9.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blaenavon, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
Roughly 34 km from Blaenavon in a straight line, which for most people is an early train rather than a hotel. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Blaenavon to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Blaenavon ]
Where you can train in Blaenavon.
Blaenavon is not spoilt for choice, which matters less than it sounds. Six of the eight stations need a sled, a rower, a ski erg, kettlebells and a wall, and most of that substitutes cleanly. Your programme is built around what you can actually get to.
- Bowden Active Living Centregym7.2 km
- Pontypool Amateur Boxing Clubsports centre7.5 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blaenavon. 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 Blaenavon ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Blaenavon.
Where to train in Blaenavon
Training options in Blaenavon are thin on the ground, which matters far less than it sounds. Most of a Hyrox build is running, carrying and squatting, and almost all of it substitutes.
Closest to the centre you have Bowden Active Living Centre and Pontypool Amateur Boxing Club, the nearest of them about 7.2 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.
Pontypool Amateur Boxing Club is listed as a sports centre rather than a gym. 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 Blaenavon
You are well served for measured running around Blaenavon. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Llanfoist Crossing parkrun, Aberbeeg parkrun and Pontypool parkrun are the closest three, Llanfoist Crossing parkrun being about 5.5 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 9 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Blaenavon
Principality Stadium is roughly 34 km from Blaenavon, close enough to be a normal morning rather than a trip. That is the one to build towards for a first race: no hotel, no unfamiliar bed, no early train.
Between the race and the 2 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.
[ Near Blaenavon ]
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 Blaenavon
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Blaenavon
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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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
[ Blaenavon ]
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