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.
[ Cottenham · East ]
Hyrox training in Cottenham,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Cottenham, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCeL London, roughly 87 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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- HYROX Elite 15 athlete
- Multiple Pro Doubles wins
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- Coaches beginner to pro
Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Tell us your race date and every session lands on a calendar day. 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 Cottenham ]
The ground you actually train on in Cottenham.
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.
- Bug Hunter Waters parkrun4.1 km
- Milton Country parkrun · Milton Country Park, Cambridge6.1 km
- Brook Leys parkrun8.1 km
- Coldham’s Common parkrun9.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cottenham, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
Roughly 87 km from Cottenham 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 Cottenham to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Cottenham ]
Where you can train in Cottenham.
Cottenham 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.
- Cottenham Sports Centresports centre0.6 km
- Inspire Health & Fitnessgym4.2 km
- The Oakington and Westwick Sports Pavilionsports centre4.5 km
- ELA Active Impingtongym4.5 km
- Squash Courtsports centre4.7 km
- Indoor Arenasports centre5.2 km
- Vision Fitnesssports centre5.3 km
- Cambridge FootGolf Centresports centre5.4 km
- Sports Centregym5.8 km
- Milton Community Centresports centre5.8 km
- Orchard Park Sports Centresports centre5.9 km
- AlphaFit Performance Centregym6 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Cottenham; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cottenham. 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 Cottenham ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Cottenham.
Where to train in Cottenham
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Cottenham. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Cottenham Sports Centre, Inspire Health & Fitness and The Oakington and Westwick Sports Pavilion, the nearest of them about 0.6 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.
Cottenham Sports Centre and The Oakington and Westwick Sports Pavilion 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 Cottenham
You are well served for measured running around Cottenham. 4 parkrun courses sit within reach: Bug Hunter Waters parkrun, Milton Country parkrun and Brook Leys parkrun are the closest three, Bug Hunter Waters parkrun being about 4.1 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
A Hyrox is eight kilometre runs with a station between each, which means the skill being tested is running on tired legs, not running fresh. Do at least one session a week where the running comes after the hard work rather than before it.
Racing from Cottenham
Your nearest race is ExCeL London, about 87 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.
Whichever race you enter, the date is what makes a programme a programme. Twelve weeks is the standard build, sixteen if you are starting from very little running, and every session lands on a calendar day rather than a week number.
[ Near Cottenham ]
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 Cottenham
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Cottenham
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
[ Cottenham ]
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