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.
[ Cowley · South East ]
Hyrox training in Cowley,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Cowley, David Lloyd Clubs and The Gym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, 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 Cowley ]
The ground you actually train on in Cowley.
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.
- Horspath parkrun · Horspath Sports Ground & Athletic Track1.4 km
- University Parks parkrun4.5 km
- Harcourt Hill parkrun · Harcourt Hill Campus6.2 km
- Oxford parkrun · Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park, Oxford7.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cowley, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 87 km from Cowley 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 Cowley to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Cowley ]
Where you can train in Cowley.
Cowley 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.
Chains with a site here: David Lloyd Clubs, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- David Lloyd Sports Centre · David Lloyd Clubssports centre0.3 km
- FeelFit Gymgym0.7 km
- Oxford and District Indoor Bowls Clubsports centre1 km
- The Gymgym1.1 km
- The Athlete Centregym1.4 km
- Leys Pool and Leisure Centresports centre1.5 km
- Oxford Sports Parksports centre1.6 km
- Rose Hill Community Centre Gymgym1.8 km
- Iyengar Yoga Oxfordgym2.1 km
- Magdalen Road Gymgym2.3 km
- Every Body Studiogym2.3 km
- City of Oxford Rowing Clubsports centre2.4 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Cowley; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cowley. 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 Cowley ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Cowley.
Where to train in Cowley
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Cowley. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have David Lloyd Sports Centre, FeelFit Gym and Oxford and District Indoor Bowls Club, the nearest of them about 0.3 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.
David Lloyd Sports Centre and Oxford and District Indoor Bowls Club 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.
David Lloyd Clubs and The Gym have sites 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 Cowley
You are well served for measured running around Cowley. 5 parkrun courses sit within reach: Horspath parkrun, University Parks parkrun and Harcourt Hill parkrun are the closest three, Horspath parkrun being about 1.4 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 Cowley
Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, 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 Cowley ]
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 Cowley
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Cowley
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
[ Cowley ]
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