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.
[ Crumlin · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Crumlin,
built around your race.
There are 13 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Crumlin, PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, roughly 22 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 Crumlin ]
The ground you actually train on in Crumlin.
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.
- Aberbeeg parkrun · Ebbw Valley Cycle Track3.7 km
- Pontypool parkrun · Pontypool Park7.7 km
- Penallta parkrun · Penallta House8.5 km
- Coed Cefn-pwll-du parkrun9.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Crumlin, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
Close enough to Crumlin to get there on race morning without staying over, and close enough to walk the venue beforehand if you want to. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Crumlin to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Crumlin ]
Where you can train in Crumlin.
Crumlin 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: PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Newbridge Leisure Centresports centre1.6 km
- Fitness Factory Blackwoodgym2.1 km
- Elite Fitnessgym3.6 km
- PureGymgym4.2 km
- Islwyn Indoor Bowls clubsports centre5.2 km
- Markham Community House and Leisure Centregym5.6 km
- Ty Coppi Adventuressports centre5.8 km
- Fairwater Leisure Centresports centre6.8 km
- Pontypool Amateur Boxing Clubsports centre6.8 km
- Canolfan Byw'n Egnïol Pont-y-pŵlsports centre7.4 km
- Pontypool Ski Centresports centre7.7 km
- Sue Noake Leisure Centresports centre7.9 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
13 sites within reach of the centre of Crumlin; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Crumlin. 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 Crumlin ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Crumlin.
Where to train in Crumlin
13 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Crumlin. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Newbridge Leisure Centre, Fitness Factory Blackwood and Elite Fitness, the nearest of them about 1.6 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.
Newbridge Leisure Centre and Islwyn 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.
PureGym 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 Crumlin
You are well served for measured running around Crumlin. 5 parkrun courses sit within reach: Aberbeeg parkrun, Pontypool parkrun and Penallta parkrun are the closest three, Aberbeeg parkrun being about 3.7 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
They spread from roughly 4 km out to 10 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Crumlin
Principality Stadium is roughly 22 km from Crumlin, 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 13 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 Crumlin ]
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 Crumlin
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Crumlin
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.
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