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.
[ Darras Hall · North East ]
Hyrox training in Darras Hall,
built around your race.
There are 18 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Darras Hall, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central Convention Complex, roughly 176 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 Manchester. 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 Darras Hall ]
The ground you actually train on in Darras Hall.
Your nearest race: HYROX Manchester →Your nearest race
Manchester Central Convention Complex
Manchester · January 2027
Roughly 176 km from Darras Hall in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Darras Hall to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Darras Hall ]
Where you can train in Darras Hall.
Darras Hall 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.
- Laingsgym2 km
- Ponteland Leisure Centresports centre2 km
- Ponteland Golf Clubsports centre2.4 km
- Sports Pavilionsports centre4.3 km
- Newburn Leisure Centresports centre5.8 km
- west denton indoor bowls clubsports centre6 km
- Tyne Rowing Clubsports centre6.1 km
- Newburn Water Sports Centresports centre6.1 km
- Better Leisuregym6.2 km
- Newcastle University Water Sports Centresports centre6.4 km
- Tri-It Gym and Fitnessgym7 km
- Tyneside Badminton Centresports centre7.2 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
18 sites within reach of the centre of Darras Hall; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Darras Hall. 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 Darras Hall ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Darras Hall.
Where to train in Darras Hall
18 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Darras Hall. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Laings, Ponteland Leisure Centre and Ponteland Golf Club, the nearest of them about 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.
Ponteland Leisure Centre and Ponteland Golf 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.
Where to run around Darras Hall
There is no parkrun close to Darras Hall, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
Racing from Darras Hall
Manchester Central Convention Complex is the nearest venue at roughly 176 km, so racing means a weekend away. Enter early, book the room at the same time, and treat the travel as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
Between the race and the 18 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 Darras Hall ]
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 Darras Hall
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Darras Hall
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
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