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.
[ Dorking · South East ]
Hyrox training in Dorking,
built around your race.
There are 15 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Dorking, Anytime Fitness and Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 40 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 London. 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 Dorking ]
The ground you actually train on in Dorking.
Your nearest race: HYROX London ExCel →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.
- Mole Valley parkrun · Denbies Wine Estate1.8 km
- Reigate Priory parkrun · Priory Park8.7 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Dorking, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 40 km from Dorking 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 Dorking to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Dorking ]
Where you can train in Dorking.
Dorking 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: Anytime Fitness, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Dorking Bowling Clubsports centre0.3 km
- Meadowbank Football Groundsports centre0.3 km
- Minature Rifle Rangesports centre0.3 km
- Studio 224gym0.4 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym0.6 km
- Dorking Sports Centresports centre0.7 km
- Dorking Lawn Tennis & Squash Clubsports centre1.3 km
- North Holmwood Sports Clubsports centre2.5 km
- High Ashurst Outdoor Education Centresports centre4.7 km
- Effingham Community Sports Centresports centre6.2 km
- Mole Valley Indoor Bowls Clubsports centre6.4 km
- Leatherhead Leisure Centresports centre6.4 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
15 sites within reach of the centre of Dorking; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Dorking. 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 Dorking ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Dorking.
Where to train in Dorking
15 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Dorking. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Dorking Bowling Club, Meadowbank Football Ground and Minature Rifle Range, 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.
Dorking Bowling Club and Meadowbank Football Ground 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.
Anytime Fitness and Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing 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 Dorking
Mole Valley parkrun, roughly 1.8 km from the centre of Dorking, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
They spread from roughly 2 km out to 9 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Dorking
ExCel is roughly 40 km from Dorking, 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 15 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 Dorking ]
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 Dorking
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Dorking
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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