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.
[ Failsworth · North West ]
Hyrox training in Failsworth,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Failsworth, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Failsworth hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. 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
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- 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 Failsworth ]
Failsworth hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
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.
- Philips Park parkrun2.5 km
- Oldham parkrun · Alexandra Park, Oldham5.2 km
- Chadderton Hall parkrun · Chadderton Hall Park5.5 km
- Heaton parkrun · Heaton Park, Manchester6.7 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Failsworth, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
The race comes to Failsworth. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Failsworth 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 Failsworth ]
Where you can train in Failsworth.
Failsworth 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.
- Failsworth Soccer Centresports centre1.1 km
- Woodhouses Cricket Clubsports centre1.6 km
- Broadway Leisure Centregym1.8 km
- Ten Acres Lane Sports Complexsports centre1.9 km
- Droylsden Community and Sports Centresports centre2.3 km
- Hollinwood Cricket, Bowls and Football Clubsports centre2.3 km
- Team Greaves Youth Zonegym2.4 km
- Hollinwood Muscle & Fitnessgym2.4 km
- Droylsden Cricket Clubsports centre2.5 km
- Medlock Leisure Centresports centre2.6 km
- Chapel Road Synthetic Pitchsports centre2.8 km
- North City Family & Fitness Centregym3 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Failsworth; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Failsworth. 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 Failsworth ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Failsworth.
Where to train in Failsworth
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Failsworth. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Failsworth Soccer Centre, Woodhouses Cricket Club and Broadway Leisure Centre, the nearest of them about 1.1 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.
Failsworth Soccer Centre and Woodhouses Cricket 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 Failsworth
You are well served for measured running around Failsworth. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Philips Park parkrun, Oldham parkrun and Chadderton Hall parkrun are the closest three, Philips Park parkrun being about 2.5 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 Failsworth
Failsworth hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.
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 Failsworth ]
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 Failsworth
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Failsworth
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
[ Failsworth ]
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