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.
[ Harpenden · East ]
Hyrox training in Harpenden,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Harpenden, Everyone Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 43 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 Harpenden ]
The ground you actually train on in Harpenden.
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.
- Rothamsted Park parkrun0.5 km
- Jersey Farm parkrun · Jersey Farm Woodland Park5.9 km
- St Albans parkrun · Verulam Park, St Albans7.2 km
- Oaklands College parkrun8.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Harpenden, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 43 km from Harpenden 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 Harpenden to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Harpenden ]
Where you can train in Harpenden.
Harpenden 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: Everyone Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Chilli Pilatesgym0.3 km
- Harpenden Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre0.4 km
- Harpenden Leisure Centre · Everyone Activesports centre0.5 km
- Elliswick Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre0.7 km
- Marchon Athleticgym1 km
- Gym and Juicegym1.2 km
- Harpenden R.F.C. Squash Clubsports centre1.9 km
- Harpenden Rugby Football Clubsports centre2 km
- OA Tennissports centre4.5 km
- InPistesports centre4.6 km
- Pavilionsports centre4.7 km
- Swimming Poolsports centre4.9 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
20 sites within reach of the centre of Harpenden; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Harpenden. 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 Harpenden ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Harpenden.
Where to train in Harpenden
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Harpenden. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Chilli Pilates, Harpenden Lawn Tennis Club and Harpenden Leisure Centre, 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.
Harpenden Lawn Tennis Club and Harpenden Leisure Centre 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.
Everyone Active 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 Harpenden
You are well served for measured running around Harpenden. 5 parkrun courses sit within reach: Rothamsted Park parkrun, Jersey Farm parkrun and St Albans parkrun are the closest three, Rothamsted Park parkrun being about 0.5 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 1 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 Harpenden
ExCel is roughly 43 km from Harpenden, 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 20 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 Harpenden ]
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 Harpenden
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Harpenden
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
[ Harpenden ]
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