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.
[ Houston · Scotland ]
There are 11 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Houston, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Scottish Event Campus (SEC), roughly 16 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.
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.
Your programme counts back from Glasgow. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.
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 Houston ]
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.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Houston, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Scottish Event Campus (SEC)
Glasgow · March 2027
Close enough to Houston 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 Houston to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Houston ]
Enough choice in Houston to find one that suits the training rather than the other way round. Ring ahead and ask about sled space and a wall you are allowed to throw at, because those two decide more than anything on the membership page.
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Houston. 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 Houston ]
11 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Houston. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Strathgryffe Tennis, Squash & Fitness Club, ON X and Linwood Sports Centre, the nearest of them about 0.4 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.
Strathgryffe Tennis, Squash & Fitness Club and ON X 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.
You are well served for measured running around Houston. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Linwood parkrun, Erskine Waterfront parkrun and Levengrove parkrun are the closest three, Linwood parkrun being about 3.4 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
All of them sit within about 8 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Scottish Event Campus (SEC) is roughly 16 km from Houston, 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 11 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.
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.
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