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.
[ Mountain Ash · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Mountain Ash,
built around your race.
There are 12 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Mountain Ash, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, roughly 27 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 Cardiff. 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 Mountain Ash ]
The ground you actually train on in Mountain Ash.
Your nearest race: HYROX Cardiff →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.
- Merthyr parkrun · Merthyr Leisure Village6.1 km
- Aberdare parkrun · Aberdare Park6.7 km
- Pontypridd parkrun · Ynysangharad War Memorial Park9.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Mountain Ash, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
Roughly 27 km from Mountain Ash 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 Mountain Ash to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Mountain Ash ]
Where you can train in Mountain Ash.
Mountain Ash 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.
- Aberfan Leisure Centresports centre2.7 km
- Ron Jones Stadiumsports centre5 km
- Abercynon Sports Centregym5.1 km
- Sobell Leisure Centresports centre5.3 km
- Rock UK Summit Centre Indoor Rock Climbingsports centre5.5 km
- Dare Fitnessgym5.6 km
- Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centresports centre6.2 km
- Merthyr Tydfil Indoor Bowls Clubsports centre6.3 km
- Dare Community Sports Hallsports centre7.2 km
- Ystrad Rhondda Leisure Centregym7.3 km
- Maerdy Boxing Clubgym7.3 km
- Monster mountain Motocross Tracksports centre7.4 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Mountain Ash. 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 Mountain Ash ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Mountain Ash.
Where to train in Mountain Ash
12 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Mountain Ash. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Aberfan Leisure Centre, Ron Jones Stadium and Abercynon Sports Centre, the nearest of them about 2.7 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.
Aberfan Leisure Centre and Ron Jones Stadium 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 Mountain Ash
You are well served for measured running around Mountain Ash. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Merthyr parkrun, Aberdare parkrun and Pontypridd parkrun are the closest three, Merthyr parkrun being about 6.1 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 10 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Mountain Ash
Principality Stadium is roughly 27 km from Mountain Ash, 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 12 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 Mountain Ash ]
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 Mountain Ash
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Mountain Ash
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
[ Mountain Ash ]
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