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.
[ Pelton · North East ]
Hyrox training in Pelton,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Pelton, PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central Convention Complex, roughly 161 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 Manchester. 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 Pelton ]
The ground you actually train on in Pelton.
Your nearest race: HYROX Manchester →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.
- Riverside parkrun · Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street3.6 km
- Oakey Park parkrun5.8 km
- Gateshead parkrun · Saltwell Park, Gateshead8 km
- Windy Nook parkrun · Windy Nook Nature Park8 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Pelton, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central Convention Complex
Manchester · January 2027
Roughly 161 km from Pelton in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Pelton to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Pelton ]
Where you can train in Pelton.
Pelton 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: PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Pelaw Grange Stadiumsports centre2 km
- Birtley Leisure Centresports centre2.6 km
- One Gymgym2.8 km
- FDF Academygym2.8 km
- Bodytone Gymgym2.9 km
- Birtley Aquatic Centresports centre2.9 km
- War Roomsports centre3 km
- Community Fitnessgym3.1 km
- Chester-Le-Street Leisure Centresports centre3.2 km
- Moor Parksports centre4.4 km
- Washington Leisure Centresports centre5.6 km
- Ruthless Fitnessgym5.9 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 Pelton; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Pelton. 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 Pelton ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Pelton.
Where to train in Pelton
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Pelton. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Pelaw Grange Stadium, Birtley Leisure Centre and One Gym, the nearest of them about 2 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.
Pelaw Grange Stadium and Birtley 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.
PureGym 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 Pelton
You are well served for measured running around Pelton. 6 parkrun courses sit within reach: Riverside parkrun, Oakey Park parkrun and Gateshead parkrun are the closest three, Riverside parkrun being about 3.6 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 4 km out to 10 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Pelton
Manchester Central Convention Complex is the nearest venue at roughly 161 km, so racing means a weekend away. Enter early, book the room at the same time, and treat the travel as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
With the race that far out, the 6 parkruns nearby do more work than usual — it is the only regular measured effort you will get without a train ticket, so it carries the whole benchmarking job.
[ Near Pelton ]
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 Pelton
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Pelton
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.
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