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.
[ Pontyclun · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Pontyclun,
built around your race.
There are 7 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Pontyclun, PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Pontyclun 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
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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 Pontyclun ]
Pontyclun hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Cardiff: dates, venue and when to start →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.
- Pontypridd parkrun · Ynysangharad War Memorial Park9.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Pontyclun, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
The race comes to Pontyclun. 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.
Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Pontyclun ]
Where you can train in Pontyclun.
Enough choice in Pontyclun 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.
Chains with a site here: PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- PureGymgym1.9 km
- Llantrisant FeelGood Factorygym2.1 km
- Llantrisant Leisure Centregym2.2 km
- Canolfan Hamdden Llanilltud Faerdrefsports centre7.2 km
- Pencoed Rugby Clubsports centre7.4 km
- Cowbridge Leisure Centregym7.6 km
- Cowbridge Athletic Clubsports centre7.7 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 Pontyclun. 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 Pontyclun ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Pontyclun.
Where to train in Pontyclun
Pontyclun has 7 places to train within reach. Not a wide field, and it means the sensible move is to build the programme around what one or two of them actually have rather than hunting for a perfect fit.
Closest to the centre you have PureGym, Llantrisant FeelGood Factory and Llantrisant Leisure Centre, the nearest of them about 1.9 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.
Canolfan Hamdden Llanilltud Faerdref and Pencoed Rugby 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.
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 Pontyclun
Pontypridd parkrun, roughly 9.6 km from the centre of Pontyclun, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
Racing from Pontyclun
Pontyclun 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.
Having both a race and a measured 5 km on the doorstep is the combination that makes a season easy to plan: benchmark locally through the build, then race without travelling.
[ Near Pontyclun ]
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 Pontyclun
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Pontyclun
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
[ Pontyclun ]
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