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.
[ Port Alberni · Canada ]
There are 10 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Port Alberni, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is 1055 Canada Pl Vancouver, roughly 122 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.
Tell us your race date and every session lands on a calendar day. 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 Port Alberni ]
Your nearest race
1055 Canada Pl Vancouver
Vancouver · December 2026
Roughly 122 km from Port Alberni 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 Port Alberni to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Port Alberni ]
Enough choice in Port Alberni 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.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Port Alberni. 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 Port Alberni ]
10 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Port Alberni. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Pure Fitness, Alberni Vally Crossfit and Echo Community Centre & Swimming Pool, the nearest of them about 0.8 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.
Echo Community Centre & Swimming Pool and Port Alberni Lawn Bowling 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.
There is no parkrun close to Port Alberni, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
A Hyrox is eight kilometre runs with a station between each, which means the skill being tested is running on tired legs, not running fresh. Do at least one session a week where the running comes after the hard work rather than before it.
Your nearest race is 1055 Canada Pl Vancouver, about 122 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.
Whichever race you enter, the date is what makes a programme a programme. Twelve weeks is the standard build, sixteen if you are starting from very little running, and every session lands on a calendar day rather than a week number.
Other places we cover in Canada. Plenty of people train in the next town over, whether that is a better gym or simply the one on the way home.
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Port Alberni
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[ Port Alberni ]
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