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.
[ Portishead · South West ]
Hyrox training in Portishead,
built around your race.
There are 16 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Portishead, PureGym and TeamSport Go Karting among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, roughly 29 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 Portishead ]
The ground you actually train on in Portishead.
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.
- Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun · Clevedon Salthouse Park8.5 km
- Blaise Castle parkrun · Blaise Castle Estate9.8 km
- Ashton Court parkrun · Ashton Court, Bristol10 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Portishead, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
Roughly 29 km from Portishead 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 Portishead to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Portishead ]
Where you can train in Portishead.
Portishead 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, TeamSport Go Karting. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- PureGymgym0.4 km
- hub.gym0.5 km
- Portishead Shooting Clubsports centre0.5 km
- Parish Wharf Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
- Fox Studio Cyclinggym0.8 km
- Pure Resultsgym0.8 km
- The Academy of Gymnasticsgym0.9 km
- Portishead Open Air Poolsports centre1.3 km
- Scotch Horn Leisure Centresports centre5.5 km
- TeamSport Bristol · TeamSport Go Kartingsports centre6.1 km
- Clevedon School Sports Centresports centre6.3 km
- Grove Sports Centresports centre6.5 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
16 sites within reach of the centre of Portishead; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Portishead. 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 Portishead ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Portishead.
Where to train in Portishead
16 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Portishead. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have PureGym, hub. and Portishead Shooting Club, 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.
Portishead Shooting Club and Parish Wharf 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 and TeamSport Go Karting have sites 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 Portishead
You are well served for measured running around Portishead. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun, Blaise Castle parkrun and Ashton Court parkrun are the closest three, Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun being about 8.5 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 Portishead
Principality Stadium is roughly 29 km from Portishead, 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 16 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 Portishead ]
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 Portishead
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Portishead
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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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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