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.
[ Portmarnock · Ireland ]
Hyrox training in Portmarnock,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Portmarnock, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Portmarnock 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
- Multiple Pro Doubles wins
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- Coaches beginner to pro
Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
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.
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 Portmarnock ]
Portmarnock hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Dublin: dates, venue and when to start →Your nearest race
Royal Dublin Society (RDS)
Dublin · November 2026
The race comes to Portmarnock. 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 Portmarnock ]
Where you can train in Portmarnock.
Portmarnock 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.
- Diamond Fitnessgym0.8 km
- School Gymnasiumgym1 km
- Portmarnock Sub-Aqua Clubsports centre1.2 km
- Portmarnock Sports and Leisure Centresports centre1.2 km
- Kinsealy Grangesports centre1.7 km
- Naomh Mearnóg GAA Clubsports centre1.7 km
- St Sylvester's GAAsports centre1.9 km
- Trinity Gaels GAA Clubsports centre2 km
- Excape Portmarnockgym2.1 km
- Performance Therapy Irelandgym2.3 km
- Platinium Gymsgym2.4 km
- NZone Sports Crechesports centre2.5 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Portmarnock; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Portmarnock. 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 Portmarnock ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Portmarnock.
Where to train in Portmarnock
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Portmarnock. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Diamond Fitness, School Gymnasium and Portmarnock Sub-Aqua Club, 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.
Portmarnock Sub-Aqua Club and Portmarnock Sports and 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.
Where to run around Portmarnock
There is no parkrun close to Portmarnock, 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.
Racing from Portmarnock
Portmarnock 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.
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.
[ Near Portmarnock ]
Other places we cover in Ireland. Plenty of people train in the next town over, whether that is a better gym or simply the one on the way home.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Portmarnock
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Portmarnock
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
[ Portmarnock ]
Your race is coming either way. Train like it.
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