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.
[ Ruislip · London ]
Hyrox training in Ruislip,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Ruislip, Goals and Fitness First among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 32 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 London. 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 Ruislip ]
The ground you actually train on in Ruislip.
Your nearest race: HYROX London ExCel →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.
- Northala Fields parkrun · Northala Fields Park4.8 km
- Harrow parkrun · Harrow Recreation Ground5.6 km
- South Oxhey parkrun · South Oxhey Playing Fields6.8 km
- Stockley Country parkrun · Stockley Country Park6.9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ruislip, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 32 km from Ruislip 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 Ruislip to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Ruislip ]
Where you can train in Ruislip.
Ruislip 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: Goals, Fitness First. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Grosvenor Valesports centre0.6 km
- CrossFit Ickenhamgym1 km
- Ruislip Golf Centresports centre1.1 km
- Highgrove Swimming Poolsports centre1.2 km
- Station Gymgym1.7 km
- Hillingdon Athletics Clubsports centre1.7 km
- Hillingdon Borough F.C.sports centre2.1 km
- Lowlands Tennis Clubsports centre2.1 km
- Queensmead Sports Centresports centre2.9 km
- Goalssports centre2.9 km
- Pinner West End Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre3 km
- Trojan Fitnessgym3.1 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 Ruislip; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ruislip. 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 Ruislip ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Ruislip.
Where to train in Ruislip
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Ruislip. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Grosvenor Vale, CrossFit Ickenham and Ruislip Golf Centre, the nearest of them about 0.6 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.
Grosvenor Vale and Ruislip Golf 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.
Goals and Fitness First 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 Ruislip
You are well served for measured running around Ruislip. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Northala Fields parkrun, Harrow parkrun and South Oxhey parkrun are the closest three, Northala Fields parkrun being about 4.8 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 9 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Ruislip
ExCel is roughly 32 km from Ruislip, 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 20 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 Ruislip ]
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 Ruislip
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Ruislip
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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