Hyrox training in Shortlands,
built around your race.

Where to train in Shortlands

20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Shortlands. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.

Closest to the centre you have South Hill Wood, GYM BROMLEY and Bromley Fitness Centre, the nearest of them about 0.5 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.

South Hill Wood and Pavillion 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.

Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing 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 Shortlands

You are well served for measured running around Shortlands. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Bromley parkrun, Beckenham Place parkrun and Bethlem Royal Hospital parkrun are the closest three, Bromley parkrun being about 1.9 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 7 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.

Racing from Shortlands

Shortlands 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 8 measured 5 km courses on the doorstep is the combination that makes a season easy to plan: benchmark locally through the build, then race without travelling.