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.
[ Thornhill · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Thornhill,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Thornhill, Bannatyne Health Club among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Thornhill 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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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 Thornhill ]
Thornhill hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Cardiff: dates, venue and when to start →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.
- Llanishen Park parkrun1.4 km
- Cardiff parkrun · Cardiff Blackweir5.1 km
- Coed Cefn-pwll-du parkrun6.6 km
- Tremorfa parkrun · Tremorfa Park7.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Thornhill, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
The race comes to Thornhill. 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 Thornhill ]
Where you can train in Thornhill.
Thornhill 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: Bannatyne Health Club. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Llanishen Leisure Centresports centre1.6 km
- BUZZ Parks Cardiffsports centre1.8 km
- Bannatyne Health Clubgym2 km
- Rhiwbina Recreation Clubsports centre2.7 km
- Llwynfedw Gardens Pavilionsports centre3.2 km
- Changing roomssports centre3.2 km
- Powerleague Cardiffsports centre3.3 km
- Whitchurch Tennis Clubsports centre3.4 km
- Heath Tennis In The Parksports centre3.5 km
- Whitchurch Bowls Clubsports centre3.7 km
- Whitchurch-Heath Cricket Clubsports centre3.8 km
- Pentwyn Leisure Centregym4.1 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 Thornhill; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Thornhill. 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 Thornhill ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Thornhill.
Where to train in Thornhill
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Thornhill. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Llanishen Leisure Centre, BUZZ Parks Cardiff and Bannatyne Health Club, the nearest of them about 1.6 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.
Llanishen Leisure Centre and BUZZ Parks Cardiff 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.
Bannatyne Health Club 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 Thornhill
You are well served for measured running around Thornhill. 6 parkrun courses sit within reach: Llanishen Park parkrun, Cardiff parkrun and Coed Cefn-pwll-du parkrun are the closest three, Llanishen Park parkrun being about 1.4 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
They spread from roughly 1 km out to 10 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Thornhill
Thornhill 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 6 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.
[ Near Thornhill ]
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 Thornhill
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Thornhill
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.
Common questions
[ Thornhill ]
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