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.
[ Townsend · East ]
Hyrox training in Townsend,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Townsend, Everyone Active and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCeL London, roughly 38 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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- 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 Townsend ]
The ground you actually train on in Townsend.
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.
- St Albans parkrun · Verulam Park, St Albans1.7 km
- Jersey Farm parkrun · Jersey Farm Woodland Park2.4 km
- Oaklands College parkrun3.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Townsend, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
Roughly 38 km from Townsend 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 Townsend to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Townsend ]
Where you can train in Townsend.
Townsend 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: Everyone Active, PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Waverley Sports and Social Clubsports centre0.3 km
- The Yoga Hallgym0.9 km
- Batchwood Golf Course & Sports Centresports centre1.3 km
- Swimming Poolsports centre1.3 km
- Clarity Yogasports centre1.4 km
- Clarity Yoga Shalagym1.5 km
- Body Limit Gymgym1.5 km
- Pavilionsports centre1.7 km
- Cottonmill Swimming Poolsports centre1.8 km
- St Albans Sub Aqua Clubsports centre1.8 km
- OA Tennissports centre1.9 km
- Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre · Everyone Activesports centre1.9 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Townsend; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Townsend. 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 Townsend ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Townsend.
Where to train in Townsend
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Townsend. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Waverley Sports and Social Club, The Yoga Hall and Batchwood Golf Course & Sports Centre, the nearest of them about 0.3 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.
Waverley Sports and Social Club and Batchwood Golf Course & Sports 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.
Everyone Active and PureGym 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 Townsend
You are well served for measured running around Townsend. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: St Albans parkrun, Jersey Farm parkrun and Oaklands College parkrun are the closest three, St Albans parkrun being about 1.7 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
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 Townsend
ExCeL London is roughly 38 km from Townsend, 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.
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 Townsend ]
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 Townsend
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Townsend
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
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