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.
[ West Mersea · East ]
Hyrox training in West Mersea,
built around your race.
There are 2 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of West Mersea, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 68 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
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 West Mersea ]
The ground you actually train on in West Mersea.
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.
- Mersea Island parkrun · Cudmore Grove5.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of West Mersea, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 68 km from West Mersea 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 West Mersea to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in West Mersea ]
Where you can train in West Mersea.
West Mersea is not spoilt for choice, which matters less than it sounds. Six of the eight stations need a sled, a rower, a ski erg, kettlebells and a wall, and most of that substitutes cleanly. Your programme is built around what you can actually get to.
- West Mersea Tennis Clubsports centre0.9 km
- Brightlingsea Outdoor Swimming Poolsports centre7.5 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
Distances are straight-line from the centre of West Mersea. 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 West Mersea ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from West Mersea.
Where to train in West Mersea
Training options in West Mersea are thin on the ground, which matters far less than it sounds. Most of a Hyrox build is running, carrying and squatting, and almost all of it substitutes.
Closest to the centre you have West Mersea Tennis Club and Brightlingsea Outdoor Swimming Pool, the nearest of them about 0.9 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.
West Mersea Tennis Club and Brightlingsea Outdoor Swimming Pool 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 West Mersea
Mersea Island parkrun, roughly 5.4 km from the centre of West Mersea, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
Racing from West Mersea
Your nearest race is ExCel, about 68 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.
Between the race and the 2 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 West Mersea ]
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 West Mersea
1:1 Hyrox coaching in West Mersea
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
[ West Mersea ]
Your race is coming either way. Train like it.
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