I’ve booked Hyrox Glasgow: Singles, on Saturday 13 March 2027 at the SEC. The ticket was £170, and that includes a £35 photo package, which is expensive, and I think worth it.
I’ve been doing NuRox classes, the shorter Hyrox-style sessions, since September 2025, so more than a year now. They’re twice a week, an hour each, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I barely miss a session. That consistency is the reason my fitness is where it is, and it’s also the reason I’m not worried about turning up. What booking the real thing has changed is that turning up isn’t enough any more. I’ll need to lock in even more.
What Locking In Means
For me it means an improved weekly training plan that’s tracked, and that I stick to. It means tracking my diet more vigorously, so everything I’m doing is logged.
I love Strava, and tracking everything on my watch for the data, but I need more. I need to know my daily protein and nutritional values, and I need to make sure I’m building muscle for the event, particularly upper body. I trust my legs. Hiking, running and the Hyrox classes have them in great shape. I just need to focus on strength building a bit.
The Race
A Hyrox is eight 1 km runs, with a workout station after each one. These are the stations, in order, at the Men’s Open weights:
I like that you get performance tracking for each exercise, with a ranking for every part of it, so you can see exactly where the time went.
The running side is in a decent place. In September I ran a 10K in 48:59 in Riga, my first time under 50 minutes, four months after missing it by twenty seconds in Edinburgh. The running feeds straight into the Hyrox, with 8 km of it on the day, and my plan is one 10 km run every week. I’ve been sticking to that.
What I Want From March
I don’t have a time goal. I’m looking forward to seeing it and being in that atmosphere in Glasgow, with my mate. It’s going to be a special day, and I’ll be giving it my all, pushing my hardest. I’ll be happy regardless, completing my first Hyrox.
There will be some competitiveness, though. My mate has done one before and is in a bit better shape than me, from more years of consistency. If I finish within five minutes of him, that’s a good goal!
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