Count eight weeks
Four to settle the format and the equipment, four to sell. Below that, ticketing has no time to fill.
Hybrid racing
Putting on your first simulation, from scratch
Dozens of gyms run their own hybrid race to prepare their athletes. Here is everything to plan, in order.
A hybrid race simulation reproduces the format of the big events in your own gym, eight work stations separated by running, timed on net time. The upside is double. Your athletes discover the format in real conditions before paying for an official entry, and your box fills a quiet day with an event that sells. Your standards, your divisions, your prices, with no outside approval. The format inspired by HYROX® events belongs to its owners, you are putting on your own race in the same spirit.
What to keep in mind
Pairs fill better
Almost every simulation runs in pairs. It is less intimidating, it splits the effort and it brings two people per entry.
One wave every ten minutes
With eighty minutes of racing on average, that puts around eight waves on course at once. That number drives everything else.
Timing makes the difference
Without net time a wave start is unfair and the standings get argued over. With it, the race becomes credible and your athletes come back.
The leaderboard sells next year
The results page stays online and gets shared. It is your best argument to fill the following edition.
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You are putting on your own race, not an official stage of a circuit. Stay clear about that in your communication, never imply an affiliation, and use an event name that belongs to you.
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Around sixty pairs and the day funds itself comfortably. Plenty of first editions run at thirty or forty pairs and already cover costs.
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The tight constraint is not the gym, it is the running course. A four hundred metre outdoor loop is enough, or a marked out and back on a car park.
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Yes, one day can offer a hybrid race in the morning and WODs in the afternoon, with separate divisions and a combined leaderboard if you want.
Go further
- The format, explained from the organiser side Everybody knows the format as an athlete. Here is what it means when you are the one building it.
- What it actually costs, line by line The question everybody asks first. Here are the numbers, without optimistic rounding.
- Pairs, the format that fills a gym Almost every simulation runs in pairs. That is not an accident.
- Without net time the standings get argued over It is the one line you regret saving money on. Here is why.
Let us look at your project
Tell us your date and the number of teams you are aiming for, we tell you what to plan.
CrossFit® is a registered trademark of CrossFit, LLC. HYROX® is a registered trademark of Upsolut Sports AG. Throwdown is not affiliated with either organisation.
