r/hyrox

Ugh! Feeling so discouraged. Did mixed doubles, hit our goal time of 1:20 but when we looked at splits I couldn’t believe how slow we ran! I typically have like 4:50 at least in me, and our average runs were in the 5:30 range! Our last run was low 6!! I just can’t believe how much slower we were. We didn’t really track it on our watch and it was our first one, so a little overstimulated, but has anyone else had this happen? Am I just undertrained maybe? Just sucks when you train for months/weeks and then it’s totally off base to what you wanted

I last raced competitively in 2024, then basically disappeared from competition for 2.5 years.

In that stretch I broke my foot, went through some pretty brutal personal stuff, got knocked around financially, mentally, emotionally... the whole thing.

Eventually I started crawling my way back.

About six months ago I decided I wanted to train seriously for HYROX again and built out a full plan with the goal of taking roughly 12 minutes off my old time.

Naturally, almost everything that could derail the plan found a way to happen.

Missed training. Injuries. Horrible betrayal. You know, life stuff. Weeks where the goal felt realistic and other weeks where I wondered what the hell I was doing.

Now I'm two weeks out from Tampa and the goal has changed a little.

At this point, I'll be genuinely happy if I can just beat the time I ran in 2024.

Which is pretty humbling considering where my head was six months ago.

But honestly, just getting back to the start line feels like a win.

Anyone else ever go into a training block with a huge goal, have life completely wreck the plan, and still show up anyway?

I am planning to do a hydrox and I’m hesitating between the ASICS GT1000 14/15 or Hokas either the Mach 7, kawana or clifton pro.

I really don’t know which ones would be best, please send help!

Whenever I do a hyrox sim or hyrox, hours after I get really bad nausea and acid reflux.

Any advice or tips??