
James Hansen
Australian elite middle-distance runner (sub-4-minute miler, 69th Australian) turned HYROX athlete — 4th fastest Australian Open HYROX time — and online run coach with Run2PB.
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Sep 29, 2026
099: The Pro Runner Who Crashed HYROX: James Hansen
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11:14BenHOST
So what happened in that gym session that made you go, I want to do high rocks and go all in on high rocks?

James HansenGUEST
When I say listen to you, I haven't listened to every episode or anything like that.

James HansenGUEST
But I remember ages ago, I kind of saw High Rocks and I was like, there's something about this that I really like.
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20:06BenHOST
So, I
Ep 129: James Hansen - Elite Runner Turns HYROX Athlete
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Jordan MillsHOST
I'm interested to know, Jimmy, how's your running changed since joining Hyrax? Obviously, there's going to be a lot of different training in there, but what does running look like for you at the moment?

James HansenGUEST
Figuring out, George, because I've kind of gone on the fly in terms of, I guess, going all in with Hyrax.

James HansenGUEST
At the start, I was like... really like my journey into high rocks i guess you'd say is i was just kind of taking the piss and did my first one at sydney off of three weeks of training because i thought it i thought i might be okay at it and then you know i did 57 57 and that was that was pretty good i think i did the world record run splits for it that anyone had ever done um and then i had a coach reach out and he basically said you know do you do you want to take this seriously or are you just mucking around? And it turned out like he's a very renowned coach.

James HansenGUEST
Like he coaches some of the people that are in the, they call it the elite 15.

James HansenGUEST
He's got the women's world record holder at the moment, which is actually from Australia.

James HansenGUEST
But at the start, I was still wanting to, I guess, go really hard with my running, but like gradually as I've gone on, I've gone, no, I actually want to go first for this.
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Chris LittlejohnHOST
Do you sort of draw any sort of comparisons between triathlon and potentially what you could do in the high rocks?