Racing Indonesia's First: Awaken at HYROX Jakarta

Awaken • July 3, 2026

On 27 and 28 June, HYROX held its first-ever race in Indonesia. The event opened the new season, landing just a week after the World Championships in Stockholm, at a brand-new venue in Tangerang, on the edge of Jakarta. Awaken sent a team to race it — solo racers, doubles pairs, and one mixed doubles team, all wearing the same kit. 

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The format was the one every HYROX athlete already knows: eight one-kilometre runs, broken up by eight stations — ski erg, sled push, sled pull, burpee broad jumps, rowing, farmer's carry, sandbag lunges, wall balls. What changes from city to city is everything around it — a new venue, a new crowd, a course nobody on the team had run before.

Two coaches, two personal bests

Two of the strongest results in that lineup belonged to Awaken's own coaching staff — racing the same format they coach members through every week.

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Coach Gabb Rosario 

Men Pro

FINISH TIME — PR

1:10:40

Coach Laurent Javier

Men Pro

FINISH TIME — PR

1:10:23

Both times are personal bests — for Coach Gabb, already the country's HYROX doubles record holder, it's a new marker in the Pro field; for Coach Laurent, it's a strong first showing in the Open field.

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— Coach Gabb Rosario, AWAKEN FITNESS CENTER

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— Coach Laurent Javier, AWAKEN FITNESS CENTER

A first-in-country race, from the outside looking in 

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It was a large travel party for the gym, and it showed at the venue — solo racers warming up a few racks down from doubles pairs running transitions, first-timers next to teammates who'd raced the format before. Awaken is one of the first HYROX 365–accredited gyms in the Philippines; sending a group this size to a first-in-country race elsewhere felt like a natural extension of the same thing.

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The rest of the roster was split across solo, doubles, and mixed doubles — each pair and each solo racer running their own race, the way a training floor with this many different goals usually does.

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Coach Gabb and Coach Laurent both train members through the same race-specific block that got them to Jakarta — a 12–16 week program built around assessment, strength work, and race simulations. If a HYROX race is on your radar, this is where that training starts

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