Before you read on
- When you race
- 25–28 February 2027
- How many nights to book
- 3 nights
- Who this race suits
- Racing inside an NFL stadium in the best month Arizona has.
- Nearest airport to the venue
- Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), About 31 min by ride-hail for roughly USD 45
- Cost for the weekend
- USD 629 (USD 629) per person, Flights and race entry.
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Should you race here?
An NFL stadium under a closing roof, in the month Arizona exists for.
Reasons to
- 21.7°C (71°F) and bright, which is the best weather any February race here offers.
- The venue is a 63,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof and a field that rolls outside.
- Westgate is five minutes from the gates and has the restaurants and hotels in it.
- Spring training starts around now, and the desert and Sedona are both within reach.
Reasons not to
- Public transport from the airport takes 140 minutes against 31 by road, so you will need a car.
- Late February is the peak of the Arizona season and rooms are at their yearly high.
- Westgate is pleasant and entirely manufactured. The real city is half an hour east.
Conditions on the day
InBody HYROX Phoenix runs February 25th, 2027 to February 28th, 2027 at State Farm Stadium. Here is what that specific window is like on the ground.
The catch
The driest race in this guide
22°C (71°F) by day, 8°C (46°F) at night
Glendale in late February
- Humidity averages 40%, which is lower than any other race in this guide and changes how you should drink.
- The February average reaches 21.7°C (71°F) by day and falls to 7.8°C (46°F) at night.
- That is a fourteen degree swing across the day, so a dawn wave and an afternoon one are different races.
- Daylight runs 07:00 to 18:24, and the Arizona sun is strong even in February.
- Daylight
- Dark
- Bar height is temperature
What racing here is like
Your race is here
State Farm Stadium
February 25th, 2027
InBody HYROX Phoenix
- Everything below describes this building first, and the other for comparison
The venue at a glance
- Address
- 1 Cardinals Drive, Glendale, Arizona
- Nearest station
- Glendale Avenue and 95th, Valley Metro route 70 (5 min walk)
- Parking
- Stadium lots on site. The rate varies by event and is not published in advance.
- From the nearest hotel
- 5 to 10 min from Hotels at Westgate
- Altitude
- 340m above sea level, low enough to make no difference to your race.
- Bag drop
- Hyrox has not published the bag drop arrangement for Glendale.
- Supporters
- Hyrox has not published spectator ticketing for Glendale.
Glendale has moved building, moved season, and grown from a single day into the best part of a week. Where you race, and when, changes the day more than most people expect.
State Farm Stadium, your race is in this building
The Arizona Cardinals' home, in the Westgate district west of Phoenix, with a retractable roof and a grass field that rolls out of the building on rails.
Known for. Three Super Bowls, the college football championship, and a playing surface that spends the week outside in the sun.
The building. Opened in 2006 to a Peter Eisenman design meant to echo a barrel cactus, with the roof and the roll-out field both built in from the start.
Race day and start times
The thing that shapes your travel is not the race date. It is when you find out what time you are racing on it.
Hyrox links individual start times on the event page about three days before the race. A provisional schedule goes up earlier.
What to bring
At the stadium, and only on the day you compete. Registration opens 90 minutes before the first wave of your division.
You do not bring a chip. You collect the ankle strap at check-in, wear it for the race, and hand it back after the line.
What your wristband does not cover
You are given a wristband at check-in. Hyrox has not published what the Glendale one admits you to. Check-in is open only on the day you race, so do not assume it covers a second day.
Getting there on the morning
You can walk it from Westgate, or drive. Stadium parking opens well before the first wave and the lots are large.
What you need to book
Before you book
Book flights and the last night around the provisional schedule, not around a wave you have not been given.
If Hyrox cancels or postpones the event, its terms do not cover your flights or your room. Check the cancellation deadline on both before you pay for either.
Flying into the city
Phoenix-Mesa Gateway takes some low-cost routes and is an hour away on the other side of the valley.
Search flights to GlendaleBy train
Check train times and faresSomewhere to stay
The closest beds go first, and those are the ones that matter on race morning.
Compare hotels near the venueSomething to do with the rest of the weekend
Most people fly in for one race and see nothing. The day before is dead time if you do not plan it.
Tours and tickets in GlendaleSomewhere to put your bag
Flying out the same evening? This is the difference between a good afternoon and hauling a kit bag around a city.
Left luggage in GlendaleYour entry
Sold by Hyrox, one ticket per division per day. We earn nothing from this link and include it because you need it.
Official Hyrox entriesEstimate weekend cost
| Item | Local currency | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Three nights Nights near the venue | USD 369 | $369 |
| Travel, airport and around the city | USD 110 | $110 |
| Eating, three days | USD 150 | $150 |
| One athlete plus one supporter | USD 629 | $629 |
Getting to Glendale
Phoenix Sky Harbor is about 31 minutes from the stadium by ride-hail, for roughly USD 45.
Ride-hail from Sky Harbor
About 31 minutes and roughly forty-five dollars. This is how almost everyone will arrive, because the alternative takes four times as long.
A hire car
The valley is a hundred kilometres of grid and nothing connects on foot. A car makes the whole weekend simpler and the parking is free almost everywhere.
Entry requirements
Quick tip
Hiring a car is worth considering here. Everything in the valley is twenty minutes away by road and nothing is walkable between districts.
Getting to the venue
Westgate is beside the stadium and has hotels, restaurants and a cinema. Downtown Phoenix is half an hour east and is a different trip.
This is a car city and the venue is a stadium in a suburb. Public transport from the airport takes well over two hours against half an hour by road, so plan to ride-hail or drive. Valley Metro route 70 stops five minutes away if you are already out here.
Where to stay
Westgate wraps around the stadium and has hotels in it. Everything else in the valley is twenty to forty minutes away by road.
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1. Hotels at Westgate
From about USD 123 a night, with the restaurant district between them and the gates. Closest by a wide margin.
2. Hotels in Glendale and Peoria
Ordinary suburban hotels, cheaper than Westgate, with the historic downtown and its antique shops nearby.
3. Hotels in downtown Phoenix and Scottsdale
The city proper and the resort district. Better evenings, and a long drive on race morning.
Late February is the top of the Arizona season, with spring training starting and the golf just finished. Rooms are at their yearly peak.
Neighbourhoods worth the commute
The Phoenix valley is a hundred kilometres across and everything is measured by road. These are the districts worth the drive.
| Area | To the venue | Why | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westgate | 5 to 10 min on foot | A purpose-built entertainment district beside the stadium, with restaurants, bars and an arena. Convenient and entirely artificial. | |
| Historic downtown Glendale | about 15 min by road | A few blocks of antique shops and bungalows around Catlin Court, which is the oldest thing in this part of the valley. | |
| Downtown Phoenix | about 30 min by road | The city centre, with the Heard Museum, the ballpark and the light rail running through it. | |
| Scottsdale | about 40 min by road | The resort and golf district on the east side, with the desert botanical garden and Taliesin West nearby. | |
| Arrowhead | about 15 min by road | Suburban north Glendale, with the shopping and the chain restaurants. Practical and nothing more. |
Eating before and after
The night before a race is not the night for the best meal of your trip, which is harder discipline than it sounds in a city this good at food.
Westgate, by the stadium
A whole district of restaurants five minutes from the gates, serving from midday. One of them is a sports bar a hundred and thirty metres from the door.
Arrowhead
Fifteen minutes north, with the chains and the supermarkets. Reliable, dull and open when you need it.
Arizona food is Sonoran, which means northern Mexican cooking that crossed the border and stayed.
A Sonoran hot dog
A hot dog wrapped in bacon, in a bolillo roll, with beans, tomato, onion, mayonnaise and jalapeno sauce. About six dollars fifty, and a genuinely regional dish.
Mexican food in west Phoenix
The west valley cooks better Mexican food than anywhere else in the metropolitan area and charges less for it, fifteen minutes east of the stadium.
Race day supplies
The practical failures that spoil a race weekend are almost never the training. They are forgetting the gels, or carrying a kit bag around a city for six hours.
Pack list
- More water than the temperature suggests. At 40% humidity you dehydrate without noticing it.
- Sun protection. The Arizona sun in February is stronger than a 21.7°C (71°F) day implies.
- A warm layer for the morning. It falls to 7.8°C (46°F) overnight, which surprises people expecting the desert.
Quick tips
- Do not plan on public transport from the airport. It is 140 minutes against 31 by car.
- Lip balm and moisturiser. The dryness here is the thing nobody packs for.
Westgate has shops and Arrowhead has everything, fifteen minutes north. This is suburban America and nothing is far by car.
The last race in Glendale
State Farm Stadium is a recent addition to the Hyrox calendar, so there is little previous form here to pass on.
What happened
The last edition, in short.
- The stadium has a roof that closes and a field that rolls outside, so the floor you race on is not the turf.
- Westgate, the restaurant and entertainment district, is a five-minute walk from the gates.
What it means for you
How your race differs from that one.
- Phoenix Sky Harbor is 30 minutes away by car and about 140 minutes by public transport. Plan to drive or ride-hail.
- February humidity here is 40%, which is drier than any other race in this guide.
What else is on that weekend
Spring training is under way across the valley, and one of the ballparks is in Glendale.
| What | When | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Globetrotters, on the Rivalry tour | 26 February | Desert Diamond Arena, beside the stadium | The Friday evening, in the arena next door at Westgate. It fills the same car parks you will be using. |
| Cactus League spring training | From 19 February | Ten ballparks across the valley | Opening day is the week before, so games run right through the race weekend. It fills valley hotels. |
| Camelback Ranch, in Glendale | 28 February | Camelback Ranch, 15 minutes south | The Diamondbacks play the White Sox on the Sunday at the ballpark the Dodgers and White Sox share. Fifteen minutes from the stadium. |
| Peak Arizona season | January to April | The whole valley | Late February is why people come to Arizona. Room rates are at their annual high and so is the weather. |
What to see
Written for someone racing tomorrow, not a tourist with a week. Each entry says how far it is, because some of these are worth a longer trip and some are not.
The Desert Botanical Garden
Fifty thousand desert plants in Papago Park on the east side, including a cactus collection that explains why the Sonoran desert looks the way it does. February is its best month.
The Heard Museum
The best museum of Native American art and history in the country, in central Phoenix, built around courtyards. Two hours that will change how you read the landscape.
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and studio, built into the desert at the foot of the McDowells and still a school of architecture. Guided tours only.
Camelback Mountain
A red sandstone hump in the middle of the valley with two steep routes up it. Three hundred metres of climbing, and the view explains the geography in one go.
What to do
Spring training
Fifteen Major League teams play Cactus League games across the valley from late February, in small parks where you sit close. Tickets are cheap and the sun is out.
A desert trail at dawn
The White Tank mountains are twenty minutes west of the stadium and the South Mountain preserve is the largest urban park in the country. Go early, before the sun is up properly.
Westgate, after the race
The district next to the stadium is a strip of bars and restaurants built for exactly this, five minutes from the finish line.
Sedona, for the day
Two hours north, red rock canyons and a thousand metres of altitude on top of the desert. The standard Arizona day out and worth every minute of the drive.
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Last updated November 7th, 2026.