Development

Open to everyone

These sessions will be aimed at teaching technique, learning drills, improving your running technique and primarily be focussed on building up a basic endurance, which are the foundations of good running. The sessions will teach a variety of different types of running and build skills and confidence as a platform to progress to the intermediate group. To progress you are likely to need to be completing at least one other session, a week which can be very similar to the coached session. The group is designed to get you to run faster and help meet your running potential.

Intermediate

5K : Faster than 23:30 minutes

This group targets the majority of the club. The focus is on running drills to help hone your technique and running at threshold (T-Pace) or slightly above for the majority of the season. It is assumed that you are completing a long run (of between 60-90 minutes at an easy aerobic pace) on your own away from club sessions as a minimum in addition to the club session, and possibly other sessions such as a brick run.

Things to consider

• If you are unsure about what other running to be doing ask your session coach.
• Train in the group appropriate to your current fitness or injury situation, just because you used to be able to do a 15min 5k, can you still run that or are you better suited to intermediate group now?

Active coaching will start from 7.15pm, but we expect everyone to have completed a minimum of 10 minutes self warm up before this point. A coach will be on hand from 7pm to offer advice and guidance. Please do not interrupt coaches who are still coaching the previous session – there will be a designated coach available to help you.

Note: We encourage members to introduce themselves to track running progressively. Don’t jump straight into full sessions the first time you go along.