Training with the Road Runners
Sean
Qualification: LiRF (Leadership in running fitness)
Coach: England Masters Marathon team member with 16 years at the club and has trained several runners to sub 3 hr marathon standard and faster!
Ability level: The group ranges from sub 40min to 33min 10Km times, but also suitable for those looking to improve to get down to the sub 40min 10K level.
Training times:
Tuesday: Track training session, starts 18:45 meeting on the track ( runners should already have completed their warm up prior to the session, due to limited track time).
Thursday: Road run, usually tempo based or steady run. Meet at 18:45. Contact SEAN for meeting point
Andy
Coach: 20+ years as a Club member with a 25+ years running career followed by a move to coaching and supporting runners over a range of abilities, helping them to achieve whatever goals they may have.
Group Ability Level : The training group accommodates runners of all abilities and whatever aims they may have, whether running for enjoyment, having the opportunity to run with a group or aiming to improve PBs and to build up distance levels all the way up to marathon distance and occasionally beyond!
Training Times: The group meets each Tuesday at the Club ready to run at 7pm. A session would include a short warm up followed by a varying set of repeat efforts of various distances and a short warm down run back to the Club (being sessions most runners would not normally undertake alone). The extent of effort is down to each runner and sessions are set up so that runners are always a part of the group, no-one can be left behind. Thursdays – no formal session. Group runners may make their own arrangements to meet for a longer steady run.
In addition to the regular Tuesday training sessions, on the 1st Tuesday of each month all runners are invited to take part in the Club Handicap competition over a 5-mile road course. As a handicap race, all runners of all abilities have the chance to win each race and pick up points and win the overall competition each year.
Runners also take part in a range of on and off-road races, either individually or as part of Club teams, over all distances. These include Park runs, open road and off-road races, the Frostbite League and various cross-country events with everyone of any ability encouraged to take part.
Ben
Qualification: Working towards Leadership in Running Fitness.
Coach: Taking my first steps into the world of leading runs and coaching. As a junior athlete I ran middle distance track and cross country. As a senior I have competed in road races from 5km to half marathons, fell running, and cross country.
Group Ability: The training group accommodates runners of all abilities and whatever aims they may have. Whether running for enjoyment or as part of a race training programme. As the Yin to the Tuesday’s Yang, the session involves steady running at comfortable paces with the occasional Tempo runs. Using loop backs runners of all abilities can run at their own pace whilst feeling part of the group
Training Times: The group meets each Thursday at the club from 6:45pm ready for a short warm up and running from 7pm. Runs are approx. 5 – 6 miles / 8 – 9 km, or approx. an hour of steady running.
Sunday Social Run
Once a month on a Sunday morning we organise a casual Sunday Social run.
This can start either at the Outdoor Centre or at the St Ives busway at approximately 9-10am, depending on the season.
We run at our own, chatty, pace and you can run as far or as fast as you like.
Afterwards, we often meet at the Ivo Lounge for a post run brunch.
Details each month will go out on the Road Runners’ Facebook page, the Road Runners’ WhatsApp group and Hunts AC Matters.
Please contact Lesley Jackson for more details. lesleyjackson@hotmail.com