Endurance Training Day
An Endurance Training Day is being held at St Mary’s on Sunday 21st February. This day is open to U15s through to Seniors who have represented their county in the last year. If you are interested in coming please let Noel know.
The timetable for the day is as follows:
9.45 Meet Sports Hall
10.15 Track session believed to be 3 sets of 1000,300,300,300 with amended… Continue reading
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Training for February – updated
Tuesday 2nd – Session at track for all, 18:30
Thursday 4th – Session at Twickenham Green for performance group, 18:00
Saturday 6th – Inter County Schools, Hillingdon Mini Marathon, Hounslow Mini Marathon or session in Richmond Park at 09:45
Tuesday 9th – Session at track for everyone, easy run and strides from track or home for those racing on Thursday
Thursday 11th – Middlesex Schools Championships
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Training for January
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you enjoy many successes in the next 12 months.
Saturday 2nd – Hills for everyone, Richmond Park, 9:45
Sunday 3rd – Long easy runs from home (in groups if possible)
Tuesday 5th – Track session for everyone, 18:30
Thursday 7th – Performance group meeting at track at 18:30 – CANCELLED
Saturday 9th – Session at Marble Hill, starting 09:45… Continue reading
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King and (Snow) Queen of the Mountains crowned
The annual tempo and devil-take-the-hindmost hills competition took place on Saturday with the crowns going to Rebecca Killip and Ross.
Ross edged out Bradley in a closely fought men’s competition. Grant and David had excellent sessions. Christina and Molly were 2nd and 3rd behind Rebecca.
Rebecca won last year’s plate competition and it was the turn of Mum Liz… Continue reading
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Sussex Squad Day – Kenyan Training notes
Noel was talking briefly to coaches about Kenyan training camps at a Sussex Squad day on Sunday. A car load of the older athletes made the trip down and had a good session followed by an informative talk on nutrition.
HERE are the Kenyan notes. Some of the photos have been taken out of a book on Kenya published by French magazine VO2 . I strongly recommend… Continue reading | 2 Comments
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Bushy parkrun SMRAC attack
We made our usual pre-Christmas outing to Bushy Park for the 5k parkrun event. Older athletes ran at a good solid tempo pace, younger athletes used it as a longer run, and much older athletes were just happy to get round. A long warm down made it a good workout for many of those involved.
For the record the ‘race’ was won by Bradley with Ross 2nd and Jack… Continue reading | 1 Comment
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Looking after number 1
What a week… some good sessions, some sore legs, some tired bodies, some feeling fresh and picking up……
Stretching after sessions – get it done post cool down jog and feel the benefits. Stretching after a session reduces the amount of DOMS and means you’re more likely to be ready for your next run or session. The more ready you are, the more likely you’ll be able… Continue reading
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Training for December
Tue 1st – Session for all at Old Deer Park, 18:00
Thurs 3rd – Session for Performance Group at track, 18:30
Sat 5th – Hill session for all, Richmond Park, 09:45
Tue 8th – Track session for all, 18:30
Thurs 10th – Performance group at Twickenham Green, 18:00
Sat 12th – Tempo runs for all at Bushy Park Parkrun, 08:40
Tue 15th -Track session… Continue reading
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Training for November
Watch out for alternating training venues in November…. don’t turn up at the wrong place, and get the right time too – track starts slightly later than grass. (I’ll make separate arrangements with prospective steeple chasers to do barrier drills before squad sessions start.)
Please wrap up warm – track sessions will consist of warm up jog, drills, strides, session, jog down, stretch. Also, consider the recent… Continue reading
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Footwear – be sensible
Choose the right shoe
I’ve spoken a few times over the last few months and to a few individuals again yesterday about making sure you are wearing appropriate footwear for the activity you are doing. I’m still surprised to see people warming up in spikes or doing their steady running in… Continue reading
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