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Our schedule is designed to improve your speed, strength and endurance to help you achieve your fitness needs and goals. It also gives you a chance to run for pleasure in a friendly environment. We have a number of experienced coaches and run leaders who lead our sessions. You will always find us supportive and encouraging whatever your goal. We also encourage our members to enter local race leagues that take place throughout the year! We have several sessions during the week catering to all abilities and long-term goals. Our most popular training sessions are Monday and Wednesday Group training. Please look below to see what each session entails. Everyone is welcome, as long as you’re 17 or over. You can try us out for two sessions and, if you like us, we then ask you to join the club. We also have some guidance notes for runner and run leaders.
Sessions offered during a typical training week
| Training | Race Series | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Pace group training (all abilities) 6:30pm | |
| Wednesday | Drills,hills and intervals (all abilities) 6:30pm | RR10 (spring/summer) evenings |
| Thursday | Endurance training (seasonal) 6:30pm | |
| Friday | ||
| Saturday | parkrun 9am HCCL (autumn/winter) afternoons |
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| Sunday | CC6 (autumn/winter) 9:30am HRRL (September - July) mornings |
If you are interested in becoming a run leader to help support our training then please get in touch! Becoming a run leader is a rewarding volunteer activity that helps support our community in these challenging times.
Monday – Group training night
Time: 6:25 for a 6:30pm start.
Venue: Please see the Monday training page for full details.
Training Groups: See the Monday page for pacing guidelines
This is our most popular training night and our sessions use the Common as well as the outdoor sports centre nearby. We aim to cater for all abilities so we usually split into five sub-groups (A and B have currently been merged and G do not currently meet on a Monday); each group will be taking part in a range of different sessions. Our beginners and improvers groups suit new starters, or for people returning to running; the groups are progressive and move up towards our more experienced and faster groups. Don’t worry if you’re unsure which group you should be running with, or what you are doing – have a look at the Monday training page for approximate pacing guidelines; if you are still unsure please send us a message.
Wednesday – Drills, hills & intervals
Time: 6:25 for a 6:30pm start.
Venue: Venue varies, please see schedule
These sessions are designed to complement Monday sessions, as well as give runners who can’t make Mondays the opportunity to improve their fitness. These sessions are a mixture of intervals/repetitions (fast running over a set distance or time), as well as hills to improve strength. Each session will also have a number of drills or exercises included to help improve your ABCs (Agility, Balance, Co-ordination) and ultimately your running technique. Sessions will take place on a mix of surfaces: tarmac, gravel and grass.
Joining a Wednesday night session at the athletics track? For some helpful advice on using the track, check out this great guide to track etiquette from Steel City Striders.
Thursday – Endurance Training
Time: 6:25 for a 6:30pm start.
Venue: Meet at the Bellemoreb triangle on the Common (what3words: ///flats.forms.modest)
Endurance training on a Thursday evening will resume in January 2025, with a new marathon training plan (for all abilities).
Injury management
For further advice on injury management, try James Kirkpatrick at The Recovery Room on 07748 483639 or at https://www.the-recovery-room.co.uk/
