Training

Beginners

The Beginners' Course was a great success. Congratulations to everyone who took part. Details are on our Beginners page.

Training Schedules - the road map to the new normal

In normal circumstances, members meet regularly every Tuesday and Thursday evening outside Applemore Recreation Centre for structured training sessions. In the summer months we train in the New Forest and during the winter we use the local roads around Hythe and Dibden Purlieu.

England Athletics have announced that organised Athletic Running Activities that are Covid secure can take place for both Children and Adults ( no Covid group size limits). Therefore as from April 13th 2021 we have returned to "normal training"! Here is our Risk Assessment. Please take some time to read before Training. Not forgetting to maintain Social Distancing during the sessions.

Chris Harris and the other coaches are really pleased to say we now have "8" rotating Coaches and Leaders taking the sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday.

So be ready to train hard and enjoy; our new Folk are jolly keen!

Here are

the new training schedule from 18 January to 10 March
the old training schedule from 23 November to 12 January

We all look forward to seeing everyone.

The Coaches !

Here's what one satisfied runner said about training,

"Mostly I run on my own so it’s really easy to just drift along in my own world. The training makes me work hard in a structured and fun way. The coaches are all great and very encouraging regardless of the standard of your running. It’s a very nice atmosphere at training."

Time Trials

Coach Chris says,

The second 5K Time Trial took place on Thursday 2 December, the evening was easily one of the coldest winter nights!! In these chilly conditions all our runners did incredibly well, with many achieving P.B.s!

The previous TT was on Tuesday 26 October. Prior to the trial the course was carefully remeasured, checking for accuracy pointing out the 3 mile mark & the final 5K finish line to our folk.

We hope to repeat in this road Time Trial in 6 weeks & later at the start of the summer season on the grass track at Hardley School.

What a Marvelous Effort by one & all!

Name	2 December Time	26 October Time
Mark Clothier	17:57
Matt Casey	18:44
Poppy Tanner	19:22	19:32
Matt Tanner	19:50
Peter Pimentel	22:35
Mike Osbourne	24:19	25:59
Ian Ordish	24:27	24:03
Mike Fitton	25:57
Sarah Fitton	26:00
Chris Kidd	26:45	26:21
Peter Hackson	27:16
Julia Law	29:50
Ali Pomeroy	29:51	30:39
Claire Aplin	30:57
Annie Bruce Low	48:00	47:48
Dan Latham		17:52
Alice Rudd		19:23
Matt Casey		19:37
Carl Hall		20:17
Mark Lee		23:43
Anthony Instil		23:51
Tim Collinson		24:49
Grace Hawker		25:09
Patrick ( new member)		25:09

Independent Training Schedules

We are a group who are extremely fortunate to continue doing the sport we love in amazing surroundings!

Independent training schedules have been very helpful. Now that regular training is back, we are not producing new ones but we have over a year's worth which are available below as a resource for people who can't make it to our regular sessions

To add to this, here are

a superfast 5k route around Dibden Purlieu planned, tried and tested regularly with positive results by Mick & Jan;
Hannah's 5m (actually nearer 10K!) fartlek route
gpx of Hannah's route. Not sure how you get it into your device but you can download it by going save link as

Here are some suggested independent training schedules from Coach Chris

The current one which goes through to 12 July 2021
The sixth one which goes through to 10 May 2021
The fifth one which goes through to 19 March
The fourth one which goes through to 21 January
The third one which goes to 12 November
The second one which goes to 17 September
The first one which goes to 27 July

Please give your feedback to Chris as it will help her design future schedules so they meet your needs.

The training schedules include regular measured miles so you can measure your progress. Chris will be delighted if you let her know your results. Here are some recent ones

	Feb 1st	Feb 15th	March 10th	March 16th	March 23rd	April 25
Claire Aplin	9:36	9:09
Hilary Hinks	9:46
Tim Collinson		8:22			7:33
Dan Latham				5:06
Terry Earney			8:13
Mike Fitton			7:11
Sarah Fitton			8:11
Jeremy Barber	8:22	8:08		7:52		8:31
Jacqui Healey	7:55	7:57		7:32		7:51
Matthew Casey				5:55

Beginners

We welcome beginners and hold ten week 'Couch to 5K' training courses. The next one is likely to be in Spring 2022. If you'd like to go on the waiting list for the next course or you'd like to do a 'couch to 5K'on your own then please contact coach Chris Harris (contact details below).

Advice and more information

If you'd like advice please feel free to contact one of our coaches.

Chris Harris: 07708 118114 or Landline 02380 844339 or energybar6@btinternet.com

Andy Simpson: 07962 590089 or andy_simpson20@hotmail.com

Steve Henry: 07786 021342 or stevehenry2@sky.com

Ian Ordish: 07818 021167 or iordish@gmail.com