Training

Beginners

The last Beginners' Course was a great success. Congratulations to everyone who took part. We look forward to the new one. Details are on our Beginners page.

Training Schedules

Members meet regularly every Tuesday and Thursday evening for structured training sessions. In the winter months we meet outside Applemore Health & Leisure Centre and train around the local roads of Hythe and Dibden Purlieu. In the summer months we usually meet in Didbden Inclosure and train in the New Forest. Please check the training schedule confirmation of meeting and training locations.

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 13^th 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 "12" 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!

View training schedule for 5^th July to 25^th August

View training schedule for 30^th August to 22^nd September

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,

"Here are the results from the Timed 1 Mile Session that took place on the grass track at the New Forest Academy on Tuesday 24 May. Well done to one and all, a brilliant effort made by everyone. Thank you for all coming along to support and quite honestly make -The Hardley Runners Training Sessions."

Mile Times : May 24th
#	Name	Time (min.sec)
1	Tim Anetts	5.10
2	Dan Latham	5.28
3	Carl Hall	5.36?
4	Simon Ibbotson	5.39
5	Matt Casey	5.54
6	Matt Tanner	6.10
7	Kelly Anetts	6.15
8	Hanna Cockle	6.19
9	Emily James	6.55
10	Paul Blinkthorn	7.02
11	Lyn McDonague	7.10
12	Andy Farrow-Thomas	7.12
13	Andy Simpson	7.44
14	Anthony Insuli	7.47
15	Lou Johnson	7.52
16	Charmaine Bradford	7.52
17	Ian Ordish	7.58
18	Sarah Fitton	8.34
19	Lindsay McLennan	8.40
20	Kate Garner	8.47
21	Lucy Godfey	8.47
22	Emma Farrow- Thomas	8.49
23	Babs Bradley	8.56
24	Marzena Szczepanska	10.12

Coach Chris says,

Results for the 24 March time trial have now been added.

We hope to repeat in the Time Trial at the start of the summer season on the grass track at Hardley School.

What a Marvelous Effort by one & all!

Times in bold are PBs.

Name	26-Oct-21	02-Dec-21	01-Feb-22	24-Mar-22
Matt Casey	19.37	18.44	18.46	18.37
Trish Patterson				21.34
Nick Jarvis			18.38	22.31
Paul Blinkhorn			24.29	22.32
Anthony Insuli	23.51			23.26
Peter Hackson		27.16		27.50
Carl Hall	20.17		19.08
Alice Rudd	19.23		19.13
Poppy Tanner	19.32	19.22	19.35
Mark Clothier		17.57	20.26
Phil Rudd			20.38
Matt Tanner		19.50	20.53
Hannah Cockle			23.07
Jo Avery			23.23
Mike Osbourne	25.59	24.19	24.05
Mike Roberts			24.33
Andy (new)			25.07
Ali Pomeroy	30.39	29.51	27.55
Emma (new)			31.39
Sarah Hall			32.28
Richard Turner			Retired
Liz Mould			Retired
Peter Pimentel		22.35
Ian Ordish	24.03	24.27
Mike Fitton		25.57
Sarah Fitton		26.00
Chris Kidd	26.21	26.45
Julia Law		29.50
Claire Aplin		30.57
Annie Bruce Low	47.48	48.00
Dan Latham	17.52
Mark Lee	23.43
Tim Collinson	24.49
Grace Hawker	25.09
Patrick (new)	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

Steve Henry: 07786 021342 or stevehenry2@sky.com

Ian Ordish: 07818 021167 or iordish@gmail.com