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 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 training schedule from 28 September to 18 November
the old training schedule from 3 August to 23 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."

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. However, we very much regret that we have had to abandon the 2020 course because of the coronavirus pandemic. We need long light evenings so we can get out into the lovely New Forest for the course so we won't be able to schedule one before Spring 2021. If coronavirus rules permit, we hope to run another course beginning in March 2021. 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