Hardley Runners Training Schedules

Beginners

We welcome beginners and hold ten week 'Couch to 5K' training courses. Our current one started on 27th March but it is not too late to join in. Click here for more information.

Track Meeting 8 August

Hardley Runners had a training session at Hardley School on Tuesday 8 August in which our friends from Netley Abbey were invited to come along and participate.

The session led by Hardley coach Chris & Chris (from Netley Abbey Runners) involved warm up exercises, children and adults together, then teams raced one another, doing 200m sprints, relays and an obstacle course. The evening was enjoyed by all, with the children joining in with all the races and certainly having a good time.

This was followed by home made cakes, donated by Hardley and Netley.

Amazingly the weather was fine!

Click on Chris to see some pictures.

Training Schedules

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.

Here's the current training schedule which runs to 14 September.

Please be ready to run at 6.30pm.

New runners are welcome to just turn up and try us out before joining the club. Please feel free to contact us with any questions beforehand.

If you intend to meet us out at the road then please contact the Coach who is taking the session beforehand - contact details below:

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

Please remember to wear a Hi-Viz and Reflective vest when the evenings are gloomy. Your safety is important!

Support for steady runners on training nights

We now operate a scheme on training nights to support the runner to run out and back to the training session. There are approximately ten Hardley Runners who have kindly offered on a rotational basis to accompany the new, steady runner or even the established runner who may have lost fitness due to injury. Hopefully this will ensure new runners will feel more able to participate at training.

Inclement Weather Conditions

If weather conditions are poor on Training nights could all runners meet at Applemore Recreation Centre rather than the training area as the schedule may change from that shown on the website.

Coaching

Hardley Runners provides coaching at all training sessions, if you are interested in becoming a coach, please read the document here.

Time Trials

Coach Chris Harris says, "It was an excellent number of people on a lovely evening at our one mile time trail on the track at Hardley on 24 May. A Huge thanks to Leonnora for giving up her run to help me record the times which you can see here (PDF)"

Here are results of our 5K time trials in Noads Way on an Excel spreadheet so you can sort them to your heart's content.

Here's our pace chart. To use the chart you pick your target time for a distance (e.g. 50mins for a 10km) and then the chart tells you that to achieve that you need to be doing each 800m in 4 minutes. Its not telling you that if you can run a 10km in 50mins that you'll be able to run a marathon in 3.31. It's telling you that to achieve 3.31 you need to be running multiple 10kms in 50 minutes. We use the chart to work out target lap times when doing repetitions of 400m, 800m or 1 mile. We pick a target time for each lap based upon what race distance and time each individual is aiming for.

Saturday and Sunday Mornings

We also meet every Sunday and occasional Saturday mornings for a medium to steady run of between five and ten miles in the New Forest (venues and start times agreed through the week).

Contact Chris Harris to find out more about the Saturday runs on 07708 118114 or energybar6@btinternet.com

Contact Ray Noke to find out more and to be added to the distribution list for the Sunday runs, on 07796 370674 or ray.noke@hotmail.co.uk. Sunday runs tend to be larger and will split into medium and steady groups with runs anywhere between 5 and 8 miles normally being ready to run at 8:30 am.

Please also ask any of the coaches on the Tuesday and Thursday sessions about these runs, they are not training sessions and are easy runs with the emphasis on social and fun. For anyone wanting a longer run there may be an option to run out to meet the Sunday group from Applemore though an earlier start is required, depending on where in the Forest we meet up. Please contact Adrian on 07831790086 or adrian@mudle.com.

Tuesday and Thursday Social Runs

Ray Noke leads social runs on Thursday evenings in the summer.

In addition he leads social runs on Tuesday evenings and Linda leads social runs from Dibden Inclosure car park on Thursday mornings at 08.30.

Click on the Social tab above for more information.

Safety- Hi Vis and Reflective kit

Please click on the little picture to get the big message.

UK Athletics has advised that Hardley's Third Party Liability insurance could be invalidated if an accident was caused during a nightime club training session by one of our runners not wearing high visibility clothing.
For future training sessions it will be COMPULSORY for all runners to wear high visibility bibs if they wish to join the Hardley groups. Bibs can be purchased from the Hardley kit store and there are 'club' bibs which can be borrowed if you have forgotten your own. Or you can get a suitable bib from Amazon for only £6.99.
If you are also running (or cycling) on public roads by yourself you are advised to protect yourself and others by wearing a high vis bib.
Most proprietary running clothes do not have enough retro-reflective material for adequate safety.
Be safe - be seen!