Karen Hancock

Qualifications

UKA Level 3 (endurance, children in athletics)

Experience and Achievements

Karen began as a schoolgirl middle-distance athlete and has represented Scotland in both road and cross-country internationals. Top-ranked British woman at 20 miles in the 50-54 age-group for 2006 and 2nd-ranked at 10 miles, she also won her age-group (45-49) in the Flora London Marathon in 2005. Karen qualified as a Level 2 coach in 1996, and as a Level 3 Endurance coach in 2007.

Interests and Activities

Karen established Saturday morning hill sessions in Greenwich in 2004, and also runs the Tuesday threshold sessions at the Dome.

She also provides marathon training advice for individual athletes. Her coaching philosophy is founded on the belief that good distance runners are not born, but made out of consistent, purposeful training over a number of years.

Publications

Karen was a consultant coach for the Rough Guide to Running (Rough Guides, October 2007).

She has also written a few coaching articles which are available on the Serpentine website.

Involvement with Serpentine