Thursday Track Sessions at Battersea
10 mile to marathon sessions
Beate Vogt and a team of coaches lead the sessions preparing athletes for race distances of 10 mile, half marathon, marathon and triathlons. The sessions are geared around building speed endurance and are open to anyone aiming for a long race, although you should be running several times a week before adding speed sessions.
Sessions include dynamic warm up, technical drills, sessions run at 5K to tempo pace and cool down. They take place either on the track or in the park, check our weekly e-mail or see below to check where we will be. For track sessions we meet at the start/finish line, for sessions in the park we meet at the front entrance to the track, in either case we start at 7:00. If the session is in the park you do not need to pay for the track, if you need the changing rooms you can pay just to use them. Please store bags in the lockers in the changing rooms or make alternative arrangements, the coaches are not able to guard them during the session. 
We are currently running two sessions each week, with one particularly designed for athletes training for a spring marathon. Both sessions are open to all so you can choose your training based on your own goals.
(In the IAAF Standard Representation of Training Sessions, paces are in round brackets, rest times in square brackets. LT denotes lactate threshold pace.)
| Date | Session 1 (particularly designed for those preparing for a spring marathon) | Session 2 |
| 9 Feb |
2 continuous laps ~2,8km per lap (LT pace) in park |
6-8x 800m (5-10k pace) [1 min] on track |
| 16 Feb |
Pyramid: 400m [60s], 800m [60s], 1200m [90s], 1600m [90s], 1200m [90s], 800m [60s], 400m (all 10k pace) on track |
3x {4x 400m (3k pace) [1min]} [2min] on track |
| 23 Feb |
6-8x 800m (5-10k), [90s] + 3 miles (Marathon) on track | Pot luck fartlek in park |
| 1 Mar |
4-6x 1km (10k pace) [60-90s] in park | Balke Test (Warm up then 15 minute time trial to help measure VO2 max and improvements throughout the season) on track |
| 8 Mar |
4-5x 1200m (10k) [2-3min] + 3-4 miles (Marathon) on track | 3 min (time trial) [5 min] then: 3x 3:29 (10K) [1 min] 3x 3:21 (5K) [1 min throughout] covering same distance as time trial in park |
| 15 Mar |
6 mins (LT) [90 s], 4-5 x 800m (3/5k) [90 s] 6 mins (LT) in park | Accelerations: 4-6x {600m (10K) 400m (5k) 200m (mile)} [90s] on track |
| 22 Mar |
4-6x 1km (10k) [60-90s] + 3-4 miles (Marathon) in park | 4x400m (3k), 2 x 1600m (10k), 4 x 400 (3k) [1 min throughout] on track |
Sessions are subject to change