Tuesday Track Sessions at Willesden

Track coaches Malcolm, Jeannette, Brendan and Andy organise Serpentine track sessions on Tuesday evenings at Willesden Stadium.

Willesden Stadium The coached sessions start at 7.00pm with a 15 minute warm-up. Ideally, you will also have jogged 4 times round the track before the group warm-up starts. See here for more information about what to expect and how to interpret the session descriptions. The workouts usually finish by 8.00pm

Full details of the programme are below and are also sent to the mailing list each week.

Sessions

Preparing for the cross country season, winter road races and spring marathons.

Date Session Recoveries Pace/Notes
26/01/10 3 x 1200m + 4 x 200m 2 mins recovery after 1200m and 2 minutes after 200s 1200s at 5k pace with 200s run fast
26/01/10 6 x 1200m + 4 x 200m 60/75 secs rec after 1200s and 2 minutes after 200s 1200s at 10k pace.  200s at 3k pace
(Sat, 30 Jan) (South of England Cross Country Championships)    
02/02/10 2 x (6 x 400m) 45 secs recovery and 3 minutes between sets  5k pace but with last 400m of each set run at 3k pace
09/02/10 2 x 600m, 2 x 500m, 2 x 400m, 1 x 300m, 1 x 200m 2-3 mins recovery 3k pace
09/02/10 6 x Yasso 800s Continuous run Marathon related pace
16/02/10 2 sets of 400m at 10k pace immediately followed by 400m at 3k pace non-stop for 8 laps Continuous run.  1 lap walk recovery between sets. 8 second pace differential between efforts.
23/02/10 1 mile, 600m, 400m, 300m, 200m 2 laps jog recovery after 1 mile.  3 mins between other efforts 3k pace
(27/02/10) (National Cross Country Champs)    
02/03/10 3 x 1000m, 3 x 400m, 3 x 200m Jog fwd 200m after efforts 5k pace with 200s run faster
09/03/10 5 x 1000m 2 mins recovery 5k pace
09/03/10 7 x Yasso 800s Continuous run  Marathon related pace
16/03/10 2 X (400m, 600m, 1000m, 600m, 400m) 90 secs between efforts and 1 lap jog between sets 5k pace
23/03/10 6 x (200m @90% efforts, jog 100m, 100m fast, jog 200m) Continuous run  
23/03/10 5 x 2000m  90 secs recovery 10k pace
30/03/10 10 x (400m + 100m) 45 secs after 400m and 90 secs after 100m 400s at 5k pace and 100s at 3k pace
06/04/10 3 x (1000m + 600m) 90 secs recovery throughout 5k pace
06/04/10 8 x Yasso 800s Continuous run Marathon related pace
13/04/10 5 x 400m, 5k pace, reducing recs of 60, 45, 30, 15 secs. - 1 lap jog - 1 x 2000m, 5k pace - 1 lap jog - 5 x 200m, 3k pace, 45 secs rec    
20/04/10 10x 300m Jog fwd 100m recovery 3k pace
20/04/10 4 x 5 mins (for London Marathon runners) 2 mins recovery 10k pace
27/04/10 2 x 90 secs easy / 90 secs hard
4 x 60 secs easy / 60 secs hard
4 x 30 secs easy / 30 secs hard
4 x 1 5 secs easy / 15 secs hard
Continuous run Easy efforts at 5k pace.  Hard efforts at mile pace