Paddington Track, Thursdays from 10th March

The sessions, coached by Andy Robbins, will start at 7pm and meet at the 200m point on the track. A session will typically consist of a brief introduction, a group warmup involving dynamic exercises, hurdles, drills, strides and accelerations to get people ready for the session itself. More advanced runners will tend to cover a greater overall volume during the session and anyone coming at this from more of a 400m background will typically do significantly less. Current abilities of participants are anticpated to be spread across sub 2:00 / 2:40 for the 800 and around 4:05 / 5:15 for 1500.

These sessions will follow the cycle described below

• March – introduction to 800 / 1500m paces
• April – increasing rep length & overal volume of session but still with good recoveries
• May – moving towards true lactate tolerance / clearing type sessions

Sessions

The workouts in March serve as a reintroduction to regular middle distance training for those coming off the back of cross country and spring road races.

This is an advanced session specifically targetting middle distance events so is not a session for beginners / improvers or those not already running at least 4-5 times a week. It should be used as an event specific workout rather than as a ‘principal speed workout of the week just because the volumes are low’…