Coaching Session Overview

We will offer a variety of sessions over time to help you improve your efficiency and potentially your pace.

The Coaching sessions will usually last about 1 hour and will follow the structure below

• Warm Up - 5-10 minutes - dynamic drills / exercises / games to get your muscles warmed up and breathing and heart rate raised,
• Unit 1 - Technical session Running drills / exercises 
  • This 20 minute session will focus on a variety of running and exercise drills.  The purpose is to slowly improve your running technique to help make it more efficient and potentially make better use of your energy.
  • These drills and exercises can also help in injury avoidance
  • Some sessions will involve exercises to improve your balance, coordination and / or agility
• Unit 2 - Physical preparation through running
  • This 20 minute session will work on your various energy systems to improve your physical capability.
  • This may involve running sessions such as Fartlek(speed play), Hill repetitions, intervals and repetitions and trail running.
  • It will also have some focus on how the techniques are applied during the run that were practiced in Unit 1
• Cool Down - 10 minutes
  • Static stretches / cool down games