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England Athletics provides guidance on the challenges facing coaches and leaders in road running clubs and groups.

There is such a wide range of ages, abilities and aspirations as well as beginners joining throughout the year and more experienced runners looking to make progress or happy to stay at their current standard. How do you plan sessions to meet all their needs? They recommend athletes are split by ability groups so that they can be warmed up and be provided with a set that is suitable for an individual group. Currently Bracknell Forest Runners do not operate the separate warm ups so we all do this together, as well as the main set at track each week.

If you feel the set is not for you, please do feel free to still join us at track and utilise the outside lanes for your own paced set, please be aware that people who are coming back from injury do utilise these lanes may be at a slower pace than you.

The sessions are for all abilities and we encourage people to ask questions about them. So do not hesitate to do so, no quetsion is a silly one. We all have different understandings of training sets and expressions so we try and use terminology that we can all relate to.

Pace groups

Beginners Run/Walk group.  Aiming to complete approximately a 1 hour session, at a beginners pace, suiting whoever is running. If you would be interested in joining in with this group please contact coaches@bracknell-forest-runners.org.uk or chat to them at the track on a Wednesday - It's a good idea to do this so they can let you know who to look out for when you arrive as our run leaders change weekly.The Run/Walk group is structured to allow beginners to slowly build up their running distance - for example 1 minute run 1 minute walk, 2 minute run 1 minute walk and so on. 

For the following pace groups - If you want to join a group but feel the need for a bit more speed during the session then please run on ahead and then double back to the rear of the group. All the following groups run for 1 hour

  • The 13+ minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 13 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 4 miles long).
  • The 12 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 12 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 4.5 miles long)
  • The 11 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 11 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 5 miles long)
  • The 10 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 10 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 6 miles long)
  • The 9.30 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 9:30 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 6.5 miles long)
  • The 9.0 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 9 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 7 miles long)
  • The 8.30 minute mile group. This group runs at a pace of no quicker than 8:30 minutes a mile pace (the run should be about 7.5 miles long)
  • The Sub 8 minute mile group Our fastest group on a Monday evening. It is on average around 7:30-7:45 pace, but will run at the pace of all runners in group. It will usually cover around 8-8.5 miles

Click below to drop an email to our coaching team:

coaches@bracknell-forest-runners.org.uk 

 

 

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