Training Thursday 15th October

Still keeping it simple for this week's session. The session is 2 x 15 minutes at threshold effort with a 5 minute jog recovery in between during which you should regroup into your pack (whilst maintaining all social distancing requirements).

Remember that threshold is a level of effort, not a specific pace, which defines a specific physiological state, that where you just start to breath hard and could maintain for 1 hour during a race. To practice judging that effort, we will use a hilly course (as usual) such that your pace varies depending on the slope but your effort remains constant. We won't venture far from the club for this session. 

Start the reps at Lidl (Atholl House) and head back up Churchill Avenue to the NEL roundabout where you should follow the pavement around to the left along the Kingsway past St Brides school to the Whitemoss roundabout and then left again and down the hill to Lidl's main car park entrance, being very careful crossing the road at the bottom of Avondale and also at the entrance into Lidl. So this is an anti-clockwise circuit of what we could call the LidNEL loop :-)

The warm-up should be EKSC to NEL roundabout then turn right to Whitemoss Roundabout and  then left and down the hill to the Lidl car park entrance where the reps start. Decide within your pack which route to take for the cool down depending on what extra miles you want.

Alan