Club Training Thursday 17th June

Back to Threshold Thursday after a 10 day gap since our previous session of this type. It is the same session again:

3 x 9 minutes at threshold with a 3 minute jog recovery. As before, if this is only the first or second time you have done a threshold session, then only do the first 2 reps and run easy for the third rep and recovery to catch your pack up during their recovery.

The route is Strathaven Rd to Sainsburys and then on to the corner at the bottom of the steep hill at Langlands. Start the first rep at this corner. Run past Park Farm to Leaburn Rd, turn left and then right and continue climbing up to the cross roads. Turn LEFT at the cross roads along the rough road and then turn LEFT again at the T junction at the end of the road and back down the hill until you reach Leaburn Rd again. Turn left and run along Leaburn Rd, through Leaburn and then turn right at the Park Farm junction and follow the reverse of the route to Sainsburys, Strathaven Rd and the club.

Remember that threshold is a level of effort and not a pace, so your pace will go up and down depending on hills and wind direction but your level of effort (and hence heart rate and breathing) will remain constant and uncomfortable.

Alan