Club Training Thursday 17th March

Thursday is a threshold Thursday! The session is as follows:

3 x 10 minute at threshold with 3:30 jog recoveries.

The effort level is the effort you could maintain for an hour long race (so approximately 10k for some all the way up to 10 miles for others or somewhere in between). As always, the best way to train is to train smart and only do enough so you are fresh enough to train again the next day and the days after that. This means constant effort for each rep and not bursting yourself on the last rep. Finish fresh as, in theory, you should have been able to keep that effort going for a full hour without any rests.

The route is the Sainsburys loop in a clockwise direction, starting the first effort just at the main gate into Sainsburys. By using the same loop for all the efforts, it helps with the judgement of the effort. If due to roadworks the Sainsbury's loop is not useable, then instead do the session on the part of the loop that is safely runnable but insert U-turns when you reach the unpassable part. Do one lap of the route as part of your warm-up to confirm whether you can use the full loop or not and to identify any ditches or other traps that Harriers could fall into or trip over (as if that would ever happen!).

Alan