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Wednesday 28 September 2022
Club Training Thursday 29th September
Sunday 25 September 2022
NATIONAL XC RELAYS (CUMBERNAULD) 22nd OCT
This years National xc relays are returning to Cumbernauld on Sat 22nd Oct.
leg numbers are 4 in a team and 3 for the M50, W40 and W50
Start times are Ladies 13.20 and Men 14.45.
Its 4k per leg and the cost will be £6 per head.
Please make sure your SA membership is up to date.
I need names by Monday 3rd Oct.
If you wish entered please add your name HERE. Those already registered are listed HERE.
Russell
Club Training Monday 26th September - Brancumhall
With the cross-country season soon to be upon us, Monday is the first of our fortnightly sessions on the Brancumhall pitches. Running on soft ground, these sessions put more emphasis on developing leg power rather than relying purely on muscle elasticity to bounce you along on a hard tarmac surface. At the end of the day, having more power in your legs together with a bouncy stride will make you a faster runner on any surface. The session also gives a chance to try our your off-road shoes before the first XC race of the season.
Monday's session is 12 x 1 minute with a 1 minute jog recovery in between, run as a continuous session around the usual Brancumhall pitches "quadrangle". The pace/effort should be similar to 4k/5k race pace/effort.
For those who have not done this before, we run from the club to Brancumhall in our packs. For that wear your usual road shoes. On arriving at Brancumhall, if you are really lucky, someone will have brought your choice of off-road shoes down in their car for you to change in to. A low soled trail shoe or cross-country spike will suffice (although if the ground is completely dry, you might get away with a road shoe. But "dry" and "East Kilbride" don't often go together at this time of year). After the session, change back into road shoes and run slowly back to the club.
Alan
Neil McCover 2022 West District Half Marathon Championship, 9th October
"A gentle reminder that the West District Half Marathon Championship is being held as part of the 2022 Neil McCover half marathon in Kirkintilloch. The race is on Sunday 9 October and, as well as providing a chance to win District medals, it offers everyone the chance to enjoy a friendly, local race that provides great scenery and opportunities to set fast times.
Wednesday 21 September 2022
Club Training Thursday 22nd September
Thursday is a threshold session in the middle of a longer run. The route is Queensway to Holiday Inn, along Stewartfield Rd to Kingsgate and then back up the Kingsway via the Whirlies. The threshold reps start at the Holiday Inn and consist of 3 x 6 minutes with a 2 minutes jog recovery. Remember, threshold is a level of effort, not a pace and is the effort that could be maintained for one hour during a race or just beyond the level of effort at which you can string more than a couple of words together. These sessions help develop the ability to run at a sustainable pace in the presence of increasing fatigue and discomfort caused by the build up of lactic.
Alan
Sunday 18 September 2022
Glasgow Athletics Association Cross Country Endurance Sessions
This year's series of cross-country endurance training sessions organised by GAA at various parks around Glasgow start on Saturday 15th October at Bellahouston Park. Several of us have participated in these sessions over many years and find them to be a really good additional training session for those who are able. The full programme for this year is here: https://www.glasgowathletics.org.uk/endurance-sessions
Alan
Club Training Monday 19th September
A low key session for Monday with a slight build on last Thursday's session. 6 x 400m at 10k pace with 2 minute standstill recovery at Langlands Place. In future weeks we will build the number of reps and then reduce the recoveries in the traditional way. This is a junior friendly session for any who can make it. The warm-up is the direct route via Strathaven Rd and around by Sainsburys and the cool down is the reverse.
Note that next Monday (26th September) will be the first of the fortnightly cross-country sessions at Brancumhall pitches. Again, we will start with a very light session more to get used to running off-road in whichever spikes or trail shoes you usually use.
Alan
Wednesday 14 September 2022
Club Training Thursday 15th September
Thursday's session is a reintroduction to the Harriers' 400m "track" i.e. Langlands Place. The session is aimed at refamiliarising yourself with the correct pace, this time for the 5k race distance, as this pace will be similar to that used in the first few cross country relays of the season. The session is also light enough to allow those still recovering from the TTC to have an easy introduction.
The session is 4 x 400m at 5k pace with 2 minute stand still recovery (or light jog) + 4 x 200m at slightly faster than 5k pace (i.e. the equivalent of 2 seconds per 400m faster than 400m pace), 1 minute recovery. As a reminder, 400m time for various 5k paces is as follows:
Warm-up via Strathaven Rd and around by Sainsburys main entrance and then up to Langlands Place. For the 400m efforts, this is the full length of the straight plus/minus 10m. Try to use the same start/stop points for each rep in alternate directions. For the 200m reps, run half way along the straight and again alternate the direction after each rep.
Alan
WEST DISTRICT XC RELAY CHAMPIONSHIP 8th Oct
Well we're back round to the start of the Winter season and the start of the Grand Prix.
The West District XC relay starts us off on Saturday 8th Oct in Kings Park (handy)
Its 4 per team (3 for Ladies) but we will enter partial teams too so everyone can get a run.
Ladies start at 13.00 and Men at 14.15
4k per leg and the cost is £6 per head and payment should be made to Calderglen Harriers as soon after adding your name as possible.
Make sure your Scottish Athletics membership is up to date ( this means it must also be eligible for the day of the event). The system wont let me enter you if this is not the case.
For those newish to the club and need this explained please feel free to ask at training.
Names are required by midnight 19th Sept, after that I will do the entries.
If you wish entered please add your name HERE. Those already added are listed HERE.
Sunday 11 September 2022
TTC 2022 - Warm Weather Training Camp
Club Training Monday 12th September
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Club Training Thursday 8th September
Sunday 4 September 2022
Club Training Monday 5th September
Monday is the final one of our short hill rep sessions. This time it is 10 x 45 seconds up the Langlands hill. It will be dark by the end, so wear some reflective clothing. Stay consistent throughout and hit the same finishing mark each rep. Don't thrash yourself into the ground on the final rep. After this session we will put the power developed in these hill rep sessions to use on speed endurance sessions on our 400m and 800m sessions in the coming weeks.
Take the direct route to the session via Strathaven Rd and Sainsburys.
Alan
TTC Arrangements
- Bowls and cutlery for breakfasts
- Yoga/exercise mat for the conditioning sessions
- Enough running gear for all the runs and sessions. Keeping in mind that the weather is likely to be wet for at least some of the time, bring a running jacket (body cover to counteract wind chill and exposure is the main thing here rather than keeping dry).
- The runs will be on a mixture of road and forestry trails. Road shoes will be fine for most of the runs. The exception is perhaps the "fun relay" which will be on grass. You may wish to bring studded trail shoes for that although road shoes will also be OK if you don't have trail shoes.
- A bum bag or small running back pack to carry gels, water, your jacket and mobile phone for emergencies. Don't bring a big rucksack as that will only handicap you. Only the Sunday run is long enough to require gels/water to be carried.
- Water bottle/carrier and gels if you think you will need them.
- Glad rags for the Lade Inn dinners.
- Any medication or special food you require.
Friday 2 September 2022
Newton Road Runners - 10k and 3k races
In October 2021 a group of Harriers attended the inaugural event of the Newton Road Runners 10k in Cambuslang in memory of Cat Caskell. Cat was a member of Newton Road Runners until she tragically lost her life in August 2021. So this race is a chance for her fellow running friends to honour her and remember the runner she was.
This year the Newton Road Runners have brought the event back along with a new 3k event on Saturday 12th November at 12 noon. The 3k event starts around 12:05. I have put post on the club Facebook page and will enclose the link to entry central in this post.
Hopefully Calderglen Harriers will have a cohort that can attend this year with some of the same members who did it last year.
Link: https://www.entrycentral.com/NewtonRoadRaces
Richard