Club Training Monday 9th September

Monday's session is a progression of the hill rep session but using one of our winter hills; Avondale.

The session format is also slightly different. The session is 10 x Avondale from our usual start point on the wide pavement with the fastest Harriers running all the way to the junction into Avondale Place which is the first junction on the right at the top of the hill. On reaching that point, turn around and start jogging down. When the Harriers still running up the hill meet the Harriers jogging down, then they should also turn around and jog down. So only the fastest Harriers go all the way to the top of the hill.

Again, we are aiming for a 4k/5k level of effort. This is a long hill which starts steep and then flattens a bit towards the top, making it possible to maintain a good pace despite tiring legs towards the end of each rep.

The warm-up is Strathaven Rd to the NEL roundabout. Down Churchill Avenue and around Lidl and turning right into Avondale. During the reps, please stay on the pavement on the right hand side until well round the corner as traffic tends to come down that hill  and round that blind corner quite fast.

Thursday's session will be a threshold session again. Next Monday (16th September) will be the first of the Brancumhall XC sessions of the season. See a separate post next weekend for details of that.

Alan