Tuesday Track Sessions at Paddington

Track coaches Andy Robbins and Andy Reeves organise Serpentine track sessions on Tuesday evenings at Paddington Track.

The coached session starts at 7pm sharp with a brief intro on the aims of the session followed by a group warmup consisting of useful dynamic exercises and drills designed to improve your running. Its is recommended that everyone has jogged at least perhaps 3-4 times round the track in preparation beforehand - this is especially useful for those looking for extra mileage. The group is then divided by ability / experience with the more advanced runners tending to cover a greater distance or having shorter recoveries whilst the others tend to do slightly less. Current abilities of participants range from about 32 minute 10Ks through to around 50 minutes for the same 10K distance. Further information about what to expect and how to interpret the session descriptions.

The workouts usually finish by around 8:15pm. Track use is free and lockers are available by reception.

More details on the session itself / its suitability or more personalised advice can be gained by emailing the Paddington Coaches.

Full details of the programme are below and are also sent to the mailing list each week.

Sessions

The sessions throughout February & March will be concentrating more on the aerobic capacity type training zone covering paces from 3k through to 10k. These are useful for all endurance runners rather than for anything specific. There are athletes within this group running marathons this spring but we're trying to encourage these people to alternate between this session and the wednesday long runs on a fortnightly basis for slightly more marathon specific training.