Thursday Track Sessions at Battersea

Sessions to help build speed endurance for 10 mile to marathon and triathlon

Beate Vogt, Nicola Barberis and a team of coaches lead the sessions preparing athletes for race distances of 10k, 10 miles , half marathon, marathon and triathlons. The sessions are geared around building speed endurance and are open to anyone aiming for a long race, although you should be running several times a week before adding speed sessions to your training plan.

During spring and summer, our sessions will aim to work mainly on your VO2Max and we will run at a faster pace than during the cold, winter months. Our sessions will help you to improve your speed and to prepare you for your summer races. Each week we start with a warm-up jog followed by a set of warm-up exercises and some drills to improve running technique and efficiency. The session normally ends with a cool-down jog and some stretching exercises.

Sessions vary every week and include interval sessions at paces which can vary from 3-5K to lactate threshold. For track sessions we meet at the start/finish line, for sessions in the park we meet at the front entrance to the track, in either case we start at 7:00. For sessions in the park you do not need to pay for the track, if you need the changing rooms you can pay just to use them. Please store bags in the lockers in the changing rooms or make alternative arrangements, the coaches are not able to guard them during the session. Also, don't forget your stopwatch and to wear bright running gear, especially when the session is in the park.

(In the IAAF Standard Representation of Training Sessions, paces are in round brackets, rest times in square brackets. LT denotes lactate threshold pace.)

Sessions are subject to change