Train with the Hogweeds!
Join our welcoming running community at Chipping Sodbury School. Make new friends while improving your fitness with expert coaching and support.
Training Sessions & Coaching
We meet at Chipping Sodbury School all year round, catering for all abilities.
Coached Sessions
Monthly specialized coaching sessions with activities that vary
Wed 6:45pm
Sun 8:30am
Regular Training
Join our scheduled sessions twice a week for all abilities
Wed 6:45pm
Sun 8:30am
Where We Meet
We meet at Chipping Sodbury School Sports Centre all year round. The club house is usually open about 15 minutes before sessions.
Most people arrive dressed in running kit and ready to go. It’s a great way to make new friends while building fitness!
EXPLANATIONS OF COACHING ACTIVITIES:
Some common terms you may hear to describe the type of session taking place
OUT AND BACK
At Hogweeds, we use the Out and Back to measure our progress – can we get further out than the week before? These sessions usually take place on the first Wednesday of each month
The summer route is out across Chipping Sodbury Common and the Winter route along St Johns Way then round towards Yate Town Centre.
FARTLEK
Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play” and that is exactly what it’s all about. Unlike tempo and interval work, fartlek is unstructured and alternates moderate-to-hard efforts with easy throughout.
After a warmup, you play with speed by running at faster efforts for short periods of time (to that tree, to the sign) followed by easy-effort running to recover.
HILLS
A workout that includes sprinting uphill fast, jogging downhill at an easy pace to recover, and then repeating the sequence. It’s thought to be an efficient way to build leg strength, speed, and aerobic capacity.
Hill repeats reduce your injury risk because they limit fast-running times and because the incline of a hill shortens the distance your feet have to fall, reducing the impact of each step.
INTERVALS
Interval training, also known as interval workouts or interval runs, are short, intense efforts followed by equal or slightly longer recovery time. For example, after a warmup, run two minutes at a hard effort, followed by two to three minutes of easy jogging or walking to catch your breath.
Unlike tempo workouts, you’re running above your red line and at an effort where you are reaching hard for air and counting the seconds until you can stop – a controlled fast effort followed by a truly easy jog. The secret is in the recovery as patience and discipline while you’re running easy allows you to run the next interval strong and finish the entire workout fatigued but not completely spent.
Trail running:
Doing some or all of a run off road. Trail running has become increasingly popular in part because running in the woods or mountains is usually more appealing than sharing the road with distracted drivers. Trails’ softer surfaces are also a nice change from asphalt. Expect to run slower than usual on trails.
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Sheep Dogging:
All of our runs are inclusive no matter what your running ability happens to be. From beginners to race veterans – no one is left behind. We have a policy where the faster runners within a group will run back to the last runners, to ensure they are safely accounted for and are comfortable with the pace that has been set; based on feedback they will adjust the pace to ensure everyone within the group is happy with the run.