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Hogweeds!
Join our welcoming running community at Chipping Sodbury School. Make new friends while improving your fitness with expert coaching and support.
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Active Members
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Active Members
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Active Members
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Active Members
Training Sessions & Coaching
We meet at Chipping Sodbury School all year round, catering for all abilities with professional coaching and a supportive community.
Regular Training
Join our scheduled sessions three times a week for all abilities
Wed 6:45pm
Fri 6:00pm
Sun 8:30am
Coached Sessions
Monthly specialized coaching sessions with activities that vary
Wed 6:45pm
Fri 6:00pm
Sun 8:30am
Track Training
Improve speed and endurance at our dedicated track sessions
Wed 6:45pm
Fri 6:00pm
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!
Regular Sessions
Wednesdays at 6:45pm
Fridays at 6:00pm
Sundays at 8:30am
EXPLANATIONS OF COACHING ACTIVITIES:
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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 with the summer route out across Chipping Sodbury Common and the Winter route along St Johns Way and 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 it limits fast-running time 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.
USEFUL TERMS TO KNOW:
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Ten percent rule:
Don’t increase mileage or intensity by more than 10 percent from one week to another. This is a classic injury-prevention rule meant to prevent a runner from doing too much, too soon, and getting injured.
Track:
Most tracks are 400 meters long. Four laps, or 1600 meters, is approximately equivalent to 1 mile. Many runners use the term “track” to refer to a speed session done on a track. Track sessions are available at Yate & District Athletics Club.
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.
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.
useful references & resources:
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