Club Nights
Running with the club – regular club nights
The club meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 19:25 – usually in the upstairs room at St George’s School Sports Centre (SP102). As we meet on the grounds of an active boarding school we are obliged to ask our members and other visitors to the site to read the information towards the bottom of this page on Safeguarding Children.
Parking is available in the first car park on the left as you enter the site - please see the yellow area on the map below. To reach the meeting point please follow one of the green routes shown below.
We get anything between a dozen and 40 people on an evening with a range of abilities from new runners right through to ultra marathon runners. We divide up into groups depending on pace (speed) and distance that people want to run. In each group there is at least one run leader who will be responsible for getting you back home in one piece.
A committee member usually organises this group and takes you round at a sensible pace for the attendees there on the night.
There is a ‘middle’ group who will usually run about 5 miles or so. Because the spread of abilities is wide in this group we typically ‘loop’ the front runners round to the back to keep the group together and make sure the faster people work harder! Typically this group runs at about 8 to 9:30 minutes per mile – but because of the looping nobody gets left behind whatever speed you run at.
There is a faster 5 /6 mile group which tends to run at about 8 min per mile or better. Depending on who is there they may ‘loop’ or not or if there is new runner in this group we may just ‘buddy’ them up with somebody till they know some of the routes.
Often there is another fast group too who will run 6 or more miles at about 7 min per mile depending on numbers and conditions.
We sometimes merge groups together or split them down into smaller groups depending on how many people are there on a particular night. We also have a range of training sessions for hills, speedwork etc which you can join in with if you wish.
Whatever standard you are at you won’t be running on your own! If you have questions please feel free to contact our membership secretary This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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