Improve your parkrun time

Please ensure you follow the Covid-19 health guidance. If you have any symptoms, or have tested positive in the past fourteen days, I regretfully cannot allow you to take part in the session. I appreciate your co-operation in ensuring we all stay healthy.

On Monday evenings at 7pm in Poole Park I coach a session that will get you running faster. Its main aim is to help you lower your parkrun time but it can also benefit 10K and other distances you race.

Sessions are demanding yet strangely enjoyable!

• We begin with an aerobic warmup followed by dynamic stretching – those are the easy bits.
• Next we move onto interval training around the park which will get you breathing harder and your legs moving faster. It’ll be taxing but you only work as hard as you’re able. Week-by-week this is the bit that will help improve your running fitness.
• Finally we’ll warm down with a light jog and I’ll lead you through basic strengthening and stretching exercises.

That should leave you feeling pleasantly relaxed and knowing you’ve had a good run out.

Don’t worry if you’ve never done interval training, warm-ups, dynamic stretching or any of the other stuff – it’s what I’m there to teach you. Every thing will be demonstrated, explained and broken down into easy-to-follow instructions. While I take my coaching seriously, I try to make things fun and light-hearted. After all this is your leisure time so you want to enjoy it.

We meet at 7pm at The Ark carpark near the cricket pitch. The session costs £5 and lasts about an hour. Sometimes it’s longer, sometimes it’s shorter, it really depends what training we do.

Turn up ready to run and come along whenever you want.

There is no membership or club to join. Anyone is welcome. You just need to be someone who wants to improve their running or to get a bit of extra exercise.

You’ll know me by the red bandana I wear. It’s less of a fashion statement and more about keeping sweat out of my eyes!