Coaching service

Runner Profile

The usual starting point is asking you to complete as fully as possible the Runner Questionnaire. This gives a holistic picture of where you are as a runner. It is valuable to spend this time at the outset, so that the programme starts off from a fully informed position.

Induction and Goal Setting

Ideally the induction will include a thorough face to face meeting and a chance to actually watch you running, if that is practical. This usually lasts between 1.5 and 2 hours and is backed up by a through email debrief shortly afterwards.

It helps the planning process if you can identify an event at least 12 weeks later, and ideally around 26 weeks, as a personal goal, and we'll consider, whatever your level of fitness, with you a realistic target for that event. We will also discuss suitable milestone events en route to the target race and will suggest suitable options if you wish. This provides the framework for each monthly programme.   

Ongoing Communication
 There is a choice of feedback and contact options, mainly by email and phone, and also a fuller review after either 3 or 6 months depending on individual preferences and circumstances. (There is no set ‘quota’ of email contact).

Each athlete is an experiment of one and feedback on how you rate the coaching style is welcome so we can constantly seek to improve. In the real world runners will occasionally be injured or ill. Experience suggests that this is often when a coach is most helpful, advising, strictly in the context of any medical advice that the runner receives and shares, a suitable cross training programme so that the fitness built up through running can largely be maintained by alternative training methods.

Costs
Prices are as follows:

    Induction including face to face, feedback from questionnaire and detailed email debrief  - £79 (including £50 deposit payable at induction)
    Monthly Programme (Including feedback) £48
    5 months for £215 ( a 15% saving when paid in advance)