Stainland Lions Running Club

At present we have a choice of nine sessions per week including road running, hill reps, track & circuit training. The Sunday morning sessions are regularly depleted by official races and tend to be organised either by word-of-mouth or on the members-only Website Forum..

Beginners to running. We suggest that anyone beginning running joins us in April for the Beginners Course. This provides the preparation needed to be comfortable in the steady group. Below are some very rough guides to the aims of each group.

Steady Group - 5 or 6 miles in around 1 hour 15 minutes
Intermediate Group 1 - 7 or 8 miles in around 1 hour 15 minutes
Intermediate Group 2 - 8 or 9 miles in around 1 hour 15 minutes
Fast Group - anyone see where they went?

Monday	6:45pm	Heath Rugby Club, West Vale. This is an unofficial training night for the club and there's no guarantee that there will be any group leaders. The reason is members treat Monday as a recovery day after competing in races at the weekend. Numbers dwindle in the Winter months but pick up, especially after the annual Beginner's Course - click here for map.
Monday	7:30pm	Circuit training at Crossley Heath School in the sports hall. Lasts one hour and costs £3.
Tuesday	6.45pm	Red Lion Pub car park, Stainland. Average 5 -8 miles. Usually 2 or 3 groups of all abilities (Intermediate 1 and Fast) - everyone is welcome. Just turn up and find a suitable group - click here for map.
	6.30pm	The Moor, Savile Park - meet across the road from The Lodge fish & chip shop. Usually 2 or 3 groups (Steady / Intermediate 1 and 2). click here for map.
	6:30pm	Meet 6.30 behind Shears Inn, West Vale. We are a steady group and run 5+ miles. Contact Avril for further details 01422 372941. click here for map
Wednesday	6:30 to 8pm	Speed training at Spring Hall Athletics Track on Huddersfield Road, Halifax. Modern, floodlit facility paid for by you as tax payers and Stainland Lions members - we contributed £1000 towards this facility. Our own coaches in attendance. £2.50 per session - please bring exact change if possible. Here are links to a couple of useful documents put together by two of our coaches. The first is the summer training 2010 program created to improve your speed & stamina and aimed specifically at 10k race distance with target races, timed miles and running analysis. Second link takes you to Gav's track page which includes lots of useful information about track training and a log of past sessions.	Track Splits Calculator
Thursday	6:45pm	Heath Rugby Club, West Vale. This is the main club night. Usually all 4 groups available to cater for all abilities, especially steady runners. Average 5 -8 miles. - click here for map. *Note; usually* on the second Thursday of the month we train away from our usual base at another venue, normally a pub. Checkout the Away Runs page for details.**
Friday	12.30pm	Timed 5k or 3k and or 1500m at Spring Hall Athletics track, Huddersfield road, Halifax. Organised by Calderdale council. Club members welcome. Cost £1.60
Saturday	9am	Bradford 5k parkrun. A free timed run every Saturday starting at 9am in Lister Park, Bradford. Meet next to the bandstand.print barcode for times emailed to you. Please register online once (free). Good friendly mix of club runners and occasional runners. See website to register and for course location Bradford Parkrun
Sunday	9am	Heath Rugby Club, West Vale. These runs are organised on an ad hoc basis, via word-of-mouth or via the member's forum and can range from 5 to 14 miles. Everyone is welcome and during the winter this can be the only time we get to run off road - click here for map.