Running Workshop

PVincent

Ok ..here is the deal!
If there was to be a Running workshop in your local area , for the ordinary runner , average club runners, fun runners ,fit for life runners ....what would you expect to see discussed ...

My own thoughts would be as follows

Using guest expert speakers / runners /coaches /professionals

(1) Advice on the types of training sessions that you need to do to train for a range of distances from 5k to marathons ...advice should include WHY you need to do say Speed sessions, Hills , Fartlek etc ...but all in laymans language and easy to understand
(2) Why Nutrition/Hydration is important
(3) Injury Prevention
(4) Strength and Conditioning advice
(5) The importance of Recovery
(6) why to join your local running group

give me your thoughts ...I just think there is a huge target audience out there ... people who are running the streets /parks and could do with some help , and are not members of clubs ...

to be honest if the AAi had some get up and go they should be doing this ...look at the race series/marathons and how many of these people are in clubs ...(a fraction ! ) ...wasted chances to get more people into the sport ...rant over ...

Clare_Culchie

Great idea! I'm a novice really... hitting mid-life crisis, trying to stop the spread of my gut. Running seems to be an easy'ish way to fight back against the flab.
I've joined gyms in the past, typical January member, lost interest in each, other than to occasionally have a paddle in the pool and a sauna.
I used to work in a job where in training I had to run 1.5miles within 11m45s, I always struggled with it and just about scraped through each time.
Several years on I'm just back from walking 800km of the Camino de Santiago and I feel younger and fitter than I have done in ten years. I feel like a loaded spring. I lost a stone on the walk and now am running to keep that weight off. But really, I don't know anything about technique, stride, interval-training, nutrition (what to eat/when to eat), overpronation or supination, correct gear for feet or for general safety on the roads, etc. Sure I can walk into Champion, Lifestyle, Elverys, or wherever but I've no idea whether what they are telling me is a sales-pitch or genuine helpful advice.
I'm not too pushed in joining an athletics club because, well, I'm not competitive, I don't want to make a fool of myself and I can only fit my running in before work in the mornings (I'm too tired in the evenings to do anything more than walk the 5km home). I'm happy with my pace (5km in 31mins, 10km in 1h08mins), it's a good start, but I just need to figure out how to stretch my stride rather than shuffle, whether to run heel-to-toe or on the ball of my foot (I just found this video on the subject, I must give it a try...).
Anyway, there's a lot I don't know about running, loads I want to learn but without joining a club. Seminars, perhaps sponsored by the brands or the sports-shops, or in conjunction with National Lottery (Dublin Marathon sponsors) would be a great success.

ger664

Great idea but you would need at least a one hour workshop for each of your listed items. I did a Nutrition as well as a Strength and Conditioning Workshops last year and they where 2 hours each and the Nutrition ran over by 30 mins.

The AAI will never do this unless you are in a club or Fit4Life group, so going through the local sports partnership's is probably the best way to deliver this to us plodders.

hardCopy

ger664 wrote: »

Great idea but you would need at least a one hour workshop for each of your listed items. I did a Nutrition as well as a Strength and Conditioning Workshops last year and they where 2 hours each and the Nutrition ran over by 30 mins.

The AAI will never do this unless you are in a club or Fit4Life group, so going through the local sports partnership's is probably the best way to deliver this to us plodders.

Maybe they could be run by clubs as sort of an open evening to try and get new people into the fit4life groups or general membership.

dahat

Something like so is on local to me thursday night,run by Outfiled Sports of Carrick On Suir,tipperary.
There is various speakers from a Nike rep to local physios etc......

Ironically this same sports shop gave me Lunar Eclipes after gait analysis,ran 3 times and spent weeks out.......Another shop gave me Brooks Beast for severe over pronation,not too keen on going to anything organised by them i tell ya...

thirstywork2

I have hosted events like this before and from experience you can't have too many subjects as you loose the audience.
The talk has to be for a specefic group eg beginners,marathon training,5k training,ect.

finisklin

At the end of the day its about improving as a runner which means getting out running. For many people with busy lives, who are part time runners, going to workshops can help but best if they are every month or so. Maybe online is way to go with delivery or amazon etc.

thirtyfoot

Some places have workshops 3 or 4 times a week. They are practical workshops, very much on the job as opposed to theory based. Good value too, some places you can get 150 workshops for around €60 a year. You get to put what you learn from the workshops into practice then with other people who attend the workshops.

finisklin

The club I am with ran three over a number of weeks, including one by Caitriona Mckernan on chi running. I think it was €20. I could make it but everyone was running very funny after it with all these new fangled techniques.

I think the people that went did get something from it, in fairness. I didnt have the time as I was in the middle of my marathon programme. Next year I'll go if she comes back.