I’ve been charged with coaching our university tri club this year (Now until end of April 2012). The need-to-knows: Mainly newbies and BOP (~25min 5k’ers) folks though a few stronger runners (~40min 10k’ers); we won’t have access to a track; two group runs per week; the club is more social than anything, so there will be some bicep workouts once a week at a campus pub. Seeking advice on:
How would you begin? I was thinking of doing 5k time trial to get some feedback and establish threshold/race-pace for future workouts.How would you structure the runs? Being the off-season, I don’t want to totally be focusing on doing track-type runs however this presents a challenge in keeping the group together if we go off on, say, a tempo run or a fartlek. I was thinking of doing one strength/speed run and another run with tempo-pace laps varying from ~400m to a mile in length (make the stronger guys do more, etc, in order to finish at the same time). Anything else you got…Like I said, it’s a social/fun tri club looking to provide some fun, yet effective, workouts.
Cheers
Find out the athletes’ weak sports and spend the offseason working on those.
I’ve been charged with coaching our university tri club this year (Now until end of April 2012). The need-to-knows: Mainly newbies and BOP (~25min 5k’ers) folks though a few stronger runners (~40min 10k’ers); we won’t have access to a track; two group runs per week; the club is more social than anything, so there will be some bicep workouts once a week at a campus pub. Seeking advice on:
How would you begin? I was thinking of doing 5k time trial to get some feedback and establish threshold/race-pace for future workouts.How would you structure the runs? Being the off-season, I don’t want to totally be focusing on doing track-type runs however this presents a challenge in keeping the group together if we go off on, say, a tempo run or a fartlek. I was thinking of doing one strength/speed run and another run with tempo-pace laps varying from ~400m to a mile in length (make the stronger guys do more, etc, in order to finish at the same time). Anything else you got…Like I said, it’s a social/fun tri club looking to provide some fun, yet effective, workouts.
Cheers
Send me an email straight up and I’ll give you some ideas. Good on you for getting the ball rolling!