Sports Massage & Remedial Therapy | Group & 1:1 Running Sessions | Injury Rehabilitation
New 4 week January structured
course: "Run Foundations"
Technique coaching | Injury prevention strategies | Effective training methods | Sports nutrition online workshop
Commit to your 2025 goals & give your running a boost!
Join a small group for fun, supportive sessions in Hilly Fields through January 2025.
Distance & pace options to suit all running abilities
Regular weekly group run sessions
Intervals | Technique | Strength | Social running
Tuesdays 6:15am: Hilly Fields based interval session with strength work
Wednesdays 6:30pm: Free social runs. About 5k, in & around Hilly Fields
Fridays 9:30am: Hilly Fields based interval session with technique focus or a Run Journey where we head away at a sociable pace.
Saturdays 9:45am: Strength for Runners in collaboration with MaceMasters
Sunday 9am: Long Run Journey: Sociable running plus some intervals
1:1 sessions & coaching
Technique | Motivation | Injury rehabilitation |
Bespoke training plans & support | Sports massage
What are your running goals?
To run further? faster? To start running? To enjoy running more? To train for an event? To return to running after injury? To run without getting injured?
Reach it with 1:1 or private group running sessions & coaching. From £45/hour
Marathon & Half Marathon training support packs
Bespoke support packs tailored to your needs to help you reach your marathon or half marathon goals.
Packages can include 1:1 sessions, group running & strength sessions, initial help with & ongoing modifications to your training plan, email/WhatsApp support and sports massage.
Contact me so we can work together to create the right pack for you.
January 2025 4 week structured "Run Foundations" course
Thursdays 7-8am or Fridays 12-1pm.
Starting Jan 9/10th
£55
What’s included?
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4 structured group run sessions, each including a warm up, cool down and stretches
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Running technique coaching within each session
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Varied run workouts to build your running fitness more effectively
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Running strength exercises
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Injury prevention focus
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Dynamic warm up ideas
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Session handouts so you can use the course content in your own running
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Online nutrition workshop with sports nutritionist Rebecca from Eat Well Perform Better, an avid runner herself, who will be providing an introduction to nutrition to help you support your running and other activities.
Who’s the coach?
England Athletics running coach, Mary Brooking, will be leading the sessions. Mary has been a runner for many years participating in a variety of events from park runs to marathons and is keen to share her love of running, her understanding of its mental and physical benefits, and the importance of having a structure to your running to prevent injury as well as improving performance. Mary is also a Sports Massage therapist so brings a unique combination of skills to the running sessions she leads.
Mary has been leading Hilly Fields Run Session since 2022 so knows the paths and grass of Hilly Fields very well. There’s plenty of scope for challenging run intervals, and also for shorter and flatter options.
Who’s it suitable for?
Beginner:
It’s suitable for all running abilities, but if you are completely new to running this probably isn’t the most appropriate course for you. If you are a running beginner I frequently recommend following a 0-5k or Couch to 5k plan as its structured approach is well designed. It builds running fitness gradually and also means that our joints, tendons and muscles have time to adapt to the demands of running, thereby reducing injury risk.
Getting going:
Once you are running for 2-3 minutes 3 to 4 times within a run or 10-15minutes continuously then this course will help you take your running further. Don’t wait to get fitter or feel more ready to join - just come along, this is the perfect time! Hopefully you’ll find that the variety and challenge of the sessions boosts both your running motivation and fitness and the technique tips result in not only performance benefits but reduced injury risk.
Experienced:
If you are an experienced runner maybe your running has got a little bit lacking in variety, perhaps many runs are roughly the same pace, or the same length. Our sessions, and the notes that come with them, will give you ideas for some different things you could include in your runs eg shorter intervals, hill sprints, progression runs or fartlek. These should hopefully not only give your motivation a boost (if that’s needed) but will help improve your running speed and endurance due to the training benefits of higher intensity and interval based training. Running technique plays a big part in not only performance but also injury prevention so the sessions are also an opportunity to get some tips from a running coach, and try some running drills, which you may find helpful.
Next session!
Run Journey
In these sessions we'll head out from Hilly Fields on our run. Expect:
- a structured warm up
- a sociable, chatty run
- some intervals
- different length/loop options
- cool down/stretching
- return by public transport (bring a way to pay for your ticket!)
Our next Run Journey on Friday 6th December (9:30am) will be 6-7k to the Cutty Sark, through Brookmill Gardens and along Deptford Creek to the Thames.
Emily
Mary is an excellent running coach. She helped me to make a personalised training plan for my half marathon.
When I got injured she supported me in adapting the plan and helped me to not lose faith! I'm very grateful and really recommend her services.
Thanks Mary!
Michelle
Thank you Mary for improving my running but most of all thanks for making me feel great every Friday morning.
Becky
Training with Mary has been a real eye opener into all the different ways to approach interval and sprint training as a massively beneficial addition to running.In particular the 1km progression runs we did recently which felt like they had an immediate effect on my 5km time at the following Park Run!
This is the type of training that really benefits runners of all levels, and would be much harder to do alone, without Mary's positive encouragement.