Road Runners Clinic University of Warwick Endurance Academy

Initial Notification
Date: Sunday 27 November, 2011
Time: 12:00 -15:00
Venue Westwood Teaching Centre, Westwood Campus, University of Warwick
University of Warwick Endurance Academy – Our first Road Runners Clinic

To support members of affiliated England Athletics clubs and those who have joined official Run England groups in Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire; we are organising our first Road Runners Clinic. Our aim for this winter is to bring together some of the region’s leading running experts to share their knowledge and tips to assist you in your racing and training. This will include

• How you can get the best from your training
• Staying injury free, including strategies to avoid illness
• The best advice on kit and nutrition.

In this first clinic we will focus on the 10km. We are seeking to provide the best advice both to the runner preparing for their first 10km, as well as those looking to improve their personal best over this popular race distance.

Our Panel of Experts

• Bud Baldaro – England Athletics National Coach Mentor for endurance and recognised as one of the UK leading endurance coaches, will provide two workshops for local runners during the afternoon. In his first session Bud will consider his best coaching advice for those runners preparing for their first 10km and in his second session how to improve your 10km pb.

Three additional experts will repeat their presentation, during the afternoon.

• Sarah Connors – Team GB physiotherapist and joint author of Running Well workshop will discuss; “Common running injuries and how to avoid them.”
• Richard Taylor – A member of Coventry Godiva Harriers and current recipient of the British Milers Club Frank Horwill Scholarship award will expand on his recent research, with advice on “strategies to avoid illness to maximise your training time.”
• Vince Clisham – Joint owner of the Coventry Runner will provide an expert’s insight into what to look for when buying your running trainers and an insight into shoe manufacturers current technology

Runners will be asked to select 2 workshops from the 4 listed

In addition Dave Moorcroft with a personal best of 28:09 for 10km and Zara Hyde Peters a fellow GB International and Chief Executive of British Triathlon, will join us during the afternoon to share their experiences of road racing.

More details on the Road Runners Clinic and other options that will be offer during this afternoon will be released during November for those athletes that have registered for the Clinic (see below)

Programme 12:00 – 12:10 Arrival at Westwood Teaching Centre, University of Warwick
12:10 – 12:30 Introduction to the Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Road Runners Clinic
12:30 – 1:20 Workshop 1 (runners select 1 workshop from the 4 on offer)
1:30 – 2:20 Workshop 2 (runners select a further workshop session)
2:30 – 3:00 Questions – A final experts panel session

Organisation

This Road Runners Clinic is offered free to all members of England Athletics / Run England Groups in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire, thanks to funding from England Athletics. For those outside this group there will be a charge of £5:00 per athlete.

Attendance, due to the size of the facility, will be restricted to 125

Please book your place for the November 2011 Road Runners Clinic with David Dix

For registration please supply your
• Name
• Club or Run England Group
• Contact e-mail / mobile number.
• An early indication of the workshops that you would like to attend
Deadline for registration: Wednesday 16 November.

Further information on the Road Runners Clinic will be circulated to all registered athletes after the 16 November.

Workshop Theme

Nutritional Strategies for an athlete primarily preparing for a marathon but our aim is also to consider the implications for the half marathon and other distance races.

Adrian will cover three key areas in this workshop

Hydration Carbohydrate Intake Pre-Race Nutrition

Workshop Leader – Adrian Holliday

Many athletes may know of Adrian from his racing results for Tipton Harriers; often to be found near the front of Birmingham League Cross Country Races! In his day job he is engaged on a PhD programme, investigating the effect of exercise on appetite and cravings as part of the prestigious Exercise Metabolism Research Group, within the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham. Adrian is working under the tutelage of Professor Asker Jeukendrup – a world-leader in the fields of exercise metabolism and sports nutrition.

In support of his PhD, Adrian currently offers consultancy services to the University of Birmingham Athletic Club on a voluntary basis which has involved the delivery of a series of sports nutrition workshop, specifically focussing on post-exercise refuelling strategies, to a group of approximately 50 university athletes.

Organisation

• How to get to the University of Warwick – information / maps can be found at the following web address - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/directions • A pack run departs from the Athletics Track Car Park at 09:30, with changing facilities available from 10:00. Please inform David Dix if you wish to join this pack run, so that he can try to arrange routes and appropriately paced sub groups. • Free car parking is provided on a Sunday at the Westwood Campus • The Westwood Teaching Centre is located close to the Westwood Cafe • If you have any questions or wish to contact the organiser - phone David Dix on 07854 962 114
• There is no cost for this activity, funding provided by University of Warwick Endurance Academy • Unfortunately there is no food or drink supplied, please bring appropriate post Sunday run nutrition packs!

A Coach Development Workshop
University of Warwick Endurance Academy
Strength and Conditioning Training for Endurance Athletes
Date: Wednesday 22 September, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Venue Westwood Games Hall, University of Warwick Track

University of Warwick Endurance Academy – Workshop Aim
An opportunity for coaches to consider the benefits of strength training for the runners they coach. The workshop will be lead by Max Jones, the former Performance Director of UK Athletics and strength and conditioning advisor to Paula Radcliffe. At this opening session, Max Jones will consider some of the myths associated with strength training for athletes and then promote that strength and conditioning training should be essential for every athlete seeking to be the best that they can be.

Following this workshop there will be three practical coaching clinics during October where Max will provide guidance on the training programmes that could be implemented in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Athletics club. Each clinic will explore one strength and conditioning area in detail. The three themes to be covered are:

Coaching Clinic 1 - Core exercises for the endurance runner

Coaching Clinic 2 - Developing a club and individual circuits session

Coaching Clinic 3 - Weight Training

The provisional dates for these clinics are Saturday 2, 23 & 30 October between 13:00 – 15:00. Dates and times will be confirmed by the 22 September.

Workshop Leader – Max Jones
Max Jones started working for British Athletics in 1981 as BAAB National Athletics Coach, retiring from UK Athletics in 2005. During this time Max performed numerous roles within the sport including posts such as Chief Coach for Throws and Combined Events, leading coach development in the Midlands and Head Coach to the GB Junior Athletics Team during one of its most successful period in World and European competition. From 1997 through to his retirement in 2005 he was Performance Director of UK Athletics.

Max attended 7 Olympic Games as a GB Team Coach including acting as Head Coach for Team GB at the 2000 & 2004 Olympics. In his “retirement” Max was appointed as Director of Irish Athletics leading the Irish Olympic Team at the 2008 Beijing Games.

He has coached and advised numerous international athletes and while Paula Radcliffe is recognised as one of his more high profile charges, he is well known locally for producing a series of international throwers from Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire athletics clubs.

Max has written extensively across a range of athletics publications and in his spare time “enjoys” playing golf, travelling overseas, and looking after the grandchildren!

Workshop Audience
This course is for UK Athletics Coaches and Leaders in Running Fitness from the athletics and road running clubs that are members of the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire (CSW) Athletics Network or who are considering becoming members of this group. It is also suitable for club volunteers from the CSW Athletics Network who lead on a regular basis club training sessions and are considering moving towards a coaching or Leadership in Running Fitness award.

There will be a maximum of 50 “coaches” for this workshop.

For members of the CSW Athletics Network there will be no cost for this workshop.

Please contact David Dix (details provided below) if you are a coach from outside the CSW Athletics Network and wish to attend. Our first priority for reservation will be to coaches from the CSW Athletics Network

Organisation
Workshop invitation for CSW Athletics Network clubs is via the key endurance contact in each club. David Dix will work with the “key endurance contact” in each CSW Network club to confirm attendance and prioritise places.

As this coaching workshop series extends across 4 dates I am aware that coaches may need to be selective in their attendance, could I ask through your “key endurance contact” you indicate your availability for each session? For the Saturday workshops I am suggesting a timing of 13:00 – 15:00, to accommodate club training sessions which are often held in the morning. I would value your feedback on whether this is the best timing for these October workshop.

To assist in the booking of facilities and the preparation of materials (Max is aiming to produce a series of handouts for each delegate) the closing date for registration will be Monday 13 September. Final instructions for delegates will be circulated after the closing date.

Travel instructions for the University of Warwick are provided at the following web address http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/

University Car Park 12 is next to the track, parking after 18:00 and at the weekends, is free.

A Coach Development Workshop

University of Warwick Endurance Academy

The Biomechanics of Running and How to Avoid Common Running Injuries

Date: Saturday 18 September, 2010

Time: 09:00 – 16:45

Venue University of Warwick Athletics Track

University of Warwick Endurance Academy – Workshop Aim.

A practical and theoretical insight for the club endurance coach into the biomechanics of running and how training programmes could be adapted to reduce the risk of common running injuries. The workshop will be lead by Mark Buckingham a GB Team Physiotherapist since 1995 and include practical guidance in the video analysis of athletes and consider how the coach can develop a runners training programme with a series of beneficial exercises and drills to improve their performance and reduce the incidence of injuries.

Workshop Leader – Mark Buckingham MCSP DipAP Phys Sports.

Mark trained in Bath, specialising in sports physiotherapy with a post-graduate Diploma at the London Hospital. Mark worked for five years at the Arts Educational School in Tring, a leading Dance School and spent time at the Crystal Palace Athletics Stadium Clinic. This led to work with Northampton Saints and the Great Britain Athletics squad. He has attended numerous international competitions as Team Physiotherapist since 1995 and worked at the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics. Mark was lead physiotherapist for UK Athletics at the High Performance Centre at Loughborough and was responsible for setting up the centre's physiotherapy unit. With the advent of The English Institute of Sport Mark became lead physiotherapist responsible for the clinical aspects of servicing two hundred and fifty elite athletes at Loughborough. Following the Athens Olympics Mark resigned from this post but still covers as a consultant physiotherapist to the English Institute of Sport. Mark continues to travel with UK Athletics as team Physio having now acted as GB Team Physio at 14 World and European Cross Country Championships. Mark lectures widely on sports physiotherapy, but particularly on trunk stability and biomechanics. He is a partner in Witty Pask and Buckingham a Northampton based practice where he leads a team of chartered physiotherapist and a team of allied practitioners skilled in the treatment of muscle, bone, joint and nerve conditions.

Timetable

09:00 – 09:25 Registration

09:30 – 11:00 The Biomechanics of Running / Why do runners get injured?

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:30 Practical session on filming athlete with advice on camera set up and what to film

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 Review and analysis of videos

14:45 – 15:00 Break

15:00 – 15:30 Gym based exercises for the endurance runner

15:30 - 16:30 Running Drills

16:30 – 16:45 Any Questions / Conclusion / Departure

Workshop Audience
This course is for UK Athletics Coaches and Leaders in Running Fitness from the athletics and road running clubs that are members of the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire (CSW) Athletics Network or who are considering becoming members of this group. It is also suitable for club volunteers from the CSW Athletics Network who lead on a regular basis club training sessions and are considering moving towards a coaching or Leadership in Running Fitness award.

There will be a maximum capacity of 40 “coaches” for this workshop.

For members of the CSW Athletics Network there will be no cost for this workshop.

Please contact David Dix (details provided below) if you are a coach from outside the CSW Athletics Network and wish to attend. Our first priority for reservation will be to coaches from the CSW Athletics Network

Organisation

Workshop invitation for CSW Athletics Network clubs is via the key endurance contact in each club. David Dix will work with the “key endurance contact” in each CSW Network club to confirm attendance and prioritise places. The club contact will also be used to identify which coaches will be bringing video cameras and the coaches / athletes who are willing to act as subjects for the video analysis during the practical workshop (all will need to be aged 18+)

To assist in the booking of facilities and the preparation of materials the closing date for registration will be Friday 10 September.

Final instructions for delegates will be circulated in the week commencing 13 September.

Delegates are asked to bring their own packed lunch and refreshments.

There will be a practical element to the workshop and coaches are asked to dress in sportswear, tracksuit, trainers, etc to be able to fully participate in the various activities planned in the programme.

Travel instructions for the University of Warwick are provided at the following web address http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/

University Car Park 12 is next to the track, weekend parking at this site is free.

Run in England was created to engage with the 60% or more of people who still do less than 3x30 minutes of exercise per week, and to support those unattached runners who, for one reason or another, have chosen NOT to join a club more effectively.

The UKA working with clubs document can be found here