Club training

Monday 6:30pm (alternate Mons)	Women's running night	Alternate Mondays at different venues. Women's Run Page	Contact: Joanne Thin
Tuesday 12:30pm	Inverleith Park intervals Meet at statue in middle of park warmed up and ready to start at 12.30pm. Varied intervals session each week. Laps on grass. Flat with slight incline per lap. Session normally lasts around 30mins. You too can get muddy like this...		Contact*: Stewart Whitlie or Mark Hartree
Tuesday 7pm	Tuesday night hill-reps session, AKA Hillend-reps Meet ready-to-run at 7pm in front of the Steading. More details below		Contact: Nigel Shekleton or Andy Wilson
Wednesday Club Night The main Carnethy Club Night with runs to suit all and lots of people to run with - come to jog or to train hard or to have a pint with your club-mates...   Usually 2 groups (sometimes a very fast 3rd group) catering for all standards and inclinations. The faster group starts at 7pm and the group doing a shorter social run, usually about 4 to 5 miles, will start later at 7.30 so they can finish about the same time and socialise in Leslie's. The faster group tend to do about 7 or 8 miles in 1.5 hours. You can see lots of reports here and get an idea which group is for you.   Meet at Kings Buildings Union, here is a Streetview (look for the chimney!). Post run drinks in Leslie's
7:00pm Unless there is a Night Run or a Handicap.	Choice of a sociable run or a faster session (normally led by Graham Nash or Jim Hardie) Examples of where we've been here or on the archive training maps page	Meet at 6:55pm for a 7:00pm start.	Contact*: Willie Gibson
7:30pm Unless there is a Night Run or a Handicap.	Introductory & easy run group. Also known as the 'even more sociable run'. Plenty of stops for people to catch up. View reports here or the archive	Meet at 7:25pm for a 7:30pm start.	Contact*: Willie Gibson
Thursday 7:00pm	Intervals   Thursday night hill-reps session, AKA Wintervals once the nights have drawn in.	Ready to run at 7pm. Meet at the entrance to the Holyrood Palace car park, next to the octagonal wooden hut.   More details below	Contact: Fergus Johnston or Jim Hardie
Saturday 1:00pm	Junior running	Alternate Saturdays at different venues. See Junior Page	Contact: Mary Lye

 

Other Training

Monday 12:30pm (lunchtime)	Hill run over Arthurs Seat and surrounding bumps Meet at the foot of the Radical road (opposite Holyrood Palace car park) at 12:30. This is a handicap on the 1st Monday of the month. More details at foot of page. See also lunchtime handicaps page	Contact*: Neil McLure
Tuesday 7pm	Speed work with Penicuik Harriers. Meet Beeslack High School. On the flat and mainly based around a routine of warm up, then speed-work and cool down	Contact: Penicuik Harriers
Tuesday 7:50pm	Intervals on the Meadows. This is probably the oldest regular training session in Edinburgh. The session that has been going for over 35 years (so lots of tired runners!) organised by Martin Hyman and gets very large numbers. 5 reps of 600m to 1300m. Excellent for all standards of runners as you run the distance to suit you and everyone regroups.	Contact*: Andy Spenceley
Wednesday 12:40pm	Bush House Sprints. Lunchtime interval session at the Edinburgh Technopole. See Bush House Sprints Page
Thursday 7:00pm	Hill-Reps with Penicuik Harriers In the winter it tends to be up Rullion Road, Penicuik, ie up a gentle rise for a distance of 500m. Session lasts around half an hour. Meet at the Phone-box at bottom of Rullion Road (west end) at 7pm. In Spring, Summer, Autumn they're at Hillend, parallel to the ski-slope. Meet 7pm	Contact: Penicuik Harriers

 

Tuesday Intervals

This is a time-based hill-rep session and is open to all abilities. Although the session will vary each week, a rough guideline is around 35-40 minutes of effort over the course of an hour. We will be making use of the varied off-road trails of Hillend and both trail/fell shoes and a headtorch are required (once the clocks change). A pre-7pm warm-up is encouraged. Parking is available all along Biggar Road and in the lower car park of Hillend Country Park (where there is also a bike rack for cyclists). Alternatively, the number 4 lothianbuses.co.uk/4 and 15/x15 lothianbuses.co.uk/15 Lothian buses from town terminate/stop beside/opposite The Steading. Both arrive just before 7pm, but only the 4 returns to town after 8pm. Subject to interest, we may make use of The Steading afterwards, so a change of clothes and shoes may be useful. 

 

Thursday Intervals

Each Thursday we meet to do some intervals sessions around Arthur's Seat. Each session will be around half an hour, so plenty of time to get back for tea. Each week we'll try to do something a bit different in terms of terrain. All the sessions will be off-road, and will range from steep hills, to gradual hills, and maybe the odd flatter speed session just to get the muscles working. The intervals sessions are going to be suitable for all abilities, and should push everyone as hard as they want to push. Intervals are a necessary evil if you want to get a wee bit faster, and it's always a bit nicer with company: the committee have definitely volunteered to partake in the punishment/fun. Meet at the entrance to the Holyrood Palace car park, next to the octagonal wooden hut, at 7pm, warmed up and ready to get started. There are bike racks and the car park is available too, should you want to drive. Note: after the clocks change it will be dark and we might not have good street lighting where we end up doing the session. If you have a headtorch, bring it! Look forward to seeing you there!

 

Monday Lunchtime

Route varies but usually includes a run over Salisbury Crags then a gentle run up the tourist path to the summit of Arthur Seat, followed by a loop around the subsidiary tops and run down to Dunsapie loch and over the wee hill behind it. The route is finished off with a gentle climb over Whinny hill to return down past St. Anthony's chapel, and just to make up the 7 tops we finish with a wee climb up Haggis Knowe. Allow at least an hour from most city centre offices. The pace is usually that of the slowest, unless it's the week of one of the ad-hoc handicaps, when it's flat out for a mass finish at 1pm.