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 | ![]() |
Contact*: Stewart Whitlie or Mark Hartree | |
Tuesday 7pm | Tuesday night hill-reps session, AKA Hillend-reps A trial session will run from 7th Nov to 19th Dec. This is in addition to the Thursday night hill-reps session. Meet ready-to-run at 7pm in front of the Steading. More details below | Contact: Nigel Shekleton or Andy Wilson | |
Wednesday 12:40pm | Bush House Sprints | Lunchtime interval session at the Edinburgh Technopole. See Bush House Sprints Page | Contact: webteam at carnethy dot com - since they all do it! |
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
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7:00pm | 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.
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Contact*: Willie Gibson |
7:30pm | Introductory & easy run group. Also known as the 'even more sociable run'. Part of Club Night. View reports here or the archive | Meet at 7:25pm for a 7:30pm start.
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Contact*: Willie Gibson |
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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 |
* Contact Details can be obtained by emailing queries@carnethy.com
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 |
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

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.* Contact Details can be obtained my emailing queries@carnethy.com