Races Planned for 2019
5 January – Yorkshire Cross Country Championships
13 January – Brass Monkey Half
26 January – Northern Cross Country Championships
3 February (assumed) – Dewsbury 10k
17 February (assumed) – Stamford 30k
23 February – National Cross Country Championships
17 March – Grindleford Gallop
24 March – East Hull 20
Barry Barnes is a UKA level 3 Middle Distance and Endurance Coach. He has experience, albeit at club level, of competing at distances from 800m (1:58) to Marathon (2:56).
Since becoming involved with coaching, mainly young athletes, he has been committed to developing his skills through workshops, conferences and links to experienced coaches in America and Australia as well as in the UK. He is good friends with Brian Scobie – the lead coach for world class athletes, David Lowes the feature writer on coaching in Athletics Weekly and Andy Henderson, coach for Olympic athletes including Laura Weightman.
Barry has coached athletes to England Level, Bertie Houghton and has been instrumental in coaching young athletes to English School championships. Along with his small group of coaches he encourages any interested seniors to join in sessions that take place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning. Members of his group also get together on Sunday morning to complete a long run.
Typically, depending on competition etc training weeks are:
Monday evenings – medium run between 4/6 mile
Tuesday evenings – short intervals 300/400m at a good pace
Thursday is a longer reps session 600/800/1k Saturday hills, start 8-30, at various locations such as Cusworth Park, Keepmoat, it’s Town Fields this Saturday
Sunday is a longer run between 8/10 mile easy
Martin James is a qualified UKA Coach in Running Fitness and is also a Leader in Running Fitness. Martin has run 2:44 for the marathon and 17:13 for 5k.
Martin has been running since 2003 and he joined Doncaster Athletic Club in 2006 (before the Keepmoat Stadium and our running track was built). Martin will race on road, trail, fell, cross country and track and will race any distance from 800m to 200 miles (in 2017).
Tuesday evenings we deliver Endurance Interval Training, groups use the track and other groups use the paths around the lake or go onto the hills. Warming up from 6pm and the session starting at 6:30pm.
Wednesday evenings (monthly / fortnightly) we deliver the skills to improve your running through dynamic warm up with drills, run through (strides), short interval trailing at very high intensity and continuous relay sessions. We also do fitness tests to monitor your progress. Static stretching to finish. Warming up from 6pm and the session starting at 6:30pm.
Thursday evenings we take groups out on the roads for either a Steady run or Tempo run of around 60 minutes. This is supported by a team of run leaders. This run starts at 6:30pm.
At the weekends Martin will regularly be found at parkrun or races. Long runs when time allows.
