Beeleigh Hills speed development 23/07/26

20 July 2026 - By Maxine Leech

This Thursday, Nadia and I will be coaching you at Beeleigh Abbey in Maldon for a hill session.

The hill is approximately 500 metres long with a steady gradient, making it ideal for building speed, improving anaerobic capacity, and increasing your lactate threshold.

We’ll be using the lampposts along the hill to complete a pyramid session. Starting with the nearest lamppost, you’ll run uphill to the target before recovering on the downhill jog back to the start. You’ll then set off again to the next furthest lamppost, continuing in this way until you reach the furthest point. Once at the top of the pyramid, we’ll work our way back down, reducing the distance with each repetition.

This session is designed to improve your strength, speed, and endurance while helping you become more efficient at running hard over sustained efforts.

Your pace uphill should be around your 10k pace and the recovery is downhill. We suggest a walk into a slow jog as you descend. Look to repeat every effort at approximately the same pace.

There will be a dynamic warm up and drills prior to a 30 minute session and cool down stretches back at Tesco for those that want it.

The meeting point is around the click and collect bays at Tesco Maldon at 7:30pm (postcode CM9 4LE) and the warm up jog is along the canal towpath towards Beeleigh.

This session won’t be going on Final Surge due to the distance between lampposts being a little tricky to measure, but we will provide plenty of instruction on the night.
Nadia and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.