Speed Development 13 August 2026 – Orchards Loops

9 August 2026 - By Jodee Mayer

Our Thursday meet this week is The Orchards session in Wickham Bishops.

Another  popular club session.

We will meet in Wickham Bishops at 7.30pm – I am waiting for the Church to confirm we can use the car park so please keep an eye on the website/socials for any changes, but expect that we will be parking in the church car park opposite St Bartholomew’s Church, Church Road, Wickham Bishops CM8 3LA ///purely.clouds.became.

We’ll jog over to The Orchards and after some warm ups our session will be repetitions around the two slightly differing distance loops we use of around 480M and 350M with standing recoveries between each one – this main part of the session will last for approximately 30 minutes.

It is a short  jog to The Orchards so if you would like more of a warm up, please arrive earlier.

Pacing guidance for this terrain is around 5k and we’ll have a few technical points to remind ourselves of.

This is not really a session for FS Final Surge or Garmin set up but one for the start/laps/stop button etc and review later.

We’ll be running on public footpath areas within The Orchards so please remain on these and please be mindful and considerate of other footpath users.

Terrain in The Orchards is (like everywhere) dry & grassy at the moment so usual road running shoes should be adequate.

There will be a central area where you can leave drinks to keep hydrated.

Your coaching team look forward to meeting up with everyone Thursday.