Thursday 7/8 Session – The Orchards

5 August 2025 - By David Jobling

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

Another  popular club session – don’t they just keep coming –  it also attracts many of our members and it’s an opportunity to run in a lovely and very different setting.

Park & meet please for 1930 in church car park opposite St Bartholomew’s Church, Church Road, Wickham Bishops CM8 3LA ///purely.clouds.became where we are expected.

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 why not arrive a bit earlier for bit more of a warm up?

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 dry & grassy at the moment so usual road running shoes should be adequate.

There will be a central area where you can leave clothing layers and any drinks to remain well hydrated.

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