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What do we do?

We meet together to train together.  This serves as a great motivator and opportunity to be with like minded people with like minded interests.
The training sessions will vary in structure based upon a number of S.M.A.R.T. factors. 

1. Specific - These training sessions are structured to be one of your more specific training workouts of your week.  The sessions will generally have some instructions to support the specificity of this workout. For example: Hill repeats, specific timed repeats or tempo running, form drills, and Fartlek running. *These sessions tend to be more intense and therefore nice to be with other folk punishing ;) themselves for the same purpose of getting fitter! 
2. Measurable - These meeting tend to be managed with a watch or heart rate monitor combined with some specific times and paces that will better help you to measure and track your progress. 
3. Accountability (Achievable) - These workouts will provide a great support to achieve your endurance goals. They also provide a guaranteed weekly run you can count on to be in your weekly schedule. Helping you to stay consistent with your week to week training. By having a definite scheduled date to training such as this group, we can be more consistent with our training.
4. Realistic - The structure and guidance from an instructor will help ensure you are training at the correct paces. This way you will maximize your time during this intense workout. It is also safer for you to train under this guidance. It is easy to find that you are over-training or even under-training. Having a monitored structured workout with a trained coach will ensure your stay in your correct intensity level and prevent possible injury.  What is also helpful is to train with others at different levels of fitness. This can be very inspirational and motivational which builds confidence.  We all could use confidence when we are training beyond our comfort levels and striving for new goals.
5. Time bound - Our busy schedules can be very disruptive to a running endurance training program if we let the outside world control us. By committing to a structured, specific workout like these group sessions, you will hold yourself accountable to a very important workout, specifically placed in your week. Having an intense day each week that you know before hand, helps you to plan your workouts around those harder days. Like your longer distance run of the week (LSD), this is specifically planned on a day that you have time to recover on the day(s) that follow and that you are fresh or recovered enough from your last harder days workout before. *This Group session will be one of your most important weekly runs of the week!  So make sure you put it into your schedule FIRST.

Where do we Train?

Please DO NOT SHOW UP to the training without contacting NUDGE Training first. :)

Sunnybrook Park
​1132 Leslie St, Toronto, ON

*Specifically we meet at the red marker in the parking lot as seen on the map.

When do we train?
Thursdays @ 7pm

• emphasis on building strength, speed, running economy
• ​More intense running specific drills focussing on increased tempo, form and pace... and more! 

Sundays at 6am (7am November to March 31)

• emphasis on building a solid aerobic base
• sessions focus on increasing time and distance

What does it cost to join?
ITS FREE ... but you will need to know what you are doing with your training in order to properly benefit from this  group.

If you need help determining your readiness for these workouts or with building a specific training program for your endurance goals... Call me :) to inquire about my personal programs.

Do I need to already be fit to participate?

Well...yes... and no...

Lets go over the YES answer...
Depending on where you are in your personal training program some of the workouts offered on these two days may be too intense for you and you will need to have some amount of fitness to participate without injuring yourself.  If you are active and feel fit, please check requirements below.

THURSDAY'S SMART Group Run
(YES you will need to have a solid fitness base)

Some base requirements:

• You have been running for a minimum of 6 weeks.
• You have been running a minimum of 40 km per week for three week in a row.
• You are looking to ramp up your intensity and need some more structure to help you through the process.

Lets go over the NO answer...
Whether you are new to running and/or you are getting back into running, the Sunday LSD Group run will be perfect for you.

SUNDAY'S LSD Group Run

• No specific requirements needed - Everyone is welcome!