Beautiful trails & serious workouts

We’ll join together in the hall at around 8am for a delicious breakfast, Tim providing you with the brief for the day.

Then, you’ll head out for your longer trail run. Under the guidance of Tim, you’ll explore the beautiful, seldom trodden trails that wind through these Welsh hills, and you’ll get to see a side to the countryside most tourists wouldn’t. During the run, Tim will observe and analyse your technique, providing tips that will help you get more out of your running action with less stress and effort.

Of course, this run is all about enjoying the natural scenery and the sociable nature of exploring it together, so don’t worry about pace. You’ll run great trails in a wonderful environment, learning tips from a true expert, all whilst running at a pace the entire group is comfortable with.

At the end of the two-hour run, we’ll arrive back at the camp for lunch and a debrief from Tim. Then, in the afternoon, Tim will run a training and technique workshop, helping you identify specific areas for you to work on your performance, and finding points you can improve to make running easier and more effective.

Kirsty Martuccio teaches yoga classes to a range of abilities, so don’t worry if you’ve never tried yoga before. The idea is to learn something new to add a different dimension to improving your running performance.

And if you have done it before, that’s great too. Simply let Kirsty know and she’ll give you the opportunity for more advanced positions throughout the yoga flow.

Kirsty has specifically designed a flow to support your breathing and movement, helping you understand the connection between the two, helping you run in a more relaxed fashion, and for longer.

After a full day of trail running and workshops, it’s time to relax. Dinner will be a hearty affair
to make sure you’re fully refuelled. Then you can enjoy a soak in the private hot tub, to soothe those achy legs, before curling up in front of the fire for a natter with your new friends.

Morning runs & hearty breakfasts

Wake up to embrace a fresh Spring morning, ready to enjoy a beautiful sunrise morning trail run. This is a pleasant opportunity to loosen your legs from yesterday’s running and breathe in the pure, crisp, cold morning air, far away from any pollution.

This is also your chance to put the techniques you learnt from Tim into practice, on a similiar run to the previous day’s (around 2 hours), in the pleasant Welsh hills.

Again, the emphasis is on enjoyment, it is not a race, so this is a chance for you to experiment with the new skills you picked up the day before in the golden dawn light. Today your run will include running across the Pontcysyllte aqueduct, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the world’s highest navigable aqueduct – a pretty epic way to conclude your running weekend!

Back at the hall there will be a tremendous breakfast feast waiting for you and, breakfast butties devoured and energy levels restocked, all that is left to do is pack up your things and bid farewell to your new running mates.