Back from hols and need to get back to my running as I'm planning on a few half marathons in the future. I train regularly but find it hard to do different types of training (speedwork,fartlek etc) Do I have to join a running club to get 1 to 1 with a coach or can I get one independently? I don't know where to start looking.Any ideas please?
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I think the best way is really to join a club as running with other people does help and provide motivation particularly if you are competitive.
As Grendel says tho joining your local club could be the way to go without having to go to the expense of paying out for 1-1 sessions which can be quite costly and you should end up with a group of fellow runners to call on for a run on non-club nights.
This question has been posed before on different boards and there has been some pretty mixed response to one-on-one coaching. The jist of it has been that the better, and more committed you are, the more you will get out of it.
Running coaches are not, generally, like personal trainers. Personal trainers tend to take on all-comers for a sum of money and that's their job. Running coaches, on the other hand, are often part-time and tend to like to work with people for whom running ranks pretty high on life's priority list and are really less interested in the back-markers. There are obviously exceptions that prove the rule, but that has been the majority conclusion from what I have read to date.
Many coaches may just be doing group sessions but if you ask about how to structure a schedule, they should be helpful as that is what they are there for - to help people improve.