Tonight we were in Sutton Park for the last time before the clocks go back and it's too dark.

The session was a tough hill workout 'gassing out' many of the runners by the end! It was 2 minute 'up and down hills', with equal amounts of up and down, then 8 minutes of Kenyan hills followed by more up and down hill efforts.

Once done it was onto the litter pick and we even found some gas canistors which we put on top of the bin so that they could be safely removed by the council before having a quick picture.

Tonight, was a very basic, but extremely tough running session!

Yep it was an 'old trusty session' of mine, 12 x 75 second efforts, off 1 minute of recovery. Basically whatever distance you are targeting from 3k-Marathon if you want a session that works for all distances this is it!

It certainly is a good 'pacing session' as the aim is to run each repetition at the same speed or as close as possible.

The tempo was certainly up, even if the late September evening temperature had certainly dropped, not that the runners would have felt it!

Once done, the group did a litter pick before a quick picture with the pink sky behind.

Tonight the group did a Mona Fartlek for the first time. That's......

2 x 90 seconds 4 x 1 minute 4 x 30 seconds 4 x 15 seconds

All off the same 'float recovery' meaning the recoveries were still at a good pace. It's basically 20 minutes of hard graft on the arena field.

Once done it was onto the litter pick around the car park before a quick picture.

Tonight after a late night for group leader Jonny the rest of the group, got into some hill reps! Luckily Jonny just did the timings and didn't have to do the hard yards!

The session was 2 x 8 minute sections of Kenyan hills, followed by 6 x 30 second fast hill sprints. Everyone worked really well together, it was great to see :)

Once done, we got some litter picked as we headed back to Boldmere Gate.

Tonight was an interval session in Sutton Park followed by a litter pick.

The session was 4 x 1 minute, off 1 minute rest, next was 6 x 2 minutes, off 1 minute rest, followed by a 2nd set of 4 x 1 minute efforts to really 'finish the group off'! Everyone worked really well together, it was great to see :)

Straight after the session it was onto picking some litter and we managed one large bag and even found some artwork which we decided to leave in case somebody was collecting it, or they had lost it.