Dear All,
City of Derry Spartans are promoting their Saturday morning experience with the aim of - child centered development and education through cross country running. Club membership is not required and it is free to all every Saturday morning between 9.30am and 10am at U3A in Gransha Hospital Grounds (BT476TG).
The programme aims are below:
· Prepare kids to represent their school in the Flavahans Cross Country League & run in our annual Christmas Cross Country race on the 17th December.
· Teach & educate them about how to run a cross country race with weekly themes including - how to warm up for a race, how to start, how to finish, how to run through muck, how to run through grass, how to run uphill and downhill, how to enjoy running in the wind and rain (they can be your friends) and teaching parents how to positively support from the sidelines.
· Explanations on how to do this from weekly 2 minute ted talks with national & international runners and from Spartans expert 'children's coaches' and 'running coaches'
· Race distances starting at 600 metres and working up to 1k or maybe even a mile.
· No prizes or times and low key with no pressure.
Week 1 theme is - How to warmup & positive parental support from the sidelines.
If you are a parent:
Turn up with your kid next Saturday with them ready to run and make the time to stay with us for the half hour
Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday.
Dara
Contacts - Dara Furey - Spartan Coach - WhatsApp 00353 8660611514 - darafurey@gmail.com
Bridgeen Byrne – 07513854091 – bridgeen@aol.com
