You find yourself looking at some events and races, maybe your first 10k or half marathon, or maybe a bucket list ultra or trail/fell running event, you find an ideal one in 6 months’ time thinking about how much training you will need to do, then you find one of the popular running magazines or websites and find a training plan. You then look at the plan and think, ‘how can I fit this all in’, ‘what about fitting it in round my job’, ‘do I have to miss my fitness classes I love to do’.

Everyone loves a good HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) session, which pushes you and gets you to the end feeling like you’ve had a great workout. Gyms and PT’s everywhere have morning and evening sessions/classes, body weight, weighted, motivated by great fitness instructors and music. But what is HIIT? Where did it come from? And how has it evolved? And finally what should HIIT be used for?

The trail zone was a huge success with loads of people interested, talking to us coaches and leaders, asking advice, and finding out more about what we do.

Fell running is a sport found in the hills and fells of England, away from the urban environment, read how Trail running coach brings the experience of the fells to the doorstep of the urban environment of Birmingham.

For a very short race, the Middletown Hill Fell race can only be described in one word - brutal. I don’t think you will find a race that covers just 1.7mile, covering 1250ft climb, and takes longer than a park run to finish.

I was only 18 miles in but my muscles were showing signs of cramp and I was hungry.