Welcome to our section for Youth Athletics serving from School Year 2 through to School Year 11. Generally by the time our athletes are 15/16 years of age they are ready to train in the Senior ranks although this is still governed to some extent by distance and choice of terrain.
At Primary School Years level - school years 2 to 6 our girls train as The Fleckney & Kibworth Vixens whilst the boy’s go by The Fleckney & Kibworth Panthers. The meeting for this group is Saturday mornings 11:30am at Fleckney Recreation Ground Leicester Road. Occasionally the Years 5/6 will split off to work under cross country conditions in Fleckney Millenium Woods.
For our High/Upper School Years groups - School Years 7 to 11 we now offer 2 x sessions per week. Tuesday is usually devoted to shorter quality work. From March to September this takes place once again at Fleckney Rec at 6pm. From October through to February this group can join our senior sessions either at Oadby Beauchamp College or fortnightly on Monday’s at Saffron Lane Track.
The second weekly session for this group is an uncompromising 3.5 mile circuit around Smeeton Gorse a series of ridgeway paths between Saddington and Gumley. The group meets on Saturday mornings at 0930 behind The Sailing Club HQ on Saddington Reservoir. This is a steady state endurance session with the facility to learn and develop the uphill and downhill techniques essential to progress in cross country racing.
If your son or daughter is interested in joining please contact our head coach Dave Wheeler - david.wheeler2@sky.com, please note we only take parental email addresses for athletes under 16.
We are joining the Derby Runner Cross Country league from October 2009 and are on a waiting list to join a track & field league
The Home of the 2009 Leicestershire & Rutland Athletic Association Under 11 Sportshall Club Champions
Youth Development Group – Plan for Tuesday 13 April
Introductions and explanation of session
Warm Up
10 minutes jog around the playing field
Mobility Exercises
Upper body, lower body, stretching exercises, hamstrings, quads, calves, groin
Technical Drills
High Knees, Butt Kicks, Leg Lunges, Step Overs
GROUPS SEPARATE
Year 6 Group
60M Relays teams of two - Runner one sprints to 60M, walks back, Runner two sprints to 60M, walks back, Runner One one sprints to 60M. Repeat 12 times
Team Relays – Teams of Four – each runner sprints 100 metres, hands over baton to teamate walks back to starting point ready for next leg, repeat four times
Year 7 and upwards
12 x 300M Parlauf - Teams of two, runner one sprints 300M, ticks runner two, walks back 100M to meet runner two - Note Either do all 12 straight off or 2 x 6 efforts
GROUPS BACK TOGETHER
One lap warm down jog followed by stretches
Feedback
Cross Country Achievements 2009/10
Jack Williams and Jamie Short - Both boys were selected for Leicestershire & Rutland in their age groups at both The UKA Inter Counties and The ESSA Inter Counties in March 2010
Jack Williams, Chris Parkes Bowen and Luke Mathers won the bronze medals for F & K at The Leicestershire & Rutland Cross Country Championships at Under 15 boys level
Oscar Trier won the One mile cross country event at both The Aylestone and Bosworth legs of this winters Derby Runner league
Bryn Williams won the South Leicestershire area cross country trials with Oscar Trier in second place
Harry Short won the two mile cross country event at the Sinai Park leg of the Derby Runner cross country league
Jack Williams won his category race at The Queniborough “Stomp” cross country event
Spring & Summer Programme
Following a succesful winter it is now time to enter a new cycle of the training year with the emphasis on sprint and middle distance events depending upon the age and ambitions of the athlete. Our key session will be for our newly reformatted “Youth Development Group” at 6PM on Tuesday nights. Here recently qualified level two coach Claire Beach will join head coach Dave Wheeler working with young athletes from school year six helping them prepare for the schools athletic season.
On Saturday mornings at 09:00 older members of this group will continue with their weekly endurance session on Smeeton Grose whilst at 11:00 the primary years group will meet in a more fun based session.
