We meet every Tuesday & Thursday evening at 6:45pm for a 7pm start. Fortnightly on Tuesday’s we have all-inclusive interval training on the fab running track at Ratcliffe College (no extra charge – included in your membership!).
Route nights: See table.
Track nights: Ratcliffe College, Fosse Way, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicester LE7 4SG.
Please read the following guidance before attending, if you attend club nights it is presumed that you agree to follow the following guidelines outlined below (following England Athletics guidance and the Wreake Runners Risk Assessments). Please note: the club,
and any of its officers, are not responsible for any claim to accident, injury, damage, illness, or loss sustained by members during
any Club activity. You attend at your own risk!
- Do not attend if you are showing signs of sickness
- Check the latest England Athletics guidance & read the Wreake Runners Risk Assessments
- Follow the venue & public health guidance
- Maintain personal hygiene (sanitise hands before and after workout)
- Take personal responsibility on knowing the route. Learn the route (or print it / have it on phone), & take responsibility on where you are going and the people around you.
- Use the time before we set off on our run for a group or individual warm up.
- Organise yourselves into groups on the night, re-group during the run.
- If leading a group – please lead from the back and leave no one behind.
- Wear high visibility clothing on dark evenings and bring a headtorch/chest torch.
- Carry a phone for emergencies.
- Be considerate to members of the public.
- If finishing early, ensure you let someone know you have arrived home safely.
- It is the responsibility of the individual to perform their own cool down.
- Enjoy your run, have fun!
Run together, run safely.
| Date | Meet time | Start time | Session | Meet | Description |
| 03/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Birstall Car Park, Sibson Road, Birstall | Birstall Strides – with Lizzie As a group we will run to the top of Greengate Lane. We will be using the disused road behind the Thurcaston road to run the strides. For our speed work element, run 3-6 30second strides working in relay groups of 3. |
05/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Goscote and Rearsby So let’s see how far we can get tonight! For those speedier runners, getting out to Rearsby is your goal! For us mere mortals, a loop around East Goscote will be far enough! https://www.strava.com/routes/3449092440916116944 https://www.strava.com/routes/3449088029022985260 |
| 10/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 12/02/2026 | 18:30 | 18:45 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | ‘All You Need is Love’ Valentines Run The old favourite Strava Art is back. Start at 6.45pm. 1 mile run back to Church Hall once complete. Wear red, pink, hearts, flowers, sparkly lovey stuff. Hold hands, skip through the tulips https://www.strava.com/routes/3449756836226792254 |
| 17/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Sainsbury’s Car Park | Tempo session Meet at Sainsburys. Easy Warm up 0.4 miles. 1 mile laps of Trevino Drive as 5 mins easy, 5 mins Tempo Effort and 2 mins jog x 4. Cool down with easy 0.4 miles back to Sainos. Tempo runs or tempo workouts are great training tools because you run at an effort that feels strong, and you feel stronger and fitter afterward. The purpose of a tempo workout is to run at a sustained effort to build “speed endurance”—that is, the ability to hold a challenging pace over a longer period of time. |
| 19/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Thurmaston Route – 5 miles or 7 miles https://www.strava.com/routes/3194333700342282606 https://www.strava.com/routes/3063510871184477448 |
| 24/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 26/02/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Watermead head torch run – 4.26 miles or 7.2 miles https://www.strava.com/routes/3449078942327665186 https://www.strava.com/routes/3449078942326925858 |
| 03/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | ‘Mona’ Fartlek session A session used by Australian distance runner Steve Moneghetti, this is a versatile 42-minutes session. If your focus is on shorter distances, slow the ‘off’ paces a little and speed up the ‘on’ paces. If you’re racing longer distances, run steady on the ‘off’ sections. 10 minutes warm up, 90 seconds on, 90 seconds off x 2, 60 seconds on, 60 seconds off x 4, 30 seconds on, 60 seconds off x 4, 15 seconds on, 15 seconds off x 4, 10 minutes cool down |
| 05/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | ‘Not’ Backyard Loops ‘Half mile warm up to College Road. Start from here along Goodes Lane into Pembroke to the top where it meets Barkby Road. Left and along to College Road. Left into College Road down and right into Merton Avenue and back down to Goodes Lane and along to where we started at College Road for your 1 mile loop. The aim is to do a loop at consistent pace to allow you some recovery time before setting off on your next loop. https://www.strava.com/routes/3449088710826239018 |
| 10/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 12/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Thurmo through Watermead to Birstall – headtorch – 5.17 miles and 6.96 miles https://www.strava.com/routes/3449774752618647472 https://www.strava.com/routes/3449774752617335728 |
| 17/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Outside The Plough, East Goscote | Long Furrow Paarlauf Interval Training Intervals in pairs of similar pace. One will run one direction and the other in the opposite direction, until you meet. Then turn around and retrace your steps back to where you started. You may prefer to run as a pair and then meet up with another pair before turning round. |
| 19/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | ‘Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Syston’ – 4.81 miles and 6.16 miles https://www.strava.com/routes/3449784859919512810 https://www.strava.com/routes/3449775784638272234 |
| 24/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 26/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | The Jeff, Lloyd and Mrs Run – Yep, the three Bridges – 4.1 miles and 6.74 miles https://www.strava.com/routes/3449778392638803268 https://www.strava.com/routes/3449783776172011754 |
| 31/03/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Caterpillars – Rayns Way 0.75 mile warm up to Rayns Way. Form a single-file line with about 1 – 2 metres between each person. The front runner sets a ‘conversational’ pace (about 60% effort), the runner at the back of the line sprints past the entire group to become the new leader. The new leader stabilizes the pace then the person at the back sprints and so on. For the last 5 minutes of the session, increase the base pace to tempo effort to force the sprinters to work even harder to get to the front, simulating a race finish. 0.75 miles back to the Church Hall. https://www.strava.com/routes/3454503347488307456 |
| 02/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Outside The White House, Scraptoft Lane, Scraptoft | Run to the (Scraptoft) Hills with John White Details to follow |
| 07/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 09/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Barkby beat the sunset How far can you get towards Barkby in 20 or 25 minutes effort. Gentle return https://www.strava.com/routes/3454517750288595968 |
| 14/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Overs and Unders Intervals – Westmoreland Avenue 1.2 mile warm up, Interval session around Westmoreland Avenue in Thurmaston (0.3 mile loop). A high-intensity interval training technique alternating between paces slightly faster (“over”) and slightly slower (“under”) than your lactate threshold (LT), often 10k to half-marathon pace https://www.strava.com/routes/3454507718887378990 |
| 16/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Up to Rothley and back or Cossington Meadows and back – 4.5 miles and 6.35 miles (with the option to extend the Rothley version onto the new paths at Broadnook) https://www.strava.com/routes/3458481230549198708 https://www.strava.com/routes/3458483906206446990 |
| 21/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Track Tuesday | Ratcliffe Track, Ratcliffe College | Captain Lizzie will post details of the Track session |
| 23/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | To the Barkby of Beyond – 4.8 miles and 6.5 miles To Barkby or further with some off-road https://www.strava.com/routes/3454523444025806674 https://www.strava.com/routes/3454513662518289664 |
| 28/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Technique Tuesday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Meadow Lane ‘bridge’ hill reps https://www.strava.com/routes/3454867040597201160 |
| 30/04/2026 | 18:45 | 19:00 | Social Thursday | Church Hall, Broad Street, Syston | Canal Run – 5 miles and 7.5 miles Follow the Canal round Watermead https://www.strava.com/routes/3455592266627604290 https://www.strava.com/routes/3455572151829240906 |
Church Hall: Catholic Church of the Divine, 63 Broad St, Syston, Leicester LE7 1GH
Track nights: Ratcliffe College, Fosse Way, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicester LE7 4SG
** Race Alert**
15th February – DRXC Holly Hayes
1st March – LRRL Kibworth 6
8th March – DRXC Bosworth
15th March – DRXC – Grace Dieu
22nd March – Ashby 20
26th April – London Marathon
3rd May – Wymeswold Waddle
**Notes**
Clocks change end of March
School Easter Holidays – Monday 30th March – Friday 10th April