{"id":260,"date":"2018-01-14T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:46:48","slug":"begin-running","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/begin-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beginners courses are the life blood of Handy Cross Runners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We offer a 10 week course which allows anybody with a basic level of fitness to run 5km.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next course will start in <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">March 2026<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Each week we carry out a warm up session and then various\u00a0agility exercises all designed to promote good running form.\u00a0 Each week is designed to increase the distance that is run, so in week one you are running for very short lengths of time and then you walk for recovery in between.\u00a0 As the weeks progress you are running more and walking less.\u00a0 \u00a0In week 1 we run for 1 minute and then walk for 1 1\/2 mins and we do that ten times.\u00a0 So the session takes 25 minutes.\u00a0 All sessions up to week 5, take no more than 25 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">You will need to find two other &#8216;homework&#8217; sessions in the week when you can repeat the session which is taught on each<\/span> week,<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> this will enable you to make rapid progress as the running sections increase in length.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To enrol or find out more please email Simon at:<\/span> <a href=\"emailto:hxcouchto5k@gmail.com\">hxcouchto5k@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-260\" data-postid=\"260\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-260 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginners courses are the life blood of Handy Cross Runners. We offer a 10 week course which allows anybody with a basic level of fitness to run 5km.\u00a0 The next course will start in March 2026. Each week we carry out a warm up session and then various\u00a0agility exercises all designed to promote good running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":90,"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handycrossrunners.co.uk\/HXR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}