Find out more about all things Trail Running – sign-up for webinar

Thursday 18th December 2025

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scottishathletics are hosting another off road education session early in 2026.

Coach Lewis Walker will look into Trail Running in the webinar on Wednesday 28 January (7pm).

The webinar can be signed up for via google form above.

Here’s a few more details around the session . . .

Purpose

To introduce both athletes and coaches to trail running with a Scottish flavour!

Summary

This webinar will elaborate on the key components that are needed for exceptional performance and how to develop them from ‘newbie to seasoned international’.

You will leave with all the tools you need to build your own training programme.

Topics include

What makes Trail Running unique?

My seven key Coaching principles:

Athlete Profiling Model: identifying key strengths and vulnerabilities around which to build a training programme

The Training Menu: a toolkit encompassing the full range of training sessions (with example sessions).

Phasing Your Year: From General to Specific to Taper Preparation. How to sequence progression to peak performance. What sessions to use when.

Integrating Supplementary Training: Cycling, Elliptical, S&C.

Fuelling: For training and racing.

Heat Training: The Poor Man’s Altitude!

Peak Performance Psychology: The Performance Space Model – Training your Mind to get through the Pain Cave

Case Study Highlights from two programmes

What World-Class Coaches Actually Do: 2025 Research establishing five Core Coaching Behaviours with practical implications for trail athletes

Q and A session with coach and athletes

Lewis Walker is a UKA Coach to multiple GB and Scotland Internationalists ranging from track to ultra to trail.

Lewis coached Naomi Lang to bronze medal at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, Canfranc 2025 and Alastair Graves to his first GB vest in the Long Trail event.

For more information email angela.mudge@scottishathletics.org.uk

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