Trail Skills at Windrush · 15–18 April 2027

Description

For runners new to technical trail, and anyone losing time on rough ground and descents.

• Thursday evening: kit and headlamp check, then a run in the dark on easy ground.
• Friday: a filmed descent to set your baseline, climbing and power hiking, moving efficiently on course, the first downhill session, and a video review of your descent.
• Saturday: a second downhill session, work on wet rock, roots, mud and loose ground, navigation (including what to do when it goes wrong), and a run that puts it all together.
• Sunday morning: the same descent again, on camera. You leave with your before-and-after clips and a personal note on what to work on next.

The running volume is modest on purpose. Skill breaks down when you are tired, so we keep the quality high and the days sensible.

What’s included

• Three nights at Windrush, Thursday to Sunday, in its self-catering cottages. You share a cottage, and a twin room unless you book together as a couple.
• Coaching from Fred and Debbie, in a group of no more than 12.
• Pre-course material in our online course library.
• Sports massage with Mikki on site, booked and paid separately.

Booking

The price is per person. Choose one place in a shared twin room, or a couple sharing a double (two places, priced for two). Windrush is self-catering, so bring your own food; we send a shopping and travel brief two weeks before. You make your own way there, and the timetable suits a Thursday-morning flight to East London. Getting to Windrush.

More about all our residential trail courses at Windrush.

Booking terms

• Each course runs with at least 6 runners. If it doesn’t reach 6, we move you to another date or refund you in full.
• Cancel more than 6 weeks before the course for a full refund, or between 6 and 2 weeks before for a 50% refund. Within 2 weeks there is no refund, unless we fill your place.