Athletics Ireland Announces First Endurance Coaches Network (ECN)
Meeting
Endurance Coach Network (ECN) on Athletics
Ireland website
From recent Athletics Ireland Email:
"Athletics Ireland is pleased to announce the details for the first
meeting of the Endurance Coaches Network (ECN) on Saturday 23rd January at Athlone IT
The theme for this event will be "THE
WINNING FORMULA: PRACTICAL INFORMATION TO CHANGE THE COACHING
PRACTICE’S OF DEVELOPMENT TO HIGH PERFORMANCE COACHES".
The event program will focus on giving coaches’ practical information
that they can take away and use to help improve their own coaching
practice and will be delivered through plenary presentations and
breakout sessions. There will be time for question & answers at all
sessions also. If you are a club coach, development coach or a
performance coach then this event has something to offer you.
The (ECN) will bring the coaching community together to gain &
share knowledge and more importantly to network with each other. It
will be hosted in the excellent surroundings of Athlone IT and run from
9am-6pm, see flyer for full details of the speakers and their
presentations."
Timetable:
- 9:00 - 9:30am - Registration (B1029 Lecture Theatre)
- 9:30 - 9:45am - Opening Address by Steve Macklin (National
Junior Endurance Coach)
- 9:45 - 10:45am - ’The
Pursuit of Excellence Programme (2009 – 2016): Elite Coach Development
- Key Lessons Learned’ with Daragh Sheridan (Lead
Programme Consultant, PEP Podium Programme at Irish Institute of Sport)
- 10:45 - 11:45pm - ’The
role of “Power” in endurance and its application to training’
with Chris Jones (National Coach Mentor Endurance England Athletics)
- 11:45 - 12:00pm - Coffee Break
- 12:00 - 1:00pm - Breakout Sessions with a choice of the
following:
- 1) ’The training of a
European Youth Olympic 1500m Gold Medalist’ with Joe Ryan
(National Junior Team Coach)
- 2) ’Marathon Training-
A case study with Lizzie Lee 2016 Rio Olympics Qualifier’
with Donie Walsh (Personal Coach)
- 3) ‘Training for the
11-15 year old endurance athletes, what should you be doing and how is
it applied in a training setting’ with Steve Macklin
(National Junior Endurance Coach)
- 1:00 - 2:00pm - Lunch
- 2:00 - 3:00pm - ‘Blood
monitoring in the endurance athlete’ with Dr Alan Rankin
(Athletics Ireland Medical Lead)
- 3:00 - 4:00pm - Breakout Sessions with a choice of the
following:
- 1) ’The training of a
European Youth Olympic 1500m Gold Medalist’ with Joe Ryan
(National Junior Team Coach)
- 2) ’Marathon Training-
A case study with Lizzie Lee 2016 Rio Olympics Qualifier’
with Donie Walsh (Personal Coach)
- 3) ‘Training for the
11-15 year old endurance athletes, what should you be doing and how is
it applied in a training setting’ with Steve Macklin
(National Junior Endurance Coach)
- 4:00 - 4:15pm - Coffee
- 4:30 - 5:30pm - “S&C
and its place in an endurance athletes program” with Joe
O'Connor (Fitness Consultant at Nisus Fitness/Lecturer Tralee IT)
- 5:30 - 5:45pm- Closing Address by Steve Macklin (National
Junior Endurance Coach)
Steve Macklin, Athletics Ireland Coach Education Lead for
Endurance said:
"I am extremely enthusiastic about this initiative as it brings all our
endurance coaches together to learn, share and network. It is exciting
that we have the high calibre of speakers delivering at this event to
pass on their knowledge and experiences to our endurance coaches. This
is an opportunity for all coaches to learn or refresh on current
coaching methods or see what other coaches are doing and more
importantly to network with each other. The layout of the day is very
relevant to all endurance coaches in Ireland and I encourage all
coaches to attend. You are investing in your own athletes by doing so.”
Coaches can now register at the online link for the low cost
of €25. Registration for this event will close on Friday 8th January at
midnight. Places are limited to 80 coaches only.
Contact Steve Macklin,
National Junior Endurance Coach, Athletics Ireland Tel: +353876335565
Speaker Line-up and Bios