KM 00 Springfield, CA
We are a members' running club with a performance lab bolted onto the back of it. Coaches here read your gait plate and your last four weeks of load before they write a single session.
KM 01 Who we are
Most clubs hand you a schedule. We hand you a baseline first — ground contact time, left-right balance, cadence at three paces, and where your form falls apart when you get tired.
Then we build the week around what that read actually says. Some members get more volume. Plenty get less. The point is that nobody trains on a guess.
No member starts a block without a baseline on file.
KM 02 What we measure
Heart rate and mileage are the easy numbers. These are the ones that tell a coach whether to push you or pull you back.
Ground contact, vertical oscillation, and cadence measured at easy, threshold, and race pace on the lab treadmill.
How your stride changes in the last third of a hard effort. It is usually the first place a coming injury shows up.
A rolling ratio of this week against your last four. Cross the ceiling and the plan reduces itself before you feel it.
Left-right split across force and timing. Anything over five percent gets a strength prescription, not a longer run.
KM 03 Since 2016
Across road, trail, and track squads.
Reported by members in their second year versus their first.
First full training block, measured on a certified course.
Every one stored and re-read at the start of each block.
KM 04 Squads
Every squad runs the same principles and completely different weeks. You are placed after your first lab visit, and you can move between them whenever your goal changes.
Two structured sessions a week on the Winterline oval, built around repeatable splits rather than one heroic effort you cannot recover from.
Vertical gain treated as its own currency. You get a weekly climb budget, descent technique work, and fuelling rehearsals on real terrain.
Built for people whose race is decided at kilometre thirty. Long runs are progressive, fuelling is timed, and the taper is written on day one.
KM 05 Joining
The order matters here. We will not sell you a plan before we have seen you run.
Forty minutes on the instrumented treadmill plus a strength screen. You leave with your numbers the same day, whether or not you join.
40 minutesA coach walks you through the footage and the plate data, names the two things worth fixing first, and asks what you actually want out of the year.
Day 3 to 5You get a squad, a twelve week block, and a load ceiling. Sessions adjust automatically when your week runs hot.
Day 10
KM 06 This week
Everything below is open to members. Turn up, give your name at the start, and your session is already on the coach's sheet.
Friday is deliberately empty. It is the day most members skip when they are told to rest, so we stopped scheduling anything on it.
KM 07 The lab
Our lab sits at the back of the clubhouse and members book it free, twice a year. Everything is repeatable, timestamped, and yours to take with you if you ever leave.
Force plate under the belt, high frame-rate capture from three angles.
Eight-stage step test to set your real threshold instead of a percentage of max.
We pair midsole stack and drop to your actual mechanics and mileage split.
Built with a physiotherapist when you are coming back from time off.
KM 08 Coaching staff
Eleven coaches on staff. Each one carries a maximum of thirty athletes, which is the whole reason the plans are not templates.
Trail squad
Twelve seasons of mountain racing and a stubborn belief that descending is a skill you train, not a thing you survive.
Road squad
Came to coaching after two decades of masters racing. Writes the most conservative long runs in the club and produces the fastest ones.
Lab
Runs the gait plate and the lactate protocol. Will happily spend an hour explaining why your cadence is not actually the problem.
KM 09 Members
I came in wanting more mileage. My first read said the opposite, and I argued about it for a week. Ran a four minute half PR eleven weeks later on less volume than I had been doing alone.
Rowan Deschamps
Road squad · 2 years
The asymmetry number was the thing. Five years of a left calf that kept going and nobody had ever put a figure on why. Eight weeks of the strength prescription and it stopped.
Tomasz Reidy
Trail squad · 3 years
What sold me was the Sunday shakeout. I turned up as a stranger and nobody asked what my pace was. I joined properly a fortnight later and I have not run alone since.
Amara Ostwald
Track squad · 1 year
Nine months in and the thing I did not expect was the load ceiling quietly shrinking a week I had planned badly. It was right and I was wrong, which I have now stopped arguing about.
Priya Raghunathan
Road squad · 1 year
KM 10 Race calendar
Members get entry support, transport to anything within two hours, and a coach on the course for the six target races below.
KM 11 Membership
Monthly, cancel whenever. Every tier includes the gait test, because nothing else works without it.
For runners who want the group and the baseline, not a written plan.
The club as it is meant to be used. A squad, a block, and a load ceiling.
A named coach, a phone number, and a plan rewritten as often as it needs to be.
KM 12 Journal
Written by the coaching staff, mostly on Monday mornings when the weekend data comes in.
Why the most commonly prescribed running fix is usually treating a symptom, and what the plate data actually points at instead. Raising cadence hides…
How we set your ceiling, why the plan sometimes shrinks itself overnight, and what to do on the weeks it does. Every member’s plan…
The club is named after it, so we should probably explain how it is done. Three pacing rules and the one you will want…
KM 13 Questions
No. The slowest member of the club has been here since 2016 and the fastest joined last spring. Squads are grouped by goal and by the shape of your training week, not by pace. If you can run thirty minutes without stopping, there is a session for you on the board.
You warm up, then run at three prescribed efforts on the instrumented treadmill while we capture force and video. A strength screen follows on the floor. The whole thing takes about forty minutes and you get the figures the same day, whether or not you decide to join.
Plenty of members do. Shakeout membership gives you the sessions, the clubhouse, and the annual lab visit without any plan attached. We will happily send your data to an outside coach in a format they can read.
It is one of the most common reasons people arrive. Return-to-run mapping is built alongside a physiotherapist and starts from where you are, not from where you were. Bring any scans or notes you have and we will work from those.
You do. Every test, session, and load figure is exportable at any time, and if you cancel your membership we send the full archive within seven days. We do not sell it and we do not share it with anyone you have not named.
Yes. The Sunday open shakeout runs twice a month and is free to anyone, member or not. Turn up at the clubhouse ten minutes early, give your name at the gate, and run whatever pace suits you.
Book the forty minute lab slot. No membership required, no pressure afterwards, and the data is yours to keep either way.
Clubhouse open Mon to Sat · 05:45 to 21:00