Trail squad
Ilse Vanterpool
Head coach, trailTwelve seasons of mountain racing and a stubborn belief that descending is a skill you train, not a thing you survive.
50K 4:11:06
Vert /wk 2,400m
The club
A members' running club with a performance lab bolted onto the back of it.
KM 01 Who we are
Nine years of receipts
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.
Standing rule
No member starts a block without a baseline on file.
KM 03 Since 2016
What nine years of member data looks like
1240
Active members
Across road, trail, and track squads.
41%
Fewer lost weeks
Reported by members in their second year versus their first.
6min
Median half PR gain
First full training block, measured on a certified course.
9800
Gait tests logged
Every one stored and re-read at the start of each block.
KM 05 Joining
Three steps, about ten days
The order matters here. We will not sell you a plan before we have seen you run.
01
Lab visit
Forty minutes on the instrumented treadmill plus a strength screen. You leave with your numbers the same day, whether or not you join.
40 minutes
02
Read-through
A 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 5
03
First block
You get a squad, a twelve week block, and a load ceiling. Sessions adjust automatically when your week runs hot.
Day 10KM 07 The lab
Everything we claim is on a plate
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.
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Instrumented treadmill
Force plate under the belt, high frame-rate capture from three angles.
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Lactate profiling
Eight-stage step test to set your real threshold instead of a percentage of max.
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Shoe rotation review
We pair midsole stack and drop to your actual mechanics and mileage split.
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Return-to-run mapping
Built with a physiotherapist when you are coming back from time off.
Next open slot Thursday, 18:40 · 40 min
KM 08 Coaching staff
The people writing your week
Eleven coaches on staff. Each one carries a maximum of thirty athletes, which is the whole reason the plans are not templates.
Trail squad
Road squad
Desmond Achebe
Marathon leadCame to coaching after two decades of masters racing. Writes the most conservative long runs in the club and produces the fastest ones.
Marathon 2:29:44
Athletes 28
Lab
Marek Sobolev
Biomechanics leadRuns the gait plate and the lactate protocol. Will happily spend an hour explaining why your cadence is not actually the problem.
Tests run 3,100+
Since 2018
KM 09 Members
What people say after a full block
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 02 What we measure
Four readings that change what your week looks like
Heart rate and mileage are the easy numbers. These are the ones that tell a coach whether to push you or pull you back.
Movement efficiency
Ground contact, vertical oscillation, and cadence measured at easy, threshold, and race pace on the lab treadmill.
Fatigue signature
How your stride changes in the last third of a hard effort. It is usually the first place a coming injury shows up.
Load tolerance
A rolling ratio of this week against your last four. Cross the ceiling and the plan reduces itself before you feel it.
Asymmetry
Left-right split across force and timing. Anything over five percent gets a strength prescription, not a longer run.
Come and get your numbers
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