Our club has just started an informal juniors club with an age range of 6 - 12 year olds, we are meeting up once a week and just have a general run around the fells with the kids. We have had a good start with about 20+ children turning up on a regular basis over the last month. As we are informal it is a condition that the parents have to come along and run so we don't become a free babysitting service!
Having seen how much the kids are enjoying it we are trying to put more structure into the sessions whilst keeping them fun for the various age ranges. We had our first outing out to a fun run/junior run which was very rewarding and the kids are very eager.
Can anyone suggest any suitable coaching courses that I could look at to help us and any ideas as to how we can help them improve by keeping it fun. At the moment we have three routes which we are alternating over a three week cycle so that they are familiar with the route etc and we are also doing one session of speed work/fun games on a local football field.
There is a group of parents who are very committed to continuing the juniors on a long term basis and want to give the best we can to it, but we just need a bit of advice along the way.
Any help much appreciated.