About us

Training Outside, Properly Organised

The first centre started as a running group of nine people meeting on a car park at seven in the morning. What turned it into a business was not the coaching but the boring infrastructure: somewhere to leave a bag, a hot shower afterwards, a coffee, and a coach who wrote a plan rather than simply running fast at the front. Everything we have built since is an extension of that idea — outdoor training with the practical support that usually only exists inside a gym.

The coast is the whole point. Firm sand at low tide is easier on joints than asphalt and harder work than a treadmill; soft sand builds strength that no machine reproduces; the sea provides cold-water recovery on demand; and the light at either end of the day does something for people that a strip-lit room never will. Sessions are timed against the tide table rather than a fixed calendar, so the running groups always get the firm band and the yoga deck is never underwater.

Our coaches hold recognised qualifications in athletics, strength training, yoga and lifesaving, and two physiotherapists work across the three sites. We publish the qualifications of everyone who takes a class. Beyond the timetable we run free community sessions for over-sixty-fives and for teenagers, look after two kilometres of dune fencing with the municipality, and clear the beach before the first session every Monday morning.