How to Obstacle-run (H2O)

How to Obstacle-run (H2O) group sessions at Merchant Tailors' School are mainly aimed at beginner to intermediate level but sessions can be tailored to all levels. It is mainly for people who would like to gain more confidence, knowledge and generally become fitter and better at doing obstacle course running. Individual and small group sessions at intermediate to advanced level are better suited at The Farm in Elstree. 

Fit For Anything’s Roel Jansen will provide the T's: Tips -Tricks - Technical advise - Time efficiency - Tailored coaching - Training!

Roel is also a UKOSF (UK Obstacle Sports Federation) qualified OCR (Obstacle Course Racing) Coach, see the UKOSF for more details Roel Jansen - British Obstacle Sports.

During Fit For Anything's obstacle-run sessions you can expect an approach suited to the needs, requirements and ability of the individual participants. The H2O sessions can be combined with an improve running performance session so running drills can be incorporated within obstacle training, even small and timed race scenario’s can be included within a session. Fit For Anything will pass on their own advanced obstacle course race (o.c.r.) experience and provide relevant training, knowledge and guidance. 

Information and questions answered from start to finish and after care for an o.c.r. event such as:

a) How do you best prepare your body physically and also mentally for an event?
b) What are your individual shortcomings and how, what and/or when do you train to overcome them?
c) General technical advice on how to conquer obstacles whilst using minimal energy.
d) Nutritional advice.
e) Which o.c.r. event is best suited to you and what time of year?
f) What to wear: Neoprene material or not? Shoes with great grip or not? Gloves or not? Hat?

Sessions, main venues:

Merchant Taylors' School - NORTHWOOD

These sessions are held in the private grounds of Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood where Fit For Anything's Improving Your Running Performance sessions take place. Group sessions are usually held twice a month on Saturday morning from 8-9am. On site there are 5-6 obstacles, there is an athletic track and there is a lake too for the hard core... 

the farm - ELSTREE (near borehamwood)

Sessions held by Roel from Fit For Anything at The Farm, Elstree are mainly focussed on obstacle course training but Boot Camp sessions can be hosted here too by Roel as this venue is mainly set up for outdoor Boot Camp training. This venue has some great challenging obstacles on site such as 8 meter rope climbs, rings, rigs, monkey-bars, truck tires and so on. Please contact Roel for further details. Small group and individual sessions currently run on Tuesdays 1.30-2.30pm and Sundays 3-4pm. 

Please see our contact and locations or Improving Your Running Performance for more details.

Obstacle-running is one of Roel's passions

Roel has an active, total body endurance presence and past including having served in the Royal Dutch Green Berets. He revived his passion for obstacle course racing (o.c.r.) when he first knew about o.c.r. and did a Tough Mudder event in 2014. He has been participating in o.c.r. events frequently ever since and realised in 2016 there are age group competitions within this total body sport. He started to compete within his age group in 2016, subsequently qualified for the international short Ninja style 3km and the standard classic 15km distance events and participated in the OCR European Championships (o.c.r. EC) 2017 (The Netherlands), qualified for 2018 (Denmark), competed in 2019 (Poland), qualified for 2020, and 2021 but it didn’t take place due to the Coronavirus and competed in 2022 (Italy). He also qualified for and participated in the same distance events at the OCR World Championships (o.c.r. WC) 2017 (Canada), 2018 (United Kingdom) and 2019 (United Kingdom) in which he completed all obstacles which meant he kept his wristband. This is something that, on average, less than half the participants within his category manage to do.

His best performance so far came in the classic 15km distance event at the o.c.r. WC 2019 in which he came 15th out of 74 participants within his age category, just under 25% within his category managed to finish this event with wristband intact. Unfortunately, despite having qualified for both the o.c.r. WC and the o.c.r. EC both events had been cancelled for 2020 due to the coronavirus, the EC for 2021 had also been cancelled and the WC for 2021 was in USA which didn’t allow anyone from Europe to travel to. Roel qualified and competed in the EC for 2022 and finished within the top half of the standard 15km event.

To find out how Group Training and/or Personal Training works please see the Way of Working (WoW) page and the section on Initial Consultation for further details. For more information, call me on 07786 652095 or email me at rj@fitforanything.net.