Sessions
The bootcamp seven times a week, a gentle way in for beginners, Saturday mornings with the children, nine weeks to 5k, sessions for teams, and a warm hall for the darkest evenings. Each page has the price; your first session is free.
Seven a week at the bandstand
Fifty minutes in the park for up to twenty people with two trainers: a warm-up lap of the paths, a circuit of kettlebells, bands, sprints and bodyweight at three levels, a partner finisher and a stretch by the river. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:15am and 7pm, Saturday at 8am.
£7 a session, £60 for ten (use them within three months), or £39 a month unlimited with no contract.
Four weeks
For people who have not exercised in years and do not fancy walking up to a group of twenty: eight sessions over four weeks with other beginners, Monday and Wednesday at 7pm, learning every station slowly, then into the main sessions already knowing people. £35.
£35 for four weeks, eight sessions, starting on the first Monday of the month.
Saturday 9:30am
Forty-five minutes on Saturday morning for children and their grown-ups together: relay races, obstacle courses, partner challenges and games that are secretly a workout, run by Bethan after the 8am bootcamp. £12 for up to two adults and three children.
£12 a family each Saturday, up to two adults and three children aged 5 to 14.
Nine weeks
Nine weeks from walking to running 5k, with Osian: one coached run a week from the bandstand on Tuesday at 6:30pm, two more on your own from the plan, a group that waits for the slowest, and a 5k along the Taff Trail together at the end. £30.
£30 for nine weeks: a coached group run every Tuesday at 6:30pm and the plan for the other two.
£150 for up to twenty people
A bootcamp for a workplace, a club or a group of friends: fifty minutes for up to twenty people of any fitness, built round team challenges rather than individual times, at the bandstand or on your own grass. Lunchtimes, after work or a one-off away-day morning.
£150 a session for up to twenty people, at the park or anywhere within ten miles of Pontypridd.
November to February
From November to February the evening sessions on Monday and Wednesday move into a primary school hall in Trallwn, ten minutes' walk from the park: the same bootcamp on a wooden floor with benches and wall bars, warm, lit and dry. Included in membership and passes.
The same prices as the park: £7, ten for £60, or included in the £39 membership.
The weather
We train in it. The trees by the Bridge Street gates take the worst off, and after ten minutes of moving nobody minds. Only lightning, ice on the paths or a red warning cancels, by text an hour before, with the session credited; that is three or four days a year. From November to February the Monday and Wednesday evenings move into the school hall, because a dark wet field at 7pm is no fun for anyone.
Tell us which sessions suit and we reply within the hour between sessions with a time. Come ten minutes early, in trainers and layers, and whoever is leading will show you round and give you the easiest version of everything.
