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For several years FÍF has been working to bring the leading Danish coach Thomas Nolan Hansen to the Faroe Islands to run a coaching course. This has now become a reality, and over the long weekend at the turn of the month, Thomas is coming to the Faroe Islands, where he will hold two different coaching courses.
On Friday 1 May, Great Prayer Day, there will be a recreational running coaching course. This course is similar to, and builds on, the courses we held with David Møller a year and a half ago. The course is for everyone with an interest in recreational running, and is especially aimed at those who take responsibility for a group. Thomas Nolan will show how you can make daily training sessions more fun and varied, and also more effective. The final programme for the course will follow later, but it will run from 10:00 to 17:00.
On Saturday 2 May there will be a coaching course in middle- and long-distance running, with particular focus on middle-distance running. On this day Thomas Nolan will also lead a training session with our best middle-distance runners aged 13 and up. The target group is running coaches and, of course, those with an interest in middle-distance running.
The coaching courses are free of charge, with food and everything else included. Registration will be published, and we naturally hope to see as many people as possible at the courses.
The agreement with Thomas Nolan was reached in connection with the annual general meeting of Dansk Atletikforbund, where FÍF had two representatives.
Thomas Nolan has been one of the leading Danish coaches since the turn of the millennium. He was a very strong runner himself. For example, he has run 3:57 for 1,500 and 14:56 for 5,000 m! Thomas holds a cand.scient. degree in sport science from the University of Copenhagen.
Among the top names he has coached are Robert Kiplagat Andersen, Annemette Jensen, Dennis Jensen, Jesper Faurschou and Maria Sig Møller. He is currently working with Andreas Bueno, who represented Denmark at the European Indoor Championships in Prague last month.
Two former Faroese Island Games runners have also been under Nolan’s expert guidance. Both Evald við Garð and Bogi Lenvig had him as their coach during their best years at Sparta.
Thomas is permanently employed by Dansk Atletikforbund, where he heads the major initiative Motion Danmark, a partnership between DAF and DGI. The partnership aims to get 100,000 more Danes running, and to bring 50,000 more runners into Danish running clubs as members.
