TONIGHT'S track and field taster at Horsfall Stadium offers anyone from eight years old the chance to try out seven different disciplines.

The session starts at 6.30 with a warm-up by coaches from Bradford Airedale Athletics Club.

Participants can try out, in turn, four jumping and throwing events, interspersed by two sprints – 100 and 200 metres – and, like Jessica Ennis-Hill at the end of the heptathlon, the two-lap 800m.

To round off what should be a fun evening, everyone will be grouped into ad hoc teams for a mixed relay at 8.30.

Bradford Airedale offer weekly coached sessions at Horsfall (Cemetery Road, near Odsal) on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.30.

Different sub-groups cater for youngsters from eight years up, for 14 to 25 year-olds in a Club 1425, plus adult road and trail runners, who typically go off for runs in the nearby Judy Woods.

Club 1425 offers additional daytime sessions at Bradford College and University.

The group comprises a good number of university students and athletes from across Bradford city schools.

Next week, the enhanced training sessions for adult endurance runners resume.

The Monday sessions take place at Bradford Grammar School's gym and focus on strength and conditioning work, developing runners' balance and strength, to make their style more efficient.

These sessions, like the Club 1425 ones, are coached by former Czech sprint champion Ilona Melounova.

Wednesday sessions at the UAK track (Greenhead Road, Keighley) feature intervals devised for each runner by Brian Scobie, coach of several Olympic marathon stars.

The enhanced training sessions, whose group comprises 30 runners – who are not exclusively members of clubs – are aimed at serious athletes.

Leon Wilder, of Idle AC, said: "I knocked five minutes off my marathon time and I'm sure the track sessions had a direct influence on that. I did the London marathon in 2hr 55min. My thanks to Brian."

Mel Akeroyd, of Saltaire Striders, encouraged others to join, saying: "I knocked 1min 25 sec off my parkrun time.

"Hopefully more less confident and less experienced runners will sign up for this block. I've gained a lot from these sessions."