Firstly congratulations for the gains you have made during the most recent plan. It’s inspiring stuff. With the operation to come in the Spring I haven’t made this much more challenging than before but have still increased the training load slightly from the previous plan.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT TRAINING LOAD. It would still be nice if you can see further improvement over the next few months.

The biggest challenge for me creating this plan is probably ensuring you don’t overdo it. I know you like to run Tuesdays at track, Thursdays with the bimble gang and parkrun. So then it was a case of how can I also get a Sunday run in there too.

The Sunday long run is the one that will be sacrificed from time to time but thee is still plenty of them in the plan. I’ve not put any half marathon sessions in, as I do with some of the other members of the team, for two reasons. Firstly they would make the training load too high and from your feedback there is no real specific time goal for a race like HHM, given the uncertainty surrounding the date of the operation.

For me the fact right now you are now running really well and enjoying it, is what makes me happy. So thank you. Keep doing what you are doing.