So just a 12 week block to set yourself up nicely for Chester. To be honest not a great deal is going to change. I’ve made the training slightly progressive with the weekly load averaging 1050 now, when it was 1010 before.

But that’s a natural step up given we are now going to be laying down the foundations for bigger mileage.

Average weekly runs have increased from 3.43 to 3.5. Again not much difference. At the moment there isn’t any parkruns in there, but we can easily change that on a week to week basis. If there’s a week the weather looks grand or you want to tour, just let me know and we can switch an intervals for parkrun.

I think only twice do you run on consecutive days and they are both easy runs, so that rest/recovery approach which has worked so well in the recent plan will be implemented here.

If you’re happy with the current S&C plan then stick with it. There is a scope to try a few new exercises if you wanted, but my reply to that would be, why risk it? We’d both be gutted if you did injure yourself trying something new, especially all the time you are making progress. The time to change it up would be once you feel like you’ve reached your peak with the running.

Not much else to add. What we are doing is clearly working. More of the same, just with a little bit of progression thrown in.

I’ve put a 5 miler PB as the goal, purely because the race is at the end of the plan. The training itself doesn’t centre around that but it would be a nice bonus.