I’ve created a training plan right through to HHM, which is 26 weeks. To be honest that’s too long. But what it gives scope for is a week off at some point, which I think is important, but you can take that when you please. It’s nice to know that’s in the bank.

I’ve put those key races in, I wasn’t sure whether it was 5k or 10k you were doing in the Rye Summer Series as it would appear on the website they are offering both on each date this time around. But we can always change the training load if need be.

In terms of progression, the training load has increased from 1069 to 1160, which is a decent jump and should suggest your fitness will improve too.

The average number of runs has increased slightly from 3.8 to 4.2, I think that is plenty to achieve your goals and anymore would lead to burn out.

To give you an idea, I feel like I’m running better now than ever before, as highlighted by my recent half marathon and 5k PBs. My training load is 1200, on 4 runs per week. I do add an extra set of strides in, so if you did that as well (twice a week), you’d have a slightly higher training load than me.

At this level the plan always looks stacked. But when you think about if from a session to session basis, Tuesdays are hard work, but not much volume, Wednesdays will always be easy. Sunday long runs will be at a leisurely pace, and you will only really be running two sessions per week. The other two runs will be easy pace.

With the increase in training load I think sticking to 1 S&C for now is wise. If you feel like you have the capacity to add in a second session then perhaps we can look at that. Maybe in the summer holidays when you have a bit more time.

I like this plan though. My only reservation is the length, but as I say, take a smart week off somewhere and we can pretty much split it into two smaller ones. I really like the amount of 10k sessions which should improve your lactate threshold and ultimately help bring those times down for both 5 and 10k.

Any questions just ask.