It’s a big plan in that it takes us right up to the two main half marathons but the schedule itself is almost split into two.

We begin with a real focus on speed, with some threshold work too. Maintaining the endurance with the weekly long run.

Then around week 8 we start to focus on half marathon pace and the training becomes more specific for Nottingham and Peterborough.

The strength work I am tweaking slightly. But let me know how that goes, feedback is crucial and making sure you get the best out of the time you invest is key. The pts have dropped slightly for S&C but you might actually find the sessions are harder (this is just me tweaking my model).

The average pts for this plan is the same as the first one, but given you won’t be doing the same mileage, the quality is there, and I feel that should lead to improvements. It also gives you that freedom going forward to potentially more pts to the training going into the autumn months, if you wanted to.

I’ve added in a stretching routine which is designed to address to low flexibility score. Lots of the team are now doing this session, it only takes 10-15 mins and they are finding it very useful.

Alongside the strength work we have the spin class, 2 weekly session and easy run and a long run. All the ingredients of a good plan are in there, with the key being the consistently targets, week in week out. Something you nailed first time around.

If you hit those targets in those speed sessions I think you’ll make some big gains. If training solo with those a metronome is something which I find is game changing in my own training and I use it weekly to ensure I hit my paces.

Delighted you have continued as it’s so nice to work with runners who follow the plan and I think if we can getter another 1 or 2 blocks like this, then as I’ve seen with other runners who have stuck with me, and been patient, they have seen some real improvements. Let’s do this.