Welcome to the Team. I couldn’t think of a more positive person that I would like to work with, so I am very excited.
Well done on your recent training by the way. You’ve been doing some good stuff in the past month or so and it’s a case of building on that as we go forward.
London Marathon? How incredible is that. Very jealous, but equally very excited for you. It’s 38 weeks away. So we have a lot of time and we don’t really want to be diving into marathon training straight away.
So I’ve split it into 2 sections. Training Plan 1 which is 17 weeks and will focus on slowly building your endurance, ensuring you are consistent with your training and getting some speed work in there too.
During this block we don’t need to push too hard. If you find the training is too easy, just say and I can always add to it slightly. But the best results come from consistency over a sustained period of time. Week in week out, ticking off the runs.
We don’t need to push ourselves to the limit and run loads of miles every week. If we do that we’ll get injured.
With your flexibility at work you can always change up the days you run and that can be on a week to week basis. The sessions currently in the plan can always be changed. Especially if you head out for a solo effort session, let me know and I can give you something I think is best suited to you in that given week.
If at any point you want to do more races, let me know. I really like the idea of using races as part of training and at the moment the only 2 I’ve pencilled in are Battle 10K and Hastings Half.
I’ve put some basic strength work in there that you can do from home. I like stretching, I don’t think you can ever overdo things and the dynamic runner app is a very good one to follow. I stretch for 10-15 minutes a day just to keep the injuries at bay.
If you have any questions for me at this stage just ask. There are some things which might be new to you. Training Points, RPE, those kind of terms, but I can explain as we go how they work.
Let’s do this. Watch out London!!!
