Training plan 10. How brilliant is that? Thank you so much for your continued support. To think you’ve missed almost no time during that spell (touch wood). It shows how consistent you have been achieving so much in that time. I’m very proud to be your coach.

Onto this 10th plan. Since we have teamed up I’ve evolved as a coach and I believe my methods continue to improve. I’ve tweaked them again so that we work at different levels during the plan. We can’t expect to be at our best all year round. So the idea is we train a little harder for a small 8 week window prior to the race season.

This should mean the majority of the team will peak just in time for those big races in March and April, like Paddock Wood, Hastings Half and the the marathons.

As well as those races you mentioned I have added Beckley 10K and the Winter 5K. So let me know if you can’t make either of those or just don’t fancy running them.

We don’t really need to change much up. 2 gym sessions per week. 1 intervals. 60 mins & strides at Horntye. Then a long run, race or half marathon session at the weekend.

In terms of the intervals it doesn’t matter too much whether it’s track on a Monday evening or Tuesday morning or the team session later in the evening. All 3 sessions will have the same training points now, they might vary slightly but they’ve have the same impact on our training. So you can mix it up from time to time if you prefer. We just need to avoid doing a long run on the Sunday and track on the Monday as that could lead to problems.

In terms of the training points, we are working at exactly the same level that we have been in recent plans. I don’t feel like we need to push any harder and I’m optimistic that this new approach will actually help us all peak at the right time, so there’s no reason why you couldn’t still challenge a new PB at Paddock Wood for example.

But for me the most important thing is that you stay injury free, continue to enjoy your running and help others in the process.

Let’s keep the run going and make training plan 10 as successful as all the others.