Excited by this plan. It’s pretty epic. I’ve made a switch up from kms to training load when creating my plans. In simple terms every session in my library has a training load score which is based on (Time or Distance) x RPE.

I think it’s easy to look at someone’s weekly mileage and assume they are training super hard. But 120km made up nearly all easy running is probably going to have a lower training load than a 90km week with quality sessions in there.

At the start of the plan we have a real emphasis on speed, with some quality sessions and threshold work. As the plan progresses so does the training load of both the intervals and the tempo sessions.

As we progress into the 2nd half of the plan there will a switch in focus to half marathon sessions, to take that speed into longer reps.

Most weeks there will be 5 runs, but occasionally when you’ve got some big sessions that will drop to 4 to ensure the training load doesn’t go too high.

I like this. A lot. If this goes well then you’ll return back to Hastings in great shape to have a real crack at the Hastings Half Marathon.

Let’s do this!!!

Oh and I’ve updated the ratings but feel free to change them if you feel my assessment is slightly out for any of the attributes.