You’ve definitely achieved quite a bit already this year, especially given your busy job and family life. That’s where it’s important to remember how impressive it is, what you are doing with your fitness and not compare yourself to those who have way more free time to you.

Hastings Half is the end game here. So with that in mind most Sundays will be dedicated to a long run, or towards the end of the plan, a half marathon session.

The first 5 weeks we’ve got 2 park runs and the handicap 5k, so most sessions will be speed based.

Then attention turns to the Barry Richards and Battle, with plenty of 10k sessions and hill work, which itself is good training for HHM.

So this plan has a really nice progression about it from the early speed sessions to more focus on hills and half marathon pace as we close in on October.

Most weeks will have 5 runs, 2 of which will be sessions, the other 3 easy runs. If we can get a HYROX session in there too, then brilliant. As for other S&C, to be honest, at your age, I think we can get away without it for now. There are only so many hours in the day.

It’s always going to look hectic on the dashboard with 6 session (including HYROX) per week, but I think if it’s possible it’s important for you to find that time for yourself and your fitness to have a balanced lifestyle.

Any questions just ask. But let’s keep working hard and stay consistent, and hopefully you can see further improvement across the summer.

28th June I’ve pencilled in parkrun as your H2H challenge with Philippa. Let me know if that’s a problem.