Loving your commitment to your training. Feels like you’re working hard, seeing that progression, but also doing it an achievable and hopefully enjoyable manner.

The new plan follows a similar pattern. We do increase the target slightly, from 102 points to 112 points per week. It might sound like a lot, but in essence it’s 30 mins more of running, and most of that comes from the Sunday sessions, where the time will increase a touch, but we’ll also smash out some big half marathon sessions.

Your average number of runs per week increases from 3.44 to 3.69 per week. This is where I feel my approach works really well now. In the past to help someone progress I would add in an extra run per week, so from 3-4, or 4-5, but now in hindsight and with this new model, that was always too much.

So the pattern will have a familiar feel to it. ASPT on a Monday, Tuesday evening efforts, Bimble on the Thursdays, parkrun easy on the Saturday and the long run Sunday.

January and February are often the hardest months from a training perspective as the weather turns and gets colder. But they are also the most important if we are to get ourselves into peak shape for the HHM.

The secret to training in January & February? Better gear choices! Gloves, beanies, buffs, waterproof jacket when needed. If you wrap up properly, unless you get soaked through, you shouldn’t really ever get cold on a run.

Some of the half marathon sessions might be a little tricky to combine with the Sunday long run. Personally some of them I would consider doing before parkrun and then giving yourself an easy Sunday. But I’ll leave that up to you.

Across the 13 week plan there are only 4 Sunday half marathon sessions, so it’s not that often and 2 of those come in the first 3 weeks of the plan.

I’m confident we are at the right level here and hopefully you can continue to enjoy your running and see further improvements. Any questions just ask. But keep up the great work.