I like your ratings, I think they are a good indicator that you are running really well right now, but equally still have room for improvement. I love this plan as well. It takes us right up to Rye Ancient Trails. I think hopefully what you will enjoy about this is there is a focus on building your endurance. So lots of relatively comfortable runs. And it’s the perfect time to adopt that approach now the weather is going to improve and we have the lighter evenings. We will still keep the speed work in there and I’ve tried to include parkrun every pacers day.

I’ve put a number of races into the plan too, including some of the Hastings Runners events, but also a few trail events which I have really enjoyed over the past few years. They are the Weald Challenge (would need an early entry and it does sell out, just over half marathon distance), the Amble (a HR event, this is brilliant, one of my favourite days of the year) and the Pier to Pier HR event, perfect to push up the distance.

In the last plan your training points target was 94 and we averaged around the 90 mark which is excellent. We get fitter by progressive overload (doing more). So my system is simply, we accumulate more training points. So in this plan the target goes up to 103. Given the goal has gone from a half marathon to 30k, it’s normal for it to jump up 10 points.

The S&C will get progressively more challenging, but only ever so slightly, and the long runs will increase in distance. As with any plan it’s flexible to change as we progress, and we can always add, swap or remove races to the calendar.

Thanks for your continued support and I’m excited to see how you progress over the summer months. I’m also excited for you as there are some fantastic events listed here, which if you enjoy them as much as I have done, I know you’re in for an excellent 6 months of running.