So pleased you want to continue as I feel like you’ve ran some strong half marathons in March. But I believe you have the potential to be much quicker still. To get quicker and stronger we just need to earn more points. The weekly target now is 120.

In the last plan you only managed 95 as missed quite a few runs. So my advice would be to do your easy runs with Hastings Runners as often as possible. Wednesday evenings at Horntye and then Steve’s run on a Friday. Both of those you could run and from home, now it’s light in the evenings. Then you have my Tuesday evening group and a Sunday long run.

If you do those most weeks, alongside some gym work you are going to be really fast. So it’s exciting.

I’ve used your old gym routines as I know you prefer them. But as you have 3 workouts but can only get to the gym twice, I’ve combined the legs with the other workouts. Ideally we would like to do those leg exercises twice per week, and the back and upper body once per week. So each time you go to the gym do the legs, and one of the other two workouts. If limited for time, my advice would be reduce the number of back and upper body exercises as they have less benefit for your running.

I’ve put all the races in with the Pier to Pier being the final race in this 16 week plan. That’s why we want to do some long runs and half marathon paced sessions at the weekend, so you can run a quick time in the Pier to Pier.

Any questions just ask. But remember, the more points you earn, the fitter you will be. The hardest working runner on my team averages 178 training pts per week. You’ve been getting 95. So it just shows how much room there is to improve if you accumulate more pts.

Keep up the great work Patrick.