As with any plan I’ve worked backwards from the goal race. That being the Battle 10K. I think 16 weeks is plenty to build for that, so we can have a small interim period where the training load drops and we can look to increase the S&C a little. There’s still plenty of speed work in there though and we have the Spring 5K.

The 16 week Battle plan has a training load of 1068 (should really have tried harder to get that down a few pts), which is 50 pts more than HHM, so I have increased the load a little, but we can always adjust it if it feels too much, and the majority of that comes towards the end of the plan.

The big difference for you is you’ll be training in daylight again. 10k sessions and hill reps are prominent and they get more challenging as race day approaches.

But there will only ever be a maximum of 2 hard sessions per week. I’ve kept the long runs in there for Saturday’s as I get the impression you enjoy them. We don’t really need to go beyond 2 hours with those in this plan.

I have added some races as I know you were keen to do more. This is completely flexible, it’s entirely up to you which races you do so just see these as suggestions.

I’ve also included a few quick parkruns in there and I hope all these will have you race sharp come Battle.

I like this plan, I like the new format I’ve introduced and the addition of the strength work from last year should make a big difference. Any questions just ask. Any races you want me to remove or add, let me know.

But I see no reason why you can’t get back under the 40 minute mark here if the training goes well.