Just a heads up your 4 races all fall on the wrong shift pattern 🙄 in terms of the planning. Might just be worth double checking that, but creates an issue with the Monday track sessions, the day after a race, you’d end up with no track session for 8 weeks.

What I’ve done on those weeks is Tuesday efforts, Wednesday easy (leading HR), Friday and Sunday. It’s not ideal but looks the best option. We can always tweak it when the time comes. The 4 races in 7 weeks is also quite heavy, but this plan concludes after the Hove Prom 10k, then we can turn our focus to Paddock Wood with 4 months of solid training to hopefully really power on and get a half marathon PB there.

If all is well come the start of November we can look to potentially add some more mileage with a proper base training phase (easy running), before adding in more specific half marathon sessions after Christmas. Anyhow that’s a conversation for another day.

Right now it’s about being a smart and not pushing too hard in the interval sessions, especially the first 3-4 weeks. Just take it steady and enjoy being part of them again. I really think looking ahead to March as the best opportunity to be back running your best, takes a bit of pressure off having to smash out every session you do right now. Lots of time to achieve that over the winter. That’s not to say you can’t still run at a high level, it’s just times might be a little slower than they were in the Spring.

If you feel any of the target paces need adjusting for the sessions let me know. Currently they are based on a 5K time of 18:45.