Tricky one for me. I obviously want to keep you running well, because you are running well, but obviously we need to be careful of the knee and other issues.

800 feels like the right level in terms of training load. It’s less than before but still enough to keep you in good shape.

I have put some long runs in there with the Ultra in mind, let’s just see how things unfold. Sue W and the others will have the same timed long runs on those weeks.

I wanted to focus on the bike and swimming as they will be key going forward and they ensure we can hit the training load without needing to push too hard with the running.

I’m wary there is a lack of parkruns in there at the moment, but that’s something we can tweak on a weekly basis. It will just mean something else has to give, whether it’s the Thursday evening run, or efforts that week.

Only running 3 times a week does mean making those choices but every week can be different.

It’s very likely this plan is going to change a lot. The best thing we can do is just monitor how things go, what works, what doesn’t. If the training is too high.

To be honest the best thing we can discover is what training load we can sustain, whilst keeping ourselves injury free and enjoying the training. Once we know that, we can then build around it.

So at first it might be a case of just learning what is possible. For example, week 1, because of track and the Rye 10 you have a training load of 905 (I’ve actually adjusted Rye from 600 – 400 for you as you’ll be walking some of the hills). But come the end of the week we can least ask that question, was that too much? I hope that makes sense.

It’s just finding that right balance and once we do, hopefully you can really enjoy your running and training again.

I thought you’d quite like the photo of Jamie. He looks so young in that picture. Yet he’s already a marathon runner 💪