Nice! Training plan 6. That in it’s own right is a great achievement. I’m so pleased you are keen to stay on the Team as I believe you’ve yet to see the rewards in terms of race times that your training has warranted, and that has just been down to bad luck.

I’ve seen in training just how quick you can go and I’m excited about your potential to clock some new personal bests in the Autumn and Spring.

The recent calf niggle has been a bit of a setback but I feel like between us we have managed it well and you didn’t lose much fitness. If anything you are still close to your best.

The fact you did pick up that calf issue made me look a bit closer at the schedule and I’ve dropped the training points target a little for this plan. But it’s still higher than your first 3 plans and back at the same level as Training Plan 4, when you were running at your very best.

So I think this is a really good move and will hopefully bring out the best in your running again. In fact, the training points and average runs would be a fraction higher, but for your 2 week trip to Canada, so that’s worth remembering.

I think the strength and conditioning is something we want to keep doing twice a week. That is complemented by a long run, easy run & strides and interval session.

For me, I believe you often run your best at track on a Monday. So I’m keen to get as many Monday track sessions in this training plan as possible. 9 across 14 weeks at the moment as I believe this will really help you make those gains.

The long run slowly builds from 100 mins to 150 mins come the end of the plan. That will put you in a good position for the Pier to Pier and once we know the date of that race we can plan better for it.

I’ve added in a couple of additional races in the Winter 5K and Beckley 10K. If you don’t fancy these or wanted to do some additional races, let me know. We could always chuck in a fast parkrun as well if conditions are good and you feel like you are running well.

I’ve set the plan at 14 weeks because that allows for a week off and will then give us 16 weeks to really build a solid training block for HHM in 2026. If all goes well I would imagine Spring next year is when you’ll be running at your very best.

Let’s do this!!