Training Plan number 6? How good is this and you should be really pleased with your consistency. Great to be at a stage where you can do 2 hours of running if you so choose. That’s a big step from where we initially started.

Just keep being consistent. I know your not chasing PBs, but it’s important to have something to motivate you to get out there and run, especially when the weather turns and it’s dark and cold outside.

Hopefully having me to be accountable to helps to some degree, but maintaining if not improving on your fitness should definitely be a good reason to keep ticking off the sessions.

I’ve not changed much. A case of more of the same. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So efforts once a week, your 60 minutes easy with strides, which can be done solo, Wednesday with the club or Thursday with the Bimblers. Then a weekend long run of varying difficulty.

I have added 2 races onto the plan, but entirely up to you if you want to do them. It just helps me to create the training schedule when there are events to work towards. Plus based on your feedback from Battle I think you’d enjoy the challenge that those two races present.

They are both relatively low key, on nice routes with some hills thrown in.

The weeks that you do your PT training, there is no need to do the sessions I set. Those S&C sessions, if they are too easy, just add some weight to the exercises to add to the difficulty. Bish. Bash. Bosh.

Great to still have you on the team, love your sense of humour and it’s pleasure working with you. Nice to know you’re getting good value for money as well. If you’re enjoying your running, staying healthy, then Coach is happy (I hate talking about myself in third person, but it seems to work sometimes, doesn’t it?).

I’ve updated the ratings above but feel free to tweak them if you believe they are not quite correct. Let’s keep the hard work up and make training plan 6 another success. You got this.