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I’ve obviously tried to be consistent in maintaining Tuesday track sessions and Thursday evening bimbles. I’ve also included as many parkruns as possible.

To run a good half marathon the key will be the long run sessions done at pace. There’s 4 in the plan and what I’ve done is tie them in with both Alice and Lindsey. So each week you see a session like 3-2-1 miles or 6 x Mile On/Off, Lindsey or Alice will have the same session.

You don’t have to do these sessions with them, but the idea being you can support each other on the Sunday long runs as they are much more fun than doing it solo.

There are a lot of Sunday’s in your plan that are less than 2 hours. This is to keep the training load at a consistent level. 2 hour runs each weekend, especially after a quick parkrun would simply lead to an injury.

I really like the balance and structure of this schedule, your training load has increased slightly from the previous plan so that suggests there are still improvements to be made. And we’ve gone from an average of 3.5 runs per week to 3.65 runs per week.

There is of course always the possibility of making the S&C slightly more challenging but I like your consistency with those and I don’t want to risk jeopardising that.