Number 7? How cool is this. I think my plans are getting better and a switch to Training Load rather than mileage has made the week to week training more consistent and ensures the plans are progressive.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT TRAINING LOAD. So your average weekly training load for this plan is 963!!

Imagine a graph. You have two horizontal lines. A blue line represents your current fitness level. Just above that line is the Training Load line. If you hit your weekly training load then your fitness should slowly improve.

If your training load for a week is much higher than your current fitness level, then the risk of injury is significantly higher. So we want those two lines to be close together and gradually increase over time (I need to draw a graph).

Anyhow I’ve put this because if you change a run or miss a run I can then react by altering the upcoming training. For example, one of my runners went out and ran a parkrun PB this morning (fast parkrun = training load of 260) when she should have been doing an easy parkrun (90 load). So I quickly changed her Sunday session to make sure she didn’t surpass her weekly load by too much (and risk getting injured).

I’m hoping this approach going forward will deliver better results and reduce the risk of injury.

Enough waffling, how does that relate to you. Well for the most part it means 3 runs per week and 2 S&C. Occasionally I’ve had to include a 4th run to make sure we reach that training load target, but the average is 3.29 runs per week.

If I ever set a session you really just don’t fancy, then let me know. I can delve into my session library and find an alternative which has the same training load.

That said we want to make sure we are varying the pace with speed work and half marathon sessions. You don’t want a plan where the training load consists purely of easy running.

I’ve updated your ratings as well. They are not that important but if you feel any of the scores are incorrect just let me know.