Choose Day👇

Training plans are really like a puzzle, knowing where to put the sessions in order to ensure we get the best out of them, but also to incorporate enough rest. We need to respect the fact you did a half marathon on the Sunday and drop back the target this week, it might be you need even more rest which I’d be happy for you to take in truth. But we still want to bank some decent mileage, hence the long run, and doing that on tired (ish) legs is never a bad thing in a marathon block, so long as the foot is ok. Any problems just let me know.

Coach Simon🍊

110 POINTS TARGET

117 Points

MONDAY

rest-day

Rest Day

0 POINTS

TUESDAY

bonfire

50 Mins Run

15 POINTS

The hills were much hillier than usual today
A hard race can take as much as a week to recover, so I wouldn’t worry too much about this feeling tougher. Good to get the legs ticking over again. Well done Lucy.

Coach Simon 🍊
15 Points

WEDNESDAY

out-of-the-blue

3 x 10 Mins @ HM Pace

26 POINTS

Skipped the CD because foot was hurting (treadmill ☠️)
Bother. Perhaps the treadmill is to be avoided in that case. Or could be the after effects of Sunday’s race? But sensible to stop when it started hurting. Great work on the session by the way.

Coach Simon 🍊
23 Points

THURSDAY

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circuits

Circuits

10 POINTS

This week is a grindddddd 🫠
I wouldn’t say this to you but it’s what I say to myself in this situation as I’ve been here plenty of times “It’s marathon training, it was never going to be easy, what did you expect you idiot, stop moaning and get on with it”. Again that’s what I tell myself, I would never say that to one of my runners 😉😂 Keep going and you’ll have easier weeks ahead, especially as the taper isn’t that far away now.

Coach Simon 🍊
15 Points

FRIDAY

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su-sparkes

140 Mins Run

42 POINTS

So I woke up this morning and thought “Brighton is on the sea! People keep saying it might be windy! I need to practice running in the wind!” So off I went to Hastings to do this week’s long run along the sea front and you know what? It was really fkn windy. Absolutely terrible use of free will. So I was very glad that you gave yourself that pep talk about marathon training being hard because I needed to hear it – lucky I overheard isn’t it? 🤔
😂😂😂 Let me make it clear that I’m laughing at your feedback, not at you. “Absolutely terrible use of free will” is my favourite sentence of the week. You weren’t the only, Chris F who you may not have met yet is training for Brighton and he had 5 x 5 km at MP. He was cruising downwind and then he turned round and his splits looked like he been hit by a car. He gave up soon after (he hadn’t been hit by a car, just wanted to clarify that point). So you weren’t the only one out there regretting their life choices today. Well done on ticking off the mins and thank you for making me laugh.

Coach Simon 🍊
42 Points

SATURDAY

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gym-workout

Lucy's S&C

12 POINTS

Made it through the week wahooooo! Good to practice pushing through when tired, I can do hard things blah blah now time to rest 😴😴😴
If the whole block was easy and we felt strong we’d just end blowing up on race day at mile 20. So these weeks are important. Not sure if I have miscalculated your pts, but currently got 107/110. Let me know if I got it wrong.

Coach Simon 🍊
12 Points

SUNDAY

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rest-day

Rest Day

0 POINTS

WHOOPS I did a little easy 35 min run in the sunshine but it felt good and I was a little bit short on points this week anyway so I’m probably still in the gold star club right? Right Simon?? Right???
😂 Had you run for much longer you may have missed out. Also the fact it was a recovery week and the pts were lower, it’s ok. I don’t want to be seen as holding you back when you feel like running, so it’s fine. It’s when people on the team keep pushing when they really need rest that it bothers me. I’ve got one guy on the team who I can’t hold back right now. Despite just picking up a hamstring injury he smashed out 210pts last week (120%), now he annoyed me. But then I tell myself, how much extra would he have done without me nagging him every day. So hopefully I’m still helping him, even if he doesn’t listen.

Coach Simon 🍊
10 Points