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  • 4-10 May 2026

3 rest days. Wow I’m feeling generous. Although on a serious note it’s important we do drop back a little this week, with the Rye 10 next Sunday and then the big one. Now is not the time to be pushing too hard, plenty of time for that post GUC. If you want to add an extra run we could divide the hills into 2 x 60 min run, but then the schedule would be a little boring, but equally we want this week to be light. So I would be happy if you wanted to do that. Any issues shout. Keep up the great work Joe.

172 Points Achieved

MONDAY

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12pts | Joe’s S&C

12 POINTS

Crammed a bit more into 1 session here but now you’ve got a lot of good stuff in there. Hopefully it’s ok?

14pts | 30 Mins Stair Climber

14 POINTS

A great form of cross trainer for us runners. Take a few minutes to warm up at find your stride but then push hard. You can real bang for your buck with just 30 mins on the stair climber. I hit around level 10 when doing these but find the right speed for you that you can maintain, but you find this tough.

26 Points
35 mins & 200 floors on the magic steps…jeez, I was a sweaty mess😂. Just missed off a couple of the upper body exercises – lat pull downs and planks. Planks I’ll do at home later in the week
200 floors, yikes. The only thing I would say is don’t let targets effect the main purpose of the session which is to build aerobic fitness and strength. So the minute I go into threshold (140+) I drop the level. Why? Because our body produces more mitochondria at a lower intensity. I imagine mitochondria as like the little batteries you put in watches. The more of them we have the longer we can go for. But, once you go over that threshold that production drops. So theoretically, you could have gained less here by working harder. Plus if we keep the level and intensity down we recover quicker too. So my advice going forward would be ignore the number of flights and focus specifically on heart rate, adjusting the level of the stairs to keep it below 140. Then if you have time, rather than do 30 mins, you can do 40, 50 even 60. That leads to more pts, more mitochondria. All that said great way to start the week.

TUESDAY

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2pts | Stretches

2 POINTS

A stretching routine you can do daily to help with your flexibility. 30 seconds for each stretch is plenty.

36pts | Continuous Hills

36 POINTS

10 Mins WU @ Easy Pace (RPE: 3)
40 Mins @ HM-Marathon Effort (RPE: 6)
10 Mins @ Easy Pace (RPE: 3)

Find a hilly route and push the pace a little. The uphills will naturally make the RPE increase. Try to attack the downhills as well, then ease off a touch on the flat. This is a session though so effort should be quite high during the 40 mins on.

Continuous hills is always an absolute bastard of a session, but very happy with how I ran that, although I ran out of hills, so did just 35 mins. Very tough but felt strong, physically and mentally. That’s the end of a full on five days of training, so I’m very grateful for the two rest days now. Did some stretches Wednesday morning, which were very much needed, so I’m gonna try to do some more at work.
Great work Joe. Yeah tough little stretch there but nice to have these 2 days off to recover. That session always goes down well as a challenge. Much like doing a hilly 10k race. So decent effort, especially given the lack of hills in Bexhill 😂

WEDNESDAY

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Rest Day

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“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”

thursday

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Rest Day

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“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”

FRIDAY

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2pts | Stretches

2 POINTS

A stretching routine you can do daily to help with your flexibility. 30 seconds for each stretch is plenty.

15pts | 50 Mins Run

15 POINTS

It’s important to keep the easy runs easy. Focus on good running form and low heart rate.

17 Points
50 mins run completed at a nice gentle pace, with 40% in HR zone one. What are the main differences between zone one and two, in terms of advantages and disadvantages??
You will get more benefit in Zone 2 to be honest. But there will be certain days, if you’re tired or coming off a tough session, or a big weekend ahead where a recover run, zone 1 is better, purely because you won’t take so much out of yourself.

SATURDAY

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36pts | 120 Mins Run

36 POINTS

Long runs are key. Fuel and hydrate well & join a group if you can.

36 Points
HR was all over the place, but I think lack of sleep may have played a part towards that. A lovely loop around Bexhill. I love running up some of the hills that I used to run up, when I was lot less fitter, and feeling how easy they are now compared to a few years ago. Love seeing that improvement! I’m currently listening to Damian Hall’s new book – Run Forever – it’s great to hear all of the health benefits of running and how us running are so much less likely too suffer heart attacks, strokes and be susceptible to some forms of cancer. There’s so many benefits of running!
It’s cool isn’t it and good to reflect on times when you weren’t so fit, just to have that gratitude. I’ve not read any of his books, will have to check them out, but it’s good to hear, we focus a bit too much on times and splits when really there are far more important benefits from being a runner. Solid start to the weekend, great to see the sun shining. Another really strong result for the team as well with Sam bagging himself a 50k PB and a 12th place finish.

SUNDAY

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54pts | 180 Mins Run

54 POINTS

Time to make sure your fuelling and hydration is on point. 30-60g of carbs per hour. The longer the run goes on the tougher it will get.

58 Points
That was so much better than yesterday! Average HR of 135, with 82% in zone 2. It felt so good that I added on an additional 15 mins. Really happy with the condition I’m in, given that the big one is less than 2 weeks away now.
Awesome. Love the fact you chucked on some bonus mins too. What a weekend. Feels like you’re in a great place right now, not just with the running, but with life in general, which makes me happy. Keep being a legend. 172pts for the week is epic

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