The 8 week to go mark is an important point in your training, especially if you already have a good couple of months or so under your belt. When you set out on your RHM journey you had a target in mind as to what you wanted to achieve.

Whether it was to smash your previous personal best or just get round the course because you've never run that far in your life before, you had a goal that you structured your training around.

Now there are just 8 weeks to go, it's time to take a look at how you… Continue

It's an important day today - yes it's only 4 days to Christmas and yes it's the last day for First Class Post, but much more importantly than that it's exactly 3 calendar months until you'll be lining up at the Reading Half Marathon.

Between now and then there's the small matter of putting in the training, come rain or shine. Or, for that matter, come sleet or snow.

Keeping your training going when it's cold, dark, wet and miserable outside is a significant challenge but not an insurmountable… Continue

There are still 15 weeks to the RHM, but you should already have a very clear idea in your mind of what your goals are for the run.

Have you started your training plan with the aim of just “getting round” the course? Have you run it before and would like to go a little quicker this time round? Or do you not have a clue about how quick you want to do it in and are just going to “see what happens”?!

If you fall into one of the above groups then you are not alone as I’d estimate that more than tw… Continue

On Friday last week I spent 8 hours on Skype with Nick Anderson from Full Potential, developing a series of 5 marathon training programs for the Spring.

Apart from feeling as though I'd actually run a marathon by the end of it, the session really reinforced many of the principles I have used for many years when it comes to program design.

There are 17 weeks to go to the RHM2010, which means that the 16 week schedules I have uploaded onto the… Continue