Marathon Plan Advanced Plus Plus - L6

Very happy with the plan

I was always against the idea of buying a training plan, since I am running as a hobby, but last year, for my Valencia marathon training, I just go bored in the end with my way of doing it and the result was a bad race. With this in mind I decided to give the training plan a try. I have to say I am very happy with how things turned out. Adding a structure to my plan and having different types of run training really help me not getting bored. I really felt this when I compared the start of the plan with the end when sadly I had an small injury (my stupid mistake not because of the training) that made me have to only be able to do the same easy runs that at one point just got me bored again and hard to want to do them. Till the injury I felt great. I was seeing progress, with my easy runs getting faster at a lower HR and my overall fitness just being better. My goal for this years Valencia marathon was under 3h but with the small injury I changed it to under 3h10min. In the end my time was 3h01min (painfully close to under 3h). This was my best running performance since I didn't stop in the race and I felt good at the end. With that last month of Peak + Taper I am 100% sure I would've been under 3h. My previous best performance was 3h33min without stopping and feeling good at the end and 3h28min with stops and feeling bad at the end. I am very happy and satisfied with the training plan and will 100% reuse it next year when I will train for under 3h or even better.

Half / Marathon plan

Hi Ben, I brought this for my Boyfriend for Valentine's Day. He gets training plans, I get handbags. However, I did try the strength circuit and I still can't walk after a week. My partner is thoroughly enjoying his HM plan for Cambridge ahead of using his marathon plan for Amsterdam.

Amazing detail for each run with added paces and strength training. Was feeling lost after crossing the 3h Marathon treshold but the plan helped me get back on track.