I’m a planner – I always have been. I actually enjoy planning – especially planning holidays. For me a holiday starts the day that I pick up a new notebook and start looking up flights on the internet. So it’s no surprise that having a training plan for my half marathon is going to be right up my street.

For about a month now I’ve been looking at various training plans for a half marathon and seeing which one is best for me – then cross referencing with my weekends away this summer to see where there’s potential that my long runs might get missed.

And then there’s the formatting. I’m going to be staring at this plan for 16 weeks and (hopefully) ticking off runs as I go so the training plan has to look nice – the right font, the right size etc.

So now after weeks of research my training plan is finished. It takes me from a starting point of running 13 miles per week in Week 1 to a peak of 25 miles in Week 14, and sees me running 277 miles in total over the course of the 16 weeks.

I’ve used the Runner’s World Smart Coach to design this plan and moved a few of the weeks around to make sure I don’t have to run 11 miles the day after a wedding and things like that. Now I’m all ready to start training in just over two weeks – there’s just the small matter of putting in the effort to get out there and run.