22/12/2025
Run Coaching Spotlight:
A great mate who came to me just over 11 weeks ago with the goal of running his first marathon, Nick and I put together a program focusing on increasing weekly kilometres and incorporating specific strength sessions to build key lower body muscles as the running load progressed.
As someone who had been running for a few years but with no real plan, Nick executed the build so well and was only let down in the final couple of weeks due to heavy days on the body at work. We stripped back his running for 3 weeks and instead increased other forms of cardio, mainly the stationary bike, so he could keep fitness up whilst giving the body some recovery in time for the marathon.
He executed all his threshold sessions well and stayed diligently to the program, which required a lot of trust, but a great level of collaboration between the two of us and we made sure to listen to his body when it asked us to!
He accomplished his goal today, practically bang on his goal time, starting out around 3am and running with some mates on bikes. Officially a marathoner!! Well done Nicko 🙌