Edinburgh Marathon Training Plan - Compete

About this plan

This plan is built for Edinburgh Marathon, start to finish. It is shaped around the full 26.2 mile marathon, running 17 weeks at a solid 7.5 hours a week, so you know exactly what you are signing up for.

The load builds in three-week blocks and then backs off, so the work actually lands instead of burying you. The hard sessions are dosed the way the research says fitness is built, never piled on as junk volume, and your endurance, your pace and the durability to hold it late on all get their turn.

Held to week after week, it is designed to have you racing at the sharp end on the day you race Edinburgh Marathon.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

Anyone with Edinburgh Marathon on the calendar. It is written for the full 26.2 mile marathon, aimed at racing for a result, not just completing it, and it assumes you can train consistently at around 7.5 hours a week.

How much training does it involve?

You are looking at 17 weeks and a solid 7.5 hours a week, arranged in three-week blocks that push and then recover so the fitness actually sticks.

How is the plan delivered?

You buy it once and it lands in your TrainingPeaks account, every session spelled out in plain words with the reason it is there, ready to start straight away.

Want it built around your life instead of off the shelf? See Plan Only.