Edinburgh Marathon Training Plan - Improve

About this plan

Targeting Edinburgh Marathon? This is the plan for it. 17 weeks, a solid 7 hours a week, every one of them built around the full 26.2 mile marathon rather than adapted from a template.

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.

Do the work and this plan is built to take a real chunk out of your previous time when you line up for 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 a genuinely faster time than last time out, and it assumes you can train consistently at around 7 hours a week.

How much training does it involve?

Plan on 17 weeks and about 7 hours a week. It rises for a couple of weeks, then drops to let the work settle, rather than climbing endlessly until you break.

How is the plan delivered?

It is a one-off purchase delivered straight into your TrainingPeaks account, written out session by session in plain language so you always know what to do and why.

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