London Marathon Training Plan - Compete

About this plan

This plan is built for London 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.

Every target is set as a percentage of your own threshold pace and heart rate, so it fits you and not some average athlete. The weeks climb and then ease in three-week blocks, and across them your endurance, your pace and the durability to hold it late on are trained in balance.

Do the work and this plan is built to have you racing at the sharp end when you line up for London Marathon.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

Anyone with London 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?

Plan on 17 weeks and about 7.5 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.