London Marathon Training Plan - Improve

About this plan

Targeting London 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.

Held to week after week, it is designed to take a real chunk out of your previous time on the day you race 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 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?

You are looking at 17 weeks and a solid 7 hours a week, arranged in three-week blocks that push and then recover so the fitness actually sticks.

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.