Manchester Marathon Training Plan - Improve

About this plan

This plan is built for Manchester Marathon, start to finish. It is shaped around the full 26.2 mile marathon, running 17 weeks at a solid 7 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.

Follow it properly and the aim is clear: take a real chunk out of your previous time at Manchester Marathon.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

Anyone with Manchester 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?

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.