Sam

# running / London Marathon 2025: Training Begins

5th Jan 2025

Next: Week 1 ➡️

Running the London marathon is my longest-held dream. More than 20 years old. The desire to run through the streets of the greatest city has lived inside me ever since I first watched the Flora London Marathon on the BBC all that time ago.

It means a lot to me to get this chance to run.

A brief running history

I’ve run one marathon, 3 years ago, which I trained pretty well for. I ran 2:49.

Goals for the race

In descending order of importance i.e. most important first:

a) Run the race & have a great time b) Run sub-3-hrs a) Run a PB (if training goes very well)

Plan

At time of writing, I have exactly 16 weeks til race day.

Over the past 3 months my training has been up and down, routines disrupted by Christmas & holidays. This leaves with almost no base and no long runs under me.

Not a great start but I’ll do what I can.

The basic principles of my training are:

Goals for this week

This week I want to:

Wish me luck.