We have 3 training plan options, plus a special strength and conditioning plan:
It’s a bit like asking ‘why use a map?’
Without a map, you could end up anywhere.
We specialise in personal training plans because they work better; no one size fits all. However, for those who just want the simplicity of a well-designed, sensible programme, our free training schedules are a great place to start.
Here are some free training program downloads:
Beginners 5k training plan
Beginners 10k training plan
Beginners half marathon training plan
Beginners marathon training plan
Next step on from beginners, for those who want to add some spice to their training.
Spice running training plans
You can find these in our Running Press news section by clicking the links below.
Breaking 30 minutes for 5k Free training plan
Breaking 25 minutes for 5k Free training plan
Breaking 20 minutes for 5k Free training plan
Breaking 18 minutes for 5k Free training plan
Breaking 60 minutes for 10k Free training plan
Are you following a training plan?
What are your challenges? Ask a question on our Facebook page.
We have two options for you.
Check out our Bespoke Training
Schedules
You tell us about yourself, and what you want to achieve — we'll provide you
with a detailed training schedule to help you get there.
Personalised training schedule updated
and adapted every two weeks and regular ongoing support.
You
get a map — and a navigator to go with it.
Standard training plans will be ok for some runners, but most people benefit from something more personal, more special and more adapted to their own running experience and goals.
Is this you? Users of our training
plans have wide and varied reasons for using them. Some people want to
improve their running, some people just want to know the best way to start,
so that they set off in the right direction. Some people want perhaps to
shed a few pounds in bodyweight.
They like knowing that someone will be interested in how they are progressing,
knowing that someone will be gently pushing them to run further or faster
or maybe just step out of the door, if that is what they want.
They like knowing that someone is looking over their shoulder, keeping
an eye on them along the way.
It’s like having a coach, someone who knows your abilities, knows
what you want to achieve and someone who will help you get there.
Your online coach will keep you motivated, keep you stretching out (but
only as far as you want). Many people use schedules published in magazines,
perhaps to run a marathon within a certain time. This is great and works
well for some people, that's why we provide downloadable
training plans.
But it is a universal solution for an individual’s
objective — of course, it’s full of compromises.
Your own running training plan is not like that, the ethos of Running
Training Plan is running in the real world. Very few of us can take a schedule
and stick to it exactly; life gets in the way. It might be work, family,
illness or maybe even the weather that stops us from running a session
as planned (or even running it at all). A training plan, for most of us,
must be flexible; it's better to adapt than
to lose heart because we cannot follow it.
Your own personalised training plan will change as you do, it will adapt to your improvements, your individual needs. Importantly, it will also tell you to take it easy when you need to. Because, progress in running is not all about constantly pushing harder and harder. The body needs time to rest, rebuild and strengthen — a magazine schedule doesn’t know these things about you — we will. A magazine doesn’t know your strengths, your weaknesses, or what time or where you run — we will.
Every couple of weeks we’ll send you a two-week schedule by email.
It will be adapted to your lifestyle, your aims, and your capabilities.
The truth about running is that we never really know where we are going without knowing what path we are following. Your own running training plan will be your map — a map to help you get to where you want to be — and it will take you via the great experiences running can offer.
Running training plans designed
exclusively for you,
read more and order online here