Since September 2025
Stats
Weekly distance
The dashed line is week 1. Everything left of it is what happened; the solid red line is what the plan asks for. The shape of the gap is the whole job.
Training load
Training slightly harder than you are conditioned for, which is exactly where fitness is built.
Planned against actual
Over the last 6 days of the block you have done 140% of the load the plan asked for.
The shaded area is the training load this plan asks for, week by week. The red line is what you have actually done. Where the line sits below the area you are behind the plan; above it and you are doing more than was asked, which is its own risk.
The top chart is how hard you have been training lately against what your body is used to, scored on heart rate rather than distance, so an easy hour and a hard hour do not count the same. The bottom chart is the ratio between them. Below 0.8 you are losing fitness; 0.8 to 1.3 is where fitness is built; above 1.5 is the zone that precedes injuries. Everything right of the dashed line is what this plan would do to you, which is the real test of whether the plan is sane. Long-run days spike the ratio briefly and that is normal; what matters is that it comes back down. Race day itself hits 1.74, which is simply what a marathon is and is excluded from the figure above.
Personal bests
- 5 km
- 35:10
- 10 km
- 1:12:54
- Half marathon
- 2:37:00
- 30 km
- 3:50:07
- Marathon
- 5:46:29
Every one of these was set inside the Osaka marathon. A standalone 10 km or half would almost certainly beat them, which is part of what the decision gates are for.
Milestones
- Longest run
- 42.8 km
- Biggest week
- 45.6 km
- Weeks under 10 km
- 13 of 54
- Boom-bust crashes
- 7
A crash is a week over 25 km followed immediately by a week under 12 km. It has happened seven times in a year. The plan's down weeks exist so this never has to happen again.
Shoe rotation
Adidas Boston 13
622 / 800 kmYour Osaka race shoe and current workhorse. Will be past its useful life by February — buy the Kyoto race pair by week 14.
Adidas EVO SL
567 / 800 kmCarried the whole autumn 2025 base. Fine for easy runs, getting tired for long ones.
New Balance Rebel v5
12 / 700 kmBarely broken in. Light and lively — a good candidate for threshold days.
Nike Pegasus 41
Retired33 / 700 kmRetired.
Badges 4/10
Marathoner
Osaka Marathon, 22 February 2026.
Twenty Club
Longest run so far: 42.8 km.
First Steps
Finish week 1 of the block.
Four in a Row
Best streak of weeks at 80% of plan: 0.
Hill Seeker
Best week for climbing: 828 m. Target 300 m.
Iron Month
Best month: 137 km. Target 200 km.
Thirty Club
Run 30 km in one go. Scheduled for week 14.
Gate Keeper
Pass a decision gate. First one is week 6.
Half Slayer
Half marathon under 2:15. Week 18.
Kyoto Finisher
Cross the line at Heian-jingū.