With just eight weeks to go until race day, have updated the running schedule using the excellent Runner’s World individualised training programme generator. My schedule looks like the following, will be trying to keep to this fairly religiously, despite the three week Thailand vacation through the critical time.

In terms of my actual race target, plugging my 17th Feb half marathon time into the runners world pace calculator gives me a 4h 17m estimated marathon time.

So with a little pessimism, the current official target remains a four and a half hour first marathon.