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How about a back-up HM a few weeks further into training? Assuming my PF clears up sooner rather than later I'm targeting Paddock Wood, which I'm assured is nice and quick (very flat, maybe a bit more scenic than the Big Half, lots of country lanes). I can also recommend the Ranelagh Richmond HM in May, where I managed a PB a few years ago.
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5k to HM in 6 weeks?
On my way back from a partially fractured ankle (back in August 2019) and I'm in Week 4 of the Couch to 5k (as recommended by physio, partially for fitness but more for the steady increase in load on the ankle). Assuming I don't have any setbacks I should be doing three 5k runs a week by mid-February (on top of a reasonable amount of swimming and cycling).
That gives 6 weeks from then until the London Landmarks HM. I did the Big Half last year and it seemed to be all of the dull bits of the VLM route so I wanted to do a half with a lot more interesting things to run past. I'd also entered it way back last year when I assumed I'd be spending the winter
eating, drinking and loafinghoning myself into a lean trained runner for once. Alas.It may be ~12 weeks until the LLHM, and there are a few 12 week HM training plans, but they all assume that you can run 5k at the start, which isn't quite the case for me.
I'm not going for any kind of a time as I'm still too heavy and unfit, I just hate the idea of not taking up the place when I know I can run at least half of it.
I guess the answer is to build up the training with the 10% rule in mind (6 weeks of 10% increases takes a 5k run to almost 9k but the ~15k/week total load goes up to ~26.5k/week, which should be enough to swap into a 5k gentle run early in the week and a HM) and then run as far as I can on the day and resort to walk/run or walk to finish if required.