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Reflecting on last weekend at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games 🏟️

Amazing to see so many top athletes do their thing, plus being a Welshman living in Glasgow was a privilege being able to see Issy Boffey run such a fantastic race, meet Justin Davies and witness the incredible Livvy Breen win Gold 🏅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

An incredible evening! 🙌

After wrapping up and reflecting on 4 months of focused training with it’s a good time to share how we fared… 📋

After a stellar 2025 with PB’s galore and a ‘Most Improved Award’ at Jamie came to feeling he was in a bit of a plateau period and asking for some guidance. This is extremely common, if not inevitable for runners who have had periods of significant progression, and it can be a difficult place to be mentally when the progression stalls 📈

For athletes going through this experience, plateauing isn’t a negative signal. It’s an opportunity to take a break from hard training, to rest/recover and to reevaluate your training to assess what could be done differently 🤔

This was a key part of the early discussions with Jamie and it became clear quite quickly that despite having a great variety of weekly training (running, strength work, cycling and walking) there were three standout areas of opportunity to focus on:

🥵 INTENSITY MANAGEMENT
Training involved mostly, if not all high intensity sessions across the week. The importance of having a mix of easy, moderate and high intensity sessions across a given training week isn’t just to help with recovery but also to help ensure that when you’re doing a session or race that your body is given the best opportunity to take it on. A key change was to implement greater variety in intensity across training weeks 💪

🏃🏻‍♂️ LONG SLOW RUNS (LSR’s)
With a goal to improve half marathon performance a key piece missing from Jamie’s training was regular long easy miles. Having aerobic endurance capacity is key to performing at longer distances so dedicating the time to building this more frequently was critical if the target was going to be achieved 🎯

🫡 PREPARATION & REFLECTION
One of the most common areas athletes ignore but can have such a huge impact on performance. Being more thoughtful about upcoming sessions/races and asking yourself questions whilst dedicating time to reflect on these afterwards.

The results?

1/2 Marathon: 1:24:59 (from 1:26:58) ✅
10 Mile: 1:04:15 (from 1:06:48) ✅
10k: 38:12 (from 39:01) ✅
3k: 10:22 (from 10:37) ✅

Sub 1.25 Unlocked ⭐🚀🙌

this morning at Cuningar Loop parkrun 🏃🏻‍♂️

Cracking weather, maybe summer is coming! ☀️

A huge belated congratulations to for completing the a week last Sunday 🏅 🇮🇪

If you want to see an example of resilience then this guy has it in abundance. We helped with a training plan 2 months out, and even with a disrupted pre-race training period Zeebs still managed to get to the start line and smash the race 💪

Special mention to pictured here with Zeebs who also completed the half in a onesie! 🤪

Excited with what other achievements are to come! 🙌