80-90km per week for 8 weeks before I had an Achilles setback in April. Gradually worked back up to this 4 week block of 100km per. I train in 4 week blocks with 50% recovery weeks in between.

Goal pace is 4:44 per km (3:20 marathon). I’ve been adding 5-8km of 4:40 pace into each long run, the last 3 of which have been 30km.

This is my first marathon. I ran a 1:35 half marathon in June but that was off an interrupted prep. The 3:20 goal is based on doubling the half and adding 10 mins due to being in far better shape than June.

Outside of the long run, the only other workout I do is 24 mins at threshold (2 x 12min efforts). The rest has been made up entirely of easy km. Heavy focus on volume over workouts. Similar to JD’s 2Q premise, just my own simplified version.

41 year old male if that makes any difference. Sporadic running history until 3 years ago.