I coach people through their first half marathon. That is the whole business. I am not a performance coach, I do not work with people chasing a Boston qualifier, and if you already know what a tempo run is you probably do not need me.
Since 2019 I have taken more than forty people from "I can run about twenty minutes" to finishing 13.1 miles. Most of them had already tried once on their own, and most of those attempts ended the same way: four or five good weeks, then a niggle that turned into a real injury somewhere around week seven, then nothing.
I have run six half marathons and two fulls. I also spent most of 2021 not running at all, because I stress-fractured my left tibia training for a spring race by doing exactly what I now spend my working life talking people out of. I added mileage because I felt good, ran my easy days at a pace that was not easy, and treated a persistent shin ache as something to push through. It cost me nine months.
That is the thing I am genuinely useful about. Not the physiology, which you can read anywhere, but the specific decisions a first-timer makes in weeks five to eight when the plan starts to feel too slow and their body is quietly disagreeing.
A twelve-week beginner half marathon plan, £89. Four runs a week, one of them long, with the long run capped lower than most plans will tell you. It includes the two conversations most plans leave out: what to do when you miss a week, and how to tell a niggle you can run through from one you cannot.
It is a written plan with a check-in, not an app and not a subscription. If you want week-by-week coaching instead, email me.