10k Training Plan | Sub 40, Sub 45, Sub 50 | Running PB PR

10k Training Plan – Running a PB/PR

This is a personalised 10K training plan for running races, tailored to your precise ability level to give you the best guidance on achieving the best you can over a 6 or 12-week timeframe

Signup for a 6-week rapid-improver plan for a 10k PR/PB

This is a paid-for 10k training plan which is PRECISELY PERSONALISED to your current ability level using several proven running algorithms. The resulting plan gives optimal training for 6-12 weeks with everything directed towards a maximum PB / PR performance in your RACE.

Your 10k training plan provides detailed, daily instructions for effective training.

Further, extensive, guidance & notes enable you to adapt your training to work even harder on key days when you feel good OR what to do when you feel the need to back off.

From a recognised Age-Group triathlon/run coach who has guided numerous athletes into international competition, highly placed finishers and a European medallist.

For those in the UK: This plan is parkrun-friendly ie most Saturdays have 5k runs in the training schedule. 5k is great training for 10k

What you need to send me (use the form below):

  1. A recent 5k or 10k PB / PR. ‘Recent’ means within the last 2-3 months. If you want you can send me a figure of what you think you could ACTUALLY have achieved in a race if you tried ‘a bit harder’. That’s your call but please DO NOT SEND your target time. The plan is based on what you can achieve NOT what you would like to achieve. The 10k running plan will NOT work if you send your target time.
  2. Your email address
  3. Payment for your selected option by PayPal to in**@th*********.com – you submit your answers AND click the PayPal button

(Plan details, below)

INFORMATION REQUIRED

All this information is useful to the personalisation of the plan but you don’t have to provide everything.

The personalised 6-week 10k training plan for rapid improvement is GBP£5.50. Clicking/acceptance means you are medically fit for strenuous exercise. Thank you!

 

 

The personalised 12-week 10k training plan is GBP£7.99. Clicking/acceptance means you are medically fit for strenuous exercise. Thank you!

Don’t forget to PAYPAL Checkout – REQUIRED – no plan will be sent otherwise!:

 

ESSENTIAL READING: 5K Training Plan – Sub 20, Sub 23, Sub 25

*FREE* OPTIONAL TAILORING OF THE 10K TRAINING PLAN

Optionally you can provide the following information which further refine and improve the personalised plan you get. All this information is useful if you can provide it.

  1. OPTIONAL: A race date (day & month). (Default: day 1 starts on the first Sunday after payment is received)
  2. OPTIONAL: The format in which you want speed/pace presented ie pace or speed, metric or imperial (Default: metric pace)
  3. OPTIONAL: Additionally send me a fairly recent long-distance PB/PR. So that could be a marathon, half marathon or 10 miles (optional). This is because generic race prediction tools are usually inaccurate. Such tools state your ‘trained’, long-term potential against a standardised distance/pace curve. The reality is that YOUR distance/pace curve has more than one inflection point depending on how well-trained you over various distances. Providing a long-distance time enables better long-term training targets to be set for you
  4. OPTIONAL: Your current number of RUNNING hours per week. This is important to supply but is not required.
  5. OPTIONAL: Your name
  6. OPTIONAL: Sex Male/Female
  7. OPTIONAL: Date of birth or age
  8. OPTIONAL: Your parkrun ID number or some other means for me to easily look at your running performances.
  9. OPTIONAL: The maximum number of hours you want to build up to train to (12 week plan only).

12 WEEK OPTION FOR THE 10K TRAINING PLAN

The 12 week 10k training plan is provided in two 6-week parts with the second being adapted to your actual progress over the first 6 weeks. The two parts of the 10k training plan are VERY different in structure and with very different training intentions. The first 6 weeks delivers modest improvements in performances BUT better prepares you for the rigours of the second 6 weeks.

What you will get from your personalised 10k training plan

  1. A customised/personalised day-by-day training plan for 6 weeks in PDF/Text format, sent by email, finishing on your race day is sent within 24 hours. IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER – I ALMOST ALWAYS SEND WITHIN 24 HOURS. If your Paypal address is different check the inbox for that too. (Your Paypal address should be verified but the email address you typed in might be miss-typed)
  2. The plan will be specified with speed/pace provided in the format you requested with an additional indication of Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
  3. Correct intensity workouts that are correctly structured and spaced throughout the 10k training plan.
  4. Proper amounts of recovery time to adapt to your workouts
  5. Increased intensities over the weeks before peaking and tapering to your race.
  6. Notes to tell you how to over-achieve in selected sessions if you feel particularly good on those days
  7. Notes to give you alternative workouts on selected days.
  8. A projected race-day target time/pace
  9. Race-day nutrition/supplementation guidance
  10. Race-day warmup guidance for your 10k training plan
  11. Optional: A longer-term generic target (based on the optional provision by you of your parkrun ID and long-distance performances) along with a general guide on weaknesses to address in your longterm training.
  12. Day 1 of the week is assumed to be Sunday with the last day AND RACE DAY on a Day 7, Saturday.
    • If your race is on a Sunday then the plan WILL AUTOMATICALLY have your CORRECT dates and days of the week. HOWEVER Monday will then default to your long run day (on the occasions when a long run is specified)

What you will not get from the personalised 10k training plan

  1. Please comment, below, for support. Please note that your plan may well be very differently structured to someone else who gets a plan from this page so some answers may not be relevant to your plan.
  2. HR Zones: See the FAQ below
  3. There is no opportunity to exchange emails to discuss the plan BUT I will address any errors in the plan for whatever reasons and will enter into a discussion about errors to resolve any issue.
  4. Rest days will be set. You will not have the ability to specify the day-of-the-week for ‘rest days’ or ‘long run’ days. (When set, the long run is on the first day of the week, usually Sunday). If you want this level of adaptability or to know what to do in the event of: missed training sessions; mis-performed training session; or illness, then you need to get a coach! I’m happy to train you on a more personal basis, explained (here).

PREMIUM OPTION

10k training plan running

For GBP 19.99 you get the same plan and I will answer questions by email. I’m happy to exchange 2 or 3 emails and I will give a reasonably considered response either to answer questions about the plan or to point your training in a good direction. I’m making this option as I have been getting into detailed email conversations for the basic option. I have to eat and my time is limited! You can pay the GBP 19.99 also by PayPal. Included in this option is the estimation of your Heart Rate training zones – you will need to supply a TCX, FIT or HRM file that includes a flat out 20 minute effort with elevated heart rate ie just running 20 minutes is not enough as your heart will take 5-10 minutes to ‘get up to a proper level’ so a 10k PB/PR might be OK or a 5K PB might be OK if you are finishing 5K in over 25 minutes. It doesn’t matter too much if this is from a performance 6-9 months ago as your HR zones will likely be similar now.

Caveats: (This) page lists many of the caveats and indicates how honest you need to be to yourself about what you can achieve. The main caveat is that you need to ensure you are fit to undertake strenuous exercise.

Thank you for supporting this site: Please recommend this plan to others if you like it and/or comment below. You can always pay more though Paypal if you like 😉 but maybe, instead, you could click on one of the Amazon links on the right hand side and the next thing you buy there donates a small commission and you pay the normal price. If you want to do your entire Christmas shopping that way I’d be super happy 😉 [joking] Thank you!

FAQ – 10k Training Plan

  1. What if my race is 9 weeks away?
    • A: Sign up for the 12 week plan…or wait 3 weeks (I schedule for your race date)
  2. What if I want to achieve a sub40 10k? Which plan should I choose
    • It’s great to have goals but you can only improve by so much in a given period of time. I could send you a sub 31 minute 10k plan but you would not be able to execute it (neither could I !!). Your plan is targeted to your CURRENT ability and to your target race date and available time to train.
    • If you are already sub20 for a 5k then sub40 for a 10k is a realistic goal.
  3. I want to train by HR. Dos your plan support this?
    • Strictly ‘no’ it does not but it, sort of, does. RPE zones are provided and, for longer runs, these should match your HR zones. In at case, for shorter intervals, you should be training by running-power, RPE or PACE/SPEED and NOT BY HR as it takes 30 seconds, or so, for your heart to respond to your actual effort.
  4. I’ve paid, where is my plan?
    • Most likely you haven’t completed the PayPal checkout, this happens a LOT.
    • If payment was sent in the wrong currency I will send it back, unless the converted amount equals or exceeds the required GBP amount
    • Please allow 24 hours. It’s EXTREMELY rare that I do not respond much quicker than 24 hours. So something is possibly wrong if you have not received it after 12 hours.
    • You might not have included your CORRECTLY written email address. I try the one you supply AND the one linked to your PayPal account. Other than that I’m struggling a bit as email addresses are hard to guess! Sometimes I put a message below in the comments to that effect.
  5. Is the plan fixed?
    • There are some elements of the plan that are relatively fixed in terms of the scheduling but, no, it is not a ‘fixed’ plan by any means.
    • Some sessions are removed for some abilities
    • All speeds are personalised
    • The plan is regularly updated with a version number. Usually a new version is just clarifying some of the wording used. there has only been one bug found so far in the running times/paces…which I’m relatively proud of (not the bug…the LACK of bugs 😉 )
    • You will most likely be supplied with MORE sessions each week than you would like to follow. Optional ones are indicated
  6. How is the plan provided and created?
    • It’s provided in a PDF format, by email.
    • It’s created on a fairly complicated spreadsheet that I do not send.
  7. What is the typical ability level?
    • For the 6 week plan I would suggest men currently able to do 48 minutes and women 50 minutes
    • For the 12 week plan I would suggest men currently able to do 50 minutes and women 52 minutes.
    • About 80% of athletes requesting a plan are men, typically between 42 and 47 minutes.
    • For athletes already under 40 minutes, there is roughly an equal split between men and women. And, no, I’ve no idea why that is the case!
  8. GDPR – Opt-in/Opt-out – I have no desire to hold your personal data or to use it. However you MUST consent to give me the info above otherwise I simply can’t produce the plan. Email me when you want the info deleted.

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6 thoughts on “10k Training Plan | Sub 40, Sub 45, Sub 50 | Running PB PR

  1. Highly recommended for any one considering. Recently knocked in a 39.29 10k and 18.41 5k off the back of these plans. Cheers

  2. Plan worked as expected. First time I managed to run a 10k under 1h as predicted. Prediction was 58:32 and I did the 10k in 58:14. I really recommend the plans! Thank you!

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