30/04/2026
Congratulations .nero2020 for running the London Marathon 🎉🪅🎊🏅
A super fun day out for all (I was there cheering too!🤩)
This wonder woman gave herself plenty of time to prepare by putting in the hard work over the few years previous to the event where she…
- Mastered her compound lifts & started heavy strength training
🏋🏼♀️ The ability to move well and confidently through patterns like squats, deadlifts, and lunges is important.
- Incorporated single-leg strength & control.
🦵To be stable & strong in movemnts like split squats & step ups (no wobbles 😂) is key.
- Developed posterior chain strength
🍑That includes glutes & hamstrings, aiding an efficient stride even when fatigue hits.
- Improved core strength that actually transfers to running eg anti-rotation, anti-extension strength (planks, carries, dead bugs) to avoid unnecessary energy expenditure.
- Worked on plyometric ability (power + stiffness)
The ability to produce and absorb force i.e. with basic jumps, hops, and bounds. This improves running economy and reduces injury risk when we build the mileage.
- Load tolerance
Working under fatigue with longer circuits, higher-rep strength work, and time-under-tension. 26.2 miles is long!!!!
Having all this under her belt meant that when we approached the four months prior to the London Marathon, she wasn’t starting from scratch but already fit, strong, and ready to actually train, not just survive!
She also practiced:
💧 Hydration strategies
🍽️ Race day nutrition
🔥 Heat exposure in the sauna (one that catches out a lot of runners training through winter and racing in unexpected heat)
All in all, preparation is key and she did a damn good job of building a body that can handle the plan, adapt to the load, and finish with a smile 😃
