01/08/2026
The summer can often make it difficult to maintain training consistency. Between the kids being off school, holidays away, and the good weather, sticking to your usual training routine can be tough. It's often helpful to have a big race to train for to keep you on track, or to do some "fun" shorter races to keep the speed going.
Today saw Bethan Varney | Running Diaries and head to No Walk In The Park 5km. Bethan went sub-20 once again, clocking 19:56, while David raced home in an impressive 23:35 after a month of injury niggles. Lettie Sniag went rogue and also headed to Chesterfield to join the fun, improving by 20 seconds on her 5km time from last weekend with a 21:53, just a few seconds short of her club's record. While seeing her race pop up on strava was a surprise to her coach, the time wasn't so mucb of one, a much better representation of her training.
Meanwhile, Ibby clocked his first sub-20 5km at Rother Valley parkrun, something he stated as his target when joining Green Peaks. 19:48. Well done, Ibby!
And to show it's not all about racing, the Hannahs were getting the miles in today. Hannah and Hannah Murton clocked over 50km between them, while got some tempo miles in during a longer run, fitting speed work in where she could.
Michael Cambell is now just eight weeks out from the Berlin Marathon (check out his profile for a fundraising link) and completed his first 20-miler of the training block.
And of course, Saturday also meant parkruns galore. This week Green Peaks athletes were running parkruns throughout the country. From Northumberland, through Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and down to Devon, and even one in Wales.
With races, long runs, and plenty of parkruns, finding and maintaining your motivation and routine over the summer can still be done.
But it's also important to recognise that you don't have to. You can take time off, you can lighten your training load, and running will still be there, patiently waiting for you when you're ready to come back to it.
