Welcome. It's great to have you on board. You've invested to run the world's greatest foot race. It's going to be great. That said, as fun as it's going to be preparing, racing and celebrating you effort on the big day, it's a hard race. Damn hard! So we need to get to work. Let's not waste anymore time and get right to it.

It depends largely where you're coming from. Have you been "up and running" in recents weeks? Are you scraping yourself off the couch to run for charity? Are you in-tune for a repetitive training cycle? 

All these questions need to be answered before you decide on an approach to this event. Remember, before we can have the goal to finish, we must first make it to the start. I hope I can help you get to both. 

Don't worry, we've done this event a number of times. But this time I want to take you with me. All the way. Start to finish. tHe highs, the lows, the hills, the beers afterwards. Come with me. 

Start slowly. Especially if you haven't done much in recent weeks/months. This - two week pre-loading phase - is a good chance to work out your schedule, organise your equipment and work out your running routes. 

My best piece of advice: keep it simple. You don't need to do 50 different runs in the next 10 weeks. Repetition is also important and you will save time by doing familiar workouts on familiar routes.