RunLab Coaching

MEDAL MONDAY! Coached athlete Elizabeth completed her first ever marathon at London yesterday in 4:04. She was running it for her daughter Florence and managed to raise a HUGE amount of money for Speech & Language Therapy UK!

In six months, we've consistently built up mileage, but we've also developed strength and stability in the gym, tested nutrition and caffeine tolerance and trained her gut to absorb 80g carbs/hr during the race, worked on developing pacing and feel, and got a half-marathon personal best along the way.

Do you want to race for GB as a Masters duathlete? I can help you! RunLab Coaching includes everything from planning your route to qualification, analysing current strengths and weaknesses, optimising aerodynamics and rolling resistance, teaching you faster transitions, developing strength and endurance, nailing race nutrition, and upping your mental game. Sound good? Get in touch today for a no-obligation chat.

So so proud of Alice, who won silver at the European duathlon championships yesterday at her first GB event. When Alice can on board as a coached athlete, she told me her goal was to race for her country. Six months (and a lot of training) later, she’s done it! So excited to see what this amazing lady can achieve for rest of the season …

Coached athlete Alice is with me in Alsdorf for the middle distance European Duathlon championships tomorrow. It’s Alice’s first time competing for team GB 🥳🥳

If you want to qualify to race for GB next year - or maybe get your England Masters running vest - get in touch and see how coaching can help you reach your potential…

🌟 Do you know what your current Lactate Threshold (LT2) is?
🌟 Do you want regular, quick and affordable testing to see if you are improving?
Here at RunLab I’m able to offer individual Lactate Field Testing to help you understand your current fitness levels. Knowing your accurate LT2 means you can tailor your sessions to exactly the right pace to reap the biggest gains from your workouts 💪
The Arkray Lactate 2 meter is highly accurate and repeatable. So you can test your pace every 4-6 weeks to see how much progress you’re making - or if you need to tweak your training.
Get in touch to book in for a session with me in Bath.

What helps set the mindset you need to get a new Personal Best?

This weekend, coached athlete Elizabeth ran a superb race at the Paddock Wood Half Marathon, coming home in a PB time of 1hr43. Elizabeth is in training for the London Marathon and has been ticking off her sessions like clockwork - motivated by a very special reason.

Elizabeth's 6-year-old daughter, Florence, has a rare motor speech disorder called CAS. This meant that for the first 4 years of her life, she didn't speak at all. She couldn't tell her parents she was happy, hurt or hungry. She spent her preschool years in silence. Since then, Florence has been slowly, painstakingly, learning to speak, one sound at a time. Hours of therapy, hours of repetition, hours of concentration. A marathon for sure.

In honour of Florence, Elizabeth is running her own first marathon, fitting in her training around Florence's therapy sessions, hospital visits and school interventions. She is raising money for the charity Speech and Language UK, whose early interventions can make a real difference on the lives of those children struggling to find their voices, and waiting to be heard.

If you've been inspired by Elizabeth and Florence's grit, you can donate using the link below:

https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/elizabeth-bull

I’ll be running the Bath Half in March, Fundraising for Focus, a local affordable counselling charity. If you can spare a couple of quid for a good cause, please use the JustGiving link below, and put Marianne in the “leave a message” bit, as it’s a shared fundraising page with a few runners

2026 Bath Half Marathon for Focus Counselling Focus is dedicated to ensuring that everyone, regardless of income, has access to affordable, high quality, and accessible mental health support. We currently have 25 amazing people running for us, and would greatly appreciate donations of any size!

Are you planning next year's big goals? This is the perfect time of year to take stock of how your season has gone, and analyse how you could improve further. Did your training deliver the results you expected? If not, do you know why, and what you'll do differently next time?

This is where the help of a good coach can make all the difference to your performance. An independant assessment of your current strengths and weaknesses will highlight the areas you can make the biggest gains in your winter training. Thise gains can only be realised through thoughful application of a personalised training plan.

Every athlete is different - some will flourish by working on drills and skills, others by building a bigger aerobic base, better durability through strength work, or improved speed through efficiency gains. This is why "off the peg" Training Plans won't deliver the results you are capable of.

RunLab Coaching is carefull tailored to each athlete, targetting and monitoring your key limiters, analysing your aerobic engine and constantly adjusting sessions as your fitness improves and your limiters become strengths.

If you're ready to take your performance up a notch next season, get in touch today.

GB Age-Group legend Steve Clark took 2 minutes off his half marathon PB at the Maidenhead Half a fortnight ago - despite breaking a rib just five weeks prior to the race.

We have been working on improving Steve's stride length and speed endurance ready for the upcoming T100 World Championships in Qatar, and the results are starting to show!

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