“The Comeback” by Stephen Scullion
My accounts and daily training program which took me from “NO lie” 8 months out from athletics, my maximum weeks mileage would have been around 12 in the 8 months before this training block, but in 13 weeks I ran 2.17.55.
This is a detailed analysis of the training I did, during my build up to London Marathon 2017, what started as an attempt to resurrect my running career and lose some weight, eventually turned into a VERY aggressive assault at the World championships A standard. Little did I know when I called up Scott Overall on the 20th January asking for a Championship entry to London Marathon, would I embark on the wonderful training adventure I’m about to outline detail. How in the process I took myself from weighing in at 84KG, to race day around 75kg, and how my first experience of 7000ft around week 8 into the comeback, felt like I was starting from scratch again. It was a wonderful journey and that day of London Marathon 2017, is truly the day I realized I’m a Marathon runner.
[Stephen Scullion emailed us a copy of his PDF to share with our readers]
