Season Plan · Berlin 2026

Berlin 2026 is a full-year training season that I designed to prepare for the BMW Berlin-Marathon 2026, held on 2026-09-27. The season runs from 2025-09-25 all the way to race day on 2026-09-27, with one clear objective: to finish the Berlin Marathon in under 3 hours (Sub-3). My current marathon personal best is 3:23 from the Paris Marathon 2025, so improving from 3:23 down to Sub-3 in my forties is a significant challenge. To make this realistic, I have divided the year into several progressive training cycles, each built around an intermediate goal race, gradually developing speed, endurance and race execution towards the final Sub-3 attempt.

This page summarises the overall structure of the Berlin 2026 season. It presents all cycles and weeks on a single timeline and lets me jump to the detailed week logs and individual cycle pages when needed. The purpose is simple: to keep a clear record of how the year is organised, so that past training can be reviewed, current training has context, and future training follows a coherent path towards Berlin 2026.

Cycles · Training overview

The progress bar above uses weeks as ticks and colours to indicate cycles. The arrow marks the week I am currently in.

Cycle	Date range	Length (weeks)	Final event	Target

Click on a row to expand the weeks inside that cycle and see their date range, distance, number of sessions and average effort. The cycle that contains the current date is highlighted, and when expanded, the current week is also highlighted in the nested table.

Distance (km) Avg effort Sessions