When I start coaching people, I often say to them "You are where you are and that's a great place to start." Its a reminder to people that they can't rush the process of changing their body, and that they need to be honest with themselves about whatever their starting point is.

When Sera approached me to start our '5 weeks to 5km' Training Plan recently, she was the one playing these words back to me.

I coached Sera to do New York Marathon a couple of years ago…