New Plan Unveiled and Motivation

So yesterday I got my new plan through.
I had a long chat with Rachael, and we went over the new plan.

I now have 5 sessions a week.
Tuesday is short intervals, Wednesday is Strength and Conditioning, Thursday is long intervals, Friday is  Strength and Conditioning and Sunday is long Tempo run.

The exercises in the S&C are all a notch harder, and most now involve also additional weights as opposed to body weight only.
Lots of skipping and mobility work.

And the running will be focused on pacing, as I'm rubbish at that.

If I want to run my marathon in 5h30, I do need to improve my current pace.

The longest run this month is 4miles non stop. I think that's feasable.

One main question we discussed is quite a bit of mindset and motivation.
The biggest question came when Rachael asked me if I really enjoyed it at all. 
And my answer was: NO

Right now, I find running still very difficult, and I don't enjoy it.

However, I have a very clear goal in mind, which is finishing the marathon, running the whole way, in under 5h30.

And it's that end goal that makes me do those workouts and sessions. I do hope that one day I will find running easy enough to say I am enjoying it. But right now, I'm not.

And I think that is what makes me understand my clients sometimes. 
It's not that they are enjoying it very much, although we do try to keep our sessions enjoyable, have a laugh, etc. 
But if they think of the end result they so badly want to achieve, it should keep them on the straight and narrow.

I know that last month, I didn't follow the nutrition plan as I should have done. 
I've done better than previous months, but am nowhere near what Rachael would like to see, and what I know I need to do to make it a success.

I am still struggling with drinking water throughout the day.

So this month, I will allow myself 1 nice special meal a week (I don't want to call it a cheat meal as I don't feel cheating is a good thing, but a nice special treat meal), and the rest I will try and follow the plan.
The only weekend I know I will struggle, will be in 2 weeks time when I go and visit my parents. As I know my mum always cooks everything I used to like when I was a kid, and cram it in 2 days time!

So let's see how it goes. As long as I see improvement, I will be happy.

Oh, and btw, my weight hasn't changed much at all, but I lost some inches all over. So that's a good start.