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Sounds good, thanks @Sainsburys_Ed and @PhilPub. Saturday run and Sunday bike ride it is. The run is more important to me than the ride but I want to do both. I'll have Monday/Tuesday off exercise afterwards so the legs should have a chance to recover for the next week (Wednesday's 10x800m intervals should be interesting, but the next long run the Sunday after is actually 10k at "race pace" which will hurt in its own way).
Looking at routes, towpath to Richmond, up Richmond Hill and through Richmond Park and between Pen Ponds, back up past the ballet school and over to Roehampton Gate and then home gets me bang on 24k.
Speaking of intervals, have 6 x 1km at 5:34/km to do. Hoping my HR will be down on last time I did them a month ago but I've not done a huge amount since then.
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sounds good, one thing I suffered from last year having done all my long run training on trails was that after about 2.5 hours my feet begin to really hurt, no blisters or anything, just really sore from the constant pounding, so for marathons now I'd make sure I did the majority of long runs on road to avoid this problem...
I've routinely cycled the day after long runs, since my first marathon, and found it good for active recovery. Slightly different story with a long run/long ride combo, but the only real risk is being zonked out for a few days afterwards, which may affect your marathon training for the following week. But I'd be inclined to do the run on Saturday, make sure you keep the pace easy, and refuel loads. Maybe early bed/early start Friday/Saturday to give yourself a chance of decent sleep before Sunday's ride as well. Rather than skipping the ride, which you obviously want to do, the only compromise I'd consider would be cutting the Saturday run down to mid-length (18 -20k?) which would still help top up your endurance.