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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...
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Interesting, something I'll bear in mind (2h20 happens to be my longest so far). I have a mixture in my runs. My usual 10k is pavement for 3k, metalled trail (Richmond Park) for 2k, boggy quagmire (Wimbledon Common) for 2k, metalled trail for another 1k (Putney Heath), and then 2k of pavement/road (Tibbets Corner to home).
The Towpath is a similar mixture. Pavement for the first part to opposite Craven Cottage, metalled trail with patchy bogs to Barnes, "lovely brown concrete" and then flagstones almost to Mortlake with patches of bog, and then mostly pavement to Richmond.
My commute in is all pavement though, as is the intervals I should be doing right now. Thud, thud, thud.
Greenbank
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.