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Remind me to ask how you enjoy Dublin, I've been thinking about that for next year.
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The more miles you can run the better, but you probably want to enjoy life (and cycling) in the real world, so I would at least try to segue into marathon-type training by gradually increasing a weekly long run, and ideally getting used to doing a mid-week longish run as well. Cycling will take the place of some easy running, but you will need tarmac-hardened running muscles to give the marathon a good go. Some plans get you starting on around 40k/week, so if you can get used to 40-50k at least in a couple of peak weeks, pre-marathon training proper, it'll be easier to slot into the schedule when it kicks off.
As for specific plans, it depends on what kinds of sessions you're used to doing. At the sharp end, Pfitzinger & Douglas "Advanced Marathoning" has some excellent tried and tested plans based on different training mileage, but there's a lot of quality, i.e. interval sessions/tempo runs, etc. A more straightforward approach (mainly easy running, some "race pace" practise but less interval work) can be found in Hal Higdon's beginner/intermediate plans.
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Ok then. Who has the bomb marathon plan? I'm running Dublin on 30 October and want to start marathon specific training on 1 August. Until then I want to continue as I am now just doing about 30km a week because I want to spend the summer evenings cycling. Does that work?