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By aiming to get faster over 2 of the 10km's you're just building fatigue which won't help after a while.
Concentrate on building your distance covered (or time on feet) at a comfortable pace as you describe run 3 to be. Run the other 2 x 10k's slower, and sometimes shorten these runs.
Set a faster 10k goal for sometime after the Marathon if that is important to you.
Enjoy!
rhb
Signed up for the Edinburgh marathon at the end of May. This’ll be my first ever marathon and I’ve done no real running up until now (I was supposed to start training in January but hey-ho).
Currently running x3 10km’s a week. Two of them I’m trying to improve on time (currently 10km in 50 mins), and then the third run I am going to increase the distance of every week by a few km.
My gut feeling is that this is an ok plan. Is this an ok plan or am I an idiot?