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Your Wilmslow half marathon session does sound tempting! I quite fancy racing it so the marathon pace feels easier on race day. Maybe I'll do a 5km warm up and 5km cool down and run the 1/2 marathon faster than MP but not PB pace.
The pace threshold drop is comparing a tapered Barcelona half with a 10 mile easy, 10 mile MP 20 miler on tired legs so probably not a great comparison. I'm hoping a lighter week and Poynton 10km will freshen me up a bit.
Jimm
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Poynton is this weekend iirc. Hope it goes well.
I'm not sure how TP works to calculate it, but that seems a big drop to me. Did you do a LT test session/effort on a rough day maybe? My Garmin auto-updates mine after some harder efforts but I don't do the test session. Maybe you effort at Poynton will reset it?
Agreed on mental side of things. It is hard to know if enough is enough or too much.
I reckon you've time to recover from long runs still so adding that easy 10km on shouldn't be a problem, that day is also my longest session and there's 2 gentler weekends after then before race day.
On which, my training is for MCR also, and I'll be at Wilmslow too to do that long session - be good to meet you and say a real world hello if you're up for that too.
I'm planning to run the 10km course loop easy setting off just before 8am (tbc) to then be back with time to swap trainers and vest ready for the race start, then finish with a gentle 5km after to make it up to 22 miles on the day.
Marathon effort pace will mean not chasing folks I'd usually race but I reckon this should be easier to do once I have a few miles in my legs already.