20mile races in marathon build-ups

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clare1976 May 2012 2:31pm, 6 May 2012 1,969 posts	0 clare1976 any other time would have loved to but is my baby's 1st birthday that day!
clare1976 Mar 2015 4:24pm, 17 Mar 2015 3,051 posts	0 clare1976 Bumping this for the benefit of anybody wondering about how to approach a 20 mile race in marathon build-up!
Nelly Mar 2015 4:34pm, 17 Mar 2015 2,293 posts	0 Nelly I'll be trying the approach outlined by Gobi on Page 2 in training in the next few weeks
Funky Chicken Mar 2015 4:41pm, 17 Mar 2015 315 posts	0 Funky Chicken It's been on my watch list for a while. Worked very effectively when I followed the advice last autumn, though I managed not to follow it earlier this month and almost came unstuck as a result!
Gobi Mar 2015 4:42pm, 17 Mar 2015 55,465 posts	0 Gobi A fun day out doing 20
rf_fozzy Mar 2015 5:28pm, 17 Mar 2015 6,738 posts	0 rf_fozzy Oh dear. Did I start this thread? Before I saw the light that road races are the devil's spawn and that fell racing and orienteering was the way forward....
Uyuni Mar 2015 3:09pm, 18 Mar 2015 35 posts	0 Uyuni Thanks for bumping this Clare. Had pretty much decided to go with something like the approach outlined here at Ashby this weekend anyway, but it is good to read reassurance that it is a reasonable thing to do.
Lills Feb 2016 3:27pm, 19 Feb 2016 1,292 posts	0 Lills Bumping this thread as there is lots of useful info on here 😀
Fitz Feb 2016 11:12am, 20 Feb 2016 1,421 posts	0 Fitz Ive been doing these once avweek fir the last five weeks of my Mara training. I'm really struggling to find the pace in the last 5 miles, looks like I need to revise my Mara pace target 😳😳
clare1976 Feb 2016 6:10pm, 20 Feb 2016 3,452 posts	0 clare1976 But that's quite a hard s3ssion to do every week Fitz? No wonder it's tough especially as I assume it's part of a full week of training? How about running your long runs easy and doing this once in 3 for example?

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I'm interested in what people think about them - do you do them? How do you run them

Advice from Gobi:

5 miles @ MP + 60-90( time to get loose so start close to 90 and work down)
5 miles @ MP + 45-60
5 miles @ MP + 30-45
4 miles @ MP
1 mile however you like
1 mile cool down

The 1 mile cool down came into force as I discovered coaching nobody wants to back off at 19miles and look like they have blown up so we invented the go race the last mile and then do a cool down rule

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