For those who don't know me. I am training to do my first Marathon in October and I am going to follow Hal Higdons guide for novices.
In his training schedule the longest run you have is 20 miles. (I thought it would be slightly further)
So my question is.... When I come to do the 20 mile run, if I feel ok should I try and go to maybe 22 miles or stop at 20.
It's just that psychologically if I only do 20 miles in training I know that I would still have the distance of 10K to do on top of that on the day of the Marathon. Where as if I did 22 miles in training, come that point during the Marathon I would know I would only have 4.2 miles left to do, which I think would be easier mentally.
Hope this makes sense
Richard
In his training schedule the longest run you have is 20 miles. (I thought it would be slightly further)
So my question is.... When I come to do the 20 mile run, if I feel ok should I try and go to maybe 22 miles or stop at 20.
It's just that psychologically if I only do 20 miles in training I know that I would still have the distance of 10K to do on top of that on the day of the Marathon. Where as if I did 22 miles in training, come that point during the Marathon I would know I would only have 4.2 miles left to do, which I think would be easier mentally.
Hope this makes sense
Richard