This week's long run was 20 miles and after speaking to an experienced marathoner (with an age-group winner title under his belt) we decided to try running 4 loops of a five mile route, allowing us to return to the car for drinks/discarding clothing as necessary. I have not tried this method of training before, as I usually prefer to run to a place and find reaching a destination a certain distance away more satisfying than weaving around one place to clock up the correct distance. But I found this strategy a nice change, and would definitely do it again to achieve a large number of miles.
As well as providing some confidence because you are never too far away from your base should you get injured or feel unable to continue, the best thing about this method is that you can drive to a favourite part of a route and just do that section. We drove to a car park at Fremington and ran a loop along the coastal path and back through quiet villages with good pavements, thus getting the benefits of running this great route whilst avoiding having to run up the sharp hills that would otherwise have got in the way of running in this direction and made a 20-miler considerably harder.
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