If I'm training for a marathon, will a 10k race get in the way?

Question

Deena Kastor · Answer

Of course, it's okay to race a 10K while you're training for a marathon, but it should be strategically placed in your training block, a month and a half to two months, out would be ideal anything closer to that? Could really impede some of your rest and Recovery, which is so important in marathon training. So if you can fit it in there, good for you and make sure that you are rested and recovered from travel before putting in another hard effort,

Kate Edwards, PT, DPT, OCS · Answer

Hi everybody. Kate Edwards here? The question I'm answering is I'm training for a marathon while 10k race get in the way and the answer is absolutely not while you're training for a marathon, whether it's your first or not. It is a good idea to put a few races along the way during your training that match around where you're going to be in terms of intensity or distance so that you can get the feeling of what it's like to race and what your body is doing. So the marathon is is a long distance and no matter how many times you've done, it can pull out all different things. So the more prepared you are and the more race situations you get in the better, it is just make sure that you're doing proper recovery in that. If you're doing a 10K, you don't do much longer run the next day because you have to remember that distance. Isn't the only thing that's important. It's distance. Its intensity of training that really make a difference, okay?

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"If I'm training for a marathon, will a 10k race get in the way?"