1. The Physiology of Endurance Running Podcast episode "Road to Valencia 2025 - 8 weeks to go" follows Jenny Long's training and life schedule around her wedding week.
2. Awain hosts, Jenny Long is the runner being coached, and Dan is mentioned as the absent training partner in Mallorca.
3. The episode asks how marathon training fits around a major life event while still building toward Valencia 2025.
4. Jenny describes coming off a six-by-10-minute session on Sunday and starting Monday with an hour's run after the wedding-week training block.
5. She compares how long-run fatigue lands differently for her, Awain, and Dave, saying the same session hits each of them on a different day.
6. Tuesday's 10 by a mile off 30 seconds at the Cardiff mile loop produced 3.1 lactate after rep five and 2.9 at the end.
7. Jenny says the short recoveries make the workout feel like a broken tempo and force careful pace management.
8. She uses the session history to argue that lactate trend matters more than any single absolute number.
9. Wednesday includes a 55-minute morning run, a 33-minute afternoon run, and a comment from Alex Podden about taking the "30 minute what's the point" joke seriously.
10. Thursday's training combines 4 by 8 minutes off 60 seconds jog and 6 by 30 seconds off 60 seconds jog, with 5:38 pace and a feeling of not wanting to be there.
11. Jenny says she recorded the warm-up, session, and cool-down together for the first time and did not want to do that again.
12. Friday's run from her mother's house includes 106 feet of climbing in the first mile and ends after 57.5 minutes with Dave.
13. Saturday's wedding-day run brings six people out at 7:48 a.m., including Jenny's brother Chris with a party hat and Dave's best man Craig.
14. Jenny says she considered wearing her garment down the aisle but chose not to because her dress had a slit.
15. She describes the ceremony and dancing as more demanding than any race she has done, then notes she skipped Sunday because of a hangover after three days of drinking.
16. After the wedding, she and Dave run a 17.7-mile Purbecks route with 1,200 feet of climbing, three beach miles, and a final segment called "hammer time."
17. The tone is conversational and reflective, with a lot of training detail, Strava references, and back-and-forth between Awain and Jenny.
18. The format mixes weekly logbook updates with practical discussion about lactate, pacing, recovery, and how life events affect the plan.
19. Anyone training for a marathon around a wedding or major life event.
20. Listeners wanting race talk without training details or personal context.
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