A question for half marathon runners

[HighburyLass]

I have been running about 10 years. I like half marathon distance and have run maybe 12. But always well spread out so maybe spring and autumn.
I'm signed up for one in October and a friend has asked me to do the Great South Run (10 miles) but it's only a fortnight later.
Is that a really daft idea or perfectly acceptable?!

Any input gratefully accepted

How do you feel about it yourself based on your usual training load and how quickly you recover from half marathons? It's not a ridiculous idea and lots of people do multiple races of half marathon and shorter in a season.

It's not a terrible idea, you'll need to be prepared to take the half steady. Will your friend be disappointed if you don't run the 10 mile with them, but do it at your own pace?

The other way is to treat the half as a training run for the 10 mile, and deliberately run it at a LSR pace, before tapering. But that can be difficult to do when adrenaline kicks in, and it's an expensive way to do a training run

A fortnight should be absolutely enough time between them.

Thank you!

The half is a hilly-ish one so I'm not aiming for a pb, will just go with flow. And my friend is a slower runner than me so if we run together for the 10 miler (which is not a requirement) it would be a more leisurely pace I think.

I generally feel completely fine within a week - general aches last a day or 2 and the fatigue is gone by the weekend I'd say.

Glad to know I'm not being foolhardy for even considering it!

I'm usually well recovered from a HM two weeks after, as in the stamina is back not just plodding through easy runs.

Pick one to put more effort into than the other rather than trying to max both out.

As pps said, it's totally fine if you're not going all-out and racing both of them hard.
Plenty of us run half marathon distances or more every week (and more in marathon training) and there's no issue as long as you're not pushing yourself to breaking point.
It sounds like you're not planning on racing either of them from your follow-up post, so just take them as training runs and enjoy.

Absolutely not!!! But of course this is largely dependant on your training load and how you much you can take, recovery methods, etc.

Thanks again everyone. Really helpful. And I think both will be run more for pleasure than pb chasing! I'm off to sign up 👍

I have done this once.
Just be realistic. Be aware of your body, and recovery/taper/fuel etc.