The Art of Understanding Training, the Art of Coaching

I'm wondering as we're getting very race specific and we're in the last weeks or perhaps months coming up to a race. How much time do you devote to those much longer runs? I assume that if an athlete comes to you and says, I really want to be my best for a race that's not too far away. The first thing you tell them is, well, we need to reevaluate those goals of how you're going to perform because we only have so much time. But I would also imagine that you're jumping straight into sort of that last phase. You don't just compress the entire via to max training, like a threshold training and slower training all into just a