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>>296695 Man, you've gotta have a goal to ask that. Do you want to go really far or do you want a new PR time?
Best option, however, is to get a balanced training in where you cover all your bases. You should run 4-6 days a week, ideally with one day each week where you do your distance run (at your 10min/mi pace, as long as you feel you can and increasing by 0.5-1 miles each week), one day where you focus on speedwork (as either fast and short intervals (@<8 min/mi, or mid-distance tempo runs (@ 8:30-9 min/mi)) and the remainder easy runs (10 min/mi) which should be kept very easy after any speed or long run day (for active recovery) and can be somewhat faster, but below your tempo pace at other times.
Work those speeds down while increasing your long run distance quickly and your other runs proportionally. Every 4 to 6 weeks of this plan, take a "rest week" where you run at your easy pace for a distance slightly under half your current long, for all your runs that week, then continue.
This plan gives you speed gains while increasing endurance in a manner where one promotes the other. Scale it up from what you can do now to just under the distance of an endurance race such as a half or full marathon over 8-16 weeks and you've got a standard training program. I guarantee it.
There's a great little tool that calcs out training programs similar to this for planned races/events at runners world: http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/smartcoach/1,7148,s6-238-277-278-0-0-0-0-0,00.html
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