The Run-Walk-Run method has been endorsed and popularized by Olympian Jeff Galloway. And Run-Walk-Run is already almost synonymous to the Galloway method. But as I found out, simply taking walk breaks is not necessarily the Galloway method. Galloway’s recommendations are more precise than simply incorporating walk breaks into your long runs and races. He’s actually very detailed and leaves out the guess work in what pace you should run your long runs and races, and what run-walk ratio you should do based on your pace. He has a test called the Magic Mile and a formula and a table to figure all these out. You can get a good idea of these by reading through the training section of his web site - http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/index.html. If you want more details of his method, you need to buy one of his books, especially the later ones or the revised ones like – Marathon: You Can Do It – Revised Edition or the book Training Programs. In these books you’ll be able to get details of all the aspects of training for a race.
Another great resource on the Galloway Method is the Extra Mile Podcast – Galloway Edition (http://gallowayextramile.blogspot.com/). This podcast is great because you get to hear Jeff Galloway himself. The format of the podcast is, each episode follows the Marathon training of the book Training Programs. The podcaster, Kevin Gwin, interviews Jeff Galloway and they talk about stuff relevant to where they currently are in the marathon training program. You’ll get clarifications on the concepts from Jeff himself and even learn new things that were not detailed in his website or books.
So, if you follow the Galloway Method, or just curious to what it really is, I recommend subscribing to or downloading the podcasts.
I was lucky to meet and very briefly speak with Jeff Galloway when he visited Manila for a talk early this year. He’s really a nice and funny guy.
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