I listened to Jeff Galloway speak at the Disney Marathon expo but I still don't understand the logic, He was on a panel with some other coaches that looked to be very uncomfortable in their own skin when being asked about the science involved with the run walk program.
bill rodgers incorporated the walking breaks in the marathon when he ran his first American Record in the marathon at boston running 2:09.55
jeff galloway was rodgers college teammate, so galloway obviously gave rodgers the information on walking breaks, long before he wrote his books and came out publicly with the idea to take walking breaks.
Rodgers stopped completely becauise it's damned hard to tie your shoes while running. He also stopped completely to drink because he was a former bar drinker and that is the way he learned to drink. He didn't walk a step.
One of the Hansons was part of the coaches panel and he called Galloway out on nearly every point. It was a fun watch.
holy shit! Is this true??? I would love to see a video of this. It sounds hilarious.
Galloways program makes sense for some because it calls for even pacing. Four- 5 hour marathoners might find it helpful because it breaks the race down into short, manageable segments and keeps them from running too fast the first 10 miles. I have a harder time with his recommendation for beginners to cover more than 26 miles in training. I don't believe Rodgers and Galloway went to college together. You may be thinking of Amby Burfoot.
naia champ wrote:
Galloways program makes sense for some because it calls for even pacing. Four- 5 hour marathoners might find it helpful because it breaks the race down into short, manageable segments and keeps them from running too fast the first 10 miles. I have a harder time with his recommendation for beginners to cover more than 26 miles in training. I don't believe Rodgers and Galloway went to college together. You may be thinking of Amby Burfoot.
All three went to college at the same time, Galloway was the oldest, none of them were on scholarship.
As the weight of "marathoners" goes up, as well as the times, I plan to write a book recommending taking sitting breaks while walking a marathon. It will be dubbed "Walkandstopping". You heard it here first.
Who are the Hansons? I am very familiar with THE GALLOWAY APPROACH. I have a sub 6 hour marathon to thank him for.
The Hansons, along with rojo, are hot weather running gods.
They know how to suck it up in all conditions.
you should try gallowalking only because it was thought up by a dude who coulda qualified for a double event at the olympics because he was truly a team guy
Jeff Galloway managed a 5:06 marathon at Disney. Pretty impressive. I guess that walking stuff does work.
What you say may be true, I wasn't there. But Galloway has never been interested in coaching national level runners. He is a "citizen coach", a coach of "the public". Comparing the Hansons and Galloway is apples and oranges. "calling Galloway out" is ludicrous. There is only a waste of energy to get annoyed with him. Just let it go.
~ to the Galloway critics~
He is an Olympian and a person who has changed the life of many by promoting running for health. Again, just let it go and work on your running and you goals.
just let it go and work on your running and you goals.
like running an entire marathon, which gallowwalkers will never know
I completely agree with mixing walking and running for your average middle aged jogger, but you haven't been paying attention if you don't know why Galloway irks some letsrunners - he has consistently said that even 2:30-2:50 marathon runners would run faster if they adopted his run/walk strategy. In fact in a recent interview he specifically cited a 2:33 guy running 2:29 by walking 15 seconds every mile. He definitely goes beyond only putting his message out to only "citizen runners".
help a guy out wrote:
Jeff Galloway managed a 5:06 marathon at Disney. Pretty impressive. I guess that walking stuff does work.
He has run a 2:16 marathon, won the Honolulu marathon and Peachtree Road Race and held the AR in the 10 mile at @47 min. He is now 65 and makes piles of money running 5:06 marathons.
The run walk thing really does help the 4:30 plus crown simply because if the incredibly long amount of time these people are out there and because these are generally people that either are not fast marathon material (too old, fat, big bone) or are not in shape to run a marathon. The walk breaks help minimize damage during the run because of the constant resting.
The stuff about 2:30 runners using walk breaks is marketing BS. No one would do it over a 5 hour marathon if they though Galloway didn't believe in it.
douglas burke wrote:
bill rodgers incorporated the walking breaks in the marathon when he ran his first American Record in the marathon at boston running 2:09.55
Don't forget that Pizzalato actually laid down on his back during his NY marathon win.
He also says that no runner (at any level) should run more than 3 days a week.
The below quote is spot on.
Galloway invigorated running in Atlanta and the Southeast in the mid 70s in ways that are difficult to imagine now. Benji Durden and Lee Fidler used to work/hang out at his Ansley Mall store, and he certainly supported them in spirit along with Bob Varsha and others. His first running camp in July '77 featured Durden, Bill Rodgers, Don Kardong, and yep Lasse Viren making an appearance with an interpreter, along with Leonard Hilton I believe. He encouraged a host of young runners with those camps at Hard Labor Creek and his early Tahoe camps.
He rolled out his run/walk schtick as a way to help high level runners back from injury. If it then transformed in a way to help folks finish a marathon, so what? If it doesn't work for you, ignore it. But I think his early marathon books with the emphasis on running longer than 26 to prep. for a first time marathon had and have some validity.
"He is an Olympian and a person who has changed the life of many by promoting running for health. Again, just let it go and work on your running and you goals."
I was also in Disney for the marathon over the weekend. I had an opportunity to talk with Galloway.
I personally asked him, "At what point do you draw the line with the run/walk method?"... He talked about what has been posted, " A guy who ran around 2:28-29 incorporating the 15 second walk breaks per mile."
I also asked, "what would you recommend the Olympian Marathoners running sub 2:10 do?"... His response: "I would never expect Olympic marathoners to actually incorporate walking breaks during the race and at that level, running at that fast of a pace, I would not advise them to. However, I think it would be beneficial if they would stop and walk for a few seconds at the water breaks."
As for Galloway himself, he is an extremely nice man and very approachable. He had a long line of people wanting to meet him and he took time for each and every one of them. I took a picture with him and got his autograph. Although I do not use his run/walk method, I really respect Galloway, after all, he is a former Olympian, former American Record Holder, and ran with greats like Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Prefontaine.