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Galloway Method Details and Insights

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 det