Galloway's Run/Walk/Run Method
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:09 pm
I haven’t posted since July of last year because I have not been running much the last couple of years due to recurring health issues as a result of complications from kidney stones. I’ve tried to get back to it a few times but was unable to sustain my efforts.
Since I started running in 1977, my approach to running has always been one of “run as far as you can as fast as you can and repeat.” It was not quite that simple but essentially that was it. Like a lot of people, I thought that real runners do not take walk breaks. However, that approach is not working for me right now. I cannot sustain continuous running as I have done, even in the recent past.
Jeff Galloway’s Run/Walk/Run method has been around for many years but I had chosen to ignore it because it didn’t fit with my usual approach to running and training. Circumstances have now changed and in order to be able to run longer distances and increase the time spent running, I have decided to use this method.
I started running this way in mid-December and have been able to increase my running distance to 5 kilometres with an average pace of about 7 minutes per kilometre using a 3:30/1:00 run/walk interval. Overall, I have been pleasantly surprised by the results I’ve been able to achieve using this approach. I plan to continue in this fashion for a while and see how things develop. I hope to return to continuous running at some time in the future but I am just pleased to be running again.
I’d be interested to know if any other forum members have tried Jeff Galloway’s method and what they thought of it.
Since I started running in 1977, my approach to running has always been one of “run as far as you can as fast as you can and repeat.” It was not quite that simple but essentially that was it. Like a lot of people, I thought that real runners do not take walk breaks. However, that approach is not working for me right now. I cannot sustain continuous running as I have done, even in the recent past.
Jeff Galloway’s Run/Walk/Run method has been around for many years but I had chosen to ignore it because it didn’t fit with my usual approach to running and training. Circumstances have now changed and in order to be able to run longer distances and increase the time spent running, I have decided to use this method.
I started running this way in mid-December and have been able to increase my running distance to 5 kilometres with an average pace of about 7 minutes per kilometre using a 3:30/1:00 run/walk interval. Overall, I have been pleasantly surprised by the results I’ve been able to achieve using this approach. I plan to continue in this fashion for a while and see how things develop. I hope to return to continuous running at some time in the future but I am just pleased to be running again.
I’d be interested to know if any other forum members have tried Jeff Galloway’s method and what they thought of it.