March 2011

[ladyrunner]

and the first part of an interview with run / walk marathon guru Jeff Galloway – although he hasn’t got onto the interesting stuff about technique yet.

Thanks Dan for that link to the Marathon Talk interview with Jeff Galloway. It made very interesting listening especially as I do tend to now use the run-walk-run training technic for my Downland long runs and did for the 3hr15 run that I completed last week. I don't have any set time of when I switch from running to walking, usually it is when I hit an incline I walk. Maybe this is why I finished feeling pretty good. In the past when training for marathons I can remember finishing 2.5-3 hour runs in a very tired and fatigued state.

I'm starting to wonder whether I should try the run-walk-run technic for Rotterdam. He says for training at 8 minute mile pace to run 4 minutes and walk 35 seconds. I was thinking more along the lines of run 8 minutes then walk 45 seconds. Normally I suffer mentally and because of tiredness between 30-35km when I want to give up - maybe this would help.

Are you going to be trying the run walk run technic at Brighton??

Any thoughts anyone on 8 minutes run/45sec walk?

Well done on a good week of training and it's good news that your legs have recovered. It sounds like you are ready.

Julie