Her level of commitment & attention to detail is a clear indicator of what makes her GREAT /8RRr6W30eY He has concentrated on triathletes for much of the last decade, and worked with 2016 Olympic Triathlon gold-medalist Gwen Jorgensen to hone her running.Īlways an honor to work with Gwen Jorgensen. citizen for almost 20 years, Bobby McGee coached distance legend Colleen DeReuck to four Olympic teams. Elite Coach Bobby McGee’s “Fractionalized” Runsīorn in South Africa, but Boulder-based and a U.S. These summaries are based on extensive interviews with the coaches. Why? Because it works for them.īelow you’ll find a summary of run-walk principles, workouts, and results from three veteran professional coaches, ending with Galloway himself. Galloway says many runners are now only taking 30-second or 15-second breaks, while beginners may now be running 5 seconds and walking 30 seconds.
Second, the running and walking breaks are getting shorter. They say that run-walk training helps them build endurance while avoiding injuries - a combo that leads to faster performances. Nearly a half-century later, the run-walk movement is both going strong and morphing in several unexpected directions.įor one, it has been adopted by a handful of elite triathlon coaches and athletes. His chief training officer, Chris Twiggs, says more than a million runners or walkers have interacted with Galloway in one form or another since 1973. Since then, Galloway has spread the gospel of run-walk-run (as he calls it) to legions of runners, from beginners to aspiring sub-3:00 marathoners. He: “No huffing and puffing.” In other words, when you start feeling out of breath, stop running. But it worked, producing to a PR, and proving the method is not just for inexperienced neophytes.Ī few years earlier, in 1973, Galloway had imposed an ironclad rule on his students in a beginning running course. “It was embarrassing at the time,” he admits. At that 1980 Houston Marathon, he ran to each mile marker, then pulled over to the side of the road for a walk break. “My next several years were just stellar,” he says. To achieve this, he began to incorporate run-walk sessions in his training. I came up with a new personal mantra: ‘Run Injury Free.’” “I wallowed in my misery for a bit, and then realized I needed a different goal. “I thought, ‘Okay, maybe I’ve reached the end of my improvement curve,’” he recalls. He had injuries, suffered through races far slower than his expectations, and began feeling “down” about his running. In 1978 Galloway remembers hitting a low point in his training and racing. It’s also his personal record, and it came eight years after he made the 1972 Olympic team in the 10,000m. Jeff Galloway almost certainly holds the record for a run-walk marathon - he ran a 2:16:35 at Houston in 1980 while taking a brief walk break each mile.
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