Can you run a quick marathon using the Run-Walk-Run method? (Example)

In the 2010 Exeter Marathon, I experimented with the Run-Walk-Run strategy that was popularized by Jeff Galloway to see how well he could work a little faster than most people who usually use the Run-Walk-Run method.

Jeff Galloway first shared this strategy with me a few years ago and told a story about how he coached someone using the Run-Walk-Run from 2:33 PR to 2:28 PR.

Fast runners are beyond their competence, because he does not have enough data about them, so it seemed to me a good opportunity to add a new data point.

While I was preparing for the Exeter Marathon, I went through several training runs up to 10 miles long, using a 15-second break for every mile as my turn / walk. I also spent a mile to see what form I was in, leaving 5:14.

At 5:14 the miles included in the Galloway calculator, it is estimated that my marathon will be approximately two to six. According to Macmillan's calculator, I was at about 2:52. Based on my own experience and level of preparation before this race, I estimated that I was at about 2:54.

Using the Run / Walk method for the first 20 miles and then racing, I actually ran 2:50:26.

I urge the experiment to succeed and I think that it will check it when I am in the best shape to see if I have a similar gain in such a time that I think to run.

I think the big benefit for walking is that it gives me a good opportunity to stretch my back, give my muscles a quick break with a different movement and reminds me on a regular and regular basis to overestimate my current shape,

I am generally well versed in assessing my form, but I do not think that in the past I had a discipline to remind myself 3-4 times per mile, which I easily found when I expect walking breaks, restarting walks and a few just between them, watching the real place to take a walk to achieve the best effect.

Any race, but especially long races, such as a marathon, is at least a mental game than a physical game. Of course, you need to be in good shape to have a good time, but you can be in good shape and still work poorly if your head is not in the right place. I think walking walks helped just as much as mental play like physical.

So, I said I want to get the best shape. Then I want to try this strategy in a larger race, where I will have people to work with. I want to see how I do it.

Maybe I have no evidence that I can launch a 4-minute PR and break through in the 2-30th, but I have no evidence that I can not. Since I feel that I am capable of this, I am going to train for it and try to do it. This experiment was successful and tells me that further research is needed.

If that doesn't work, I'll be back in the race. If so, then probably at some point I will still be competing in the race, but I will continue to play with the run-walk-run.

In any case, I will strive to run fast.