10-22-2007, 06:33 PM | #1 | |
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Galloways "Magic Mile" for race pacing
My wife has one of this guys (Jeff Galloway) books that she used to get ready for her marathon this year. While I think some of the stuff he says is whacko, this seems like a decent concept to determine race pacing. I read this on the Active.com website this morning:
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I would be interested in hearing how this formula works for anyone else that is running right now. |
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10-23-2007, 12:42 AM | #2 |
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good tip, my friend. i am going to do this tonight, and report back tomorrow. i have nothing better to do anyway, b/c i am not lifting since a certain undisclosed lifting buddy of mine totally wussed out on me.
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10-23-2007, 01:20 AM | #3 |
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Interesting, I might try it sometime this week.
How did your wife do in the marathon? Did I miss a report already? |
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10-23-2007, 01:57 AM | #5 |
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Farrah, it went very well. Here is my mini-report:
http://cougarguard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12201 |
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I like Galloway's book(s) a lot, especially his run-walk technique. I've run 4 marathons with it. I'm not very fast, but it's effective for me and the recovery is extremely fast.
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I've thought more than once about giving his technique a try, but I just can't bring myself to walk that often. Jeff ran a 1/2 that I also ran back in April, and I was just behind him until about mile 9. He would stop to walk about every 45 seconds, which I thought was weird. After mile 9 or so, I didn't see him again. I don't know if he dropped out or what. I couldn't find his time in the results. |
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10-23-2007, 03:06 PM | #8 |
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being of lightning speed, i clocked a 10:03 time. Rounding down to an even 10 minutes, i am right on par with the example in your recitation.
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And my piano teacher will be so happy to hear that I can still do a recitation after all these years. I had no idear. |
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I'll run a sub four-hour someday, but the most important thing to me is a quick recovery time - which I think is the best feature of the Galloway technique. I almost always have to work on Monday, so I really don't want to kill myself off during a Sunday run. My goal is consistency, so I just strive for a steady pace and maybe a little bit of a negative split. Besides, I'm just running for fun (and if you saw my thick body you'd know that I just can't be a serious runner). This is why I like Galloway. I suppose it might work for more serious or fast runners, but I wouldn't know. I usually run 6 miles a day, and walk for 45-60 seconds at the halfway point. On long runs (13+), I run for 9:15 and walk for 45, and end up with about a ten-minute mile (depending on terrain). I have a good friend who runs 20 minutes and walks 5 on trail runs - and he's an ultramarathoner (pretty fast too), but doesn't do it at all on street runs.
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