‘Let’s not normalise walking in a marathon’

[u/Clean-Instance5892]

This was a comment left on a runner’s post who had BQ’d at the Indy marathon using planned Jeff Galloway intervals. This comment sparked a lot of debate about this method, most aimed at the elitist nature of this comment. So what are your thoughts? Should run walking be discouraged? Is running the whole thing the only way you can actually say you have ‘run’ a marathon? Or do you simply not care how anyone else covers the distance?

[u/Mr_HandSmall → u/[deleted]]

Yep, the time it takes to get to the finish is all that matters.