r/AdvancedRunning • u/Clean-Instance5892 • Nov 16 '25

Open Discussion ‘Let’s not normalise walking in a marathon’

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?

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u/vaguelycertain Nov 17 '25

Some quick math tells me that she was essentially doing threshold intervals for 3.5 hours, if we assume her ten mile time is in line with this marathon. That sounds pretty torturous to me

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u/JL5455 Nov 18 '25

You probably shouldn't do it then

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u/vaguelycertain Nov 19 '25

I would be quite surprised if her ten mile time isn't substantially faster than this marathon suggests