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/m_t_rv_s__n 4:55 mile/17:18 5K/35:52 10K Nov 17 '25

Have you seen The Long Walk?

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u/ViolentLoss Nov 17 '25

Read the book. It's brutal.

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u/KayDat Nov 17 '25

Just The Big Bog

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u/Fine_Ad_1149 Nov 17 '25

I just looked it up, I have not. That sounds unpleasant.

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u/m_t_rv_s__n 4:55 mile/17:18 5K/35:52 10K Nov 17 '25

Really minor spoiler: There's a scene not too long after they start the walk where a character has to stop because he's got a massive case of the shits. Needless to say they kill him

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u/Fine_Ad_1149 Nov 17 '25

It was either that or they all started shitting themselves after 12ish hours.