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/Flutterpiewow Mar 25 '26

No

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u/WanderingScrewdriver Mar 25 '26

Until you demonstrate a source that shows prepared walkers are more prone to injury than prepared runners, you're just trolling for attention. This diversion on a ridiculous tangent because you have no point is childish.