Walking breaks

Hi Stefan:

Go native: hook up with some others in your fitness range, and do as they
do...there may well be some walking up the steepest stuff. Make sure you
can enjoy the last long dirt downhill into Avalon.

It's a very friendly laid-back crowd, it feels more like an ultramarathon
than a marathon.

If you stay overnight, you might enjoy renting a cab for an hour or two
drive with your family around the island's interior, or take a tour bus. It
is a unique place.

-- Dan

"Stefan Sjostrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Thank you Dan, your estimate is close to what I'd expect too (happy to
hear other views though). I'll be doing Catalina with a slight jetlag
on a vacation with my family, so I won't push it that hard anyway -
need to have fresh legs for Universal Studios or whatever.

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

The Galloway walking system is based on taking your walking breaks every
mile (or every ten or twelve minutes, what ever you decide on) from the
beginning. While I am not a proponent of the G-system, it did pull my
bacon out of the fire when I "had" to run a marathon on practically no
training. As long as you keep going forward it will have little net
effect on your time. Apparently it works by allowing your leg muscles to
recover and replenish during the walk portion. I found walking through
the aid stations, which were every two miles worked for me. YMMV

Stefan Sjostrom said:

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

you can run at 70% of your maxHR, that should see you through and your
legs shouldn't be trashed out at the end
plodzilla

Stefan Sjostrom said:

Thank you Dan, your estimate is close to what I'd expect too (happy to
hear other views though). I'll be doing Catalina with a slight jetlag
on a vacation with my family, so I won't push it that hard anyway -
need to have fresh legs for Universal Studios or whatever.

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

Quoted message said:

Is it true that Galloway advocates walking breaks every mile of the
marathon? What's next, lawn chair breaks served with lemonade and

back

Quoted message said:

rubs.

Quoted message said:

Get with the program folks, the marathon is run, not walked. Did
Phidipides (sp?) stroll to Athens with news of victory in the
battlefield?

Quoted message said:

If you cannot run the full distance, step aside and allow others who
put in the extra training and preparation to complete the task
properly, in the true spirit of the event.

Quoted message said:

Steve LaDumbee
Langley, Canada (home of the morons)

Sorry there stupidass, but his comments are aimed tords beginners,
those just trying to finish the course.

[email hidden] (Stefan Sjostrom) wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Thank you Dan, your estimate is close to what I'd expect too (happy to
hear other views though). I'll be doing Catalina with a slight jetlag
on a vacation with my family, so I won't push it that hard anyway -
need to have fresh legs for Universal Studios or whatever.

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

I don't really know the course, but doing something like walking up hills
will save energy and not really hurt your overall time.

Stefan Sjostrom said:

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

A "general" guideline (probably exceptions) that I've read is that if
you wait until you have to walk before you start walking, then you
waited too long. Many people walk / power hike the hills early, then if
things are going well, they increase the amount of running in the 2nd
half. That is, save the energy until you're sure you have enough to make
it. On hilly courses, let the hills, not fixed time or distance
intervals, suggest when your walk breaks should be.

Enjoy! I've heard a lot of good comments about this race.

Dot

--
"Success is different things to different people"
-Bernd Heinrich in Racing the Antelope

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ravenwolf said:

I don't really know the course, but doing something like walking up hills
will save energy and not really hurt your overall time.

I did a half-ironman last summer and walked up the hills. I stayed
exactly even with the people who were running up them. Granted, I was
near the back of the pack; I don't think you'll win the race doing this.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Stefan Sjostrom wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Thank you Dan, your estimate is close to what I'd expect too (happy to
hear other views though). I'll be doing Catalina with a slight jetlag
on a vacation with my family, so I won't push it that hard anyway -
need to have fresh legs for Universal Studios or whatever.

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

Walking breaks are great in training or in long races, and as someone
suggested you can use the aid station as a walking break. I use them on
steeper hills in all my running, or if I feel wasted on some days I'll just
walk a few mins then continue running. Basically I go by heart rate when
walking hills - if it goes too high I walk until it drops to slightly under
the normal range, then start running again.

Planned walk breaks are also great for covering longer distances than you're
used to. I like to break up 10 min segments into 8/2 or 7/3 when doing long
runs early in the season after a lengthy period of very little running. You
can set up timers on your watch to tell you when to walk (which I don't
recommend) or you can use the mile markers - just walk a few mins after
every mile marker then run to the next one. You might find yourself keeping
up with others who run the whole way.

- Tony

"Danglynnn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Is it true that Galloway advocates walking breaks every mile of the
marathon? What's next, lawn chair breaks served with lemonade and

back

Quoted message said:

rubs.

Quoted message said:

Get with the program folks, the marathon is run, not walked. Did
Phidipides (sp?) stroll to Athens with news of victory in the
battlefield?

1) He did not run 26.2 miles (it was shorter according to some sources)
albeit over tough terrain.
2) No one knows for sure. It is not like there is videotape.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

If you cannot run the full distance, step aside and allow others who
put in the extra training and preparation to complete the task
properly, in the true spirit of the event.

Quoted message said:

Steve LaDumbee
Langley, Canada (home of the morons)

Sorry there stupidass, but his comments are aimed tords beginners,
those just trying to finish the course.

Stefan Sjostrom wrote in message
<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Thank you Dan, your estimate is close to what I'd expect too (happy to
hear other views though). I'll be doing Catalina with a slight jetlag
on a vacation with my family, so I won't push it that hard anyway -
need to have fresh legs for Universal Studios or whatever.

Next question: if I'm looking at 4.30-5 hrs, I suppose it'd be best to
plan to use walking breaks from the start?

/Stefan

Walking breaks are great in training or in long races, and as someone
suggested you can use the aid station as a walking break. I use them on
steeper hills in all my running, or if I feel wasted on some days I'll just
walk a few mins then continue running. Basically I go by heart rate when
walking hills - if it goes too high I walk until it drops to slightly under
the normal range, then start running again.

Planned walk breaks are also great for covering longer distances than you're
used to. I like to break up 10 min segments into 8/2 or 7/3 when doing long
runs early in the season after a lengthy period of very little running. You
can set up timers on your watch to tell you when to walk (which I don't
recommend) or you can use the mile markers - just walk a few mins after
every mile marker then run to the next one. You might find yourself keeping
up with others who run the whole way.

- Tony