Run walk a marathon?

[Tessie66]

Love to know how you have done a marathon?Thinking about jeffing it running walking method and any tips if anyone has?

Set up a just giving page are you allowed to share I'm running for the British Heart Foundation

[Cmoi Marathon]

Completed a trail marathon event. Trained, ran where I could, walked where I couldn't, or had other priorities. Jeffing doesn't work for me.

While BHF is undoubtedly a good cause, forum guidelines prohibit fundraising: healthunlocked.com/marathon...

[Tessie66 in reply to Cmoi]

Thank you for letting me know, I'm looking into everything at the moment and taking in as much as I can I'm loving all the advice

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

I know some people have jeffed a marathon so hopefully you’ll get some tips from them soon. Have you found a suitable training plan to incorporate this method?

If you put “Jeff marathon” in the search bar you will see a few posts with some information you may find useful.

As Cmoi says in her reply, unfortunately we don’t allow fundraising on the forums. But we wish you all the best of luck with raising funds for such a brilliant charity.

[Tessie66 in reply to Irishprincess]

Not looked into jeffing yet just something I'm considering at the moment and thank you no worries about not being able to post for charity

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Tessie66]

I’m sure you’ve already found this jeffgalloway.com/training/m...

[Tessie66 in reply to Irishprincess]

Yes it's really good thank you

Times

[MissUnderstanding Half Marathon]

Runners’ World did a podcast about this…it was really interesting. Here it is in case you fancy a listen…

shows.acast.com/the-runners...

Episode 211 The Power of the Run Walk

[Tessie66 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

Thank you I'll be giving that a listen on Spotify

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

I have only completed one marathon. It was an impulse decision so I only had a very limited time to train and figured attempting to run the whole thing would be a disaster. We set off with a plan to run 1.2km, walk 0.4km (so each interval was one mile). It worked really well and we completed it despite our lack of training!!! I have to say though, it feels like 'unfinished business' - and one day I would like to run a marathon rather than run/walk it. I'm not sure it would end up much quicker though to be honest.

[Tessie66 in reply to linda9389]

This is something I'm definitely looking at doing even with training not a prayer I could run it all. I like the 1.2km run they say don't run out of breath and not to cause the body to much stress

[GTFC Marathon]

I haven't personally run walked one but do know people that have. You'll be fine if this is something you've done before and are used to, or have enough time to train that way. Like Cmoi said, jeffing doesn't work for me too although it's a really popular way to do it. It really is such an incredible feat to complete a Marathon. However you do go though I wish you all the best in your training for it.

[Tessie66 in reply to GTFC]

Thank you still a lot to consider and think about