If you are thinking about training for a Half-Marathon, Jeff Galloway can help you prepare well, enjoy the training and glow from the achievement of crossing the finish line. Author of the bestseller "Marathon - You can do it!" Galloway now offers a state-of-the-art book on the highly popular half marathon distance. Jeff's trademarked run-walk-run method has helped hundreds of thousands of average people to get off the couch, train for marathons and half marathons without injury and has helped veterans to improve times. This book offers a step-by-step program that starts with setting up your training each week. Jeff will show you how to select a realistic goal, and which workouts are needed to prepare for various performances. The book is loaded with tips on how to stay motivated, eliminate aches, pains, and injuries, with the minimum training needed to enjoy other aspects of life. There's practical information on nutrition, building endurance, shoes, stretching, strengthening and much more. Jeff Galloway was an average teenage runner who kept learning and working harder, until he became an Olympian. He is the author of the best-selling running book in North America and a Runner's World columnist, as well as an inspirational speaker to over 200 running and fitness sessions each year. Jeff's quest for the injury-free marathon-training program led him to develop group-training programs in 1977.
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"Jeff Galloway is one of those rare individuals who not only knows his craft, but also has the ability to convey this knowledge through teaching." Frank Shorter 1972 Olympic Marathon Champion"
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Jeff Galloway has completed far more than 100 marathons himself, and he spends the time necessary to answer the questions of thousands of beginners, recreational runners, aspiring marathoners and time goal runners-every year. His innovative ideas have opened up the possibility of running and completing a marathon to almost everyone. Philosophically, Jeff believes that we were all designed to run and walk, and he keeps finding ways to bring more people into the positive world of exercise.
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Run-Walk-Run Really Works!,
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This review is from: Half-Marathon: You Can Do It (Paperback)
I bought this book while in the middle of following another taining plan for my first half marathon. The other, simpler plan was based on just grinding out the miles though it did include a few longish runs (8-10 miles) split into 2 halves with a short walk in the middle. I kind of liked a short walk in the middle (100m or so), it seemed to rejuvenate my legs. But ultimately the plan I was on eliminated them in favor of pure running.
Galloway recommends many more walk breaks and, at first, this seemed to me like cheating. But I figured I'd give it a try. I started running my 8-12K runs 1000m "on", 100m "off" (walk) and I saw something amazing happen: my split times came down and I could run longer and more enjoyably. My run/walk ratio of 10:1 is actually a lot higher run than he recommends, but it works great for me. I just used the technique in the San Jose Half Marathon and the results were great. I beat my baseline goal by 10 minutes and even beat my stretch goal by 3. I beat my last 13 mile time trial time by a whopping 20 minutes and, more importantly, I felt great coming across the finish line (I was *crawling* on my last time trial where I ran 3 x 7K with only very short walks). My pace actually sped up throughout the race and my last 2 miles were my fastest. So, for me, the system works. I am doing another half in January and will follow the entire program this time.
47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding method, poor presentation,
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This review is from: Half-Marathon: You Can Do It (Paperback)
I really wanted to give this 3 1/2 stars, but since all other reviews are four or five stars, I went for the low side since it has severe technical problems that need to be addressed. Nonetheless, the program is outstanding and I DO recommend the book.First the good news: It works! Seven days ago, I finished my first half-marathon. This was an accomplishment! When I started the program I was 48, obese with a BMI of 32, and coming out of a extremely sedentary lifestyle. I had spent a couple of months before on a different program: The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer, with disastrous results, which cause me to spend two months recovering from a Achilles' tendon injury. I needed something that was suitable for a REAL non-runner like me. Galloway's run-walk-run approach rose to the challenge. The basic rule is to never overdo training, and he gives excellent advice on how to learn your limits, respect your limits, and when appropriate, push them. The heart of the method is two-fold. First, is developing a training pace based on your ability to run a carefully-controlled test mile. This pace is further adjusted for heat and other factors, and for some new runners it might seem almost impossibly slow, but Galloway is guiding you to realize that training your body is *not* the same as racing. Taking it slow as Galloway urges, works! Second, Galloway promotes regularly-timed walk breaks, his "run-walk-run" method. For a slow novice runner, these might be timed 30 sec running, 30 sec walking. For someone running 7-min miles, he suggests 7 min running, 30 sec walking. Throughout, you're encouraged to be flexible, experiment, and find the ratio that works for you. (In my half-marathon, I choose a ratio of 100 / 80 seconds). This not only serves as a control against overexertion, but also as a form of interval training. It's certainly a different beast from HIIT (high-intensity interval training), but I found that that can be incorporated judiciously into some workouts as well. Other valuable pointers are on keeping a running journal, tips for mental motivation, troubleshooting aches and injuries, and diet. The bad news is strictly with the editing and presentation of the book, but those problems really hurt its readability with needless confusion and backtracking. There are typos in almost every chapter. For example, after a paragraph that says "For long run training pace, add 3 minutes per mile," the table that follows says "(add 2 min/mi) Long Run Training Pace." On another occasion, an entire paragraph is repeated within a chapter. Metric equivalents are seriously off throughout--even as much as sixteen degrees (-20C isn't -20F; it's -4F. p.181) At best, non-American readers will waste time having to calculate the correct values they need; at worst, they'll use advice for the wrong temperature or pace and suffer the consequences. I don't blame Galloway for all these errors; this woeful lack of editorship is endemic in the publishing industry, but I would've loved for this to be a polished guide. The layout is a disaster. The over-the-top use of two-page photos, background color blocks, repeated photos in the margin of *every* page, and GIANT TYPE might have been useful to get people to buy the book, but it hurts when reading it. It's a train wreck of distractions. Sure, many of the photos are excellent, and I love good pictures, but the excessive illustration makes it feel like an awkward coffee table book, rather than a runner's essential manual. Nearly a third of the pictures advertise Polar Electro heart-rate monitors, though there's not a word on heart-rate training. Lists that should fit on a single page are split over several pages, as are reversed-out color blocks. It is almost impossible to read linearly. There are no sidebars; supplementary information is in the main flow, constantly disrupting it. Every chapter feels scattered and disjointed, and it's virtually a nightmare for anyone with ADD (or a background in design). Despite having it for more than six months, and reading it very often, I still don't know if I've read the whole thing or not. Yes, getting through is *that* bad. Don't let that stop you from getting it, though. There is still *much* more information here than on his website, and the book is nicely priced. Most important of all, this method works, and took me from injured couch potato, to half-marathoner.
43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book!,
By TRYTRI "TRYTRI" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Half-Marathon: You Can Do It (Paperback)
It's quick & easy with lots of color & specific tips. It's particularly good if you feel like you're too old or out of shape to run a half-marathon. While there are great tips for training for more competent & experienced half marathoners, as a runner moving into the "masters" category, I really appreciated some of his insight into prioritizing workouts and pacing so I could avoid injury and enjoy myself longer. Took his advice on walk break and set a personal record at my next Half Marathon, despite the aging knees!!
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