Subject: RE: Run Walk StrategyI use to run and it just beat me down physically. I would hurt so bad when a ran was over, and on longer distances... I would keep a 12 minute mile pace.
Last year when I started training for my first IM, I decided to do 5 minute walk, 2 minute run intervals. In training it worked out great! I typically kept around a 11:30 minute mile (faster than if I ran the whole way ).
During my IM, for some odd reason my Achilles tendons on both legs starting hurting pretty bad on the bike at mile 80. So by the time I hit the run, they were hurting pretty bad. I tried to walk/run, but running was NOT happening. So I walked. The entire marathon in close to 7 hours. Come race day you go with Plan B if you have to.
Now days I'm training for a stand alone marathon and I'm doing a 3 minute walk, 2 minute run interval. I'm close to a 11 minute mile doing that.
Good luck!
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