“It was embarrassing at the time,” he admits. At that 1980 Houston Marathon, he ran to each mile marker, then pulled over to the side of the road for a walk break. “My next several years were just stellar,” he says. To achieve this, he began to incorporate run-walk sessions in his training. I came up with a new personal mantra: ‘Run Injury Free.’” “I wallowed in my misery for a bit, and then realized I needed a different goal. “I thought, ‘Okay, maybe I’ve reached the end of my improvement curve,’” he recalls. He had injuries, suffered through races far slower than his expectations, and began feeling “down” about his running. In 1978 Galloway remembers hitting a low point in his training and racing. It’s also his personal record, and it came eight years after he made the 1972 Olympic team in the 10,000m. Jeff Galloway almost certainly holds the record for a run-walk marathon - he ran a 2:16:35 at Houston in 1980 while taking a brief walk break each mile.
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