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Run Walk Run is a simple web portal of information used by a group of friends who run half and full marathons using the run-walk-run method, training at short, 15-30 second intervals. We rely on our friends and the Tulsa Fleet Feet HIT/MIT program for our training plans, courses, nutrition, gear, and support.

The run-walk-run method is simply breaking up your workout into sets of running and walking intervals, which can have a wide variety of ratios. Our group practices short intervals, ranging between 15 -30 second runs and 25-30 second walks. Run-walk-run sounds like the popular HIIT workout programs, and while they do share some similarities, they are not the same. The purpose of HIIT is to go as hard as you can during the work interval, raising your heart rate, while the purpose of the run portion in run-walk-run is to not exhaust yourself, but having an effective and efficient way to reach a specific goal.

Run-walk-run is not about speed, although you can go as fast as you desire. We train for a 3 hour half or a 6:30 hour full marathon, giving us a 13:44 - 14:53/m pace. For our group, it's about conserving energy, maintaining pace, having an efficient cadence -- reaching that goal.

Run-walk-run allows us to:

• Fight fatigue

• Rest muscles during a walk segment

• Use certain muscles for shorter periods of time

• Conserve our energy and resources

• Recover quickly

• Shorten the amount of stress on joints, knees, hips

• Regulate our body temperature

• Regulate our heart rate