I'm at run 4 min: walk 2 min trying to stay under the level that will annoy my ITB...so far so good. BUT, what is happening is that I am doing the run intervals much faster than I would if there were no walk breaks.., Today was my first attempt at a longer time (going by time rather than distance)..and still, my pace ended up being the same as if I had run the whole thing at my easy pace..so or not? My AHR ends up being same/lower than if I had run the whole way. I guess I would like some thoughts on if this is a bad thing to be running this way...could I be slowing my recovery... should I start looking at my watch and make myself slow down during the run intervals, or is this a good thing that could lead to improvement in my easy pace when I am finally ready to drop the walk breaks.... My thought was to keep the walk breaks in until I get my longest runs in before attempting to decrease/eliminate the walk breaks. I'm running my normal routes, so yes, there are hills involved, but I'm trying to stay away from the steepest ones.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I don't know too much about the run/walk stuff either - except when I'm too tired to run - then it just comes naturally. But in addition to JK, you may want to check with BadDawg out in the GSP or maybe in the Marathon Training group (I think I saw him there before). I'm pretty sure he trained for and ran a couple marathons using the Galloway method.