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The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

Jeff Galloway

The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

Jeff Galloway

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

Jeff Galloway

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

Jeff Galloway

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

Jeff Galloway

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Jeff Galloway

The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

Jeff Galloway

Jeff Galloway

Jeff Galloway

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Born: July 12, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Jeff Galloway is an American Olympian and the author of Galloway's Book on Running.

Known for:

Galloway's Book on running (1984)
The Run Walk Run Method (2013)
Marathon: You Can Do It! (1996)
Running Until You're 100 (2006)
Running--Getting Started (2005)

Jeff Galloway on Wikipedia

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