I am doing the Galloway half marathon training plan. I think there is an error in the acceleration glider drills. In the video Galloway states there is a 30 second recovery after each. But this is not built into the training plan.

You are right, it's misleading. You get a 30 second time frame, you start to accelerate and as soon as you reach your speed, you immediately glide back to a slow walk and keep walking until the 30 seconds have elapsed. For me the acceleration-glide cycle takes about 10 seconds and the remaining 20 seconds is my recovery. That's at least how I understood the exercise. 

He clearly states in the video that the AG should take 30 seconds, then there should be a 30 second recovery.  That is not how the workout is set up though.  You can't modify the workouts or I would've just added the steps to the workout.  Schneeleopard we are doing something similar accelerating for 10-15 seconds and then "gliding" back to a walk during the next 15 seconds and repeat. 

One issue we ran into was with the miracle mile there was no lap button press so after the AG we went to our start position for the mile (we hadn't yet made a mile from the beginning of the trail) and didn't realize that the mile had started.  When we pressed the lap button to start the mile it went to the cool down.  So we had to restart the whole workout and lap press through it to get back to the mile.  Then it doesn't show up as having completed the miracle mile.  Frustrating.

I just started this program and what I do is do the acceleration glider drill for 30 secs then walk the second 30 seconds 

Hi, old thread, but just started Galloway myself and slightly confused by first drill workout. There is a 

3 x Run, 30 secs Acceleration Glider Drill. I would have expected Run-Transition-Walk or the like.

On first look it reads like "run for 30 secs x 3" or just run for 90 secs.

The drill says "Transition smoothly from walk to jog to run, then glide seamlessly back to a walk."

So what I think it means, as previousy stated in this tread, is at the start I'm walking, transition to run then back to walk and this takes 30 secs - repeat 2 times more.

So I am walking at start and finish of each 30 secs and running somewhere near the middle.

I guess the exercise being called Run is the misleading bit, maybe Walk-Run-Walk might have been better?

Have I get the right end of the stick?

I think you are right. In the video he clearly states that a recovery of 30 seconds os after the glider. Same as with the cadance.. 

is the error is getting solved? @garmin

Hi Crow, this is also how I did it, but I am not sure this is how it is intended. Strange that it is still unfixed and not clarified after 3 years.

There are more bugs in the Jeff Galloway coach:

- The translation bug: The English text "Walk for recovery" for the 3 min recoveries between the 800 m runs is translated into German as "Laufen" instead of "Gehen" (i.e. "run" instead of "walk") so the German speaking athletes will not "walk" but "run" for revovery and will be surprised if they do not recover and make an entirely wrong training!

- The Half Marathon training sessions have long runs of up to more than 31 km, which is most likely a confusion with the Full Marathon training program.

Hi the_mule, after more than 3 years Garmin still has not fixed this! I ran into the same problem as you!

Exactly as you said, after the preparation walk-run-walk intervals the "magic mile" starts right away without an extra "lap button press". This is untypical, because for all other training sessions you need to press the lap button to enter the next part of the training session, so I also think that this is almost certainly a bug and not intended behaviour!

What I did, after realizing this, is to plan my walk-run-walk intervals so precisely that I ended up more or less exactly at the starting point of the magic mile after the last walk-runs-walk interval. But this is very hard and certainly not what Garmin, or Jeff Galloway, intended.