I raced today in a popular and large local Sprint. The race used a time trial start format, so racers were spread out all over the course, with no way of telling your relative position to others..
On th run I passed numerous people, and because I started early, was near the front and basically running solo with about 2 miles to go on the 5K....With a little less that 1 mile on the 5K run an athlete begins to pass me (the first to pass me all day)....I immediately lock onto his right side and whisper to myself that I'm going let this guy pace me in, since he is faster than me I figured he'd buy me some time...He heard me and immediately turns to me and says "don't try run with me...you cannot hang with me." I stayed with him as best I could...he eventually out ran me by about 15 seconds....I figured trying to run with him bought me about 15 - 20 seconds that I would not have gotten on my own....
He gave me a lot of looks after the race...
I'm not sure if he didn't want me "bothering" him on the run or is he knew he was a lot faster than me and was warning me to not try to hang because I might blow up.
I knew I wouldn't blow up beacuse I felt very good, the small distance left and I always close strong...
Was I right to try to hang with him, or was he right to tell me to back off...
"We will either find a way, or make one." -- Hannibal, General of the Carthaginian Army
On th run I passed numerous people, and because I started early, was near the front and basically running solo with about 2 miles to go on the 5K....With a little less that 1 mile on the 5K run an athlete begins to pass me (the first to pass me all day)....I immediately lock onto his right side and whisper to myself that I'm going let this guy pace me in, since he is faster than me I figured he'd buy me some time...He heard me and immediately turns to me and says "don't try run with me...you cannot hang with me." I stayed with him as best I could...he eventually out ran me by about 15 seconds....I figured trying to run with him bought me about 15 - 20 seconds that I would not have gotten on my own....
He gave me a lot of looks after the race...
I'm not sure if he didn't want me "bothering" him on the run or is he knew he was a lot faster than me and was warning me to not try to hang because I might blow up.
I knew I wouldn't blow up beacuse I felt very good, the small distance left and I always close strong...
Was I right to try to hang with him, or was he right to tell me to back off...
"We will either find a way, or make one." -- Hannibal, General of the Carthaginian Army