[Steve]

When you race do you run to catch the person in front or run to keep ahead of the person behind you?

 

[bone idle]

I try to overtake the same number of ppl who have overtaken me. Never works tho!

 

[Cheryl]

Always try to catch the person in front.

 

[Granty]

I tried to keep up with my mates for as long as possible, and then once they had disappeared into the yonder I managed to keep up with 'padded Superman' for the rest of the way.

 

[steepler]

Keep in front of the person behind, catch the runner in front.
NEVER look back!

 

[Steve]

Keep in front of the person behind, catch the runner in front.
NEVER look back!

That's the way I look at it once the race has settled after a few mins.....also stay with the group you find yourself in for as long as possible....don't get dropped, if you do you just continue to go backwards!

 

[Dale the Snail]

I try to catch who ever is in front of me. That way I can't be overtaken.

 

[Steve]

This was the first question of the day I posed ....just thought I'd pull it up again as today's (9/1/09)question.


Lazy or what?!!

 

[beasty1711]

slacker

 

[Steve]

Sure am...but there you have it...you didn't answer I see!!

 

[mark_m]

def catch the person in front and keep ahead of the person behind you...so i say both!!

 

[Owain]

I chase after the people in front of me and then once I pass them try and stay in front of them Sometimes works, sometimes doesnt, no matter what I do, I always try and pass one or two people on the final straight.

O.

 

[spudly]

hang on someones shoulder a while, then push on to hang on the next bod.... and so on... that way you find the person just a bit better than you...

 

[Sweaty Betty]

def catch the person in front and keep ahead of the person behind you...so i say both!!

Yep - both. Even more so if the person in front/behind runs weirdly or breathes heavily - I just think I should definitely be better than you!

 

[carlwhitley]

Lazy or what?!!

Is that the question? If so... YES!



To answer the previous question - I'd like, in my next race, to try to catch the person in front.

At my first race, there was someone breathing down my neck at the halfway point, he passed me. I said to myself that I would catch him up and pass him and that no one else would overtake me and that's what happened - I beat him and we managed to pass other people on the way, which pleased me enormously.

 

[richardsimkiss]

Always looking to catch the person in front... if I get overtaken then that person behind becomes the person in front anyhow

Also I think most of us will run to the best of our ability, in which case there's not a great deal we can do about those behind us

 

[beasty1711]

Sure am...but there you have it...you didn't answer I see!!

yeah that cus it was todays (ish) question..and not yesterdays

i tend to try and find someone who's shoulder that i can sit on then with about 1k left try to kick on.

i dont really worry about people ahead or behind... i race as quick as i can so not much point me worrying about someone behind/ ahead

 

[Grant]

I usually chase the person in front of me.

 

[Nat]

Depends how tired I am :d I try to catch the person ahead of me, but if I'm out of juice then just keeping the same distance will do.

 

[twinkle toes]

If I can hear someone very heavy footed behind me that generally tells me they are as tired as I probably am so I try to speed up a bit to let them know they won't get pass me, most times it works and I always keep someone who is a bit faster than me in my sights so they pace me a faster race and like Owain do my best to get passed as many peeps as possible on the last part of the race.