Running Race Strategy; Pacing off the Competition Before Making Your Move

If you are a competitive runner and you’re worried about getting tired there is one way to slip into a zone where you do not think about how tired you are. The best way to do this is to get behind a competitor and focus your eyes on the small of their back. And try to match them stride for stride if you can’t that’s okay, just stay there anyway, as you legs might be a different length.

Next lean forward slightly and losening your arms and your elbows and do not move your arms up so high on each stroke. Once you do this slightly relax your breathing and loosen up. As you gain your strength back, as you are pacing off your competitor decide when it is the best time to pass them at full speed. As you are passing your competitor turn your head slightly and breath out really slowly but loudly in a smooth wind whistling sound towards their ear.

As you go by then you will sound just like the wind and they will not feel you are breathing heavily and they will lose hope because you are going bye them so fast and so effortlessly. Of course they probably do not know your as tired as they are but they do know that you are ahead of them and you plan to stay there and you plan to beat them. That is one thing they know for sure when you make a move like that. Please consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philospher and perpetual tourist.