http://www.reluctantrunner.net/running-strategy/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:21:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/running-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Running Theory Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:07:39 +0000 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/?p=361#comment-109 [...] have a little confession to make…  You know when I wrote about Ostriching and that as a running strategy it is probably sub-optimal - [...] [...] have a little confession to make…  You know when I wrote about Ostriching and that as a running strategy it is probably sub-optimal – [...]

]]> http://www.reluctantrunner.net/running-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-108 ryan Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:16:45 +0000 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/?p=361#comment-108 Ostrich's don't sneeze? OK. They are so dumb - a friend of mine was researching them at Rhodes Uni - they would walk into a fence and not know to turn around. But be that as it may i am an osticher. First of all i am never organised enough to check out the route - i agree with your last year's approach and think it makes it interesting if you don't know what you are going to see and makes the run go by quicker - especially obviously if you are in a town you don't know. I am always a bit daunted if i know what's coming up. And of course being a middle of the pack kind of runner i guess i have no issues with regards getting lost - i just follow the crowd. I know there are bus rides of the comrades route the day before - i have not signed up for that (yet) - i dunno i think it might just scare the hell out of me. Especially after my good friend Dave aka Baba who has run the race told me that the route itself is long (duh) and very boring. Plus we all know that travelling by bus is always the last option Why did you change something that worked well last year??!! I guess you wanted to just try something new? Ostrich’s don’t sneeze? OK.
They are so dumb – a friend of mine was researching them at Rhodes Uni – they would walk into a fence and not know to turn around. But be that as it may i am an osticher. First of all i am never organised enough to check out the route – i agree with your last year’s approach and think it makes it interesting if you don’t know what you are going to see and makes the run go by quicker – especially obviously if you are in a town you don’t know. I am always a bit daunted if i know what’s coming up. And of course being a middle of the pack kind of runner i guess i have no issues with regards getting lost – i just follow the crowd.
I know there are bus rides of the comrades route the day before – i have not signed up for that (yet) – i dunno i think it might just scare the hell out of me. Especially after my good friend Dave aka Baba who has run the race told me that the route itself is long (duh) and very boring. Plus we all know that travelling by bus is always the last option
Why did you change something that worked well last year??!! I guess you wanted to just try something new?

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