Ryan Shay lapped me at the Alex Wilson indoor his junior/senior year. I didn't mind so much.
Ryan Shay lapped me at the Alex Wilson indoor his junior/senior year. I didn't mind so much.
Pogo wrote:
Ryan Shay lapped me at the Alex Wilson indoor his junior/senior year. I didn't mind so much.
I got you beat. I was lapped by Steve Cram at the Mallusk/Reebok/Belfast International XC when I was 15. I almost made it to the start of the final lap and was kicking hard but he and Mick McLeod came screaming by me.
I was an alternate for my club's Junior team and the Seniors didn't have one. I got thrown to the lions.
I was lapped in the 5k a few times and once in an indoor 3k by Josephat Kapkory.
But this doesn't make me feel bad because I've lapped more people than I've been lapped by. I lapped a dude in the mile in high school, lapped an entire field of guys twice in the 2 mile (I was around 950 and the 2nd place guy was S L O W), lapped at least one person in every 2 mile I ever ran, and probably lapped quite a few people in the 5k but it is hard to tell when you're not winning, you're in a big race, and there are a few guys really sucking out there (they tend to look similar to guys who went out way too hard when you're going by at lap 9 or 10).
words words words wrote:
I got lapped in an indoor 5k. Twice by one guy.
Me too.
If you are entered in a say 5000 or 10 000 on the track and you are towards the rear with no chance of winning, is it ok to step out in lane two to let the leaders pass you or should you just wait for them to pass on the outside?
As long as you don't wait until the last minute you should be fine.
If you're on the straightaway move out, if you're on the turn let them pass on your right. But as the last guy said, don't step infront of anyone at the last minute. Be aware of who is coming up behind you and give plenty of indication of your intentions.
I disagree. Youre in the damned race, you have just as much a right to lane 1 as the guys who are lapping you, and you rarely have enough time to go to lane 1 unless youre constantly looking behind you. Mcdougal almost lapped me twice once and you better believe he went around me (I was second). When I do lap people I hate it when they go to lane 2 since I'm never sure how long theyre going to stay there. Usually they look back and get out of the way at the last moment, and may drift back if theyre not aware of some chaser's presence. If I'm racing some guy this means that we have to stay in single file, which is annoying if you need to pass that guy. Essentially the lapped guy buys the guy who's about to get passed an entire straightaway where he doesn't have to worry about people passing (and since you're probably not going to pass on the turn, he gets about 200m free). Passing a lapped guy in lane 1 is much easier and predictable. So, stay in lane 1. That's what the lappers expect the lapped to do, and with good reason.
to nice? wrote:
If you are entered in a say 5000 or 10 000 on the track and you are towards the rear with no chance of winning, is it ok to step out in lane two to let the leaders pass you or should you just wait for them to pass on the outside?
even if stepping off costs you a pr?
just DNF wrote:
I have never been laped because I will either sprint to the bell lap like the poster above or if that fails I just step off the track to keep my pride.
Yep, at the 2004 Olympics
I got lapped in a 6 race. How's that?
(OK, it was a 12k XC race, and the guy who lapped me represented Ireland at the WXC)
just DNF wrote:
I have never been laped because I will either sprint to the bell lap like the poster above or if that fails I just step off the track to keep my pride.
Are you kidding me? Please tell me you are kidding...
There is pride in that?
If you are even coming close to being lapped in HS, you probably won't run in college, but if you ever jump into a track 10k, it would be stupid to jump off.
One time at a Stanford meet, I PRed by over 2 minutes and I was still lapped... Think about if you had been in the Webb/Ritz race, if you had run high 28's you would have likely been lapped... You are telling me that yu would have stepped off the track?
I've been lapped in a 10k on the track.
I came within about 200-300m of getting lapped by Bob Kennedy at the 2004 XC national champs 12k. It was a 2k loop and I finished my 5th lap less than a min before he finished. (no sh!t, I know I'm not super fast. My 5k PR is only 15:38)
Pythagoras wrote:
I got lapped in a 6 race. How's that?
(OK, it was a 12k XC race, and the guy who lapped me represented Ireland at the WXC)
Should have been "6 lap race". Back to the stats...
Man, 10K on the track? Don't think I could stand it.
Similar but unrelated humiliation: in the middle of a track workout in HS, my coach -- a 30 something guy with a bit of a beer gut and skinny legs -- told the team that he would stagger us across a loop of the 400m track. The slowest guy got a few yards on the next guy, and so forth, ending up with a handful of 4:15-4:25 mile types. Coach tells us that anyone who gets passed by someone behind him over the course of the mile will have to run another mile of hard fartlek. The rest can call it a day.
He blows the whistle, gives the fastest guy on the team about a 20-meter head start, and then takes off himself. In the end, he had passed the whole team comfortably. He probably ran his mile in about 4:30. I learned on the run back to school that he was a 4-minute miler in college, but it was still an amazing feat to watch.
My first high school 2-mile was an indoor race at Eastern Michigan (200m track). The Foot Locker (then Kinney) nat'l XC champ was in the race and ran 9:06. Everyone got lapped.
Worst track race of my life... Coming off a stress fracture injury and undertrained in high school.. Broke the tape with the winner of the 2 mile but still had another lap to go... Very embarassing... Have'nt been the same since........
In high schook, back in the early 70s, I was lapped by Craig Virgin at the Alton, IL regional cross-country race. So were 150 other high school runners. I consider it one of the greatest moments in my running career and am still amazed at his awesome running ability. And just last summer, at the Peoria IL Steamboat 15K classic, Brian Sell, Trent Briney, and Clint Verran lapped us on the hills at Glen Oak Park on one of hottest days of the summer. Truly remarkable athletes!
In the Oregon preview some years ago, I had to set my still standing 5k PR to avoid being lapped by most of the field (fonseca, hudson, mahon and a kenyan or two, I think) I hit the 5 in 15:30 and half a lap later they blew by. By the end, I had been lapped by everyone in the field but one guy, and, I think, lapped three times by the winner hudson. He ran close to 28 and I was over 33! I was just spent after running that 5k and I didn't have the best day. Still, the stands were crowded, lots of friends came to watch me too. Pretty humiliating.