as most others are saying, I agree that it makes sense to race your best and let others deal with any concerns they have about your margin of victory.
for what it's worth, i've several times been the guy in second behind a dominating win -- once in a 25k where the margin might have been close to 10 mins. Only slight negative feeling I've had is "wish I could have given you some competition". I certainly never thought ill of the winner for going hard.
good luck in your race.
Dave
run advice wrote:
Lurker wrote:Oh good lord. Races are for racing, not for getting in tempo runs. If you are going to spend the money to enter, why on Earth, barring injury, would you not give it an all out effort?
Because there is no competition and he doesn't want to appear to be 'showing off'.
I would tempo it and save an all out effort for a higher quality race that has some competition to help push you.
So all WR's are basically people showing off!
fastland wrote:
jogging the race well below your fitness and winning by 10 seconds. That was known as "doing the Ted"
Please explain "doing the Ted!" The internet doesn't seem to know and needs update before your unique knowledge is lost forever.
My guess is it's Ted Corbitt.
Dream2Meme wrote:
Last year I ran a small half marathon in it's first annual year and won by two minutes despite taking a bathroom pit stop. This year I'm in exponentially better shape and feel like I could win by nearly ten minutes if I reach my goal time of 1:10 and the competition is just as sparse as it was last year. Is that lame of me to run that race? Should I just look for a more competitive race? Annoying thing is that I already paid for my bib
SWEEP THE LEG!
Seems like Bad Wigins really wants to do Ted.
Go for it. You can establish a course record for others to strive to beat. Who knows? Someone from out of town might show up and give you a run for your money.
Lurker wrote:
Showing off? Good lord, is everyone in America entitled to be offended by everything these days?
You don't want someone to beat you by 10 minutes? The train harder or get over it.
I've never been offended by someone beating me thoroughly when I've given it my all. I'd be more offended by someone dogging it and then taking off at the end.
Life isn't as complicated as we try to make it. If you enter a race, race it to the best of your ability. No one will have a reasonable basis for being offended. And if they decide to be unreasonable and take offense, who cares.
Keep it real, kee it simple.
+1,
give it a 100% and never let down. You'd look like a fool if someone out kicks you after you relaxed for 10 miles. Try explaining to the winner you were going easy the whole time, then you'd look like a sore loser. Always give it your all at a race is what I'd suggest. No sense in trying to build bad habits by sandbagging the competition only to be spanked some day by someone else doing the same thing.
Yes, go run a more competitive race. You'll probably run faster and you'll feel better about it.
Not lame as long as you do not duck competition the rest of the year.
Brokeback Wigins wrote:
Seems like Bad Wigins really wants to do Ted.
Who's been lying about her name, your mom or your sister?
uggghgh wrote:
Yes, go run a more competitive race. You'll probably run faster and you'll feel better about it.
Wish I could more easily, my location sucks. I plan on traveling 2+ hours to race at Philly half marathon against thousands of others and obviously much better competition. Unfortunately I can't make those trips more than once a year
race it but Id advise to race it where you go out with the lead pack for the first few miles and then start controlling the pace and then break away around mile 6 or 7 and just keep on gaping the field. win and make the others hurt and know that you are better.
Had Some Myself wrote: I think most of the runners out there appreciate that someone in your shape is running the same event.
Actual runners will appreciate it. But most people participating in road races are not runners. Try racing a 10k double loop of the 5k and you're lapping people still on their first loop. People in the way get angry when you "cut them off" or "make them look bad". Most of their ridicule is in the form of passive aggressive comments.
[quote]Dream2Meme wrote:
Last year I ran a small half marathon in it's first annual year and won by two minutes despite taking a bathroom pit stop. This year I'm in exponentially better shape and feel like I could win by nearly ten minutes if I reach my goal time of 1:10 and the competition is just as sparse as it was last year. Is that lame of me to run that race? Should I just look for a more competitive race? Annoying thing is that I already paid for my bib[/q
if you're in "exponentially better shape", shouldn't you run ten times faster, or something? Sounds more like you're in about 12.5% better shape.