Have you ever been PASSED on a run?

on training runs, i think i may have been passed once or twice in all the years i've been a runner. i'm pretty below average compared to serious runners, but i guess compared to the average person i'm fast.

mans red flower wrote:

side note: When the one old man did pass me, I had already realized several years earlier that I had never been passed. So the moment came as a shock. I am proud to say I did not start straining to hold him off; I just let it happen with humility and acceptance. Waves of peace washed over me.

like you, i've rarely been passed on a run - maybe a few times when i started out in 9th grade. i commend you for not picking it up when being passed - that happened to me a few times in college where some guy in the park where i trained would try to keep up with me every time i passed him - it got to teh point where i wouldn't run there anymore because the guy was so goddamn annoying.

another side: to all you mid-pack road racers who pick it up when being passed by a girl: give it up, you're pathetic. i ran a road race once with a good friend of mine who was a d1 xc all american and i got to experience first hand what it's like to run as a girl - it was a local 4 miler and we ran about 22:00 - she was the lead woman and every guy we passed tried in vain to keep up with us in the last mile - they'd pick up the pace for like 20 seconds to keep up, then drop back. if we were just two guys running by, they wouldn't have even looked up, but because one of us was a girl, they have to resist. talk about foolish pride.

now that i'm old and slow, i give enouragement when i get passed by the lead women, knowing that just about every weekend warrior reacts in exactly the opposite way.

I don't think I ever remeber being passed on a run.

On a different note, my roommate and teamate once knocked himself out on a solo run. He went our on a 2am run after a night of drinking hit a low hanging tree branch and woke up later. Not sure how long he was out but he was bleeding like crazy when he got back to the room.

Interesting question. Like you, I was aware of having never been passed (that I can recall) in my 20+ years of running. The loophole I'm including is I've always re-passed anyone who has passed me. I just remember this happening in college a few times, when someone would go by me during the recovery period of a fartlek, then I would pass them back for good minutes later.

Then I got passed for good earlier this spring. I and some friends had just finished a 3x2-mile workout (10:10-10:20) and were jogging back to where we started. It was dark, cold, windy and I was getting tired. The two guys I was with were chatting, but I was just thinking about how cold I was. A guy went by us on the sidewalk, and I knew right away what was happening. Unlike you, waves of peace were NOT washing over me. I hated it.

Move to Kenya.

Kinna hard when you're 15 and lived near Dustin Duke.

Come to think of it, no.

I dont consider myself "fast", not for a runner. I guess the fact that I don't need a wheelchair to get to IHOP for stuffed my pancakes all ready puts me ahead of most Americans.

let me show you this thing called the bell curve . . .

i have never been passed except for by other competitive runners, and i would never let it happen

only by guys trying to show off for me/friends i'm running with (i'm a female). it's fun to watch the weekend joggers slow down 10 meters after they pass you. one guy even glanced back as he was slowing down to see my friend and i catching him . . . fatty had to pick it up again until we decided we'd had enough fun messing with him. good times.

If you are worried about getting passed in a training run, you have deeper issues going on than just being a half stepper!

No, I'm lucky to see people on runs around here, and usually if I do it's an older gentleman or a female runner

once last summer; he's a 2:15 marathoner who was on the american team for 2003 worlds.

chrisbikeman wrote:

If you are worried about getting passed in a training run, you have deeper issues going on than just being a half stepper!

...or you are just overly competitive. I dont have a problem with it because I run pretty slow on my recovery days but I did get annoyed with this one guy. I was running slow about to pass this guy and he speeds up and starts running even with me until a bike needed to pass and he tucked in behind me. After the bike passed he put a surge in and kept up running at probably about 6:30 pace until he got off the trail to head back towards the pentagon.

I'm actually kind of shocked by this thread. I can't say that it's happened to me a lot over the years, but I've been passed a number of times on training runs, including back in the days when I was in solid sub-2:20 marathon shape. I considered it to be a mark of self-discipline not to speed up just because someone else on the trail happened to be running faster that day.

(I admit that I used to get a kick out of guys who clearly couldn't handle the idea of being passed on a training run, and who would speed up when they sensed that another runner was about to pass them. I would occasionally succumb to the temptation of playing around with them, letting them push the pace faster and faster until they just sort of self-destructed in their effort to avoid getting passed. A lot of times, guys like that will suddenly turn off the path, or sprint to a nonexistent finish line, just to avoid being passed. It's pretty funny.)

I get passed all the time in central park, maybe five times a week or more. same trails that everyone runs. I get passed by joggers on super easy recovery days. I get passed by los compadres on their tempo runs. I get passed by the occasional guy or team when I'm going moderate pace. There are a lot of really good runners in the park. However, with the new plan of doing most of my mileage under 7 minute pace (outside of the weekly track and tempo runs), rather than 7:40-8 (qua mcmillan pace calculator), I'm hoping to cut down on the passing a bit.

I've never been passed by another runner while training alone. There aren't that many people running under 7 minute pace at all, and even fewer happen to coincidentally be doing it at the same time, place, and in the same direction as me.

Great thread. Yes, I have been passed maybe 3 times in my life, but considering the number of years that I've been running in a populated area (DC) I'm surprised it hasn't happened more. Aside from my hard stuff, I do most of my runs at a 6:30 to 7:30 pace, and I would've thought that some college kids running a tempo or fartlek would zoom by me, but its never happened. I guess timing is critical.

One time on my very first run in 3 months after recovering from an injury I got passed by a high school kid. I was probably running about 8:00 pace and he was going around 7:30 pace. Of course I wasn't going to do anything stupid and speed up (but admittedly I thought about it).

The other time that I got passed, or should I say nearly passed was similar to your experience. I was running on a bike path in my neighborhood at 6 a.m. and it was during my highest mileage week ever at the time (98). My legs were completely fried, plus I just got out of bed and some middle aged joker starts running on my tail and just hangs in behind me for 200 meters or so. I wasn't in the mood to deal with him so I quickly turned off the path at the nearest intersection and never saw him again.

Boy, this thread contains more bullshit than and letsrun thread in recent memory.

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