drafting

Bury his ass or get outkicked, that's all you can f***ing do.

Draft someone else. :) Maybe he'll have a bad day and won't be able to keep up, or maybe you'll still be able to outkick him in the end. If it's not for a place, don't worry about it.

Pale Runner wrote:

I was furious, but since it was an unimportant race, I let it slide.

That was very big of you.

Pale Runner wrote:

I am going for a PR and do not want to waste time or energy dealing with a drafter.

You only wasted time and energy the first time because you decided to swerve across the road. Running with a guy behind you doesn't take any more time or energy than running without a guy behind you.

Maybe you could get a friend to show up and ride his ass for a bit, you know, taste of his own medicine... or, as another person suggested, ignore it and not waste any energy worrying about it.

Pale Runner wrote:

I told him to get up here and share some of the work.

Why would you expect him to do this? It's a race, every man for himself.

It didn't matter in the end. Although I am twenty years older I beat him by 15 seconds in the last half mile. Have someone run right behind you on a windy day for a 10K and see how you feel. I am just saying that I would share the workload. It was a local race not an Olympic final.

You have to either run faster or run slower.

One guy got on my case accusing me of "drafting" off him in a 5K. I was trying to keep up with him but couldn't! He beat me. If I could run faster I would have and would have passed him. DUH.

Let rip with some nasty farts...that will teach him to sit on you.

You are a genius.

potatoes

I drafted behind a guy for about 2 miles of a 5k once and right as I was about to take off and try and run away from him, he complained about me drafting. Talk about perfect timing! He never got to draft off me as mid-sentence I was gone.

He's only 1 guy. You can still do whatever you want. Okay, so he depended/drafted off you... but that doesn't make it any worse on you. With or without him, you can draft off someone or run anyway you want. I'd just ignore him and take this as a way to gain racing savvy, through better concentration.

Pale Runner wrote:

It didn't matter in the end. Although I am twenty years older I beat him by 15 seconds in the last half mile. Have someone run right behind you on a windy day for a 10K and see how you feel. I am just saying that I would share the workload. It was a local race not an Olympic final.

I don't know how old you are, but you're clearly far too old to be thinking this way.

you could always just quickly stop to tie your shoe, curl up, and let him just roll over you like the guy in this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

Harry Kooter wrote:

Pale Runner wrote:

I am going for a PR and do not want to waste time or energy dealing with a drafter.

You only wasted time and energy the first time because you decided to swerve across the road. Running with a guy behind you doesn't take any more time or energy than running without a guy behind you.

But if the wind is coming from behind, then the drafter is blocking the helpful wind from hitting you and helping you along. I think that a drafter CAN affect the "draftee's" performance.