Could you out run a police officer?

how does macing someone work if you are behind them?

Me and some buddies got caught tresspassing once and I ran from the cop that caught us. I won't go into all the details of the situation, but I will say that it was January and I was barefoot. Long story short, I outran the cop (ran the 400 in college) easily but later discovered that I had a large laceration on my foot and didn't realize it initially because it was so cold and I guess my adrenaline was pumping pretty hard.

Ha!

I have outrun many cops. The first two when I was in highschool. I was walking down the road, they drove by and I saw that they recognized me, they spun their cruiser around and into the woods I went! I could hear them coming through the woods after me, so I surged, zigged and zagged, I was out of site, then I reversed direction, sprinted across the road, ran up a mountain sat down and laughed my as off as I wathed them searching the woods on the other side of the road looking for me - ha! and I was only a 5:05 miler in highschool!

Second time I was wasted in a biker club in Lubbock, Texas I had blacked out when I came to I was in a fight whith the bouncers, they told me that they had called the cops on me so I headed out the door to see two of Lubbocks finest exiting their cruisers, I took off, those cowns never got near me! I was wearing cowboy boots, and it had been raining so when I reached the road slip and down I went, I tore a whole through my jeans and was bleeding like a casterated bovine om my right knee! I popped back up ran down an alley jumped a fence down another alley and to my girlfriends house - later cumps!

Another time I was walking around in a full Ninja outfit at night carrying a black camo 22 rifle, I walked around

the corner of an apartment building and came face to face with two big black guys, you should have seen how big their eyes got, they sprinted away (outrunning a Ninja! Ha!) to a telephone booth, I knew they were calling the cops. I started running back to my apartment two blocks away, when I hit my alley a cruiser was coming toward me and one behind me they were on their loudspeakers telling me to stop. I shoulder strapped my rifle jumped up and grabbed the top of the apartment pool security fence 12' and pulled myself on top of it's 6" top rail ran across it, leaped over the hand rail of the second floor walk way and down the back walk way to the other side into my apartment, rushed in closed the door and looked between the curtains to see another cruiser pulling into the lot on my side - that was a close one.

Funny cop can't out run a runner!

PB'S 100 10.8 200 21.2 4oo 55. 800 1:59 mile 4:45 2 mile 9:22 5k 16:50 10k 34:53 5 mile 28:15 10 mile 57:32 half 1:18:00 full 3:05:05 Ouch ! sorry Haile

As a girl, the whole running-from-a-cop dream is not put on high of a pedastool, but I can say I've done it on a few occasions.

One noteworthy night couple years back I was pool hopping with my guy friends who were all state finalists in track and XC. A friend of ours worked at the front desk of the hotel and hooked us up with some towels, but when we went to bounce from the the place one of the rent-a-cops caught on to our plan. Just to form a picture--this was a 350ish lb, 6'2" black guy. We had a good 60m lead on him when we threw off our flip flops and headed out across A1A (major road).

Within 300m this guy had caught up to my friend, and then me as I was trying to get a flight of stairs into a parking garage where I could disappear. It was the most shocking thing I've ever witnessed.

Must have been an ex-sprinter because we were flying.

I out ran a whole squad of TJ cops. One of the scariest runs of my life. But the thought of spending time in a TJ jail for no good reason gave me speed and endurance to spare. Thank God it was pre 9/11 when the lines at the border weren't stacked way back!

Brie couldn't outrun the cops..

Run all you want, but never stop until you get home. That is the best advice I can give. If you stop and try to hide, you will get caught. Personal experience has taught me this many a time.

when im drunk... its harder to outrun cops, i keep turning the wrong way and running into cops

Well, I can't run so I'm sure I couldn't outrun a police officer. Basically any police officer.

Thank goodness I've never had to.

lease wrote:

Well, I can't run so I'm sure I couldn't outrun a police officer. Basically any police officer.

Thank goodness I've never had to.

Go back to letscomplainaboutnotbeingabletorun.com

depends on which cop, there are some fast cops david mack, pamela jelimo, lasse viren and the high ranking chief superintendent of the ethiopian police force tirunish dibaba.

i got caught by a cop who revealed he was a 9:15 steepler a few years out of college, and that he had run 9:15 as a soph, so his true potential index was like 8:40

dude, tune into truetv and watch cop shows. you cannot outrun the dogs and backup and the radio. In addition, cops are pitbulls and will not stop chasing you! Do not run!

Not if you're being chased by Officer Herm Atkins.

lol! Of course if you are being chased for a mile and you are a runner, you can outrun a cop, but the key would be to get away from them in the first 250m. A lot of cops I know can cover this distance in about 30 seconds. That is NOT slow by any means.

I raced a cop in a 400m once right after track season. I was still training since some of the team made state, so I was still in prime. He was ahead of me until about 150m. He probably had a 8m - 10m lead when I was at 50m. That made me run the race wrong though and I would have lost if it had been maybe 500m. But, my first 200m split was 20.84 which was about 1.2 seconds faster than my PR split (also .16 faster than Michael Johnson's WR split...) and I ended up finishing at 50.07 which was almost 3 second slower than my PR.

This guy ran a 54.83, so my conditioning made a difference, but had this been a chase, I would have gone down. Even though the 100m was my weakest event, my PR was a 10.81, which is pretty respectable. In my 400m PR, my splits were: 11.44, 10.62, 10.75, 14.51. In this one I probably ran 11.3, 9.54, 11.5, 17.73 and I estimate my 150m split was 16.1. In my 200m PR, my splits were 10.94, 9.62, so my 150m split was probably 15.7. This means, that had it been a 200m race, I would have not gotten the lead until about 145 meters...

I raced against a 2 minute 800m runner in a 400m and I completely destroyed him... He never stood a chance. He was with me for maybe 20 meters and then it was over. I looked back when I hit the final straight away and he was just getting into the 2nd curve... He made a little ground on me before I finished because I won by about 70m.

Keep this in mind... Usain Bolt hit 40 yards at 4.368 seconds. Warren Sapp (290 pounds) had a 40 yard dash of 4.69. So, lesson of the day, don't run from cops. Maybe you can kill them in a 5k or even an 800m, but that doesn't mean anything in a 5 - 10 second foot chase... When you see the stuff on COPs where they outrun the police, those people are insane. They do nothing but run away from people, so they are good at it. But even them, they are usually caught, just they struggle and get away then they outrun the cops.

This is BS. Going out in 20.84 in a 400?? Who the hell are you? And especially since your best 200 is 20.56 (supposedly), that means it was nearly all out which makes no sense. Also, there is no way in hell you went 11.3/9.54, no way. That would not be a horrible international level 4x100 relay split and you say you did it in a TT 400 meters?

He was probably running on the same track the army uses for their timed fitness runs ;)

Seriously, he's claiming to have split 31.81 at 300 during his 400m PB ... also claiming that the cop took a big lead on him in the first 50 - so the cop took off at 19-second 200 pace - now that's believeable!

doug burke wrote:

depends on which cop, there are some fast cops david mack, pamela jelimo, lasse viren and the high ranking chief superintendent of the ethiopian police force tirunish dibaba.

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A large group of us were out egging and as we rounded a corner a cop car was coming up the street. We all scattered, and the cop decided to chase my one friend. It was a mistake because we were all track athletes so we all got away quite easily. Unfortunately one of us messed up and got caught a few hours later walking home so we all got busted.

Moral of the story: yes its possible... just hope its not a cop with k9