I've been running with a friend and he runs real slow, how do I get out of this situation? Can I tell him to do the first half by himself? He asks me almost every day to run with him after school. It's kind of tough to get out of. What's a good strategy? Thanks.
Its probably tougher to get out of this than it is to get out of Iraq.
drop the living shit out of him and he'll learn
Yeah, the whole purpose of agreeing to go for a run with someone is to drop him once he's moving too slow.
Tell him before your next run with him that you need to pick up the pace. Talk to him about it. Run with him on easy/recovery runs.
Hey, who knows? We may yet see that lovely $1-a-gallon gas that the Shrub opined we'd get after "liberation".
Anyway the solution to your problem is to do a longish run BEFORE you run with your pal. Either that, or do road intervals while running wit him where you say from time to time
"I didn't do my speedwork for this week, so I'm going to do a few really fast pickups, run ahead for a bit, then come back to you, OK? This pace is perfect interval recovery tempo and you're helping me a lot by running with me...thanks (offer a big smile)."
If that doesn't do it, MOVE to a different neighborhood.
Help him out. Maybe he'll help you in English 101
Don Draper wrote:
Help him out. Maybe he'll help you in English 101
He's not that good in english but he does good in all science classes.
"you're" "they're"
Slowly.
Just be honest, tell him that you're better than him and that he's slowing you down. That should be enough and he will probably find someone else to run with.
pick it up gradually. if he goes with you working hard, maybe even making it his tempo day, then he's a good guy. if he doesn't try to pick it up or complains about it, drop him and don't run with him any more.
jonesy. wrote:
pick it up gradually. if he goes with you working hard, maybe even making it his tempo day, then he's a good guy. if he doesn't try to pick it up or complains about it, drop him and don't run with him any more.
Come on Greg, that's mean.
Agree to an out and back run. Run together the first part and the last part.
This is usually what I do with slower friends. I do an out and back, but tell him or her to turn around before me. I go out like 3-5 minutes and turn back to catch up and usually catch them around the final stretches of the workout. Most of the time I end up finishing the run out with them.
YES you can drop him you wont hurt his feelings
Put him on a bike.
drop him, by all means.
then, ten years from now, you two will meet up on different sides of the burger counter, and laugh about it. then, he'll ask if you accept tips right before he drops you.
Whoops! wrote:
"you're" "they're"
Half right, 'their' is correct, 'to' should be 'too'.
Oops! wrote:
Half right, 'their' is correct, 'to' should be 'too'.
you sure about that?
When you're young, half the fun is trying to drop the people you're running with. However, in order to be sociable, everyone usually starts out together. Pushing starts after about 1/2 way.
When you're older, running is often as much social as for the workout so when you agree to meet and run together, you usually stay together. That being said, if one guy is just too slow for the rest that day, he/she gets dropped.
That way they learn to run with the group on recovery days until they are in good enough shape to run with you more often.