STOPPING BEFORE THE FINISH LINE TO GET A SLOWER TIME

Haha. Been there done that. I was doing a road race mid season next one. My coach told me if I did better than 36 (for a 10k) I would have to sit out. As he did not want me racing that weekend. I ended up coming up on 35, so I stopped short, turned around and ran a minute up the road then back down. Good old 10k in "38" minutes total.

why dont you treat the race like a workout and let the other kids build a good lead...assuming of course this is a longer race, and then give them a long enough distance that itll hard to catch.

Or just pretend like you die at the last 100 meter mark and start crawling.

i think that you are ok. if you didn't want it to look like you were just stopping, you could stop about 15m before the finish line to look like you were coughing up something/throwing up on teh side of the track.

Stop and tie your shoe.

Be a real competetor - don't try stealth tactics. Let people know who you are and then race them head to head at regions. Don't play games - race every race.

Start with gun take one stepover line and wait on sidelines 2,3,5, whatever mins then run your best race your chip and gun time will look like you ran 2,3,5,whatever minutes slower.

I think BillRodgers started NYC marterthon dead last and passed like 20,000 runners one yearpost prime.

I would look it up but INGNYC Archives site is 404

Fried Pork Chop wrote:

Be a real competetor - don't try stealth tactics. Let people know who you are and then race them head to head at regions. Don't play games - race every race.

Right on. If you want to play track meet, do it on your own time. If you're so much better than your local competition, then use your races to practice tactics...the tactics you'll need to use when the competition is better than you. If you run time trials against weak competition and then slow down at the finish, you're wasting a good learning opportunity. And if you don't want your competition to know your time trial ability, this approach will work better anyway. Go out with the field, then mix up your kick--string it out from 600m, 300m, 150m at different races, and see how you respond, so you learn your capabilties. But for god's sake don't go out and dick around so you can stroke your own ego. Show a little respect!

Huh, OK, sorry to break it to you, but this is a TROLL.

That was obvious (Mysterious Runner HS, ah!), but somehow you all missed it.

My guess is the OP is the430miler.

Good job, pal.

why would you ever do that? Dumbest thing I ever heard. Unless you have the talent of Mike Johnson, Dont flatter yourself. You should be happy that you have some talent

good guess

Mysterious Runner HS wrote:

Do you think this will result in a DQ? I don't know why it would. I should have the choice to stop.

If this is high school, then you could get disqualified. There is an "honest effort" rule and you would be clearly violating that rule.

Bang-pop Go - it was Marty Liquori

I never heard of an "honest effort" rule.

I also guess I clock my 3100 meter time during the race and then jog in REAL slow the last 100. I can just add 17-18 seconds and I will know my 3200 time.