Soprano wrote:
Ball Zach wrote:In a line. Everyone should have their own watches and should start them as they cross the starting line. Switch up the lead based on feel. If the athletes are serious they won't be making moves on each other, and will hit their designated paces.
This. For big group workouts in college we would have a long line of us doing that. Depending on the workout, we might end up bunching up a bit at the end, so the guys who started in the back and moved up ran a bit quick, but other than that it works well. We'd also sometimes start in broken up groups and other times it would just naturally happen as some people ran faster and others slower.
I Feel Like wrote:
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
My teammates and I are constantly harassed by the group of men that train at the same time as our group on Tuesday nights. As they pass the yell "Track" or "Lane One!". We had a "Come to Jesus" meeting between our groups and their opinion was that we should stay in lane 1 but only in single file so they could pass. Our position is "as long as we are running a hard effort we're entitled to the first two lanes". We tend to run together as a tight pack.
I guess I don't know the exact situation here, but assuming both groups are using a public track that has open hours, then no, this other group should not be forced to run into lane 3 to pass your group. When they yell "track" you should all move into lane 1 to let them pass in lane 2. Common courtesy.
Now if your'e a college team and this is your home track, it's a different story. They'd be "visitors" on your track and you would have priority to workout the way you want.
This topic makes me miss college workouts. Since graduating, if me and one other guy are doing a whole workout together on the track, then that is a great day. Happens pretty rarely and I miss the big group workouts. There were things I could do in that setting that I never would have done solo. (This can be a negative aspect too if you end up pushing too hard, but usually it helped rather than hurt.)
I tend to agree with the OP - if you're running hard in the first 2 lanes you don't have to move out of their way - they can go around you if they're that fast. You are not hobby jogging - you're pushing yourself to the limit on these intervals and they should respect the fact that you're in the zone working hard.
Is this men's group faster than your group? Are they running much faster/shorter intervals than you?