If Person A typically runs at a 7:00 to 7:15 pace and Person B typically runs at anywhere from 8:45 to 9:15 pace, it would be foolish for Person B to think that they might be able to run just one mile with an injured Person A. Because here's what will happen: Person A will kick Person B's ass in that mile. Seriously.
Saturday I biked with a friend who is a rockstar of a runner. Like, she wins races. Not just wins her age group. She WINS the whole race. She's recovering from two injuries and just started running a little last week, so after our ride I suggested a very short brick -- just a mile -- at, and I quote myself, "my pokey pace." She was game, so we changed shoes in the Y parking lot and set off. I knew before we even got out of the lot that I was in trouble.
Here's her: la la la this is great la la la i love running la la la.
Here's me: huff huff omg huff i'm dying huff huff wtf was i thinking? huff huff........
Neither of us had a watch, but by my estimation we did 1.22 miles in something like 9 minutes (7:23 pace). Fastest mile I've done in close to a year.
4 comments:
All I know is that if person B keeps running with person A, then person B will get a heck of alot quicker
Person C is laughing very hard at this because Person C is very much like Person B.
What BDD said. Keep running with her. It will hurt, but you'll see improvement.
Person BDD is right about Person B, that Person A will make Person B a lot faster if Person B continues to run with Person A. Person D is wishing her had a Person A to run with.
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