Bree
Runs on Coffee
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2009
I will probably get slack, but the run-walk pacers need to go. The groups take up the majority of the course, stop to walk causing back ups, or crowding and over taking when running. If you are not part of their program, your pace and plan gets screwed because of those groups. Run only pacers or not at all. If you are doing a full you should be able to maintain your pace (whether run or run-walk) on your own, didn't have pacers in training. One lane on the course and maybe, maybe room for 2 people wide to pass them.. this needs to end.
I ran with a pace group for my first half marathon and enjoyed it at the beginning of the race. We were told before the race began to stay in rows of two and to move to the side during the walk interval. I did my best to adhere to that, but others around me didn’t. Our group also grew from just a few of us at the start to a huge mob as others joined in along the course. So what began as orderly rows of two turned into a traveling mosh pit. It got so bad I thought I was going to be injured by one of them. There were some people that naturally can’t run in a straight line. The ones that were the most dangerous couldn’t keep a steady pace. They would fall behind the group during the run interval then after a walk interval would start sprinting and weaving through everyone to get back to the very front of the pack just to fall behind again!