Running 101: 8 Rules To Remember On Race Day
- By Linzay Logan
- Published Jul. 29, 2011
- Updated Nov. 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM UTC
6. Know Your Place
“Line up in the correct wave according to your expected pace. If you are a sub-six minute miler, line up in the front row. Place yourself accordingly and ask people around you what they are going to run. You don’t want to get trampled on by faster runners. With time chips you can line up where your pace fits and you’ll have an overall better race.
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Linzay Logan
Linzay Logan is the copy editor for Competitor magazine and cares about punctuation probably a little too much. She particularly loves to avoid commas as well as add exclamation points whenever she can get away with it! She also loves to run marathons and half-marathons—probably a little too much. Don’t let her small size fool you; she’ll still try to outrun you anytime. Even though chances are she probably can’t.