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Originally Posted by oracle80
Oh Lord, DaHoss this is the same guy that lectured us about more being in Bern's tank because of so called hand rides.
Will say this just one more time, because obviously some people don't get it yet.
On a car trip 13 years ago I was listening to a Ragozin seminar on audio tape(I know many and most here use Thorograph, and I'm sure jerry Brown has done the same study, but since I have never heard it I am using Rag semianr I DID hear as point of story), Friedman was the guy doing it and I don't remember much else of teh tape but one thing really stuck and resinated with me that I've used with great success since then in asessing races. I, also, used to watch horses win "eased up" or under hand rides, and say and beleive that the horse would run even faster when pushed.
The Ragozin guys did a study and found that almost all horse ran lifetime tops in these "easy wins". It was a total fallacy that when "pushed" they would run faster.
Easy wins ar a result of optimimum energy distribution, being able to run at the speed you wanna run and moving when you wanna move.
Dc ran a great race yesterday, but he had an ideal setup and was asked to run the last part and thats when he spurted away impressively.
To me the tank was fuilly used, he wasn't going any faster than he did, which is quite fast enough to beat just about anybody in training. But to say he could have gone faster and wasn't used is a joke.
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it's called hitting your stride. as a runner, i was lucky enough to have done it a couple of times. no feeling like it in the world. like you can run all day, fast as you ever have, without losing your breath at all. i loved it when i did it, you're almost invincible! unless of course someone else does it at the same time!!
and believe me, the times i had it happen, i wasn't being pressured by another runner.