Boone: Athletes falter when following another competitor's pacing strategy
Amelia Boone · #34 Amelia Boone: Learning How to Suffer · Jun 13, 2018 · at 13:21
World champion obstacle course racer Amelia Boone tells Shane Parrish how attempting to match a rival's early speed causes breakdowns in long endurance races.
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“That where you are going to start to falter, and where I have fallen down in races, is when I start to run somebody else's race.”
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