Stodgetta wrote:Looking at it from the other point of view, there's nothing worse than running sometimes very competitively in the "lower classes" 'cos the legs aren't fast enough and being shoved out the way by someone who thinks they are more worthy of that particular piece of ground than you.
Why should you have right of way just because you are bigger, stronger and faster at covering the ground, while the person you are trying to pass may be about to win their course?
If I am having a bad run, I will make space. If I'm going well, then I'm noped if I'm going to lose time just because someone is breathing down my neck and desperate to get past.
I agree Stodgetta. I once had an experience with a chap who thought he'd give me a shove down a bank just before the run in. This stirred my latent competitive nature and I held him off right to the line. He was surprisingly complementary
These days I have battles with the older men in my club
Mind you I'd love to arrive at last control the same time as other half it could be fun 
