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Podcast: Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
Episode: Pros and Cons of Pace Groups with OTQ Pacer Rick Powell
Description: At RunnersConnect, we get a lot of questions about using pace groups in races. While we teach about how you should run your own race, there is something undeniably beneficial about running with a group. It's been proven that being a part of a group with the same goal lowers your own perception of effort which makes running hard feel easier.  And the idea of just blindly trusting a group and letting go of the mental math that you have to do when you pace yourself, is unbelievably tempting.  On the othe...