jjjjjj wrote:
malmo wrote:There's no way in hell you can lose a deer fly at 7:30 pace.
They drop at about 5:30 pace.
This is pretty much right on the money, though down in Florida with the heat they may be peeled off at around 6 min pace, except that you can also lose them at a slower pace if you're on a trail with sharp turns and you hit the turns hard. Since they go after my head, I also try to get them by running right under low-lying palm and oak branches and foliage and ducking my head. That slows down the little devils. I have never once had any luck swatting them while running.
Its funny that something I wrote three years ago is pulled and challenged. I did lose them at a 7:30 pace (and its not like a letsrun poster to claim that they are running at a much slower pace than they are)
There are many factors regarding how fast you need to run to lose a deer fly. Air temperature, wind, your attractiveness to the fly (carbon dioxide, your body heat) and what you are wearing (hat helps).
But then again maybe I was running a 5:30 pace. Yeah that's right, three years ago I'd run a 5:30 pace all the time but I was so good it just felt like a 7:30 pace.