What happens if you run with scissors

While a lot of my running is done alone, some of the best or most rewarding runs are those where I am either being pushed to get better or pushing someone else to do the same. In many long-distance races, entire teams are set up, led by runners faster than the rest of the group, whose job it is to run, keep an even pace, and help everyone reach their time goal.

While I have never served as a pace setter in a race, I have done it a lot when running with friends or family, and have run with pace groups in a number of races. I have found both being a pace setter, and following a pace setter, to be extremely rewarding experiences, for a variety of reasons.

Being a pace setter allows me to help someone else grow, to provide support for them as needed, and in some ways to enjoy and benefit from the run in a different way. It also allows you to reflect on your own running and goals. On the flip side, running with a pace setter always pushes me to be better. Not only that, but on multiple occasions, I have decided to try to run ahead of the pace setter, which is an amazing mental boost when things are going well.

While pace setting was a concept I was intimately familiar with in the world of running, I only recently connected it to my style and approach as an engineering leader.

In many ways, what I am trying to achieve is to get my team to run, and run fast. What I like most about pace setting is seeing how the group comes together to reach a shared goal.

At times, individuals will be pushed into and out of their comfort zones, supported and challenged by those around them. While being led by a pace setter, it is the positive inertia of the group that is pushing everyone to succeed. It is my desire to build an engineering team with the same characteristic that has informed my decision to lead from beside. First, let me add some detail on what I mean by leading from beside, and how it compares to leading from the front or behind.

Being beside means staying close to your team, but relying on the expertise and experience of its individuals to help it succeed.

Leading from beside allows me to both keep an eye out for what is in front of the team, but also to reflect more on what is behind us, and to learn from all of the above.

If I were to lead from the front rather than being a pace setter, I would certainly demonstrate that hitting a fitness goal is possible given my own fitness level. However, what happens if they start to struggle? Most importantly, what if they start to run faster? Am I going to be forced to keep up, or am I just going to be in their way?

What if I were to lead from behind? What I love most about leading from beside is the effect it has as you add others to the group. I ran an actual race a few months ago, and at one point I passed two friends running together, one of which was wearing an iPhone, and it was playing the Hamilton soundtrack a personal favorite of mine. As I was passing the runners, Right Hand Man was playing, which has such a great cadence and slightly aggressive tone that it was exactly what I needed to get an extra burst of energy.

Rather than everyone feeling like they need to look to me for everything, they start to look to each other for answers and motivation, and that is exactly where I want them to be. The last benefit of leading from beside, personally, is that it forces me to become faster. If my team, or individuals on it, get faster, I need to be faster to keep up.

This is exactly what happened with my current team, and I thank them all for it. Not only is the team moving at a speedier pace, but the individuals on it are too, and they afforded me the opportunity to try to keep up and challenge my own fitness level to stay ahead of their rapid pace.

The real win, however, is when you get the team running with scissors. I not only want to give people scissors, but I want them to have blade sharpeners with ergonomic carbon-fiber handles.

But, at the same time, they feel compelled to hire you. I worked my way up the corporate ladder by being decisive and quick. But, after I took a few laps around the room holding scissors, people seemed willing to give me whatever I wanted. Eventually, I was promoted to C. It turns out that running a company is a lot like running with scissors. But, really, success is about taking risks and not surrounding yourself with yes-men. Community Bot 1. But does this distinguish running with scissors from walking with scissors?

That's the OP's final question. I'd say yes - when running your chances of falling are larger than when you're walking - but I have no data to back that up other than anecdotes. Is there a breakdown of the types of injuries? It is often implied that lost eyesight is a very real danger when you're running with scissors. JohnDvorak It's been a while since I read the book, but I remember him pointing out that the majority of scissors injuries in children are buttock injuries from sitting on them.

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