I have what I call pace tracks, so if I feel like I might have dropped pace or am losing spirit, I'll put on a pace track to get my beat back up.
Now, though, with run shortened by maybe 10 yards, he accelerated nicely into the crease, looked to have a much stronger action when he got there and certainly appeared not to have dropped pace.
That decision was vindicated as the Olympic champions moved five seconds clear of Swann and Eddie after 1500m before dropping the pace and edging across the line in a time of seven minutes 56.08 seconds, 1.14 secs clear.
As your reaction approaches its endpoint, slow your titration to a drop-by-drop pace.
I hope that means they don't drop the pace.
4.13am GMT 23rd over: New Zealand 51-3 (Williamson 23, Brownlie 2) Panesar has certainly dropped his pace now.
By the time they drop the pace for the acoustic R&B of "Look at Where We Are", another city has submitted to Hot Chip's will.
Melville's performance is a perfect whirlwind of aggression, seduction, violence and pity, and Rachel O'Riordan's superlative production never once lets it drop the pace.
Ash are so impressed with their new rock makeover that they only drop the pace for the gorgeously bittersweet new track Starcrossed.
But it doesn't drop any pace, only adding meat and muscle to TDCC's populist melding of Friendly Fires, Foals and Vampire Weekend.
Instead, he trundled around, got spooked by a slow Toyota into spinning at Turn 18 - causing Sutil to hit the barriers and bring out a second safety car – and dropped his pace dramatically at the end.
