Maybe you should run TOWARDS the person and then beat their ass. Even if you lose you should learn something from it. Got bashed into the ground? Find an enlarge/reduce prep. Tripped? Fly potions. Plagued/energy drained into negative moves? Realize what's happening and your opponents battle plan and egress sooner. Got blinded and wittled down to nothing? Carry return/teleport potions and enough coin to cure blindness. Running all of the time will never get you the uber-eq. It also won't see your pk abilities improve. All it's going to do is make you a better runner, which is important no doubt, but that's not really what the game is all about.