Getting to the bay

I'm seeing lots of different answers which is why I asked the question. We have hunted with people who let their dogs bay a while and get in no big hurry and we have hunted with people who take off like they are on fire to get to their dogs. If our dogs are bayed up in a field we get to them pretty fast but if they are bayed up in the thick stuff we take a little more time to be sure that the hog has pretty much given up on the idea of running because when a hog breaks and runs in the thicket its harder for the dogs to get it stopped again, or at least it seems that way. But there are a lot of variables in this reasoning, like... rcd or lead in cd, young or old dogs, terrain, and plain old personal preference.