I definitely outran him with Scout class + 2xHR, I wasn't wearing armor though.
Nah had the exact same setup and it was not really possible since I gained a tile every 6-7 tiles or so when I was just moving, and picking up the dagger also costs 2tiles of AoD movement usually.
Throwing it costs almost another tile of movement.
So quite impossible to do it inside since the small space doesn't help much, he can corner you there.
Unless you did it in a different way. Perhaps you preferred to do it melee instead of throwing the knife?
I thought that would be a huge risk and I avoided it like the plague.