The History of Pacing

[@distantlight4527]

Dig the chillness and general non clickbaity nature of this channel. Thanks for these.

[@Girandole]

Babe wake up, RunnerBoi just posted!!

[@MDSF90]

“Dude, we’re literally brothers. Please stop calling me _‘babe.’_ It’s fckn weird and cringey…”

[@jeff09_]

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is my favorite pacer

[@bruhapss]

Once I realized it was him pacing at Kipchoge’s sub 2, I was shocked. At the time, I knew very little about the sport.

[@aldopedroso6212]

Yeah, he paces right across the finish line.

[@alyssamccoy-ml2nb]

Best pacer in the Olympic final!

[@DarklordZagarna]

Didn't realize Cole Hocker's username was "@jeff09_"

[@runjimrun]

My KZbin pacer got me in time for this video!

[@aldopedroso6212]

Mike O'Hara formed the ITA (International Track Association), a professional track and field association from 1972-1976. They used timing lights.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Rudishas 800 WR is the GOAT UNpaced record.

[@lukeperfect2154]

The fact Erik sowinski wasn’t brought up once shocked me

[@RunnerBoi]

I wanted to use him for the thumbnail really bad, but I just didn't find any HQ action shots of him that I liked. Other than that, I couldn't really find an adequate place to directly mention him sadly.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Or Bram Som. Edit...he gets mentioned!

[@cooldragon4882]

Bro did not mentioned Erik Sowinski the literal pacer god

[@LightPink]

They're fine for setting records but I'd rather if the athletes raced eachother instead of rgb strips

[@bearpookie1313]

the whole point is to get a faster time which ultimately means everyones racing eachother to get the world record. the race factor u want is still there

[@barackosama3569]

Another great video! you deserve all the congrats in the world!

[@GVGames1986]

I still remember as a kid my Dad watching a race with me and he said watch the guy looking relaxed at the back. I was saying no he is at the back he is going to lose.. But sure enough, he came past anyone. A tall Dutch runner on this occasion. Distance running of course has nuances like this.

[@sbrzzz1]

very very good video i can say especially as a former runner

[@GizelleQuant]

Love your content!

[@andrewblackie7170]

Breaking records using pacemakers takes the shine off accomplishing really difficult WR & its not really an individual record if pacers are making it easier for the record breaker. Records by athletes like Haile the little long distance SUPERSTAR! are WR that should stand if set by himself without pacers

[@ryanh_dev]

1:39 thank you for showing me what a rabbit looks like, i wouldnt have known otherwise!

[@whiterottenrabbit]

No mentions of Tool Assisted Speedruns in the comments? ò.Ô

[@tidesofkali]

Wow i am hearing animal crossing soundtracks 😅 with my favorite track n field content 😮

[@dilliondantin]

Pacers are like Runelite plugins.

[@Temurmemer]

What if the rabbit never dropped out of the race and won?

[@alansamuel2454]

Then he wins lol. And it has happened also, but very rarely. Tom Byers in 1981 Oslo at the Bislett Games. He beat Steve Ovett too, at that! 😂

[@MrPek-fe9fp]

​@@alansamuel2454wow didnt know about that. Cool fact

[@alansamuel2454]

@@MrPek-fe9fp They can get into trouble though and might not pacemaking duties as easily again. But yes there have been some cases of pacers winning.

[@Price_Drawz5k]

Idk if you’d really want to make a video on it but could you make a video on the change recently in training and the specifics of threshold and how it caused the whole shift in track and field training?

[@BurntBac0n]

Nice video

[@cadenmacdonald5366]

Lee up the good content bro 👍

[@johndef5075]

Criticism not criticims. Otherwise great video!

[@awesomeguysuncle]

how much for eliminate294 player analysis

[@isaiahfadlelmoula5183]

Yoo

[@Toasted-Walnut]

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[@thequintanashow5058]

I’m just a fan. But I’ve always thought it was complete bullshit that pacers don’t have to finish the race. At least make it kinda look like they’re participating in the event

[@ccbgaming6994]

There is no point for them to finish, in fact making it necessary for them to finish would be confusing and make them waste their energy for something they aren’t even competing in. If they really were competing, they wouldn’t be running at a pace that they most likely can’t sustain.

[@thequintanashow5058]

@@ccbgaming6994 ok. Then why don’t we have baseball pitchers who are just put in the mound so they can serve up fat juicy pitches so batters can pad there stats. I realize they they technically dont have to finish - that’s my point. It should be an actual competitor setting the pace or it’s BS. You can have the slightest of winds wipe out a record performance but yet you can set up a pacing lighting system AND have sprinters set record paces and that’s cool. Whatever

[@ccbgaming6994]

​@@thequintanashow5058 Let's say they were required to finish. They are likely going at a pace that they cannot maintain for the entire race, so at some point, they biologically must slow down. What exactly do you want them to do from there? They have already spent all of their energy and probably most of the competitors are going to pass them. Do you really want to see a guy who was in contention for half of the race all of a sudden drop back to dead last and finish thirty seconds behind the next-best athlete... every single time? The next best option to resolve your dilemma would be to not allow any pacers whatsoever? Well, there is a fundamental problem with not allowing set pacers i.e. paid pacers in races. Most of the time, professional distance runners want to both win their race and run a quick time in the process. If there are no pacers to set the pace, then one of the competitors will have to be in the lead to set the fast pace instead. But the competitor who is setting the pace (unless they are just that much better than everyone else) will likely not win the race because the others will just draft, sit, and kick. It is a FACT that you expend more physical and mental energy leading, and in a professional field, every ounce of energy matters. Every athlete knows this, so if there isn't a pacer, no one is going to want to go out at an all-out pace, hence no fast times. This is exactly what has developed in the Olympics and World Championships. They do not allow pacers in those championship races, and so you'll see that the times are often slow in comparison to the diamond league meetings where there ARE pacers. You can't even attempt to compare this to a sport like baseball, because the sole goal in baseball is to win. There is no such thing as "best times" and the stats that you'd call MLB records aren't nearly significant in the same sense that world records in running are.

[@rowanschoon2296]

​@@ccbgaming6994yeah but you race eachother that is why its called a race

[@ccbgaming6994]

@rowanschoon2296 Absolutely. But the pacer’s job is to pace, the racer’s job is to race.

[@69navyboy]

Historically speaking, runners with watches and stadium wide running time clocks were said to give runners an advantage over the time where runners didn't have these conveniences. As with these earlier complaints, these shall pass slowly into history.