What is a Rabbit?
A pacemaker or pace-setter (sometimes colloquially called a "rabbit") is a runner who leads a middle- or long distance running event for the first section to ensure a fast time and avoid excessive tactical racing. Pacemakers are frequently employed by race organisers for world record attempts with specific instructions for lap times. Some athletes have become essentially professional pacemakers. Pacemakers may be used to avoid the tactics of deception that are possible in competition by those who, for example, race away from the start line (and are likely to subsequently slow down), giving the other runners the impression that they are far behind. A trusted team of pacemakers who are paid to keep the runner at a speed that they can manage for the rest of the race become useful in such a situation. Pacemakers are also used on world record attempts in order to make sure that the runner knows where their invisible 'opponent' predecessor is at that stage of the race. Pacemakers serve the role of conveying tangible information about pacing on the track during a race. read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker_(track)
A pacemaker or pace-setter (sometimes colloquially called a "rabbit") is a runner who leads a middle- or long distance running event for the first section to ensure a fast time and avoid excessive tactical racing. Pacemakers are frequently employed by race organisers for world record attempts with specific instructions for lap times. Some athletes have become essentially professional pacemakers. Pacemakers may be used to avoid the tactics of deception that are possible in competition by those who, for example, race away from the start line (and are likely to subsequently slow down), giving the other runners the impression that they are far behind. A trusted team of pacemakers who are paid to keep the runner at a speed that they can manage for the rest of the race become useful in such a situation. Pacemakers are also used on world record attempts in order to make sure that the runner knows where their invisible 'opponent' predecessor is at that stage of the race. Pacemakers serve the role of conveying tangible information about pacing on the track during a race. read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker_(track)
Kirui’s unsung Berlin world record
So Patrick Makau Musyoki is the man of the moment, his brand new world marathon record – two hours, three minutes and 38 seconds – the talk in global sport. But spare a thought for the men, the unsung heroes, who made it happen... the pacemakers, or “rabbits” in athletics parlance. In celebrating Makau’s brilliant run, only athletics purists will recognise the fact that a Kenyan “rabbit” shattered a world record in Sunday’s 38th BMW Berlin Marathon that, unfortunately, will not stand. Another “rabbit”, Stephen Kwelio Chemlany, stuck with Makau after the 27th kilometre breakaway and was rewarded with a second-place finish after clocking 2.07.55. Makau’s 30km split of 1:27:38 was clearly better than the previous 1:27:49 world mark by Haile Gebrselassie from the Berlin race in 2009. read on: http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/Kirui+s+unsung+Berlin+world+record+/-/1100/1243650/-/vgcm6t/-/index.html
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