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I only saw the top of the article, but a major factor in track right now is the use of an electronic pacer. There will be a ring of lights on the inside line o
by LanceH 6y ago
I only saw the top of the article, but a major factor in track right now is the use of an electronic pacer. There will be a ring of lights on the inside line of the track. Stay ahead of the light and you're on record pace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/14/lights-track-running-world-records/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/14/lights-trac...
- lovedswain 6y agoOne of my favourite (and simultaneously most depressing) documentaries, Icarus, leaves no doubt professional sport is riddled with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(2017_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(2017_film)
- chrisseaton 6y agoDid you reply to the right comment? Professional sport is riddled with... pacing lights?
- rybosworld 6y agoIt's the epidemic no one is talking about
- mikestew 6y ago"Riddled with" what, exactly? The scourge that is pacing lights? Or did you post to the wrong thread?
- travisjungroth 6y agoYeah, they replied wrong. Icarus is about PEDs. But I do like the idea of some diehard track enthusiast being enthralled and depressed by a tell-all documentary about pacing lights.
- lovedswain 6y agoHilarious, I seem to have randomly pattern matched the wrong comment to reply to after logging in
- mikestew 6y agoGreyhound racing dogs have been paced by a mechanical rabbit for decades. I always assumed the reason something similar wasn't done for track was because it was deemed against the rules. And perhaps the rules simply changed, because I'm having a hard time thinking of pacing lights as innovative.
- throwawayboise 6y agoIDK about pro track but in HS track, pacing in meets is illegal. I've seen runners DQ for a teammate running on the infield urging them along.
- coderzach 6y agoHaving a human rabbit isn't something you can really stop. Am I an idiot who went out way too fast for the first 600m and then died, or did I exactly hit my teammate's pace, and then fall off intentionally?
- Jtsummers 6y agoThe infield is not the race area proper, it's the area inside the track. GP is referring to having a non-racer (though still a teammate) run alongside the track as a motivator/pacer for those actually on the track for the race itself.
- kmonsen 6y agoThe legal system does not work like this even though I see it all the time, and a lot from programmers. You mostly cannot get off on a technicality like this. If they judge believe that a reasonable person thinks there was a human rabbit they can DQ you even if there are other explanations. Same with all the plausible deniability with passwords etc, the judge can simple not believe you and put you in jail until you remember the password (even if you do not remember it).
- swirepe 6y ago>Same with all the plausible deniability with passwords etc, the judge can simple not believe you and put you in jail until you remember the password (even if you do not remember it). In America, you can be compelled to surrender something you have, but not something you know. So the jail you're waiting in while you remember you password is probably in Guantanamo Bay.