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Negative split. A negative split is a racing strategy that involves completing the second half of a race faster than the first half. It is defined by the intentional setting of a slower initial pace, followed by a gradual or sudden increase of speed towards the end of the race. [1] Alternate strategies include even splitting (racing at a steady ...
Rabbits Abel Kirui, Elijah Keitani and Wilson Kigen pacing Haile Gebrselassie and Charles Kamathi at the Berlin Marathon 2008. A pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, [1] is a runner who leads a middle- or long-distance running event for the first section to ensure a high speed and to avoid excessive tactical racing.
Track and field racers have a variety of options in the ways they can choose to pace their races. Even-split. Even-splitting is a strategy in which the racer attempts to hit the same split in every lap of the race. The racer tries to run an "even" pace during the entire race. In long-distance events, this can often be an optimal strategy.
The pace group time goals start at 3:00 and go all the way up to 4:50 in five-minute increments. “This is my ninth year in a row to pace the Austin Marathon,” said Robyn Dodge, who leads the 3 ...
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
vV̇O2max ( velocity at maximal oxygen uptake ), also known as maximal aerobic speed ( MAS ), is an intense running or swimming pace. This is the minimum speed for which the organism's maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2 max) is reached, after a few minutes of constantly maintaining this exercise intensity. At higher paces, any additional increase in ...
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast times produced ...
Eliud Kipchoge EGH (born 5 November 1984 [2]) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Regarded as one of the greatest marathon runners of all time, he is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, and was the world record holder in the marathon from 2018 to 2023, with a time ...