{"id":135491,"date":"2017-10-15T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deploy.frankfurt-marathon.com\/?p=135491"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T15:29:25","slug":"run-like-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/run-like-hare\/","title":{"rendered":"Run like a Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pacemakers are the running chronometers of the top athletes.\u00a0 For the fast Frankfurt course, they are of special importance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is a paradox of the conditioning sport.\u00a0 The Kenyans are some of the fastest runners in the world, they break records and win titles.\u00a0 But their feel for the pace is miserable.\u00a0 Carsten Eich, who ran a 2:10:22 marathon as the German marathon record holder, explained that Kenyans don\u2019t train with a running watch.<\/p>\n

But you need this Chronometers, to be exact from kilometer to kilometer if you plan your race accordingly.\u00a0 You only need this, if you are going to be an orientations helper for other athletes, in other words as a Pacemaker<\/em>.\u00a0 Without their help, this extra amount of motivation, the slipstream they offer, the mental help the offer that is a big relief and to keep the pace as agree upon constant, practically none of today\u2019s records would have fallen.\u00a0 The athlete can concentrate on themselves and the competition on the road – for the fast pace, that\u2019s what the pacemaker is there for.\u00a0 You can\u2019t help it, but to use Kenyans as pacemakers, because, aside from the Ethiopians, only eastern African athletes are able to take on high tempo necessary for a high-class race such as the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon.\u00a0 This is a contradiction to the saying: Without them nothing more runs, but the running according to plan is a lot harder to implement.\u00a0 This is why Christoph Kopp as a sporting director of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon must have a good mixture in the selection of the pacemakers, he must be able to assess their performance and their qualifications to meet the requirements.\u00a0 These requirements are put together in accordance to the performance of the obligated top athletes.\u00a0 If an organizer can only oblige athletes who reach a finishing time of 2:10 hours, they need other pacemakers than in a Frankfurt race in which the winner is to be at 2:06 or faster.<\/p>\n

And in Frankfurt is about a fast time for years now.\u00a0 There will be 3 running groups set up, for which a maximum of 3 pacemakers are responsible- that is part of the rules of the International Athletic Group.\u00a0 Group 1 should be at the half marathon mark at exactly 63 min, group 2 in 64 and group 3 in 65 min and 30 sec.\u00a0 \u201cFor me it is important that a constant tempo is ran\u201d, says Kopp.\u00a0 That why it\u2019s his job on the day of the race to sit in the motorcycle and keep a close eye on the agreed upon pace.\u00a0 If it\u2019s a tick to slow, he will step in, also if it\u2019s too fast.\u00a0 It can also happen that the pacemaker gets caught up in the atmosphere from the crowd and then he starts to get faster and faster.<\/p>\n

But there is no place for one\u2019s personal goals on this day.\u00a0 It is agreed upon beforehand who leads the group for the first half, who until kilometer 25 and who until kilometer 30.\u00a0 For this duty, they will be paid accordingly to the time of their time on the field.\u00a0 Whoever is able to do a bit more then what was agreed upon will be rewarded with a bonus for each extra kilometer ran.\u00a0 But if the pacemakers bow out earlier, there bonus will be lessened.<\/p>\n

Officially, the pacemakers are participants like every other, theoretically, they can also run across the finish.\u00a0 And when the pacemaker is still going strong and no one else can keep up with them, then okay, then they can go for the winner premium.\u00a0 This is something to think about, but this is rare.\u00a0 \u201cWhen one of them says, they want to continue, then I\u2019m not stopping him.\u201d, says Kopp.\u00a0 The plan however is that the stars win.\u00a0 And then at around kilometer 30 the runners are among themselves.\u00a0 The pacemaker after his work, steps in the small bus that is waiting for him at the kilometer marker that was expected and from there, they will be driven the fastest way possible to the finish or in the athlete\u2019s hotel.<\/p>\n

Something a little different is the from the women, they can theoretically also have many pacemakers, because they need to stay near faster men.\u00a0 But the top athletes don\u2019t rely upon such opportunities, many of them bring their personal pacer with them.\u00a0 This is allowed, but it has to be talked with beforehand with Christoph Kopp.<\/p>\n

There is still the question, why Wilson Kipsang 2012 as winner in Frankfurt, why he missed the world record by only 4 seconds.\u00a0 Was it because of the pacemaker?\u00a0 \u201cNo\u201d, said Kopp, \u201cup to kilometer 33, he was still there, and everything was going perfectly.\u00a0 At kilometer 36, Kipsang shook off the last of his opposition and continued on alone.\u00a0 It just wasn\u2019t fast enough.\u00a0 It was because of the diminishing strength and not because of not knowing the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pacemakers are the running chronometers of the top athletes.\u00a0 For the fast Frankfurt course, they are of special importance.   It is a paradox of the conditioning sport.\u00a0 The Kenyans are some of the fastest runners in the world, they break records and win titles.\u00a0 But their feel for the pace is miserable.\u00a0 Carsten Eich, ganzen Artikel lesen…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":135287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[15701],"yst_prominent_words":[11306,15566,11072,4166,11000,584,10937,4163,4157,15569,4556,4484,15554,15560,15557,9959,10943,4679,15572,15563],"class_list":["post-135491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-news","tag-nlengokt22017"],"acf":[],"newsThumbnail":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mainova-Frankfurt-Marathon_Newsletter_Tempomacher_-7159-360x202.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135542,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135491\/revisions\/135542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135491"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=135491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}