A Rabbit
A pacemaker or a pacesetter is sometimes called a rabbit. He is a runner who leads a middle or long distance running event for the first section to ensure a fast time.
On Friday, Tim, a friend of Jake's on Facebook, posted that he needed to find someone to pace some runners at BYU. He needed someone to run 6 400's. Could anyone do this? He was looking for a distance guy. Jake saw the post and went through his entire phone contact list and no one could do it. He decided he would do it. So off he went to BYU track to help with an event called the Oregon Track Project.
Jake got to pace two runners whose names are Galen Rupp and Mo Farah. Galen is an American long distance runner and an Olympic Silver Medalist. Mo is Somali born but ran as a British Athlete but in 2011 relocated to Oregon to train with Galen.
When they all got ready to start running Galen handed Jake his shoes and said wear these until I need them. Jake thought that was great. How fun it was to wear a winner of that magnitude's shoes!
He had to be so careful and really watch his time so he could train them at the right time and speed. What a responsibility. Since he is a perfectionist he did a wonderful job.
So I asked Jake why BYU? Why, way out here away from Oregon? He said, "They live and train in Park City for the altitude and they come down to BYU's track to speed train.