{"id":167,"date":"2013-06-14T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T09:49:03","slug":"stopwatch-dictionary-pacer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/stopwatch-dictionary-pacer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopwatch Dictionary: Pacer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common feature on more advanced stopwatches is the &#8220;pacer mode&#8221;, but just what is the pacer function and why would you need this type of capability on a stopwatch?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168\" alt=\"Pacer Mode on a Quantum Stopwatch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/pacer-stopwatch.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/pacer-stopwatch.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/pacer-stopwatch-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running time, count of paces, and the current pace rate (10 beeps per min)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The pacer function is used to help regulate the speed of an activity. Using a regular audible beep at a preset interval, the pacer helps the user to maintain a consistent rhythm and can be used to help increase their performance or strengthen stamina.<\/p>\n<p>The pacer mode is useful training aid used across a wide variety of sports. A cyclist may wish to target the number of pedal revolutions per minute, a rower the number of strokes per minute or help a runner set their pace.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers can often be set to beep between 5 times a minute, right up to 320 times a minute, with varying increments in between, depending on the stopwatch. Many stopwatches will also keep a running total of the number of beeps or &#8216;paces&#8217; that have occurred in the current timing session.<\/p>\n<p>You can view our range of pacer stopwatches on our website at <a title=\"Saturn Stopwatches\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/18-stopwatches-by-price#\/pacer-yes\">Saturn Stopwatches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common feature on more advanced stopwatches is the &#8220;pacer mode&#8221;, but just what is the pacer function and why would you need this type of capability on a stopwatch? The pacer function is used to help regulate the speed of an activity. Using a regular audible beep at a preset interval, the pacer helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stopwatches"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}