Aaron Sahlman breaks the NFHS rules by pacing a boys 3200m at Arcadia

The rules regarding pacers are literally intended to limit an advantage one competitor woukd gain over another competitor. That is what all NFHS rules are intended to do.

You should check on the Arcadia record. This race counted. Sahlman wasn't a pacer. So you may want to rethink your insult.

Sahlman said he was a pacer. The meet director said he was a pacer. The announcer said he was a pacer.

It's YOU who should rethink.

You are doubling down on dumb. Another competitor may be in a different race when you are talking about records. I’m not saying it should be enforced, as it was pointed out earlier, there is a lot of ambiguity in the rule.

Your opinion doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. The race counted.

Go try and solo frontrun 8 laps as fast as you can and see how well you do. Oh, wait, you're probably the kind of person that complains and wheezes after doing 2 laps for warmup at practice, and skips the cooldown. Weak my ass.

But it us almost as if he was entered in the race. Oh wait. The results have him listed.

I am well aware that the race counted.

But you said that Aaron Sahlman wasn't a pacer in the 3200. That's not a matter of opinion. You're just wrong.

Race won’t count and it’s because the race director was so desperate to have fast times. If he just let the kids race they would have all ran fast and no issues. Maybe not 8:34, but fast.

When you sanction a race with the NFHS you must follow their rules. If Arcadia wanted to have pacers have an open race and there is no issue.

You really think that the NFHS will not consider it to be the new NFHS national 3200 record just because the leader at 1600 dropped out? I doubt it.

The most likely scenario is that the NFHS will count it as the new national record.

Well according to the NFHS it’s not a sanction HS race only record.

This is because of pacing is not allowed.

"According to the NFHS" ???

Please link to the statement from the NFHS that says it's not a record.

You can't do that can you, because you made that up.

If there was a pacer, the race doesn't count. The race counted so therefore, there was no pacer. I see 2 DNFs at the bottom. I saw different guys in the lead wearing numbers. Is every race ever run invalid if somebody leads amd doesn't win? You lose. Sahlman and the race director win.

If they didn't anounce it, no one would have known or cared. Was really silly to tell everyone. No big deal, just no marks in that race can be counted for NFHS record purposes, I guess.

Except they can and have been because they entered Sahlman in the race rather than have him just jump in. Pretty smart on their part and pretty dumb of some posters not to understand what a competitor is.

Almost all pacers are officially entered in the races they rabbit.. You are hung up on the word competitor and that by entering someone they are a competitor.

HE WAS PACING!

If they are entered, they are an official competitor. Yes they can take the lead. They can slow it down. They can speed it up. Cemtro paced an Olympic final and he won. Anyone can. They don't go through a metamorphosis of some kind.

Absolutely nothing 'sketchy' about it. Arcadia has always been about running 2 miles extremely fast. Mission accomplished.

Also, not sure if you saw the three runners in a dead heat at the finish line... that seems like 'racing' to me, no?