set the pace

:  to cause to sit :  place in or on a seat

:  to put (a fowl) on eggs to hatch them

:  to put (eggs) for hatching under a fowl or into an incubator

:  the act or action of setting

:  the condition of being set

:  a number of things of the same kind that belong or are used together

:  intent, determined

:  intentional, premeditated

:  fixed by authority or appointment :  prescribed, specified

:  rate of movement

:  an established rate of locomotion

:  rate of progress

:  to walk with often slow or measured tread

:  to move along :  proceed

:  to cover at a walk

:  contrary to the opinion of