"impedes the pace" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation, process, or event that is being slowed down or held up. For example, "The heavy traffic on the highway impedes the pace of our journey."
In theory, this should fill the story with fascinating people; in reality, it impedes the pacing.
Here's a reminder about a problem that still doesn't get the attention that it deserves: Housing has blown a giant smoking hole in the middle of our economy, and the consequences continue to impede the pace of recovery.
The use of workflows for orchestrating services and jobs within complex execution scenarios is becoming established in e-science research, but lack of interoperability between different workflow systems makes the reuse of workflows difficult, impeding the pace of adoption in academia and industry [5].
Government and public policy could accelerate or impede the pace of change.
But if we began to dismantle our openness, then we would definitely impede the pace of progress.
This leads to irreproducible scientific work and redundant effort, impeding the pace of scientific progress.
Although the loading of all this emotional baggage impedes the initial pace of the storytelling, Hayder picks up the tempo midbook, when the killer invades a second home and snatches another child.
The wheels of justice must be allowed to turn at their own pace, but that they must not impede the peace process.
That not only encourages legal "gotcha" tactics against upstream innovators by downstream manufacturers and resellers but, more generally, impedes the efficient design of technology supply chains, potentially slowing the pace of innovation and raising the prices ultimately paid by consumers.
Session 3 is focused on relapse-prevention, and continues the theme of setting goals and problem-solving to minimize barriers that impede the use of activity pacing.
