Endurance Handbook

AN INTRODUCTIONTO ENDURANCERUNNING

ENDURANCE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES SECTION 4

A wide variety of suitable activities for young athletes are offered in publications such as Pacesetter, Aviva Elevating Athletics and England Athletics’ Run, Jump, Throw resource. In this section, however, we offer a selected number of games and relays considered particularly relevant to endurance development. Consideration has been given to the utilisation of the facilities available, be it a traditional 400m athletics venue or one of the alternative tracks detailed in Section 2. The activities included are: Individual Pursuit on a linear track, Team Pursuit on a linear track, Continuous Relays on tracks, games fields or parkland fields, Tag Relay, Team Pursuit, Partner Pursuit, Bleep Test Relay, Orienteering Relays and Games and other ideas such as Rambling, Fartlek etc. 50m Linear Track The Linear Track is marked out using six cones and five discs. Multiple tracks may be set out side by side being placed at least three metres apart. End point starting position B WEB COPY ©EVEQUE

GAMES & ACTIVITIES

‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ are the end point starting positions ‘ C ’ and ‘ D ’ are the centre line starting positions.

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Centre line starting position D

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Centre line starting position C

Individual Awards The participants tackling the Endurance Awards start at points ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ and the distance they achieve in a stated time is recorded - see Section 8 for further details. Individual Pursuits The participants start in opposite directions at the centre point of the track marked ‘ C ’ and ‘ D ’ and race over an agreed number of laps. Pace Training Full details on how this can be used for pace training are given in Section 6. WEB COPY ©EVEQUE 9m 10m Can be used for: AVIVA UKA Academy Endurance Awards Pace Training Individual Pursuits Team Pursuits End point starting position A

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