Endurance Handbook

AN INTRODUCTIONTO ENDURANCERUNNING

AVIVA UKA ACADEMY ENDURANCE TEAM AWARDS

SECTION 8

ENDURANCE AWARDS This relay is designed so that it can be held on either a standard 400m track or on an improvised track marked with cones which can be laid out within five minutes. As these relays take around four to five minutes to complete, they lend themselves very well for use within a school lesson period. They also work well as after-school activities or as part as a school sports day, the only equipment required being cones, relay batons and a stopwatch. The challenge for schools is to see if they can equal or better the time set by Kelly Holmes when she set the British 1500m record of 3 minutes 57.9 seconds. Teams of nine children are required which can be all boys, all girls or mixed. Three team members will run four times each over 50m sections and the other team members will each run three times. We realise that all children wishing to take part should be accommodated so spare children can be asked to partner a friend in one section, running together and pacing each other. They can agree who carries the baton or carry it on alternate sections. WEB COPY ©EVEQUE The Aviva UKA Academy Endurance Team Awards are based on the established endurance training practice of using repetitions in the form of continuous relays. PRIMARY SCHOOLS 1500M TEAM CHALLENGE (YEARS 5 & 6, AGES 9–11)

Primary Schools 1500m Team Challenge using a 50m Linear Track

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Runner No 1

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Takeover B

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9m WEB COPY ©EVEQUE 10m 10m Start / Finish Takeover A 3 7 9 5 The team of nine runnners complete a total of 15 laps between them. Runners 1, 2 and 3 will run four times each while all the others will run three times.

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