Endurance Handbook

AN INTRODUCTIONTO ENDURANCERUNNING

SECTION 8

SECONDARY HALF MARATHON TEAM CHALLENGE These exciting challenges give children the opportunity to tackle national and world records as a team. Aviva UKA Academy Awards can be gained by teams who achieve the standards. Both half or a full marathon distance in 200m legs. Please note that in each case the first leg is shorter than the rest. WEB COPY ©EVEQUE Aviva UKA Academy Endurance Awards Half-Marathon Team Challenge Distance: 21097.5m No. in team: 1 5–21 Girls or 1 5–21 Boys No. of legs: 105 (1 x 97.5m, 105 x 200m) No. of laps of a 400m track: 52 laps plus 297.5m No. of laps of a 200m track: 105 laps plus 97.5m No. of reserves: up to 3 reserves may be used

ENDURANCE AWARDS

British Women's Record Holder: Paula Radcliffe; 65mins 40s, Great North Run, 21st Sept 2003 World Women's Record Holder: Lornah Kiplagat; 66mins 25s, Udine, 14th October 2007 British Men's Record Holder: Steve Jones; 60mins 59s, Great North Run, 8th June 1986 World Men's Record Holder: Zersenay Tadese; 58mins 23s, Lisbon, 21st March 2010

SECONDARY MARATHON TEAM CHALLENGE

Aviva UKA Academy Endurance Awards Marathon Team Challenge

British & World Women's Record Holder: Paula Radcliffe; 2hr 15mins 25s; London Marathon, 13th April 2003 British Men's Record Holder: Paul Evans; 2h 07m 13s Chicago Marathon, 20th Oct 1985 World Men's Record Holder: Haile Gebrselassie; 2:03:59 School teams equaling or bettering the target time would be entitled to an Aviva UKA Academy Endurance Award. For more information on competitions using the above relays, including internet competitions, please visit www.sportshall.org/endurance Details of target times for single sex teams can be found at www.sportshall.org/endurance WEB COPY ©EVEQUE Distance: 42195m No. in team: *32 Girls and Boys No. of legs: 105 (1 x 195m, 210 x 200m) No. of laps of a 400m track: 105 laps plus 195m No. of laps of a 200m track: 210 laps plus 195m No. of reserves: up to 3 reserves may be used

Current UK best performances are taken from www.thepowerof10.info World best performances are taken from www.iaaf.org

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