PaceSetter Book

Sustained Activities 7

WEB COPY ©EVEQUE Start

7.5.3 Walking – One Minute Team Challenge

100m

300m

200m

250m

WEB COPY ©EVEQUE Using a 400 metres track place a cone at the start line and add an additional cone every 10 metres from 100 metres point to the 250 metres point on the lap. Young athletes should work in groups and each group member will be challenged to see how far they can walk in 1 minute. The recorder starts the young athlete with a whistle and they set off walking around the track to see which cone they can reach before a second whistle is blown after one minute. Young athletes can be placed as observers around the track to judge that the walker is maintaining contact with the ground and not ‘lifting’, the term used when continuous contact with the ground is broken. When the whistle blows the second time the recorder notes which cone the walker had reached and writes it on the record sheet, which has increments of 10 metres. The group can be split into teams of four, five, six or seven members and a team competition can be held as follows: The first member of each team is tested to see how far he or she can walk in 1 minute and the achievement recorded, provided there is no disqualification for ‘lifting’. The second members of each team then compete to see how far they can achieve. The coach can decide to score the aggregate of the best three, four, five or six from each team. If the best four from each team of six or seven were to score the competition results could look like the those on the following sample scorecard:

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