PaceSetter Book

Sustained Activities 7

WEB COPY ©EVEQUE The young athletes start and finish on a whistle for a specified time period (up to a maximum of 10 minutes). The illustration above shows the recommended starting positions for six young athletes participating in the activity. A recording sheet has been designed to assist the coach in measuring the distance achieved by individual young athletes. Walking Distance Against a Fixed Time Period (5 minutes)

100 metres Linear Track = 200 metres per lap

Starting Adjustment (metres)

Finishing Adjustment (metres) Distance Achieved (metres) Penalties (metres)

Total Distance (metres)

Name Steve Jones

200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m

WEB COPY ©EVEQUE In the table above the Total Distance for the young athlete was calculated as follows: Steve Jones started at position no. 2 on the illustration of the Layout of the Linear Track. He then completed Four full laps of the track (from the Scratch Line) and an extra 30 metres before the whistle was blown for the 5 minute time period. His finishing adjustment was 20 metres because of the fact that he started 10 metres in front of the Scratch Line. He obtained 80 metres of Penalties and therefore his Total Distance was calculated by subtracting the Penalties from the Distance Achieved. It is important with all the games activities that the young athlete is encouraged to learn the skill correctly and therefore it is suggested that penalties rather than disqualification for an illegal walking technique are applied . Therefore, the coach or other young athletes acting as judges can be given yellow and red cards that can be shown to the participating young athletes for a caution or a foul.

The penalties for illegal ‘lifting’ techniques should be applied as follows:

Fault

Young Athlete Shown

Penalty

Caution

Yellow Card

20 metres 40 metres

Foul

Red Card

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