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WEB COPY
©EVEQUE
WEB COPY
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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.
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
Foul
Red Card
40 metres
Name
Steve Jones
Starting Adjustment (metres)
Finishing Adjustment (metres)
100 metres Linear Track
= 200 metres per lap
Walking Distance
Against a Fixed Time Period
(5 minutes)
Distance Achieved (metres)
Penalties (metres)
Total Distance (metres)
200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m
