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A wide variety of suitable activities for young athletes are offered in publications such as
Pacesetter, Aviva Elevating Athletics and England Athletics’ Run, Jump, Throw resource. In this
section, however, we offer a selected number of games and relays considered particularly relevant
to endurance development. Consideration has been given to the utilisation of the facilities
available, be it a traditional 400m athletics venue or one of the alternative tracks detailed
in Section 2.
The activities included are: Individual Pursuit on a linear track, Team Pursuit on a linear track,
Continuous Relays on tracks, games fields or parkland fields, Tag Relay, Team Pursuit, Partner
Pursuit, Bleep Test Relay, Orienteering Relays and Games and other ideas such as Rambling,
Fartlek etc.
50m Linear Track
The Linear Track is marked out using six cones
and five discs.
Multiple tracks may be set out side by side being
placed at least three metres apart.
‘
A
’ and ‘
B
’ are the end point starting positions
‘
C
’ and ‘
D
’ are the centre line starting positions.
Individual Awards
The participants tackling the Endurance Awards start at points ‘
A
’ and ‘
B
’ and the distance
they achieve in a stated time is recorded - see Section 8 for further details.
Individual Pursuits
The participants start in opposite directions at the centre point of the track marked ‘
C
’ and ‘
D
’
and race over an agreed number of laps.
Pace Training
Full details on how this can be used for pace training are given in Section 6.
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
ENDURANCE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
AN INTRODUCTIONTO
ENDURANCERUNNING
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9m
9m
10m
10m
10m
Can be used for:
AVIVA UKA Academy Endurance
Awards Pace Training
Individual Pursuits
Team Pursuits
End point
starting
position
B
Centre line starting position
D
Centre line
starting
position
C
End point
starting
position
A
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