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ENDURANCE AWARDS
AN INTRODUCTIONTO
ENDURANCERUNNING
SECTION 8
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The Aviva UKA Academy Endurance Team Awards are based on the established endurance
training practice of using repetitions in the form of continuous relays.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS 1500M TEAM CHALLENGE (YEARS 5 & 6, AGES 9–11)
This relay is designed so that it can be held on either a standard 400m track or on an improvised
track marked with cones which can be laid out within five minutes. As these relays take around
four to five minutes to complete, they lend themselves very well for use within a school lesson
period. They also work well as after-school activities or as part as a school sports day,
the only equipment required being cones, relay batons and a stopwatch.
The challenge for schools is to see if they can equal or better the time set by Kelly Holmes when
she set the British 1500m record of 3 minutes 57.9 seconds.
Teams of
nine
children are required which can be all boys, all girls or mixed. Three team members
will run four times each over 50m sections and the other team members will each run three times.
We realise that all children wishing to take part should be accommodated so spare children can be
asked to partner a friend in one section, running together and pacing each other. They can agree
who carries the baton or carry it on alternate sections.
AVIVA UKA ACADEMY ENDURANCE TEAM AWARDS
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Runner No 1
Start / Finish
Takeover A
Takeover B
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Primary Schools 1500m Team Challenge using a 50m Linear Track
The team of nine runnners complete a
total of 15 laps between them. Runners
1, 2 and 3 will run four times each while
all the others will run three times.
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