Endurance Awards

Each element of the Award is fun, progressive and suitably challenging for students. 

The Endurance Awards are designed to:

•   Provide every student with an opportunity to develop their Endurance running
•   Support the teaching of key skills
•   Encourage and reward individual progress
•   Enable intra-school, inter-school and virtual competition
•   Monitor and encourage improvement in fitness levels

Further details about both elements of the Endurance Award can be found on the poster.

1. Individual Award:

A simple pursuit test with young athletes pacing themselves around a 50m Linear Track trying to cover as much distance as possible in:

• 1 minute   Y3&4
• 2 minutes  Y5&6
• 3 minutes  Y7-9

2. Team Awards:

Primary

Teams of 9 young athletes are challenged to equal or better Laura Muir’s British 1500m record of 3m54.5s completing 50m legs in a continuous relay (with each athlete running 3 or 4 times).

Secondary

Teams of 5 boys or 5 girls are challenged to complete the 5000m distance in 200m legs each in a continuous relay (with each athlete running 5 times) as quick as possible.

Marathon Challenge

Teams of between 26 and 36 young athletes are challenged to complete the Marathon distance (42,195m) in 200m legs in a continuous relay (with each athlete running 6 or 7 times) as quick as possible.