Track and Field

you use the word 'atletismo' for the sport of track.

and the word 'seguir' for track as in following

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What would happen is the first runner would run half the length of the track and pass it off. Following this, the next leg would pass the baton at the finish line to the third leg. Finally, the third leg would pass it to the fourth leg where the the 2nd leg was orginially.

Like many of today's action sports, track and field has its origins in the first Olympics in Greece. When you begin to investigate who invented track and field, you find that, again, like soccer, track and field disappeared during the "dark" ages, and reappeared with modern organization during the 1800's.

Since they did not have jeeps and tanks and trucks in the ancient world, soldiers took pride in their athleticism. Running was one of the very first competitive sports, and it is a favorite of today's games as well. There is some dispute as to exactly when the Olympic Games began, with a gap in guesses from 776 BC to as early as the ninth or tenth century BC.

There was a gap in the games as well, during the Middle Ages. In 1896, they were again held in Athens, as organizers tried to bring back the ancient tradition. One feature of these games was what is now known as a "marathon race". It was called "marathon" to honor the run made by Pheidippides in 490 BC from the Greek city of Marathon to Sparta. He ran the entire day in order to warn fellow soldiers of Persian invasions at Marathon. That distance was about 149 miles; today's races are about 26 miles, considerably shorter. When London hosted the 1908 Olympics, their "marathon" run was 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 kilometers), from starting point to the stadium.

So, if you want to consider who invented track and field, you might want to give that honor to Pheidippides. However, bronze tripods were discovered that pre-date his run, to the tenth century BC, that some believe may have been awards for earlier games at Olympia. Or, if you want to look at the more sophisticated development of track and field, consider the year 1849, in England, when the Royal Military Academy organized their first track and field meet. Perhaps they should receive credit for who invented track and field?

Ancient games eventually expanded to include more races, boxing, wrestling, and a pentathlon with five running, throwing, and jumping events. In the US, organized track and field events date from the 1860's. Collegiate and amateur groups were formed here in 1873 and 1888 respectively. Organized sporting events for men grew with the first NCAA national championships in 1921. Women, who had only recently received suffrage in the US, were included in the games in 1928. Making history, in 1952, the Soviet Union sent its first teams to the Olympics. The fierce competition between the USSR and the USA ran for the duration of the Cold War, over the next 30 years. In standard Olympic tradition, wars are suspended for the duration to enable all countries to participate in peace.

Today, favorite events include multiple sport competitions in the Pentathlon (5 sports), Heptathlon (7), and Decathlon (10). The Athletics Congress (US), and the International Amateur Athletics Congress determine the sporting rules. Games are limited to amateurs; professional athletes cannot participate or they are banned.

I can only answer like this. I don't know about the time. I do know however, that when I was young I concentrated more on what other people were achieving, instead of what I was managing to do myself. I think the very fact that you are timing yourself and trying to get faster is great.

I made the mistake of thinking 'If I am not the best at something I might as well give up' which of course is not the way to go. Continue with your running and whatever you do, trying to get better for your own personal achievement, and worry less about what the 'Bolts' of the world :)

I am now in my forties and have started running again and I love it. I am never going to be a record holder but I wished I had accepted that at your age and continued anyway :)

Good luck with your life

all you need is some hurdles, which can be made of wood, plastic etc.

and an open space to run.

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200 meter hurdles, 400 meter hurdles, 3000 meter steeplechase

150M Sprints for endurance or double up and do a couple of 200M for endurance training.

20M Sprints for Drive phase

40M, 50M and 60M Sprints

Uphill Running can help out your 100M dash being that the 100M is a power sprint.

Uphill training (Sprints) will help increase power in your drive phase.

Weighted Step-Ups in the gym also help leg explosiveness;along with power cleans, squats and lunges.

Running stairs at a rapid pace will help out your fast-twitch muscles which translate into speed.

Downhill running is an overspeed training workout that causes your body to run faster than it normally would do.

These are just a few things that can be implemented into your workout. Feel free to try other venues and add to this one. Whatever works for you and helps out.

Assuming you are talking about an above high school or college male athlete, there is typically 8 steps to the first hurdle and 3 steps in between each of the remaining 4 hurdles. The runout after the last hurdle will depend but likely 4-5 steps. The total is 24-25 steps.

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That is a tough question to answer because there are so many levels of running fitness. An adult male runner that has been training might be able to run at under a 5:00 mile pace so they could easily run 1.5 miles in 7:00. An unfit adult male who doesn't work out or is a smoker probably couldn't run a mile so at a walking pace they could do it in just over 20:00. Unfortunately I think the latter is more predominate, but if you are working out and jogging regularly 15:00 (or a 10:00 mile pace) sounds reasonable.

To Add to this: I am in the military, work full time (more actually) and am good physical shape. I'm 28. I ran the 1.5 run in 10:10 today. I run many miles a week to be able to get that time. As far as the 7:00 1.5 run, good freaking luck! I have never in my 6.5 yrs in the military seen any 'regular' (meaning non-collegiate/olympic runner) person achieve a time that low. The lowest of the 'regular' people that train hard has been 9:00 or low 9:00's. The time alloted for the 1.5 run is 12:45. This time was created by Dr. Kenneth Cooper from Cooper's Institute in Dallas, TX. Look it up. Thanks.

8:41.5 4/25/1969 his senior year at the Corvallis invitational in Corvallis and he placed 1st with a national high school record

The reason speed is an advantage in sport is because it is like a target from one place to another but in a certain time and if that time runs out u r out of the game and it is usually used for speed and agility as u should already no that and speed is used in many games like Martial arts, Running, Baseball, Rounders and many many more but its also because u will get to places much more quicker making it easy for u to win the game but obviously u wouldn't to that in a slow race lol but i hope that helped u with your answer to this perticular question :)

Take your 55 meter hurdle time, (let's say 9.26) then divide that time by 55, = .1684, then multiply that number by 60, .1684 x 60 = 10.10. It isn't an exact science but it will be pretty close. You could obviously do the opposite also to convert your 60 time into a 55 meter time. Hope that helped. Coach LaFollette, the Hurdle Professor.

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In Olympic competition, 10 hurdles are set on the track at intervals of 9.14 meters.

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im 18 and run a 4.47 and im one of the fastest in my age group so

5.9 would be super fast. 6.2 would be fast. 6.4 would be average

That is open to a lot of discussion and opinion. In general, it is going to be most focused on the practitioner than the specific art. As more is learned in any particular art, the more you realize that they are all related and the human body is the restricting factor.

100 yard dash is 91 meters.

If someone were to run a 7 second 91 meter dash, then in the 100 meters they would be able to run 7.7 seconds.

So no, that's impossible because the current world record is 9.58 and that's far off. There is a limit to how fast people can run and the limit is set at 9.0 - 9.1 seconds but that's not for another 100, 200, 300 years possibly.

Less than a foot, for sure. Probably around 9-10 inches.

The front foot looks like a small human hand with 5 fingers. the back foot is larger and its webbed. In sand they look kinda like big hands with long fingers and little hands in front sometimes. Glad I could help.

There are eight field events: high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus throw, hammer throw and javelin throw.