Sample Runs and Walks

Sample Runs and Walks.
1. Obstacle Course - Using cones, buckets, playground equipment, etc. (use your imagination) have everyone run around and over things.
2. Relay Races - form teams and run on the track or field in teams - alternately touching the next runner. If one team is faster than another - then adjust for the next round.
3. Running for Time - each child should know their one mile time and note improvement as they gain more fitness. Each month you should have a mile time trial for this reason.
4. Whistle Run/Walk - blow the whistle and they run, blow again and they walk, blow again and they run, etc.
5. Hounds and Rabbits - identify your fastest runners and send everyone else out on the track or field route about 30 seconds in advance and see how many rabbits the hounds can pass.
6. Follow the leader - send everyone out in groups with similar abilities and they run in a line alternating leaders - wherever the leader wants to take them.
7. Wind Sprints - more aggressive workout that should not be done the first few weeks of running. Draw two lines and have runners run fast from one line to the other, then rest and repeat.
8. Exhausted 400 Hero Run - at the end of a workout when everyone is tired you surprise them with telling them to run fast for another 400 yards (or 200 yards or whatever). Call it a HERO run.