Running Style Differences

Cross Country is a sport that is more about your mental strength than physical strength. It's all about whether you can keep running even if your exhausted. Cross Country strategy is very simple but it's hard to accomplish because not many people are willing to push themselves to finish the strategy.

In the races today, there is a set course, and the runners must stay on the designated course. The earliest version of Cross Country had multiple runners in a team start at different times. The first runner started ten minutes ahead of the other teammates. This runner left a trail of paper scraps for the others to follow once they started. The next runners had to hurry and follow the trail. Sometimes the first runner made the trail as difficult to follow as possible. The person did this by leaving false trails and running in strange patterns. Another version of Cross Country appeared later on. This version had the runners “race from one point to the next, but had no fixed route to follow” (Tiefenthaler). As long as the racers got to the finish line they were good. Finally, Cross Country morphed basically into the sport today. When Cross Country began to popularize, “U.S. Track and Field athletes ran cross country to improve their stamina” (Tiefenthaler). The sport gained many fans and followers. Official races started occurring in the United States. Cross Country became so big it was even put in the Olympics. Fans of Cross were quickly disappointed because the sport

Both track and cross country display running in many different, but similar ways.  Both are great sports at keeping people active and happy. According to active.com, running can raise your levels of good cholesterol while also helping you increase lung function and use. In addition, running can boost your immune system and lower your risk of developing blood clots. Being active in track and cross country can also help with losing weight, because it's one of the best ways to burn calories.

Starting with the simplest of differences; in track you throw a sixteen-pound ball while in football the ball is about one pound. The implement that is used in track is a sphere that has is a little bit larger than your palm. While in football the ball is an inflated, elongated oval that has points at each end of the ball. Also in football, with the position that I play, I can’t legally carry the ball while in track I have to throw the implement. With one of the similarities between track and football being the team aspect, but the difference is that track is all individual events while football is one big event. Track is a sport that has individuals fill roles in a single event, but football has a team of eleven players working together all at once. Another difference between the two sports is how points are acquired. In football you are able to acquire points at any time throughout the event. You can score point such as one point, two points, three points, or six points depending on how your team decides to score. On the other hand, in track it’s only after each event is over, and the points are awarded to which place you get in your event. First place gets ten points and the point decrease the worse you place in your event. Also you score points as a team working together in football, and on the other hand in track you score points individually which add up to a team’s score.

Today I would like to inform you about the benefits of running, along with the different formats of running races, both in high school, and out of high school.

Focusing on the track portion of the sport, it seems like cross country but there are many aspects of it that’s it different. The workouts dealing with track focus more on the weight lifting then the actual stretching. Track deals with more sprinting since most the events in track go only for a short distance that call for sprinting. Since these are only short distances and that there are so many events that athletes can do the numbers for competitors aren’t as huge. With each event having a set number of competitors, track is not as a team oriented sport. To go farther it relies mostly on the person doing the event, with only having the exception of relay races with three other

Although cross country athletes run long distance, sprint workouts are important. Speed training works on sprinting and

One thing should be said about Cross Country, it is no easy sport. Most of the time is spent running, miles upon miles. There is not always someone around to monitor everyone’s activity levels, it would be very easy to stop running; however, doing that only hurts oneself. Even though times it would have been easier to quit, I persevered, knowing that it would benefit me in the long run.

Track is a sport that is shadowed by the likes of football and basketball, but is

The coach for the cross country team is John Cornet. Cornet teaches here at Phoenix High School in the social studies department. The assistant coach for cross country is Carolena Campbell, she teaches emergency care and body works at Phoenix High School. The athletic director is Toby Walker he is the coach and athletic counselor. The practices are after school, runners exercise two to nine miles every week day. The team only gets 1 water break at the halfway mark, or if it’s a longer run they get two. All start to run together, then later they break off and pace

Track is an extremely interesting sport to runners. The amount of thrill during a race beats everything from a rollercoaster to skydiving. Everything seems irrelevant in a race. The only thing on a runner's mind during a race is finishing as best as possible. The most important thing to do going into a race is prepare yourself. You need to warm up, drink a lot of water, and build up confidence. Warming up can be done however you want, but building confidence for a race can be difficult, however, it is truly the most important thing. Going into a race assuming you are going to lose completely ruins your chance at winning. The meet I realized this in was the New York CIty meet at the armory.

Abstract This experiment was devised to measure how altering a person’s running form can affect their speed. The participants ran a for 40 yards on the track and were each given five minutes to rest between the different running form. The control running form consisted of the participants running with their arms moving, sprinting naturally. The other running form tested the participants time while running with their arms held straight. The experimental results found during the research supported the hypothesis that running with the arms in motion naturally generated the running best time. Introduction Running is seen all across the world. Whether it is on television, in magazines, in a person’s local community, or for sports. Despite race,

Proper running mechanics are determined by the strengthening and flexibility of certain muscles and how your body is built. To help run properly you will need to maintain a short quick stride, do not try to maintain a short quick stride do not try to lengthen your stride you should try to avoid reaching forward with your foot which can lead to over striding and it may cause an injury. Keep your knee in line you should make sure your foot strikes under your knee and not in front of it. doesn't matter if your heel or forefoot hits the ground first as long as your foot is not in front of your knee. You're going to want to practice these positions because then with your legs you need to get used to pushing up and off the ground behind you. you

A weakness of mine in running is my technique. Technique is a huge area within running because a good technique helps you to run faster and more efficiently. An example of my technique being a problem in racing was last season when I got tired, my technique would get really sluggish and this would make me slow down. My problem was I was too tense in racing and it made it really hard for me to go fast because I was so tense everywhere. Since then I have improved my technique by doing a speed and technique session with Andrew Beck every week. These technique sessions have really helped me a lot with improving how efficiently I run and has helped me have a lot more successful track season. Some methods that I can use in the future to help my technique

My trainer always says “look in the mirror...that's your competition,” I think that's the biggest take away you will learn in the art of running. It's not the times, or the medals you earn that matters. It's the fact that you know you’re beating your previous PRs and getting better. In the sport of track and field there are two different categories of runners, sprinters and distance runners. Sprinters are usually classified as anyone who runs a 100, 200, and or a 400, while distance runners are 800 meters and up. While both sprinting and distance running have the same sport revolving around them, they a different in terms of Muscle usage, injuries, and training.