Track And Field Anticipation

Monday, February fifteenth of twenty sixteen is fast approaching. It is almost here, and for people in Cedar Rapids Community School District in Iowa that means one thing for some high schoolers, both male and female. It means that track is about to start up again. Track officially begins on Monday, February fifteenth of twenty sixteen for this year’s track season. At Kennedy High School, that is getting many people excited. They are ready for track to begin and they cannot wait. In Track and Field, for those of you who do not know and are unaware, there are two sections: the track and the field. The field contains field events that you compete in. There are the jumps, which are the long jump and the high jump. In the long jump the goal is to jump the farthest, while in the high jump the goal is to jump the highest. There are also the throwers. They compete in events such as the discus and the shot put. The discus is a disc that you throw as far as possible. The shot put is a shot that you also throw as far as possible. While these two events sound similar, they are incredibly different.

That was the field part of Track and Field. Now, onto the track section of Track and Field. In the track part, it is all races in which you run to compete. There are various distances, and there are also hurdles. For hurdles, there are three events. There is the Shuttle Relay, which is a relay in which four people run and each runs a one hundred meter hurdle event. Then there are the 110 Highs which are also hurdle events. This is an individual event, in which the individual competes by running one hundred and ten meters with the hurdles high up. Lastly for hurdles, there is the 400 hurdles, which is also an individual competition of a four hundred meters of hurdles.

There are three sections for races. There are the short sprints, long sprints, and long distance. I run long distance. Short sprints are the 100 and the 200 for individual events. For relays, there is the 4x200 Relay. The long sprints have the 400 and the 800 for individual events. For relays there is the 4x400 Relay and the 4x800 Relay. There are also the two Medley Relays. One is a one hundred, one hundred, two hundred and then a four hundred. The other is a two hundred, two hundred, four hundred and then the eight hundred. Lastly, there are also the long distance events. The long distance events include the 1600 m, which is just nine meters short of being a one mile race, and the 3200 m, which is just eighteen meters short of being a two mile race. The sixteen and thirty two races are located in the middle of the meet and at the very beginning, respectively. They are not in any relays, and multiple people compete in each heat, as more can compete at once in long distance events than those that compete in the shorter events.

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