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Anesha
Hello there. I am going into 8th grade next school year and I want to try out for track in eight months. I really suck at running and my normal time for a full mile is 12 minutes. I want to be doing sprints if I make it and also improve my mile time. Any advice from people who did and who are doing middle school track?
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Hi, I just finished 8th grade track, and we did a lot of good workouts that will be helpful to you for getting in shape for the season.
Here's a list of good track/distance workouts:
-interval training: for this you can sprint the straight parts of the track and jog at an easy pace for the curved parts (try doing this for 10 minutes or so at first and gradually increase)
This is especially good for sprints.
- whistle workout: have a friend, parent, or sibling- or even just by yourself-hold a stop watch: first sprint for 1:45 minutes, then jog for 3 minutes, then sprint for 1:30, jog for 2:45, sprint for 1:15, jog for 2:30- keep doing this till you've gotten down to 15 seconds sprinting.
-ladder workout: do a 1600, short break, 1500, short break, 800, short break, 400. Or do it in the opposite order ( this will especially help to lower your mile time)
- start doing distance runs, start running distance for 10 mins. Then try for 15, then 20 mins, and so forth.
- at the end of every week, go to the track and run a mile- keep track of your times so that you can see your progress.
I always have a tough time motivating myself, and if you have the same problem, think about how good you'll feel afterwards, and how much better you'll get. Making a training schedule helps a lot too.
Good luck, and I really hope this helped you! I'm sure you'll do great, track is lots of fun! :)
Hi, I just finished 8th grade track, and we did a lot of good workouts that will be helpful to you for getting in shape for the season.
Here's a list of good track/distance workouts:
-interval training: for this you can sprint the straight parts of the track and jog at an easy pace for the curved parts (try doing this for 10 minutes or so at first and gradually increase)
This is especially good for sprints.
- whistle workout: have a friend, parent, or sibling- or even just by yourself-hold a stop watch: first sprint for 1:45 minutes, then jog for 3 minutes, then sprint for 1:30, jog for 2:45, sprint for 1:15, jog for 2:30- keep doing this till you've gotten down to 15 seconds sprinting.
-ladder workout: do a 1600, short break, 1500, short break, 800, short break, 400. Or do it in the opposite order ( this will especially help to lower your mile time)
- start doing distance runs, start running distance for 10 mins. Then try for 15, then 20 mins, and so forth.
- at the end of every week, go to the track and run a mile- keep track of your times so that you can see your progress.
I always have a tough time motivating myself, and if you have the same problem, think about how good you'll feel afterwards, and how much better you'll get. Making a training schedule helps a lot too.
Good luck, and I really hope this helped you! I'm sure you'll do great, track is lots of fun! :)
Why do F1 drivers swerve back and forth while they are following the pace car?
TKM
I've noticed this in every race I've ever seen, as soon as a yellow flag comes out the cars all start zig zagging back and forth across the track. Why do they do this?
Answer
This practice is widespread in all racing categories, from Karting to F1, for keeping as much heat in the tires as possible when driving slow.
In Formula one in particular it is not very effective although still useful.
It is very very difficult to put heat into a tire at such slow speeds in a car that is designed not only to do 200mph but also turn at that sort of speed.
And unlike a touring car that simply generates more heat when going fast and turning, the F1 car has the huge extra burden of downforce.
The F1 car triples it's weight at speed, this places a huge load on the tires.
So it's easy to understand that a tire designed to reach (and maintain) working temperature under such conditions cannot under any circumstances reach or even maintain adequate temp behind the pace car, not even close.
If it were designed so it could, it would overheat and be destroyed before the end of a single racing lap.
Any other type of race car can manage better, but not an F1 car.
Every qualifying session we hear about drivers complain about their failure to put heat in to the tires for their runs.
We even have examples where teams fail to heat up their tires throughout the whole weekend, they just can't put enough load on it even at racing speeds, lap after lap!
Toyota in Monaco springs to mind, they went from race win contenders to hopeless backmarkers in the space of one week.
They just couldn't get their rubber to work!
Another interesting side effect of all this is that you can't gradually build up to speed in an F1 car.
Flat out is the only way to go if you're looking to warm the tires and get decent grip.
If you can't push hard (and how could you of course if you're not a racing driver) you'll be skidding around, no grip.
You get much less g-force than advertised, then the F1 driver gets in the car and after a couple of laps it goes round corners like an F-16!
Check out this video, should be fun and educational at the same time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
This practice is widespread in all racing categories, from Karting to F1, for keeping as much heat in the tires as possible when driving slow.
In Formula one in particular it is not very effective although still useful.
It is very very difficult to put heat into a tire at such slow speeds in a car that is designed not only to do 200mph but also turn at that sort of speed.
And unlike a touring car that simply generates more heat when going fast and turning, the F1 car has the huge extra burden of downforce.
The F1 car triples it's weight at speed, this places a huge load on the tires.
So it's easy to understand that a tire designed to reach (and maintain) working temperature under such conditions cannot under any circumstances reach or even maintain adequate temp behind the pace car, not even close.
If it were designed so it could, it would overheat and be destroyed before the end of a single racing lap.
Any other type of race car can manage better, but not an F1 car.
Every qualifying session we hear about drivers complain about their failure to put heat in to the tires for their runs.
We even have examples where teams fail to heat up their tires throughout the whole weekend, they just can't put enough load on it even at racing speeds, lap after lap!
Toyota in Monaco springs to mind, they went from race win contenders to hopeless backmarkers in the space of one week.
They just couldn't get their rubber to work!
Another interesting side effect of all this is that you can't gradually build up to speed in an F1 car.
Flat out is the only way to go if you're looking to warm the tires and get decent grip.
If you can't push hard (and how could you of course if you're not a racing driver) you'll be skidding around, no grip.
You get much less g-force than advertised, then the F1 driver gets in the car and after a couple of laps it goes round corners like an F-16!
Check out this video, should be fun and educational at the same time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
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