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Relay Training Drills
Practice, practice, practice is the key to successful relay teams. Below are a few reminders before we get into training drills.
Light Touches Drill
Purpose
- Experience receiving and giving baton.
- Improvement of hand-eye coordination.
Teaching Points
- With full relay team, take positions as if running relay.
- Fourth leg is in front of 3rd leg, in front of 2nd leg, in front of 1st leg.
- First leg has baton in right hand, will pass to 2nd leg and so on until baton reaches 4th leg.
- Repeat. Can also do this while jogging.
Continuous Relay
Purpose
- Practice handing off in exchange zone
Teaching Points
- Athletes will run 100m (or shorter) intervals.
- Incoming runner passes to next runner.
- Runners will remain where they finished running their interval while baton is carried around track.
- Each runner passes to the next runner.
- Repeat.
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