Running Is, Above All, a Mental Sport

Running, footracing over a variety of distances and courses and numbering among the most popular sports in nearly all times and places. Modern competitive running ranges from sprints (dashes), with their emphasis on continuous high speed, to grueling long-distance and marathon races, requiring great endurance. See also athletics; cross-country; hurdling; long-distance running; marathon; middle-distance running; relay race; sprint; steeplechase. For walk racing, see walking.

Running - Rules

• Sprinters should run in designated lanes and cannot cross lanes, throughout the race.
• In races with bunched starts, athletes can break inside. In 800-meter race, they start from staggered positions and can break inside after the first bend.
• In longer races of 1500 meters, 5000 meters, and 10000 meters, athletes can break inside after the start.
• Sprinters shouldn’t step on white lines that mark their lanes throughout the race.
• Sensors are placed in the starting pistol and at the blocks. In case of a false start, the athlete is disqualified.
• Before giving the ‘set’ command or before firing the starter gun, athletes cannot touch the other side of the start line with their hands or feet.
• Athletes should not obstruct other athletes during the race.
• If an athlete is obstructed, the referee may order the race to be held again, or he may ask the athlete to take part in the next round.
• Athletes may leave the track voluntarily before the race ends, but they cannot come back to the track else they will be disqualified.

Running races range from jogging to sprinting and unlike walking, at some point a participant’s both feet are not in contact with the ground. The history of running is as old as cave times when an ancient man had to run constantly in search of its prey. The ancient Greeks started Olympics approximately 2700 years back to honor the God Zeus. The first ever recorded running race was a sprint. Another Record of competitive running is found in the history back in 1829 BCE in the form of Tailteann Games. 토토

Sprints are the type of a race where a participant must run as fast as he can until the finish. They are the shortest races. Middle distance races are longer than sprints. Long distance races need much stamina as they are around 5000-10000 m long.

Marathon and Ultra marathon are exclusive races that are also long distance. A participant is required to wear his official race number at all times during the race. A participant must know the entire track himself. He can carry a map for assistance. One particularly tough marathon event is the Marathon of The Sands that lasts for six days and is run in African Sahara.