For every item in this journal, PDFs of the text and teacher support material (TSM) can be found at SCHOOL JOURNAL www.schooljournal.tki.org.nzSchool Journal Born to Run Level 3, August 2020 by Lucy Corry 2020 AUGUST Year 6 SCHOOL JOURNAL The Learning Progression Frameworks describe significant signposts in reading and writing as students develop and apply their literacy knowledge and skills with increasing expertise from school entry to the end of year 10. Overview This TSM contains information and suggestions for teachers to pick and choose from, depending on the needs of their students AUGUST 2020 and their purpose for using the text. The material provides many opportunities for revisiting the text. Arthur Lydiard was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach whose This article: approach to training has left a lasting impact on the sporting world. • provides biographical information about a world-renowned athletics coach Using speed and endurance-building techniques that he developed through trial and error, Lydiard coached several high-performance • describes the process Arthur Lydiard used to develop his innovative runners to Olympic success. A firm believer that anyone could be a training methods champion, Lydiard played an important role in popularising jogging in • uses technical language related to fitness Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. “Born to Run” includes a • explains the wider legacy of Lydiard’s passion for running profile of Lilly Taulelei, a year 10 student who has played for the New • includes a profile of a year 10 student who has been selected for an Zealand basketball team. She was also selected for an Asia-Pacific international basketball team basketball team that played at the Global Championships in 2019. She shares her thoughts about what makes a good coach. • provides opportunities for students to locate and interpret information in a text with a range of non-fiction features • supports the health and physical education curriculum. A PDF of the text is available at www.schooljournal.tki.org.nz Texts related by theme “Hine-o-te-Rangi: The Adventures of Jean Batten” SJ L3 Nov 2018 | “Violet Walrond: Olympic Swimmer” SJ L4 March 2012 | “Six Days a Week” SJ L4 Aug 2012 | “Our First Olympians” SJ L2 May 2020 Text characteristics Once a runner had completed their “base training”, Lydiard focused on strength and speed. This meant hill work and running short distances at a fast pace. The schedule was tough going, but Lydiard’s group was determined. LILLYThe young Peter Snell remembers how shattered he felt at the end of each run. Lydiard continued to run, to inspire everyday Sport has always been a big part of Lilly Taulelei’s LYDIARD’S TAULELEI“My legs were too sore to even walk, and I draped myself over a fence and told joggers,joggers, andand toto mentormentor athletes.athletes. HeHe influencedinfluenced life.life. SoSo havehave coaches.coaches. ByBy thethe timetime sheshe waswas fourteen,fourteen, myself I was going to make it at all costs.she’d playedIn that basketball company, for I wasn’t New Zealand. going to She let was generations of great sportspeople: John Walker, GOOD COACHES LEGACY anyone down, least of all myself.” also captain of the junior NBA Asia-Pacific team Dick Quax, Rod Dixon, Allison Roe, and Lorraine By the late 1950s, “that company”thatthat included competedcompeted some atat thethe of ourGlobalGlobal most ChampionshipsChampionships promising inin 2019.2019. Moller. He was also one of the first coaches in the world to take women runners athletes. 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Lydiard They focusedwanted Lydiardon to really helpful.” Runner Dick Quax used Lydiard’s methods to become one of New Zealand’s you can do anything. You’re not restricted to any become their mentor and coach. Because of what he’d learnt from his own training, A good coach, in Lilly’s opinion, is someone who’s strength and speed. This meant hill work and running short distances at a fast one position.” Lilly plays in school and rep teams. top athletes. 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Auckland runner Bill Baillie (who later broke a world record) remembered she says. “My legs were too sore to even walk, and I draped myself over a fence and told coach you can talk to. “If you can’t talk,” she says, that the 35-kilometre circuit, on steep hills, was his first test. The pain almost made light jogging for their health, and you can’t put a figure on how many lives Another of Lilly’s core values is fitness, and this myself I was going to make it at all costs. In that company, I wasn’t going to let “everything“everything willwill seemseem aa lotlot harder.”harder.” ▲ that has saved.” New Zealand’s 1957 cross-country team contained many athletes means a lot of running. “There are times when I himanyone cry, “butdown, you least wouldn’t of all myself.” give in”. At the time, it was unusual for short- and middle- Lilly believes the most important thing about who’d been trained by Lydiard, including Peter Snell (top, third think ‘I don’t really want to do this’, but I know the distance runners to cover so many kilometres.