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Walking - Tips and hints for walkers.
Morningside Racewalking - Introduction Print E-mail
Racewalking is simply a form of walking yet it can carry a person to any level of cardiovascular fitness - including champion in one of the most difficult Olympic events. Developed in England almost 400 years ago, racewalking today attracts men and women of all ages because of its outstanding benefits, minimal cost, and closely knit family of participants. Whether you are interested in basic fitness, setting records, or something in between, racewalking could be just what you were looking for to get into shape. And despite what you might think, there is not such a big difference between walking and running - the same basics applies: good posture, balance, rhythm and ultimately developing technique. When you stop running, do you walk, and do you start running when you stop walking? No. They are two different things sharing the same basic principals with two straight forward but very essential rules applying to race walking.

 

The small group of Morningside racewalkers have some impressive statistics in their logbooks covering many years of walking. During the 2009 season Susan and Nic Laycock, Di Boyd and Piet van Olst achieved numerous
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Racewalking - An Overview Print E-mail
Racewalking is an athletics event in which the object is simply to walk fast. The sport has been around for about 400 years, has been in the Olympics since 1908, and is literally the precursor of modern long-distance running.
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A brief history of racewalking Print E-mail
Competitive walking began almost 400 years ago as English noblemen wagered over whose footman was faster. In the first half of the 19th Century, it had found its way across the Atlantic and, by the late 1870's, had become the second largest betting sport in the United States -- second only to horse racing.
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So... Why not just run? Print E-mail

To ask why racewalkers don't simply run is similar to asking why hurdlers don't simply sprint -- or why butterfly specialists don't simply use the crawl stroke. Racewalking, like hurdling or swimming the butterfly stroke, offers an interesting combination of fitness and technical challenges that makes the sport ... well ... interesting. Besides, if raw speed was the only goal, we would probably all be riding bicycles.

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