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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / atletismo | | Spanish term or phrase: carrera de resistencia | "Atletismo: Los alumnos se familiarizarán con las pruebas atléticas (salto alto y largo, carreras de velocidad y resistencia, lanzamientos)."
This is part of the sports curriculum of a school, so I'm afraid the context doesn't help much.
As far as I know, a "carrera de velocidad" is a "sprint", but I've found that longer races are called "middle distance" or "long distance" runs or events. Is there such a thing as an "endurance race" or "run", or do longer races just refer to distance? |
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| | long distance run | Explanation:
I ran cross country and track in high school, so here goes:
Sprints: 100 & 200 meter dash
Middle distance runs: 400, 800, and 1,500 meter runs
long distance runs: 5,000 & 10,000 meter runs & the Marathon
Note that "distance running" or "long distance running" is used in a general sense without referring to a specific distance, whereas long distance "run" is associated with a race of a specific distance.
A person who participates in 5,000 & 10,000 meter runs and marathons is often referred to as a "distance runner".
Also note that the 400 meter run is in somewhat of a gray area since it is occasionally considered as a sprint.
Hope this helps.
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 Richard Cadena
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15 mins confidence:   long distance
Explanation:
While there are endurance races, they are not usually held as school sports, they are "extreme" races.
For school I would say long distance (1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters), and then sprints (100, 200, 400, 800 meteres).
Good luck!
Rufino
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