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Meredith and Emily go to Dubuque Senior High School and they both love sport. Meredith does shot put and discus, and Emily is a runner. Before you listen, tick the statements you think are correct.
Meredith: Uhm, so today we have a track meet and basically we practice every day, so five days a week for two hours in the afternoon. Uh, I throw shot put and discus, which are the field of-, two of the field events. There’s also long jump and high jump.
Emily: Uhm, I’m a runner so I run around the tracks, so just however many laps your coach puts you in. So I’ll do, tonight I will do two laps, which is an 800-meter run and then the 1500-meter run is four laps around. But the most amount of running people do, uh, for a track meet is a 3000, which is eight laps around the track. And we have scoreboards to keep time, uh, so the runners know like how fast they should go. And tonight we’ll have six, seven teams here. So there’s roughly 50 girls on each team, so there’s a lot of girls competing at once. And there’s, I think, like three different events going on at one time.
Meredith: Uhm, our coach is coach Murph. And this year we made a shirt for him called “Murph on the Turf” and it was because it’s his 43rd year coaching for us. Uhm, I joined track Freshman year because I was a basketball player and throwing shot put and discus helped with basketball and …
Emily: Uh, I did track because you get in really good shape and not only, you know, do you do that, but you create a family with all the other runners. And you know, you tell each other secrets and you gain like 50 other friends in one season so -, and they’re friends that you’ll keep for your lifetime.
Meridith: Uhm, we train five days a week for two hours a day. And then we have usually one or two meets a week, and then if we don’t have the meets, we still practice.
Emily: Uh, for training, the runners will do one workout a week which usually consists of like 10 laps on the track, uhm, at very high speed. And then the other four days we will run for up to 45 minutes just around the city. So people will know that you’re from Senior because you’ll see a group of girls running all together.
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