Team building games/exercises - ideas??

I'm a highschool runner. I'm not sure exactly how to explain the team building activities we did. But, we went to Brevard Distance Runners Camp over the summer for a week, which we do every year. At that camp we completed harder runs than ever, and they have many team activities that help a lot. It could be a good idea to bring your team to the camp, or to talk to one of the head coaches that work there.

Have a team pasta party the night before each meet (or just before invitationals/conference/states if every meet would be too often).

Every once in a while to spice up a recovery run, we will split our team into groups and do a scavenger hunt. We've done it with checklists, we've done it with clues, we've even done it with camera phones (where they have to take pictures of things).

Something else we have done, but takes a little more planning is to give them a clue about where to go, then I meet them there with the next clue about how to get to the next checkpoint. Another coach I know has used pay-phones as checkpoints and gives them a certain amount of time to get to the phone and then he calls it with the next clues. But, pay-phones are becoming more and more rare. You can do either one of these with them split into several groups, as well.

During our pre-season camp in the fall, we've done some team building activities such as using a 50-100 foot rope (which they all hold onto single file), blindfolding everyone and then telling them to make the shape of a letter or number with the rope. This forces some creative communication, since they're all blindfolded. When they think they have it, we let them take it off and see how it looks. If they're way off, they put the blindfolds on and try to correct it.

I'm sure it's probably easier in college, but outside of practice team gatherings (dinners, movies, etc...) are also good. I hope some of these help.

ANY IDEAS?

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You could maybe try having the team all go for a run together or participate in some sort of workout together. Maybe even enter them in some sort of competitive event as a team (like maybe a dodgeball tournament, or maybe even some kind of running race if you want to be creative).

Seriously, I really don't get the idea of specific team building activities for an XC team. I have never experienced anything in my life that formed bonds and built relationships the way that training and racing in a team environment did.

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Pre-race Pasta dinner? (Usually pretty cheap)

Movie night?

Team showers

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Just because it is "fun" does not mean it has to be unproductive. Doing something such as adding batons to workouts and splitting your athletes into teams could be an idea.

An example of this could be shorter reps between 200m-400m, alternating team members with teams that were chosen randomly... winning team gets Gatorade...

We’d do workouts like 16x400 relay style where you’d hand off a baton and your rest was waiting for the other person to come around. You’re not moving that fast, but the last few res we’d speed up at the handoff to about 800 pace. We never had any problems with handoffs in relays.

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Pasta parties were mentioned. Those are great the night before a XC meet.

When I was in high school the team went to a running camp. There were about 10 schools at the camp and some individuals and pairs of friends. One of the guys came up with a game called “power of the pylon.” The game was not sanctioned or approved by the camp or the coaches at the camp. There were about 10 cabins that we stayed in. The guys were in one part of the camp and the girls in another. The coaches stayed in another area of the camp. The game was just in the part of the camp where the guys were. We played it at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. The object of the game was there was a single pylon and the various cabins had to get it and put it on top of their cabin and then defend it. It was a lot of fun and built up camaraderie but guys were getting hurt. It wasn’t the safest game. One morning the coaches were getting on us because they said they could hear us up hooting and hollering one night and said we needed to get our rest. One day during free time and in between training sessions, we decided to play. We would normally go out on the lake and canoe or ride the horses but it was too windy and a storm was coming in. We got busted and the coaches put a kibosh on the game.

Anyway, summer camps are a good way to build team cohesion if you can find a good one. Camping trips. Kayaking or white water rafting.

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Pass out numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

The runners start in order, the rest lasts as long as the following number wants. The person starting picks the interval distance and pace.

Could be good for doing on your XC course.

In my high school days, once per season we had a staple workout where the coach would pair the runners together based off of imaginary seed times, so the slowest would be with the fastest, the 2nd slowest with the 2nd fastest, and so on.

The workout would be like 600m repeats, something like 8-12 depending on the athlete. While your teammate ran, you rested, then while you ran, your teammate rested.

First team done with 8 or 10 or 12 or whatever would win some Gatorade or a candy bar or something.

It was a good way to spend a practice building comradary and friendly competitiveness while also getting some basic fitness from it