I very much hope that does not happen to me as a level 6! Would not be comfortable as the middle referee of a step 5 game!
Level 6-5 Promotion + Fitness Test
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This happened in the FA Cup this season I believe. The fourth official took over, became injured himself and left the senior assistant as the middle with the junior assistant on one line and no one on the other. there had been qualified officials in the crowd such as a home fan and the referee's observer/tutor but I believe the away side refused to have any of them take over. I'm sure all of this is report worthy.
Russell Jones
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This can happen at any level (but very very rarely does). My first game as an L3 was as an AR in the National League South. Both of us ARs were first years, so I ended up Senior. If the ref had gone down, then that would have been quite some scary jump up from doing middles in the Spartan League Prem the previous season ...
See is surprises me they would put two newly promoted level 3’s on a National league south game!This can happen at any level (but very very rarely does). My first game as an L3 was as an AR in the National League South. Both of us ARs were first years, so I ended up Senior. If the ref had gone down, then that would have been quite some scary jump up from doing middles in the Spartan League Prem the previous season ...
Justylove
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Just to add to this.
First do a Cooper test and find out your 'cruising speed' this is the pace you can comfortably run the test in, you know you're running, but you're not straining yourself. Don't worry about distance at this point. Judging by your post it's likely to be somewhere between 6 min15 sec per km and 6 min 45 sec per km. Use that as your baseline.
Your 'easy' longer runs you should target around 1 min per km slower than your cruising speed. It's harder than it sounds as your natural instinct is that you can easily run faster. This will help your awareness of pace, plus as you get into it you can start to think about your form and technique and breathing patterns.
You then do speed sessions. I call these 'red line days'. I have a stretch of lane where I live that is approx 350 metres there and back. After a warm up, I then do a 'there and back' down the lane as fast as I can and see what my pace per km is for it. Then take a short break and I repeat it for a total of 6 reps. You can then see what your fastest one was and the slowest one and the difference between the two is. It also helps to condition you to run faster, albeit for short periods than you would normally do on a run.
Finally you can do Cooper tests. Don't think of those as being just run for 12 minutes, you can bring variances into them. You can check your cruising speed by running it as I described earlier. You can do a negative interval, where you target running the second 6 minutes faster than the first, you can also do a 'redline' Cooper test where you go out hard and then try to maintain it/hang on as best you can when it starts to hurt.
Building in a combination of those things can give you some decent gains in a relatively short space of time.
Usual caveats apply relating to warm up and down properly, don't overtrain and listen to your body and build in rest days accordingly.