How much performance is Training vs natural ability?

[rich121]

@hemann

Your daughters potential is probably so darn high you wouldn’t believe it. Problem is, most people don’t train properly (and long enough) to achieve their potential.

My “natural ability” for speed wasn’t very good. I was slow as heck in middle school- one of the slowest on the track team. But since I loved running track and I worked at it, I was one of the fastest (if not the fastest) by the time I graduated when it actually mattered.

My daughter gets a good 2 hour workout on Saturdays, and then on Mondays and Wednsdays she does a 1 hour workout on her own. The main problem is, the weekday workouts are without competition, and all her sprints are ran by herself.

She is also the fastest in our town (5 Junior High School track teams) so she doesn’t have alot of competition locally Last year at age 11 (6th grade) she had the fastest times in the 100m, 200m 400m and 800m, including the upper grades that she didn’t race against, 7th and 8th grade girls).

But, when she goes to Club practices on Saturday, that’s a whole different level The Club has some very fast girls.

It’s too bad there is nothing closer, as the 300 mile round trip every Saturday can be tough, and expensive.

Rick