I am a senior in HS. I run both hurdle events. My PR’s are 39.93, junior year and 15.00, after my sophomore year. My question is in regards to my potential as a sprinter. My coach has our team do very little speed work and a good bit of distance training. I slack off which pisses him off. In spite of this I still have pretty good explosion. Sophomore year I lifted weights heavily and didn’t do much speed work. I power cleaned 245 as a 15 year old sophomore and missed 265 by a hair, benched 305, and deadlifted 430. I’ve recently began a structured training program and have been lifting weights for the past 4 weeks. My current lifts from my workout this Monday were 3x6 @ 385 on deadlifts. 3x6@ 365 squat slightly below parallel. 3x6 @ 245 bench. 36 inch VJ, and 10"3 SLJ. I am 6"0 185 pounds. Very low BF%, not sure but I’m very lean. When I run sprints in practice, I have a good start, I routinely give a 22.1 FAT 200 meter runner a good meter and a half for the first 30 meters in practice and come out dead even with an 11.0 FAT runner. I seem to fade somewhere in between 40 and 60 meters. In spite of this the one time my coach put me in the 100 I ran a 11.7 on a freezing cold day the first meet of the year off of stupid aerobic training that our coach makes us do. In reference, the 22.1 FAT runner that I spoke of earlier ran a high 23 that day. The only other time I ran the 100 was after sophomore year and I ran an 11.61 off of conditioning workouts 3 x a week tues, wed, thur ex: (6x400, 6x200, 6x250) all w/ very little rest. I have rarely ever stuck to a training regime for very long. I have never done much plyometrics consistently. Based on my stats and what I have told you, what do you think I might be able to run a 100 if I were trained properly for several months and why do you think that I haven’t run faster? Have I just not been raced enough at that distance, because there is a kid on my team that never beat me in any sprint in practice, ran 12.0 his first 100, and by the end of the season was hitting 11.3?
BTW all times quoted are FAT
any comments?
you’ll never know your true potential until you have better training. but, that 22.1 fat is a good sign.
Exactly - get out there and find out!
I ran some 60 meters on Wednesday. This girl who timed me F’ed up the time on the first one and said it was 6.2, so i question her ability to time the second seeing as that would be a world record. Then the second one she said it was 7.7, but I doubt her ability as a handtimer. So on the last one I got my friend to time it who is more reliable and I got 7.4. My times are like a crapshoot. I did some 20 meter starts before the 60’s and I could only get 3.0 off of an on your mark get set go command. But I think if I just start actually being consistant with speed work maybe I can get my 60m under 7.0 within a short period of time.
im going to start doing SE workouts soon. what would be a logical starting point considering my events (110HH and 300H)? i plan to do them on Wednesdays as in CFTS.