[tylerkelly]

tylerkelly on October 2, 2004 at 2:19 am #9858

This thread leads me to ask for some speculation on how much I could improve my 100-200 times starting college.
A history of my running:
Started track Junior year of high school, and mostly just screwed around on the high jump pit. Its cushy! I did manage to run an 11.96 at the last meet of the year though, in addition to a 24.5 or so 200 and a in around 56.5.

Senior year of Highschool- For some reason i got serious about track and ran year round in kind of a general don’t-get-fat kinda way. Yknow, running like a mile or two a few times a week. I started actual training about a month prior to the majority of a team (There were a few kids on my team that were going to New York for NSIC to run for fun, and they were training so I joined them). Over the course of the year I dropped my 100 time to 11.44, 200 time to 23.36, and 400 to 52.3. My training program included no weights, and I’m horrible out of blocks (Unvariably the last one out of them and the first one to stand up, not to mention just horrible starting form in general).

Now I’m in my freshman year of college. I’m trying to set some realistic goals for my performance this year, and I believe that I can run around a 10.8 100m, a 22.0 200, and maybe a 50.0 400. Do you think that with an improvement in my blocks (and there is a LOT of room for improvement) in addition to weight lifting and more intense training overall that these goals are realistic? And why or why not?

[big10champ]

big10champ on October 2, 2004 at 4:20 am #33711

I think that it’s a Very reasonable statement to say that you could run those times. Now I don’t know everything about you, but if you can run a 11.4 in hs you could probably get down to breaking 11 flat in college. Espescially with that weight training. I would never pick up a weight in highschool for fear of becomming an “anchor on the track”. Take a look around at all of the elite sprinters of today with the exception of Kim Collins of St. Kitts (that guy’s just a freakshow), all of them possess greatly defined sculpted bodies. If your shorter, look at Mo greene, Ato Bolden and Coby Miller, If you’re taller look at Crawford, Gatlin, Asafa and Capel. It looks like somebody’s holding a track meet between body-builders. We’re talking about the best of the best Ever to come along. They must know something about something.
However, remember with weight-training Always to stretch, stretch, stretch, or else you will tighten up and become as stiff as a tree out there. Which will ruin you. Consider your flexibility as important as every other category such as technique work, weight-training, hills, fartliks, anything.

And why stop there my friend, why not shoot for 10.4? This is not impossible, in fact, your chances substantially improve with Every hour you spend out there on your track or in that weight room. But most of all- – – Harness your fire for what it is that you do. Use it against them. Find meaning in all of the training which you’re doing out there. Find meaning in the sweat that comes down your face. Strive at your goals not because they come easy for you as they do for some, but rather, Because they present question, present difficulty. Choose to run a 10.4 not because it will be easy for you, but because it will be hard. And trust me, anything which you desire to accomplish in this lifetime will or will not be achieved because You choose to or not to. Running a 10.4 is a choice you have my friend.

It’s inside of you now, you just have to be enough of a man to bring it out.

[big10champ]

big10champ on October 2, 2004 at 4:23 am #33712

What is your height and weight?

[tylerkelly]

tylerkelly on October 2, 2004 at 8:14 am #33713

I’m certainly trying for 10.4, but I think that a .6 drop in one year is good enough for now (if I happen to be able to push myself to a faster time this year, awesome. If 10.8 is what I can realistically do, then I’ve met my goal). As for height/weight I’m 5’11, and around 155 lbs.

[big10champ]

big10champ on October 3, 2004 at 9:36 pm #33714

I agree with you, I was just talking about your goals in general.

170 would be a solid weight for you playa.