Query - sprints

mias

Hey,
My brother ran his first ever 100m sprint today at 17 and without any training or ever having ran in a race or used blocks with a time of 11.3 seconds - I'm just wondering what is this time like for an amateur like that? Does it show any potential and should I be encouraging him to get into athletics? How much time could you possibly knock off that with training?

Squirrel

If it was an accurate 100m get him to join a club. Whereabouts are you and we can advise clubs?

upmeath

I'm 17, do a lot of distance, jumps and throws. I do little sprints training, only really take it up during the county relay season to make up numbers. That's quite impressive I have to say!

mias

I'm in the Midlands - Laois area. It was in the south leinster schools - so it should have been fairly accurate

Squirrel

http://www.athleticsireland.ie/links.htm
I don't know of any clubs there, from Dublin myself, but if you go through these sites you might find 1.

upmeath

the only laois clubs i know of are north laois, ballyfin, st abbans (crettyard). there are also clubs in graiguecullen, tinryland and monasterevin

mias

Cheers for that I'll have to try and convince him to join a club or something!

Squirrel

If he doesn't want to join a club just yet try and keep him running for the school. And you could think about taking it up yourself, you seem fairly interested.

Merrion

That's only 1 second off the Irish record so I'd definitely say he should give it one solid year of training and healthy living to see how much he can improve that time - otherwise he might find himself wondering what could have been when he's 33 (as I sometimes do).

Maars

He could be phenomenally talented, however bear in mind that times quoted with accuracy to 1/10th of a second have been hand timed and generally need to have 0.2 added to them to approximate electronic timing.