How to go from a 10.7 to a 10.2 in the 100m dash? Is it possible

As a guy who has coached someone who was 11.2 and eventually ran sub 10 and a few who have won multiple para Olympic and world medals (including gold).

The improvement you want at the age you are is, very achievable! and in fact I would say normal.

A good coach can achieve that with a dedicated athlete, but it doesn't happen overnight or even within one year!

Sprinting is about dedication and time.

FYI for reference, you only really need to improve each stride by 0.01 second (one hundredth) to equate a 0.5 improvement

Subway Surfers wrote:

Roids anyone?

Goes without saying. How to achieve Ben Johnson levels of improvement.

AJ2000 wrote:

As a guy who has coached someone who was 11.2 and eventually ran sub 10 and a few who have won multiple para Olympic and world medals (including gold).

The improvement you want at the age you are is, very achievable! and in fact I would say normal.

A good coach can achieve that with a dedicated athlete, but it doesn't happen overnight or even within one year!

Sprinting is about dedication and time.

FYI for reference, you only really need to improve each stride by 0.01 second (one hundredth) to equate a 0.5 improvement

You make something pretty difficult sound easy. Normal? So why isn't everyone aiming for 10-flat? Fast runners began fast. If the OP comes off a low-level of training I can see the possibility of significant improvement, but less so if he has been trained to his present peak.

What a bunch of sock-puppet crap. What’s the point?

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Your reply is one of my favorites because it the most accurate. My biomechanics can use a ton of improvement. Also my vertical was 39 inches my senior year of high school. I achieved that at a combine at Wake Forest College and almost got recruited for my combine results alone.

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Please just stop.

The fact that you're on a website trying to discourage athletes and start arguments is sad in itself. Even sadder if you're actually an old man.

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AJ2000 wrote:

As a guy who has coached someone who was 11.2 and eventually ran sub 10 and a few who have won multiple para Olympic and world medals (including gold).

Every great male sprinter of the last century or so, ran 11.2 at some point in their career. Sooo, you're really not saying much.

JayTheRunner wrote:

My biomechanics can use a ton of improvement.

Look, just use the term 'mechanics'. All the cool kids do it.

Harambe wrote:

Ok I want to clear up my ignorance here. How good is 10.7 at 19 and 10.2? What would equivalent mile times be?

Thanks everyone who knows more about this than me.

According to this calculater it would be 4:09 and 3:58.

You KNOW that I know this is a complete troll thread.

You could be maybe the first troll in the history of the web to come clean, then discuss why you did it, and talk about your strategies. Might be interesting.

As for the thread itself, sorry but it really wasn't even a nice try. You veered into the wrong neighborhood.

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What could I be trolling about? You seem like a troll yourself.. Doesn't matter what you think. You come across as a crazy old man anyway.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

What a bunch of sock-puppet crap. What’s the point?

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Wow, you’re really losing it. Get some professional help. I’m not the OP! LOL!

More sock-puppet stuff. Really sad. Surely this is no fun for you anymore.

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BTW I'm out. Really, really bad troll attempt, and really sad that it was maintained for as long as it has been.

Boring.

AJ2000 wrote:

As a guy who has coached someone who was 11.2 and eventually ran sub 10 and a few who have won multiple para Olympic and world medals (including gold).

The improvement you want at the age you are is, very achievable! and in fact I would say normal.

A good coach can achieve that with a dedicated athlete, but it doesn't happen overnight or even within one year!

Sprinting is about dedication and time.

FYI for reference, you only really need to improve each stride by 0.01 second (one hundredth) to equate a 0.5 improvement

All of that is spot-on. Little things add up to big results in sprinting. Especially when you talk about the need to be patient, there is a saying that “speed grows like a tree”.

There are way more sprinters running close to 10 flat than ever. There are also more sprinters of European and Asian ancestry running close to or under 10 flat than ever before. Sprint training has improved tremendously the past 10 years based on lots of new research.

To those nay sayers who cry “doping” answer this: was Calvin Smith doping? Is he the only one who could run sub 10 clean?

What "new research"?

Sprint development is simply more wider understood and wider implemented . There hasn't been any new research revelations.

There sure as hell has been tons of recent research into exercise physiology, training methodology and injury prevention. Most of it has been driven by sports like soccer and football and a lot of it is aimed specifically at increasing an athlete’s speed. You don’t know that because you spend all your time reading comic books in your Mom’s basement.

Angry Geezer Spotter wrote:

There sure as hell has been tons of recent research into exercise physiology, training methodology and injury prevention. Most of it has been driven by sports like soccer and football and a lot of it is aimed specifically at increasing an athlete’s speed. You don’t know that because you spend all your time reading comic books in your Mom’s basement.

Ummm, this was the question, dense dunce....

What "new research"

The sport of track and field is galaxies ahead of soccer and football in terms of speed development research. When most of the highly regarded research was being conducted, you likely weren't even swimming around in dads sack. Even better, you literally were reading comic books when I was producing the folks that make your jaw drop.

GFY

Harambe wrote:

Ok I want to clear up my ignorance here. How good is 10.7 at 19 and 10.2? What would equivalent mile times be?

Thanks everyone who knows more about this than me.

10.7 is like 4:17

10.2 is like 4:04