How likely is it to drop 1.03 seconds in 1-2 weeks off the 100M sprint? In the past week I have dropped 0.82 seconds. I completed Wed. Apr 10 and again Wed. Apr 17, so exactly a week apart. For training, I sprint 5 days a week, condition twice a week, and lift weights 3-4 times a week.
Any thoughts, advice, or workouts would also really help. Thanks!
Well it depends what your PR is. The slower your time is, the easier it is to get bigger PR's because you're just utilizing your top speed porperly.
However, if your PR is 10.8-10.9, there's no way in hell you're gonna pop a 10.2 or lower within a week
Super good point! I should've probably mentioned that I am a girl since that probably makes an impact on times as well. I'd say usually every time I PR it's around 0.6-0.8 seconds. I feel like I haven't fully reached my top speed... I know I can run so much faster and I have been working so hard. I'm just in that awkward phase of not quite seeing the results I want, if that makes sense.
if you are either a noob or a relatively young former jock who went completely fallow for a period, i think you could drop a second in the 100 just doing the workouts. that's basically the initial fitness part. you were out of shape. you got more in shape. the hard part is you get under 12 or so. the curve rises and seasons were usually about chipping away another .3-.5. but then i would show up fairly fit from soccer, usually run one of my best times early-season, then usually finish with some more when we tapered, so the value of TF training was marginal.
anyhow, point being if you dropped a second you probably started slow or are just getting in shape, where you get bigger benefits. enjoy the moment but that probably usually just catches you up to the back of the competitive pack.
kind of like 5 minute mile. you can probably take a kid off the street for XC, and if they are a willing worker, shave minutes off their mile time and get them around 20 5k and 5 mile. from there is then a mix of talent and chiseling away a dozen seconds a season.
saying you're a girl, we'd be talking around 14, somewhere in there. back of the JV pack where i grew up. you take a non-overweight girl off the street and train her a semester you could probably chop seconds off and get down to about 14. but where i grew up the winner is running high 11, the finalists 12s, and JV is high 12-15. so you can get up to JV level in a hurry but then the rest from there is talent and hard work and not a second drop every few weeks.....
Yeah that makes sense. Right now I'm at the top of JV/bottom of varsity. I've been doing preseason workouts since January, practices for my team since the end of February, and started competing a bit over a week into March. I've been getting good results and dropping time consistently, but right now as we're heading into May (May is districts/state season for me) and really I'm just trying to set myself apart and get the fastest time possible.
It's my 3rd year running track if that helps, and I'm a sophomore (2nd year in high school track, 1 year in middle school).
Depends where you are starting from. If you are starting from 14s, then possible. When you are in the 10s ranges. It becomes impossible to do so.