40 meter run in 4.59......need advice

Nah you're already at olympic level. Go out for penn next year and do olympic trials then olympics. Make sure you're friend is there because you have to bring your own timer.

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Probably a troll, but heck ill bite.

Let me just say if you had Olympic talent you would know it by now. If you can run 40 meters in 4.59 seconds that would put you at about 11.5 seconds for the 100 meters if you kept up that pace. 11.5 seconds and sub-10 seconds is not even close.

Hi. I googled sprinting speed and times also, and letsrun never popped up. A bunch of sprinting websites did.

So, since you came here through some miracle or against very large odds, it must mean you were meant to find this website.

Here's the LetsRun secret: You should try to work up to 50-70 miles per week this year since you are only 16, then gradually increase to 80 to 100 by the time you are a senior. Then you'll be really, really fast.

ALH359 wrote:

Probably a troll, but heck ill bite.

Let me just say if you had Olympic talent you would know it by now. If you can run 40 meters in 4.59 seconds that would put you at about 11.5 seconds for the 100 meters if you kept up that pace. 11.5 seconds and sub-10 seconds is not even close.

But he presumably spent some of the 40 metres reacting, accelerating etc. It wouldn't surprise me if it was olympic potential but it's obviously a troll.

Vidavidavida wrote:

ALH359 wrote:

Probably a troll, but heck ill bite.

Let me just say if you had Olympic talent you would know it by now. If you can run 40 meters in 4.59 seconds that would put you at about 11.5 seconds for the 100 meters if you kept up that pace. 11.5 seconds and sub-10 seconds is not even close.

But he presumably spent some of the 40 metres reacting, accelerating etc. It wouldn't surprise me if it was olympic potential but it's obviously a troll.

Or just not properly measured/timed.

Around 4 of 10 wrote:

Hi. I googled sprinting speed and times also, and letsrun never popped up. A bunch of sprinting websites did.

So, since you came here through some miracle or against very large odds, it must mean you were meant to find this website.

Here's the LetsRun secret: You should try to work up to 50-70 miles per week this year since you are only 16, then gradually increase to 80 to 100 by the time you are a senior. Then you'll be really, really fast.

Excellent post.

Anyway, defnitely a troll because there's no way someone in that situation would just randomly post on this obscure website.

Other notes: I have no idea where you could run a 40 meter race, and also a 4.59 40 meter would correspond to a 4.20 40 yard dash... that's not olympic level talent, that's GOAT talent. At 16 with no training, to run a time that maybe 1 or 2 NFL players have ever run, I highlyyyy doubt it. Should've said something like 4.9 to make it more believable.

Short distances are notoriously difficult to measure. From blocks, 0.24 for hand timing is standard. From standing, reaction of first movement often needs 0.6 to be added. And people often don't have top speed and speed endurance to go with short accelerations.

A better speed measure is a 30 meter fly. Place 2 cones at 30m and 60m from the start. Accelerate to top speed to the first cone and measure the time between the cones at top speed.

30m fly X 3.78 = ~100m time.

I don't know why you're saying this site doesn't come up with googling about sprinting.When I googled the words sprinting speed experts it brought me to this thread: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4173902I know it's not the top hit but the others were mostly about drugs to get fast, and they don't really have discussion. I want advice on whether I'm good enough for it to be worth quitting basketball to do sprinting only.Anyway, I don't think I can run 50 miles in a week. I once did a mile in about 5 minutes during basketball pre-season, so at that pace it would take me... 5 times 50 is 250 minutes every week of running to get 50 miles. That is a lot of time because I have a lot of courses and maybe basketball this year.

Around 4 of 10 wrote:

Hi. I googled sprinting speed and times also, and letsrun never popped up. A bunch of sprinting websites did.

So, since you came here through some miracle or against very large odds, it must mean you were meant to find this website.

Here's the LetsRun secret: You should try to work up to 50-70 miles per week this year since you are only 16, then gradually increase to 80 to 100 by the time you are a senior. Then you'll be really, really fast.

Oh and this is the link I googled to...the other one is this chat! http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1011951

All this blabber about trolls and stuff...who cares? If he's some 40yr old dude trying to be funny, then good for him...if he's a kid who is interested in the sport, why not try and point him in the right direction? If you respond honestly, its a win win. Old dude gets to laugh in his mom's basement, young kid gets genuine advice. People on the site get to dole out some knowledge, and better prepare their advice for when somebody actually DOES need it (if it is a troll).

Anyway, to answer your question... go out for the track team. If you have any sort of real talent, it will be very obvious pretty much immediately, and you will know whether or not basketball or olympic sprinting is in your future.

Bolt 4.64 in Berlin:

http://speedendurance.com/2009/08/19/usain-bolt-10-meter-splits-fastest-top-speed-2008-vs-2009/

Join the track team in the spring. You've got nothing to lose, the seasons don't even interfere. At worst it'll keep you in shape in the off season.

A BBall player joined our track team as a sr. with no sprinting experience besides basketball and ran something like 10.8/22.2 his only season. Didn't get him money from college or anything but he won a bunch of races.

that is incredibly fast for a girl, in fact, I find it hard to believe that you are not on some form of perfomance enhancing substance

Defnitely a troll because there's no way someone could have run 4.59 for 40 meters when the world record holder in the 100 meters ran a 4.64 (estimated) split.

Anyway, I don't think I can run 50 miles in a week. I once did a mile in about 5 minutes during basketball pre-season, so at that pace it would take me... 5 times 50 is 250 minutes every week of running to get 50 miles. That is a lot of time because I have a lot of courses and maybe basketball this year.

Is it actually possible to be this ignorant? Nobody trains at their mile race pace...

Ignoring the fact that 4-6 hours a week of time is absolutely nothing, why are you worrying about mileage if you want to go into sprinting? There really isn't any reason for a sprinter to be running a bunch of mileage.

oh no on my wrote:

Defnitely a troll because there's no way someone could have run 4.59 for 40 meters when the world record holder in the 100 meters ran a 4.64 (estimated) split.

That's not a fair statement. You're not supposed to run the first 40m as fast as you can in a 100m race.

Orrrdothiz wrote:

That's not a fair statement. You're not supposed to run the first 40m as fast as you can in a 100m race.

yeah pretty much you do... it's a sprint, you don't pace yourself.

also typically 40yd dashes with football players don't count reaction times, though.

LM wrote:

Is it actually possible to be this ignorant? Nobody trains at their mile race pace...

Ignoring the fact that 4-6 hours a week of time is absolutely nothing, why are you worrying about mileage if you want to go into sprinting? There really isn't any reason for a sprinter to be running a bunch of mileage.

OK, I was just trying to guess how long it would take to run 50 miles every week. If you look up you will see that another runner suggested 50 to 70 miles every week, so please don't call me dumb for thinking about their advice.