Was just wondering how peoples time trial 100 or 200 times compare to what they actually run in competition. I've run 11.25 hand time in practice no blocks but standing start and using spikes was wondering if people run faster in sprints in meets or not. I know I run my 400 and 800 much faster in meets than practice but wasn't sure how different it might be for shorter sprints.
Thanks!
Depends on what phase you are in. A 100m guy training through might go on the order of 0.1 faster just due to the heat of competition. As a non-sprinter (meaning not training primarily for sprints, not doing blocks, not doing sprint weights), you will likely go a little faster 3-point than standing starts, and a little slower with blocks.
Where it tends to improve significantly for sprinters is in final competition phases. In training (3-4 workouts a week) you get fiber transitions from IIb/x to IIa whether you're doing sprint, weight, or mid-distance training. But when you start racing in sprints, the race is the only real workout a week (everything else is sub-max), the true hard training volume is cut waaaay back to maybe only 400 meters a week...and you get fiber conversion back the other way. At this point a sprinter can go significantly faster than in prior training phases, but you MUST have a very large cutback for this to work.