TrackCoach wrote:
letsrun is full of fat losers wrote:
There is always the common question on these message boards about how fast a typical person could run the 100m. To test our timing system out, the head track coach at my school had every student in a PE class warm up 2 laps and run the 100m. Only people who wore athletic clothes and shoes could participate, and it seemed like he ran male and female heats to make the data easier to read. I asked to see the results afterward at practice, and was surprised to find out that the average male time was 14.8 and female time was 18.5. This was from about 7 periods of class and around ~80 participants each period.
The 100 is an endurance event for some people if you are testing speed 50 would have been a better distance An untrained person can only sprint all out for about 40 to 60 meters
I am te complete opposite, I feel like ai can maintain a faster pace over 100m than I can over 40-60m (probably because I have more endurance than quite a lot of people based on the fact that I run.. slowly.. but I still run which is more than most) because it takes me up until the 30-40m mark to fully warm into the sprint at which point I can push myself faster.