So I am a dad of a 12 year boy, and we both have absolutely 0 experience in track and field. He barely plays sports and like most kids sits and plays video games all the time. However he is still quite thin and has a healthy body.
My son says his school runs a competition in athletics each year, electronically timed or something, and he took part for the first time as his friends were. He ran 100m, 800m and did long jump.
I forgot about it but the school have sent a letter in the post of all his times which are, 13.9, 2:38, and 4.42, in his events. I honestly have 0 clue how good these are for a 12 year old boy, he says this is the first time he did each of them, and I’m damn sure he didn’t do any training.
I’m not expecting much but it could be a good motivator for us both to maybe get him into athletics. He’s around 5’5 as well if that matters.