Anyone else a track/athletics runner/jumper/thrower?

I'm a high jumper. I can't flop worth shit, but I have a 33 inch Vertical.

my first track meet is on may 20th, im very excited.
im in 100m, long jump, high jump(favorite event), and 4x100 relay.
my goal is to run 100m in 13 secs. think i can do it?

hmm...when I was 14 my best 100 was 11.52...  

Scott, you can definitely run under 13. Can you get at least 15-16 feet in the long jump? If you can, then it's physically impossible for you to not go sub 13.

Heh, I went to wikipedia and found that my 60m time would actually have won me a silver medal in the 1904 olympics. Interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_metres

That's insane, were the olympics comprised of skinny little 16 year old kids like myself back in the early 20th century, who were all pretty slow?

i improved my high jump pr from 1.35m(last year) to 1.52 m
thats mostly because i grew majorly over the past year(im about 5'7 right now)

So uh, what do you throw?  I never got a good toss in competition(screw you nerves) but busted out a mean 46' yesterday.  Too bad I'm a year out of high school and my best throw in school competition was like, 39'.  Gay.

Due to asthma I could never participate in much, tho i go gym now for weight training, since 5 years or so.

However I was into athletics a bit just never timed myself on  lot of events. But if i had timed 100m on some occasions when chasing after a bus (cos the bus driver tried ignoring me at the bus stop and thought he could outrun me), i swear i cleared 100m distance in 8 seconds. I wasnt having any of it!

I competed in Long jump back in school and wasnt professional at all, just used to beat most, wasnt a big distance tho, about 4.6 metres or something.

Another interesting statistic is that our school had the fastest guy under 16 in the UK (at that time) to run 100 metres which was 10.65 secs. A year or two later I heard he was still competing and got that down to 10.3 or 10.2  Not sure if he continued, but im sure he coulda worked his way to 9 seconds. Was years ago now.

When I was 13 (1998) I was into long jump. IIRC, my best was 4.50m (14'-9"). I got into the final four at regional qualifications . Everyone of us was hovering around 4.5m except for this one guy... he beat us like a rented mule... he got 5.35m. He went on to go to the Canadian junior game.

In 6th grade, I could run 60 yards in 5.7 seconds.

I guess that standing long jump would be my event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_long_jump

I have never really practiced that but when we were tested in the army I jumped 280cm and it was the best result out of 100 men.

Edit:
I guess they gave us grades this way:
200 - 220 satisfactory
220 - 240 good
> 240 excellent

State meet started today in my state.  We sent 5 events from our school this year.  Btw those guys talking long jump up there I laughed!  Our long jumper this year was a sophomore, he got 18'6-8" and was a few places away from making it to state (we're in the smallest class also).  The state champ for long jump in our class this year will be 21'11 or 22'0 from a school near here.  We sent the same guy in the 100 and 200 meters.  Also we sent 4x800 and 4x400 teams.  Our 4x400 should place 1st or 2nd in the state, they beat the closest competing team at districts by about a second.  The 4x800 runs about 8:30 or max of 8:25 I'd say, and they have a pretty good shot at making the finals.  We'll have to see how the next 2 days play out.

Ha, we talking about lifting now?

That's definitely more on my grounds. I've wanted to bench press twice my weight for a couple years, and if I stick to my regimen, I could probably do it. I'm terminally stuck at 200-205 for my ORM, and I weigh like 145 on average.. Back when I was 115 - 125 I could still put up the same..

I could probably squat a lot, but I am TERRIFIED or making my back worse, so I definitely need to get a proper rack and make damn sure I have perfect form.

btw Jacob, hope you get that sub-11. That's something amazing for me..