Usain Bolt

In my last blog post I wrote about wanting to become an Olympic sprinter, which is still true. I'm joining indoor track at Blair and our season starts in mid November! I'm really excited for that and to see how I am at the 100m. I might try the 55m or the 200m but the 55m just seems to short and I'm worried about my knee (which has next to no cartilage in the left one) running around the curve of the 200m. But I digress.

This post is really just supposed to be about the fastest man in the world; Usain Bolt. He's one of my idols because he hasn't been running the 100m for that long in the track world and he's already set tons of records. He was originally running the 200m and 400m because his coaches thought that he was more of a long distance sprinter, but he wanted to run the 100m. Once he broke the Jamaican national record for the... I can't remember if it was the 200m or the 400m but he broke that record and his coaches let him start running the 100m, and look at where he is now!!

I admire his (and all the other sprinters') hard work and perserverence and his total commitment to the sport. I really want to get that feeling about an activity where I love it so much that I don't mind doing it for several hours every day.

Usain bolt is 26 years old in case anyone was wondering, and he's really tall for a sprinter; 6'5" and the first time he won a medal for the 100m by himself was in the 2009 World Championships in Beijing and he got gold! He only got his first 100m medal three years ago and he's already set the world and Olympic records. Just the fact that he's been doing that event for such a short time with so much success is really motivating to me and makes me think that in four years I'll be good enough to make it to the Olympics, even if I don't make it past my heat. To get into the Olympics last time I checked the qualifying time was 11.24 seconds in a national or international competition. My issue will be finding a national competition to enter...

This post is pretty much over but I just want to point something funny out that I've noticed. Every time Usain Bolt runs a race as he approaches the finish line he looks behind him to see the other poeple. I'm pretty sure this isn't good and knocks off some of his time, if only a few hundredths of a second but still. I wouldn't recommend that. Even with his looking back at the end of a race he's still blown away the world record and the Olympic record so I guess it's not that much of an issue for him.



Usain Bolt looking behind him at the 2012 Summer Olympics