Testing your Accleration

This test is for discovering if you can accelerate well. We would suggest you do this in conjunction with the maximum speed test as they are not too tiring and you will get an indication of how good your top speed is and how well you get to that speed.

Here just do 3 x 30m.

Take the average of the 3 runs to get your result and take away the result of the flying 30s from the previous test.

Because you are working from a standing, rather than flying start you will find that taking one from the other gives you a positive results of around a second.

Some people simply use 30m runs as a test of both speed and acceleration, but it can be useful to split them and find out if you can get to speed quickly, or if your top speed is good whilst your accleration could be improved on.

Any results of less than 1.1 - 1.2 seconds for any athlete means that they are able to accelerate up to top speed well.