IRWIN, St James — Youth Olympics 100m champion Odean Skeen is not sure when he will start his competitive season but says he will be ready when the Wolmer’s Boys coaching staff tells him to put on the spikes.

Skeen, who accompanied a number of Wolmer’s Boys’ athletes to the third Irwin High First Chance meet in St James on Saturday, says while he has been training well, no decision has been made when he will start running competitively yet.

“The last season was a long one and there is no rush to start competing yet,” he told the Observer.

Skeen, who won seven individual gold medals last year and was part of the Jamaican team that won the silver medal at the World Junior Championships in Canada in July, reported that he was healthy, shooting down reports of a back injury.

He said he started training the first week of October, but with another long season ahead, they were taking their time and pacing themselves for the season.

With the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France and the Pan American Juniors in Miramar, Florida, the main events this year, Skeen who will be a first-year Class One athlete this season, said he was expecting to be at his best.

Last year Skeen, who has personal bests of 10.42 seconds in the 100m and 20.84 seconds in the 200m, won double gold medals in Class Two at Boys Champs, the Under-17 double at CARIFTA and Central American and Caribbean Juniors and the Youth Olympic Games.

The competitive Skeen will have to earn his medals this year, however, as he will go up against Wolmer’s Boys teammate and last year’s Class One sprint double winner Julian Forte and Bridgeport’s Jazeel Murphy in what should be a sparkling line-up.

He is not fazed, however, saying: “I am always looking forward to a clash, always want to test myself against the best”.