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Listed below are comments made by Alastair_exhurdler between Friday, 29th May 2009 and Friday, 29th May 2009.

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Barriers to success 1:41pm on 29 May 2009 Tom,
An interesting, well written read. I'll have to check out your other posts...
I remember my first attempt at the hurdles - at a Southern League Div 3 match when I was about 17. I was a regular triple jumper and there was no one to run the B string hurdles. I gave it a go and managed to clear all the hurdles in a very uppy-downy style and came second. (Not actually all that hard at Southern League Div 3 B string standard!!) I was congratulated by onlookers at being able to three stride between the hurdles. :o) I don't remember what time I did for that first race, but other the coming years I got my time down to 16.3sec.
After passing 30 it seemed that the hurdles were being placed further apart down the track and by the last two I was crashing into them quite hard! I retired not long after that.
Good luck with your decathlon attempt - in my experience pole vault in a real leap of faith!
You mention training drills - you should be able to use the back of a park bench to practice stretching your lead leg hamstrings, and then, standing behind the bench, lean on it and practice your trail leg 'whip through' movement. I used to hear terrible cracking sounds when doing this!

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