::Whee.. Today I just had my last training session before the 100m Hurdles Finals on Monday. Maybe the experience tend to be sweetest when it is about to end. It is like, you start to appreciate something, in this case hurdling, only when you know you are going to miss it when it's gone.
We only had the chance of practising hurdling after the relays training this morning. Yw rejected it out of hand, claiming he was too tired. I nearly begged for it. Ti asked me why too, I told him I don't want to leave any regrets. I know I have a few errors that I can correct before the finals, and I want to correct it. I do not want to finish my last 100mh and think how I had not done all I could.
As I went through the hurdle drills, Han walked over and reiterated his belief that after crossing the hurdle, I push down my leading leg too slowly. It is one point I have heard many times before, but I just cannot find the way to correct it. Then he illustrated the whole process to me, and explained to me in detail how and at what stage is either leg pushing off or down, and this time I understood perfectly! A new concept that conflicted with all my previous ideas but one that would help my hurdling nonetheless. I immediately tried it out and both he and I agreed my hurdling was much better. I gave him a dry smile and said what a pity it was that I only understood this now. He told me as long as I do this in the finals, then it is good enough. I hope he's right..::

.:firestarter blogged on 2:45 PM:.
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