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Performance Performance. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. So what do the officials do? No, they disqualify the attempt. Same thing in long jump, same thing in shot-put, same thing in discus. One thing I should mention is that the manner in which a hurdler hits hurdles should matter in regards to penalization.
When is the last time you saw someone who actually finished a race get disqualified for not making a legitimate effort to negotiate the barriers? Johnson is, at least, making a legitimate attempt to clear the barrier, and, usually, by the time he hits it, his lead foot is already past the barrier. So what to do in terms of penalties? If that rule were to be strictly enforced regularly, especially at major championship meets, then the problem of too many hurdlers hitting too many hurdles would most likely go away as a direct consequence.
We all have seen, for instance, how there are very few false starts these days now that the rules have been tightened up on that infraction. And, just as with any other sport, the ruling of the officials should be the final word in the matter. Signup Here Lost Password. Hurdles First. Welcome to the new Hurdles First. This time I brought my daughter with me to the track. To answer the question, we have to go back a few years. And by a few, I mean more than 15 20 25 years — back to March , when I went over my first hurdle as a high school freshman at St.
Louis University High School. When I signed up for track and field in high school, it was only because I thought track would make me a better basketball player. As a fifteen year old boy everything was basketball. Track was an afterthought, and I had never heard of the hurdles. Even when I started to do well in the hurdles, I was willing to give them up my junior year for other interests. Thankfully a patient Coach May made a personal call and convinced me to come back out.
In college at the University of Chicago, I began to get a sense that the hurdles might be something more than just a scholarship ticket or an extracurricular activity. For the first time I met people who lived and breathed the hurdles.
Their commitment and energy rubbed off as I started to change my lifestyle. While I changed many things, including more stretching and harder workouts, perhaps the most telling adjustment was my diet. I drank only whole milk, and made it a point to tack on a hamburger and fries to most meals at Pierce Dining Hall. So … all that grease in my body is just lubing up my veins, letting the blood rush through. When my friends told me this was the silliest thing they had ever heard, I countered that I was personally testing my theory in a scientifically rigorous manner: I had to eat all those burgers to see if my theory worked.
The cheese fries were for science! This changed when a friend gave me a copy of Dr. Colgan made me think about deeper questions: why? Why was I training? What would I sacrifice for the hurdles? I was training in order to help my team win a conference championship. I was training to see how much I could push my body, how fast I could run the hurdles. I had given it my all, and now it was time to move on. It was time to take on real responsibilities; time to live real life.
Or so I thought. I had envisioned life without track as a life full of free time. Instead of spending nights at the track, I would spend them reading or working. Instead of spending entire weekend days at meets, I would be able to do so many things I had never had time for.
Life without the hurdles turned out to be very different from what I imagined. It was the first time since I was ten years old that I was not involved in organized, competitive sports. Without sports to focus, I found myself wasting more time that I had before. Hours and entire afternoons seemed to disappear with nothing to show for it. I actually had less energy than I had when I was training full time. I tried to fill the void with all sorts of physical activity and hobbies. By October of I was searching online for a Boston track club to train with.
I was back racing over hurdles a few months later. Life without the hurdles lasted all of four months.
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