Rabat DL May 28 Entries

[TN1965]

In a nutshell:

a. His natural stride is too long for the 110H (many elites have the same problem).
b. He has to 'shuffle' between hurdles or he will hit them and fall. The trick is to shuffle really fast and from 60m on, he has not fully mastered that.
c. He tries to 'run faster' as he sees opponents close on him and things just get worse.
d. In the 12.81 he did it just right (wind/conditions optimal for him?), but he hasn't learned to replicate that consistently.

It seems the problem is all mental. He needs to work with a sports psychologist. Just remember to stay focused on his own lane and ignore anyone else no matter what happens.

[Atticus]

Do you think Holloway could run faster (or maybe more consistently) if the race were 112m and the hurdles were 20cm further apart? It would not surprise me.

If everyone ran 10 hurdles in 110m, but could space them as far apart as they wished, GH would run 12.5.

[Big Tusk]

Sorry, facts not in evidence. I'm conjecturing as a hurdler and hurdler coach. That does not make me right, but I don't buy your conclusion at all.

Do you think Holloway could run faster (or maybe more consistently) if the race were 112m and the hurdles were 20cm further apart? It would not surprise me.

[gm]

Sorry, facts not in evidence. I'm conjecturing as a hurdler and hurdler coach. That does not make me right, but I don't buy your conclusion at all.

Holloway's physical abilities and his hurdling style leave very little room for error. If his fast shuffle isn't spot on, he loses rhythm quickly and decelerates dramatically.

[wamego relays champ]

WADIMISS?!

Hillary Bor finished Rabat Steeple in 4th at 8:11 with a broken foot and is out the rest of the season??!!

He says no surgery and will be out for 4-6 weeks. That could easily mean the rest of the season, but it sounds like he has not given up hope for a return this year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs4QXwNv46T/?hl=en

[Atticus]

I don't buy the "he's too fast" excuse for Holloway. The fact that he ran by far his best time with a near max legal wind gives the lie to that rationale, as xw suggests.

Sorry, facts not in evidence. I'm conjecturing as a hurdler and hurdler coach. That does not make me right, but I don't buy your conclusion at all.

[Atticus]

WADIMISS?!

Hillary Bor finished Rabat Steeple in 4th at 8:11 with a broken foot and is out the rest of the season??!!

[player]

I don't buy the "he's too fast" excuse for Holloway. The fact that he ran by far his best time with a near max legal wind gives the lie to that rationale, as xw suggests.

Clearing and landing over hurdles is a complicated physical activity. If you don't arrange your limbs to land just right, you will lose momentum. That costs you speed and costs you energy to regain your momentum.

The most apparent explanation for why GH ran his best time with the strong following breeze is that it reduced his fatigue in the latter part of the race.

[Fortius19]

Maybe as he gets older / slower, he'll get 'better'.

[beebee]

Move to the sprints.

A two time World Championship gold medalist, Olympic silver and owner of the second fastest time ever... yeah, dude needs to change events 😵💫

[steveu]

There's multiple alternatives for events for Holloway, should he ever decide to do so. He was a 7-foot high jumper and high-25 foot long jumper in high school. There's also little question he could put up great times at 400H, if he refocused on longer stuff. Could he be a medal threat in any of those? I don't know.

[reggaeirie1234]

This was the trials semifinal. He was relaxed and unpressed hardly put a foot wrong. After that race many of us expected he would be 12.7 in the final but he fell back down to earth!

He has to fix his last 4 hurdles, somehow.

[Steele]

I think we need to find a way to revamp the hurdles. Being the "fastest shuffler" is akin to racewalking. I know, ain't gonna happen, but we can dream.

[clementina]

At Rabat was there not a 1500m World best by a 17 year old,
Haylom ran for third 3.57.66 in the 1500m. I realise she ain't an American, but Ethiopian, but worthy of note. Experts you're all asleep!

[tm71]

Sorry, I somehow missed the more baffling part for me in the original question...the 12.81 race was pushed by a big +1.8m/s wind, which theoretically should make him even faster and by certain logic of posters here, should have hindered him even more, but he did well enough to be 2nd a-t...?

This was the trials semifinal. He was relaxed and unpressed hardly put a foot wrong. After that race many of us expected he would be 12.7 in the final but he fell back down to earth!