Heptathlon achieved by everyone !

Congratulations to Lauren, Charlotte, Harry, Dom and Josh who completed a fabulous Heptathlon on Thursday afternoon.

I was particularly pleased with them all achieving their first 8 hurdle 75m trial run. Training over one, two and three hurdles and focusing on technique is one thing, running over 8 obstacles is another. A really good achievement, to be proud of by all and another positive stride forward or should I say "another giant leap". Irrespective of whether we have an outstanding hurdler within the group or not, hurdling is a great exercise in itself, from a multitude of perspectives - Coordination. Flexibility, Balance, Strength & Conditioning ....... etc etc A great one to have as part of our multi-event, athlete development approach.

The group then went onto the High Jump, followed by the Javelin, Shot Putt, Sprint, Long Jump and finally a Middle distance run. Technique is certainly improving across the board and there were many good individual performances across the different events. In fact there were a few PBs during the afternoon!

For the last hour, we were joined by two newcomers to the Thursday group - two great lads and brothers - William & Frank. I was really pleased with the way they mucked in straight away and had a really good go at everything. Well done William & Frank it is good to have you as part of the group !