Monthly Archives: May 2013

Harry Marra Talks about Ashton Eaton’s training (video) Part 2

Here is the second video of Harry Marra at the “World’s Greatest Track & Field Clinic.”  This clinic was on Feb 3, 2013 at Westmont College.  The clinic benefited the “Women’s Athletic Performance Foundation” – http://www.wapf.us/

They are always looking for donations, so if you like what you see, go to http://www.wapf.us/donate-with-paypal.html and donate.

In this video, Harry discusses

  1. Pole Vault technique
  2. Speed Weights
  3. Pool workouts
  4. Weights
  5. Training week
  6. And lots of stories.

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It’s Official — well, kind of

My M40 Indoor Heptathlon record was finally posted to the USA Track & Field website…in a PENDING status.  Here’s the link to the M40 page.

In celebration, here’s a few videos of an old man competing (me).

Also, later today I’ll post Part 2 of Harry Marra talks about Ashton Eaton’s training.

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