July 19, 2018
Time for an Update!
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post, so it’s time for an update. Since my last post, I’ve done a third Team Steve Speed & Hurdle Camp. This one – the third one – took place on the weekend of June 9-10 at Woodlawn School in Mooresville, NC. While we didn’t have as many athletes as we did at the first two camps, the quality of the work was at an all-time high. Despite the 90-degree temperatures, we were able to pack a lot of drilling, block work, and long-hurdle work into those days. Thanks to coaches Hector Cotto, Kevin Howell, and Garrison Rountree for their invaluable assistance and instruction. There are plenty of photos from the camp, which can be found here on the hurdlesfirst facebook page.
Meanwhile, I’ve been coaching all summer long, and have four hurdlers who will be competing at the USAT Junior Olympic Nationals, which will take place less than two hours from where I live, at NC A&T University in Greensboro, NC. If you’ll be there, I’ll see you there.
In addition, I’ve got a few big events coming up. Firstly, Coach Cotto and I will be conducting our first ever Team Steve Hurdle Coaches’ Clinic this coming fall. It will take place at the same place as our first two camps for athletes – the JDL Fast Track in Winston Salem, NC. At the coaches’ clinic, I will be giving hurdle coaches the opportunity to learn the methods I’ve used in coaching some of the best hurdlers to come out of the state of North Carolina over the past 20 years or so, including current 100h world record Keni Harrison. For more details and to register for the clinic, follow this link at Coach Cotto’s sprinthurdles website: https://go.sprinthurdles.com/team-steve-speed-hurdle-camp.
Secondly, the fourth Team Steve Speed & Hurdle Camp will take place this fall as well, on the weekend of November 10-11, and it will also be at JDL. We don’t have a registration page up yet for that event, but I wanted to put the word out now so that you can plan accordingly if you’re hoping to attend.
Thirdly, I have a book coming out! I’ve written a biography on 1972 Olympic high hurdles gold medalist Rodney Milburn, and it will be coming out in September. I initially began doing research for the book way back in 2005, so this project has been a long time in the making. This link will take you to my publisher’s page on the book. You can pre-order the book from the publisher, and also from Amazon.
