36" hurdles scare me

women's hurdles are much smaller

hate to tell you but if 36" hurdles (or barriers) scare you then you shouldn't be running the steeple

But they are scawy.

Only one way to know for sure. Get out there and do it. And trust me, what you should be able to do and what you will be able to do in the steeple are two entirely different things. There is a world of difference in pain between a 3000 steeple and a 2 mile. The first time you run one your legs will feel dead after the first four laps. Best of luck.

Feminists aren't complaining about that though. Only want "equality" when it benefits them. I am going to see a hot nurse on her break now. she invited me. Hoping she has those nurse/patient fantasies. Can't get my hopes up too high yet. I'd do it in public with her though. I have no shame.

I'm only 6'3, but I can step over a high school high hurdle (39") without jumping or stand flat footed straddling one. Was kind of a parlor trick in high school.

Actually running the hurdles: not so good.

You're hoping she's a man?

Equality does not necessarily mean things being exactly the same, surely? For example, the equivalence of say a senior men's 8km race might be a 3km XC race for under-11 boys. Equal effort. Roughly equal. As far as I know about the hurdles, it's proportional to height.

Feminists generally want things to be fair. I wasn't allowed to enter the open steeplechase at a track meeting because I am female (this was back in the 1990s). I'm not sure that's particularly fair, being banned from participating in an event.

If you seriously injured yourself by tripping over an immovable 36’ hurdle, there might be some liability for the meet organizer. I wouldn’t have let you run because I would have felt bad if you hurt yourself.

you have to get comfortable where you can attack a hurdle. sometimes a stutter is steps but you can then extend your stride and attack if you are paying attention. but sometimes it's psychological. you have to come up with a physical strategy you can repeat. if you have to jump on-off it, do that. you don't have to literally jump them at first. when you have a trustworthy approach of attack, the confidence follows and you can even attack when you need to.

have they had you do any more hurdle work?

i ran intermediate hurdles 4 years and literally "ate it" twice in a meet, maybe a couple more times in practice.

to me the 42" high 110s were what i thought was scary. steeplechase is just something to get over every so often.

I suggest doing fosbury flops ...

In the women's 3000m SC at DL Oslo in 2018 one of the barriers was raised to 91cm instead of 76cm.

Emma Coburn promptly said this is the wrong kind of equality and demanded it be lowered. And so it was.

well actually it should scare you a little because the steeple is solid wood and if you hit it - it will hurt.

Solution- try stepping rather than hurdling the barriers. There is no reason to think you have to hurdle especially if you are not good at it. I had a teammate who stepped to a 9:15 as a freshman - after which I promptly switched to stepping as well.

Tip for stepping - your goal is just to glide over the hurdle not into it - my back would be sore the day after a steeple because i was jamming into the barrier vs. just skimming over it.

Practice going over at lower hurdle heights until comfortable. Then raise hurdle. Worked for me, a short college 42 in. high hurdler who preferred the "intermediate" 36 in. hurdles. However, still haven't run a SC. Maybe some day.

Unfortunately they can't be raised by 1 inch, but get incredibly comfortable going over 30, then 33' hurdles until you feel completely smooth. Then do 36'.

"Hurdling technique" is for sprinting over these things so you get your leg down fast and keep your rhythm and top speed.

You don't need to do that in a steeplechase. You could actually use more energy than just hopping over like the Kenyans do. Takes more force to lift a fully extended lead leg than hop with tucked legs.

Yes, it's tricky, isn't it? On the one hand if it's open to all boys I feel it should be open to all girls, but at the same time there IS a reason that the heights of the hurdles are different. So I do see both sides of the argument.

I presume they could not have altered the heights but I don't know.

Avg height of women worldwide: 5'3"

Avg height of men: 5'9"

How tall is Karsten Warholm? Alison Dos Santos is 6'7". That's like a woman jumping over a 2 foot hurdle.

Number of people who have died tripping over a hurdle?

Been blinded or received some other truly life-altering injury.

Did you need a bandaid?