tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57753933713304986172011-12-29T15:47:57.544-05:00Hector Cottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658633268121268079noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775393371330498617.post-79616965433519509182010-08-05T14:05:00.007-04:002010-08-05T14:40:22.297-04:00

So the season is over. It ended pretty well though. I placed 3rd at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. I was obviously aiming for first, but i simply was not able to put it together. But i am happy for at least picking up another medal for Puerto Rico. It was very important that i do so, and i got the job done.Mayaguez was cool. Id never been to the city but it was

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I am the 2010 Ibermo-American Champ!First an update on whats been happening..After the meet at Duke, i traveled back to NC A&T to run a not very pleasing 13.67 in the hurdles. I then traveled to Mt. Sac Relays in California to run a very disappointing 13.73. At NC A&T i ran the 100 meter dash for the first time EVER and ran 10.65 in the prelims, and 10.55 in the finals. I knew i could run a lot

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I ran at 2 different meets this past weekend. On Friday i headed to NC A&T to compete at the Aggie Relays. I headed up there with a training partner Carrington Queen. He ran in the first heat and in the prelim he crossed the finish line in 14.9x seconds, and the first thing that crossed my mind was "thats wrong". I brushed it off though and figured theyd quickly fix it as im sure they knew we

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World Indoor Champs didn't go so well, but i came away with a lot. I was finally able to piece together the technique coach has been teaching me since September and i finally got the hang of it. I wasn't too disappointed with the results at WIC because i know that was not the technique id been learning all year. I honestly did nothing right over there, yet my very first week back it all clicked

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After speaking with a couple people down in Puerto Rico, I've decided I will still run at World Champs in March. I am NOT in the shape I hoped to be right now (because of freezing weather) but I am still in pretty good shape.So far all year Coach McGills time trials have been within 0.05s of my actual FAT times. In late December my time trials were consistently 7.8x and i ran 7.84 in my first

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Sorry i haven't updated the blog in a while. I didn't have anything interesting going on. But here is a quick rundown of whats been happening.Practice has been pretty great. I hit a major breakthrough last week in practice. All the new technique i have been practicing finally clicked. My 7 step approach is pretty incredible, even when is "OFF" its faster then my 8 step from years past.I competed

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So i got the first month of training out of the way. Things have been going well so far. Been doing a lot of technique work and I started working on a 7 step approach to the first hurdle.So far things are looking pretty good. Here are a couple things we are working on as far as technique.1) Taking off closer to the hurdle.2) Getting into position before the hurdle. The goal is to be in hurdle

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So World Champs didnt go as well as id hoped. I did not make it out of the first round. I got out well and with the pack, was in the mix until hurdle 5 where i smacked my trail knee then landed off balance over 6 and was out of the race. If i had 10.1 speed i could have easily gotten back in the mix, but i dont.I was not disappointed though. I trained on my own since early January minus the 3

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Ok so we decided i wont be "learning" to hurdle just yet. Coach and I decided that we dont have enough time before World Champs to ingrain the new stuff and so for now we will stick with the old, only make sure we do things better.so for the rest of this year, i will still look like everyone else. which is pretty much lead leg dominant and running sideways down the track haha. The plan now is to

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I finished 4th down in Cuba at the CAC games. Dayron Robles, the world record holder, was there running in front of his people and ran away in a comfortable 13.18. I ran 13.63.I then came to Raleigh and trained with Coach McGill for a day before heading to NYC for Club Nationals. I am learning to hurdle a new way and im pretty excited. i actually didnt run very well in NY because i am trying to

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Ok so i went back to NC but things werent working out as well as i wanted there. I'd go to the track and wouldnt have access to blocks and such, or i wouldnt have a ride to the track. I was supposed to by my friends car off him, but when i retured to NC with the money he acted as if he no longer wanted to sell me it and drove off with it to Fayetteville. hahaSo i decided to up and visit my

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Im back in North Carolina. I ran 13.82 at the Ponce, Grand Prix. Not as good as i wanted, but im still working out lots of kinks with the second half of my race.I dont have anything set up right now but im sure something will come up. My next mandatory meet with Puerto Rico is the CAC championships in Cuba, the first week of July.I will probably head to Europe withing the next couple weeks, and

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Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely mothers in the world, especially my beautiful mother of 43! Sadly i was not able to see my mom today but i sent her some flowers and a card and of course called to say I love you :)I am currently in Puerto Rico and i have been here for a little over 2 weeks. Ive ran 3 times so far this season. My first meet was in Greensboro, NC about a month ago where i ran

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The title does not refer to college basketball because im not a big fan, though i am rooting for Chapel Hill. Instead it refers to the sitiation i am still in. LOL.Things have not gone as planned since moving back to NC. i am trainging very day at my old university but i am still not sure when ill be making my move to Raleigh.Last week i decided i would probably not run many meets this year.

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I competed at Boston Indoor Games and finished 3rd again behind Trammell and Hicks. I was in 2nd place until i hit hurdles 3 and 4 with my lead leg hamstring. I shoulda have set another PR but instead ran 7.74.I am now back in Greenville, NC and training at my old university. Last Weekend i ran at UNC and ran a 7.77.I have no more indoor meets lined up so i am going to start getting ready for

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So the official Line-Up has finally been posted and it is as follows.Antwon Hicks USAHector Cotto PURJeff Porter USAAries Merritt USARon Bramlett USATerrence Trammell USAAubrey Herring USARyan Fontenot USAAfter my 3rd place finish at Millrose last week i am just looking to improve upon what i did. I have a couple things to work on this week, and if i stick to the game plan things should go

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A lot has happened since i last posted a blog.When i last posted, i was leaving Boston. I did leave Boston but decided to run in a meet i entered before i left. That meet was run at Harvard University, i ran 7.95 in the prelims and 7.80 in the finals. I smashed into the 3rd hurdle but my start was pretty good.They day after the meet i flew down to NC. I stayed one day and then got word that my

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For reasons I will not discuss in this blog, I am leaving the Boston area. I have decided it would be best were I to move and start elsewhere.Coach and I are still on decent terms (as decent as they can be when his number one athlete gets up and leaves). We did not have some huge argument and cuss each other out, but after speaking about a couple issue over the course of some days, I came to the

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Today my lil hommie and teammate Carol Rodriguez started her own BLOG, and she spoke about her New Years resolution.While i dont go crazy about making New Years resolutions, i did make one this year. I didnt sit and think about it for months, it kinda just came to me.My New Years Resolution is to learn to cook 2 new meals every month. Its nothing track or training related (because i strive to get

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My next meet will be this Friday at the Armory in NYC. It will be a 60 hurdle race and ill get at least 2 races so im happy. The goal is 7.75 and regardless of the competition i think ill get it.I have to thank the David Callum and Greater Boston Track Club because they are the ones funding the trip to NYC. They have helped me out in the past and continue to do so today.Im going to treat this

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Today i ran at a local track meet. It was run pretty bad. I thought the meet was at 4pm, So we got there at 230pm. At 3pm you can hear crickets in the place though because there were like 5 people in the gym. Come to find out the meet is actually at 5pm.So i warm up and get ready to run, only to find out 10 minutes before my race that there arent enough people for trials and finals, so of course

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So the New Year is here and id like to take time to look at all that happened in 2008After graduating from ECU i accepted a job offer in Lynn, MA to do Mechanical Design work at an Engineering firm.so I...-Moved to Boston on December 28th 2007.-I stayed in the living room on a blow up mattress of my good friend Dominiks Apt.-I officially gave up on track and field-I searched for a coach in the

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So yesterday 12/30 was my last practice of 2008. I ran at the track and lifted afterward as usual.At the track I ran 2 of my fastest times in practice, and am right on pace to meet my goals for this indoor season. After the usual hurdle practice, i ran 2 flys, and 3 block starts to 18m. I was feeling pretty good so i asked if i could run one more to 30 meters in which i did and ran 3.85 which i

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So on December 11th i was privileged enough to visit a local elementary school in Needham, MA. A good friend of my coach, Mrs. HB :) teaches 4th grade and asked if i would be so kind as to stop by and visit her class. It was to be nothing formal, i didnt have to prepare a speech or come dressed in a suit, but simply show up and answer some questions. Of course i said yes and got excited because i

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Ran my second indoor meet of the season on Saturday at the Harvard Open. I set a new PR twice and broke 7.85 as planned.The prelim round was 7.91 and the final was 7.83. I won both races by about half a second so im sure had i had a bit of competition i could have broken 7.80.Either way i am happy with the results and it seems i am on the right track to meeting my goals for the season. I will not

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So today i ran my first indoor meet since 2006. It was at the Northeastern Husky Carnival. I represented Greater Boston Track Club and things went pretty good.I did not run a miraculous time, but i did run my fastest opener ever. My time was 7.46 in the prelims, and 7.42 in the finals.Nothing special but that puts me in the 7.9s (60 conversion) to start the season.In college, i was horrible at

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Things have been going pretty well. Started going over hurdles about 2 weeks ago and things picked up pretty much where they left off in August.Right now we are trying to fix my start. We have been recording every practice and reveiwing in extra slow motion to pick up the errors in my running.there are many errors but we are fixing them and things are coming along well.its pretty cool to see the

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So its Halloween and i have no plans for the night. I love Halloween but i think im gonna take this year off. Last year i went to downtown Greenville in NC because they are always getting crazy down there, but nothing like that happens up here in the north so im just gonna sit back and relax.Training is going well. Im in surprisingly good shape. Im starting off the season pretty strong too so im

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I'm back in Boston (Waltham) and ive started training again.We'll be taking it slow the next couple weeks, with running being simply strides one day off one day off and lifting (minor) everyday.Yesterday was the first day, i did a full warm up and then ran ten 100 meter strides. I then did a core workout and called it a day.today i didnt run but did some upper body lifts in the weight roomI

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So i havent been up to much lately. been in Florida for 2 weeks visiting friends and family. I stopped by my uncle Angels house as soon as i got here and he sat and told me how proud he was of me. He told me i was all over the news (spanish news) and telemundo and univision. He called some other family members over and all of a sudden there was 20 people in his living room. It was nice seeing

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so I have some more drama with PR. while over in China for the month of August I had no way to raise money for rent. I was actually told I might have two meets before the olympics but of course that was false. So now I've returned, expecting my little $800 check to be in the mail, but of course its not. then I'm told it was mailed 3 days ago, then that it was mailed yesterday, and now finally

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So I'm back home finally. the olympics were great but after a month in China I am happy to be back home. Im taking about a month and a half off from training and ill resume in mid October. I plan on competing in a full indoor season in 09' it'll be my first one since 2005. I was never a great 60 hurdle guy but I think thats about to change. I've set a couple goals for myself and here they are. 1.

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So i just ran in round 2. It was worse than the first and i have no excuse. I just did not have it in me.I had been feeling GREAT in the practices leading up to my rounds, but during warm up today and yesterday i just didn't feel as good. I wasnt as sharp, i wasnt as smooth and it showed.......So my Olympics are over and im pissed. im sure everyone will congratulate me on making it this far but

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So i ran like straight up sh$% in the opening round!I got a decent reaction in .14 and a pretty good start but faded as the race progressed.I seriously just went through the motions. I did nothing good. My trail leg was just coming through on its own, lazy, slow, wide. I looked like straight sh&#.But i made it to the next round. Lucky me! I ran 13.72 and finished horribly in my heat!I am in a

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So yesterday was my 24Th Birthday and it was the best one yet.As those who follow track and field know, the Olympics started on August 8th 2008, so i had the biggest birthday party ever! Not really but we did march in the opening ceremonies so ill consider that my party.it was a pretty good time. that march really hurts your body though. i now understand why the "big timers" choose not to

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So ive been at the village for a couple days and ive been having a pretty good time.the flight took forever, 13hrs from Newark, NJ. i was a walking zombie, on auto-pilot the first day we arrived. since then ive been pretty good. ive been waking up pretty early and going to bed around 11-12.there are 22 total Puerto Rican athletes here. 5 on the track team. my teammates are David Freeman (1500m)

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Quick update.I qualified for the olympics. here is a quick update on my last couple meets.Vancouver- 14.33 (2nd) i smashed 3 hurdles with my lead leg back to back and well, i ran slowOttawa- 13.64 ran a new PR against NO competition. 2nd place was 14.4x by a highschool kid over the 39"CAC Games Colombia- Prelims 13.61- my best race of the year minus my smacking a hurdle with my lead leg. This

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Time for an update.So my second meet of the year was at the Brown Invitational in Rhode Island. I won with a 14.31 and i was pretty pissed of course. it was 50 degrees outside and drizzling so ofcourse i was mad about that as well.My third race cam last night at the New Balance NYC meet in Ichan Stadium. In my prelim race i ran a horrendus 14.93. I smashed hurdles with my lead leg (like ive been

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So i didnt run as well as id hoped. I stopped the clock at 14.23. I felt good and my warm up left me feeling as if id run great but it wasnt to be. I was set to run the the 1st heat, which was the olympic developmental heat. I was in lane 3 and there was a left leg lead-leg hurdler in lane two, we bumped arms going over hurdle 1 and again over hurdle 2. he was disrupted and pulled up and so did i

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I did not get a chance to run at A&T. I had a minor injury, my left shin was bothering me a lot so coach decided we would take two weeks off from running hard on it. In those two weeks i saw a great physio and did lots of lifting. I thought taking 2 weeks off from running was a bit extreme, but coach didnt want to risk a stress fracture.So that's why I was not able to run. But now I'm good and

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Ok i can finally update this thing.So training has been going great. Ive felt really good at practice except for the last 2 days at tha track. Ive had a pretty serious shin splint on my left leg (trail leg) and it stems from bad form. Coach decided that we would use this week as a de-loading week and give my body some rest.I will be opening up at NC A&T on April 5Th and i feel ready to go. I feel

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Hello to the 15 people that have read my blog. haha.ALOT has changed for me since my alst update. So lets go down the list of what is happening in my life.1) I graduated college on December 14th, 2007. Definitely the happiest moment of my life. HS graduated was nothing special but damn i was happy to be done with college. After 5 1/2 long years i did it :D it was free so i cant complain.2) I

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Ok so i havent written since my birthday and there have been a couple updates since then. so here are what i can think of off the top of my head.1) School started- im passing all classes and i graduate December 14th :D2) Started training again- I was scheduled to start training the first week of October, but i was a little anxious so i started the last week in September. its been going pretty

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So on this day 1984 i was born.I am 23 today yay for me! :DI got a couple phone calls from friends, and i got some presents from my girlfriend.Not sure if ill do anything tonight, might go out with the fellas, might not.Either way its been a pretty boring day so far but its all good, because im enjoying having nothing to do.thanks to all who called or left me facebook messages wishing me a happy

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ok so things didnt go as well as id hoped. i finished dead last in 14.09. my reaction was by far the worst in the field at .260 quite possibly the worst reaction ever by a hurdler. the rain didnt bother met at all so i really have no excuses. i felt GREAT (caps for emphasis) before the race. i was excited to run and felt very confident that id run fast.in the blocks i told my self to listen for

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Today were the prelims at the pan am games. i was in heat 3 of 3 and i ran out of lane 3. I knew going into the race that it should be the easiest heat to qualify from and it was. Last night i figured id have to beat either Maurice Wignall or Yoel Hernandez to get an entry to the finals. Wignall did not show up so i pretty much knew i had an easy run to the finals. i got out bad, floated every

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Ok i havent updated this thing in a while so here is what ive been up to.Ive been in Puerto Rico since June 14th. been staying in a place called Albergue. The second week here i had a meet in Jamaica. Jamaican nationals. I finished 3rd with a time of 14.20. I was pretty disappointed of course but its all good. i ran in lane 7 had a guy who ran 15+ in lane 6 and i thought i was in the lead until

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one of my favorite videos.i had a decent week of practice last week.monday and tuesday were shit. but by friday i felt like superman! lol so im back on track.now im just chillin..

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Ok so here is an update for whoever is reading this.I was forced to take last week off from training. i did not have a ride to pracitce because the buses werent running on campus and my girl went home for the summer.i lifted weights and ran on the bike our apt complex has.Monday i started training again.and today my training has to go an halt again.This morning my mom called me and told me she

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Just got back from the meet at Duke University.Ran pretty bad...Woke up this morning called my boy who said he was gonna let me use his car but he didnt pick up. i was planning on leaving at noon. Around 11:20AM i talked to my boy Kevin who told me hed ask my other friend AD if he could give me a ride to the track meet.so at 12 o'clock they show up and we leave. there is 5 of us in a Nissan

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My race at A&T went ok.I got a little over 3 hours of sleep friday night because people kept texting and calling me at 3am and when it happened the second time i couldnt fall back asleep.It was horrible but i really wanted to run at this meet so i finally woke up at 5am, got ready and hit the road around 6:15amWe (me and my girl Alex) got there around 8:30am and i warmed up and got ready to run.I

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So ive enjoyed reading Rob Bramletts and recently David Olivers blog so i decided to create my own.im not on their level but i figure this will be nice to keep track of my progress.So ive run 3 races this year.Coastal Carolina 14.37Wake Forrest 14.37Florida Relays 13.89This is the fastest ive ever ran at this point in the season so im pretty happy.I decided to start training in late Jan. so im

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