Ashlea Maddex enjoys personal best hurdling season SPORTS editionap.ca
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there it was down to Mexico for the NA- CAC Championships in Irapuato where she earned the bronze with another personal best time of 13.21 seconds. Over the past couple of years, Maddex has competed at several international events, including a past PanAmerican youth track- and-field meet. So competing at the higher altitudes at Irapuato during the NACAC did not present toomuch of a prob- lem for her.
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OTTAWA| A summer heatwave baked the streets of Ottawa and burnt the green grass brown in parts of Mooney’s Bay Park
over the July 14 weekend. It matched the mood of Ashlea Maddex who was all fired up Saturday at the 2012 Athlet- ics Ontario Junior and Senior Championships. Maddex represented the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, host for the provin- cial event. She finished the noon-hour final for the senior
“We were there for five days before the event so we were able to acclimatize to it,” Mad- dex said. She noted that competing in Calgary in the national tri- als also helped prepare her for Mexico. At 1048 metres above sea level Calgary sits at a higher
women’s 100-metre hurdles with a fourth- place time 15.22 seconds. She received the bronze medal though as part of the Athlet- ics Ontario championship lineup as the sec- ond-place finalist in the event was a visiting athlete from Québec. Maddex later finished first in an “exhibition run” event scheduled later that afternoon. For Maddex, it is the wrap-up of what has been an award-winning learning curve season. Resting up in the bleachers while watching other athletes compete, Maddex reflects on her 2012 season in hurdles. All in all, she’s satisfied with the results. “It’s been a lot of learning experiences,” she said. “Learning to adapt to situations. I had to learn that I can’t control everything, but when it’s time to perform then I hope that everything pulls together.” Her last two major meets of the season saw everything pulling together for Mad- dex. She finished sixth in her event with a personal best time of 13.43 seconds in the National Trials in Calgary last month. From
elevation compared to most of Maddex’s home province. That helped prepare her system for Irapuato, located at the foot of Mexico’s Arandas Mountain, at 1724 metres agove sea level. “You just train,” Maddex said, about hav- ing adapt to the rarefied air. “You eventually get used to it. The first few days at Calgary, I was feeling like it was hard to breathe. Then I got used to it. Same in Mexico.”
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