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...meters for sixth place and an IC4A qualification.For the veterans, senior co-captain Alex Lewis improved on his personal best by almost 200 points in the decathlon, logging 6,565 points and collecting a fourth spot. Lewis’s finish puts him just 89 points behind Peter Rittenburg ’82 as the Harvard decathlon record holder.Sophomore Justin Grinstead’s new personal best of 52.49 in the 400-meter hurdles was good enough for third and also qualified him for NCAA Regionals, while junior Derek Jones’s 47.73 finish in the 400-meter...
...younger Rittenburg does not mind the fact that there is no one event in which he truly excels. "The variety keeps me motivated," he explains. "Inevitably you will have peaks and valleys. If you get discouraged in one event, you always have another one where things are going well...
...Rittenburg's biggest obstacles are time and injuries. There never seems to be enough time to train for all 10 events, and because of his back injury, he must be wary every time he competes...
...stay injury-free, Rittenburg does not rule out the 1988 Olympics. "If I make it through spring decathlon schedule without injury and it seems like I have a shot, then I would consider them [the Olympics]. After graduating, I would like to go out West or South where I could train all year...
...after this spring things don't look that optimistic, Rittenburg would characteristically take it in stride. "If things don't work out, I'll just hang...