Sally Pearson back hurdling after injury April 4, 2013 - 1:27PM Olympic champion Sally Pearson says she's back training without pain following her recent hamstring injury. The 100m hurdles gold medallist missed this summer's Australian track season due to a torn hamstring but began hurdling again this week. "Everything's looking up," Pearson told reporters on Thursday. I started hurdling on Monday, which is probably almost eight months since I competed at the Olympics. (It's) the longest time I've had off hurdling but at the same time I think it's going to work well for me when I go overseas. The 26-year-old Pearson's injury may come with a silver lining as she prepares her quest to break the world record during the European track season and win a second world title in Russia in August. She used her lack of competition to increase her training load. "It (the injury) probably only put me out for about two and a half weeks and you don't lose a lot in two and a half weeks," she said. We weren't planning on having a huge hurdling conditioning but because of the injury I've had to stop competition in Australia and move on to my fitness training. It's a bit more confidence for me to know that I'm going to be hurdling for a bit more longer than I was going to be.