Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback.
I am pretty unhappy with the way the event introductions ended up - the original plan was to do each event introduction as an image so that I could includes some diagrams pointing out some of the key aspects, but I ended up running short on time so just fell back onto whacking some text into an ordered list and throwing it on screen with a drawTextInRect command. It was very much a "something is better than absolutely nothing" solution. I feel like the shotput event in particular is a little cryptic about what it's expecting.
It's funny you should mention the hurdles, though, as the penalisation on that is actually bugged out and slightly less impactful than I was intending. I ended up leaving it because I liked the way the sound effect looping as a result of it sounded, but it does mean there's actually two frames of the electrocution animation that never display.
I do hope to do a tidied up DX version at some point - I want to rewrite half the code for the ball throwing event, and I really want to put in the egg-and-spoon race I wanted to do but ran out of time for - and adding some extra feedback on the stamina gauge is probably something I'll have a major think about there.