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That was pretty quick, wasn’t it? One minute the Olympic Games are full steam ahead, the next they’re punted off into 2021, maybe 2020, sometime in the future anyway. Quick – and painless, we’re assured. Just as the doctor assures Pink, in Pink Floyd’s The Wall, as he is about...
Runner’s Tribe is currently running a large series of interviews with the best athletes on the planet. We will find out how they are handling the current situation, delve into some training talk, what inspires them and more. For our third interview in the series, we speak to Australia’s 4...
Celeste Mucci holds the Australian u20 heptathlon record (5915) and competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she finished 4th as an 18yo. Celeste is also 5th on the Australian all-time list in the 100mh (13.02) and competed in the Doha World Championships where she bowed out in the...
Runner's Tribe is running a large series of interviews with the best athletes on the planet. We will find out how they are handling the current situation, delve into some training talk, what inspires them and more. To start it all off we have a chat with NCAA XC champion,...
World cross-country 1981-85: amid extraordinary scenes in Madrid, Robert de Castella takes Australia into the individual top-10. A year out from Bathurst 2021, Len Johnson continues his look at Australia in the world cross-country championships. The men’s race at the 1981 world cross-country championships in Madrid finished amid extraordinary scenes as...
September 29th 2019, and Kenenisa Bekele made history, clocking the second fastest marathon in history – 2:01:41, missing the world record by just two seconds.Bekele has many years of aerobic conditioning in his legs.  However, his race specific training for Berlin 2019 only spanned over an 8 week period during.  A remarkably short period of time.Bekele’s training diary leading in to the 209 Berlin Marathon is below. Most of this training was performed at sea level in the Netherlands.
Nike are the kings at marketing, among other things. And few shoes exemplify this more than the Infinity React. Nike’s marketing machine had people spinning with talk about injury risk reduction. They cited an external study by the British Columbia Sports Medicine Research Foundation (BCSMRF) on 226 runners using the Nike React Infinity Run as well as the Nike Structure 22. It indicated that runners using the former had a 52% lower injury rate. It’s an area in which more research is required. So, is this all complete BS, or are the shoes legit? Runner’s Tribe took them through 310kms and below is our unpaid for review.
Last weekend (Sunday, 8 March), 86,174 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground watched Australia win the final of the women’s cricket T20 World Cup. It was reported as the highest attendance ever for a women’s sporting event in Australia. Good on them. Got to be happy about that. If you’re...
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The latest episode of our Workout Any Day ?️ series features The fourth fastest Australian in the 100m hurdles of ALL TIME Liz Clay Produced for Runner's Tribe by professional filmmaker Louie Hadfield of Rolling. Production Co https://www.facebook.com/rollingproductionco/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B9cxb5HD2Ba/
Runner's Tribe caught up with one of the world's leading ultra runners, Jeff Browning. Below is some seriously epic training snippets and advice from the winner of 30 ultra races.
                   

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