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Catch all the latest from all our track and field stars as they discuss everything from their personal training sessions to updates on their athletic journey.

Question: Great win this year in the Gold Coast Half marathon; were you expecting such a good race? I was expecting it to be a competitive race at the front end, as there wasn’t a clear favorite. My goal was to finish as high up as possible, which for me...
Asia & Oceania 24-hour championships 2022 By Cassie Cohen  After a week of sightseeing, nervous energy, team bonding and race preparation in Bengaluru, it was exciting to get to the opening ceremony the night before the IAU Asia & Oceania 24-hour championships would begin on the 400m athletics track at Sree...
Congrats to everyone who made our World Cross team! It’s great to see Australian selectors fielding teams in all events to be contested in Poland later this month. I watched a video of the WXC trials on Runners Tribe and it’s great to see plenty of people running well...
#2016 The ultimate goal of every athlete is the Olympics, especially in the sport of athletics. It is a sport which can offer an abundance of self satisfaction - but the “income” and “fame” that most other sports see are outcomes which elude most Australians - therefore, basically rendering the...
By Daniel Wallis Alex Parlane has just begun his first season as a senior in impressive fashion. At last weekends North Island cross-country champs, Parlane ran from the front and recorded the fastest time over the 9km course since World Mountain Running Champion Jonathan Wyatt won the event in 2003....
So along comes the day of my 400m heat. I have to admit...I was pretty nervous! I looked at the start list and saw the first few girls were running 51s and 52s...I happened to be put in the heat with the Nigerian whose best time was 51.1. My...
Where to begin? I have now been in the U.S for a month now, training with the Santa Monica Track Club based in Southern California and it has proven to be a most eventful month, one in which I have really found out a great deal about myself, in...
Aaaah. Ross from Runner’s Tribe recently asked me to write another blog... As I was injured late last year and have spent the past couple of months slowly getting back to fitness, I was at a loss as to what to ramble about. Surely not another blog detailing in fine...
In late 2004 Craig Mottram wrote an Olympic diary from the Athens Olympics. Today, we restore this masterpiece on Runner's Tribe, to inspire the new generation. Many thanks to Neil Macdonald (and Craig) for the below article. Craig Mottram - One Special Day For most of us, the 28th of August...
My preparation for the world juniors didn’t go as well as I’d have hoped as I got sick during the pre-departure period and had to take a week off. With that in mind, I was still searching for that pre-departure time so that I would be allowed on the...