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“The marathon was what it was all about in those days.” – Pat Carroll
Profile
Coaches: Pat Clohessy, Dick Telford
Date of birth: 17 August 1961
Personal Bests
1500m: 3:39.03
3000m: 7:47.66
5000m: 13:25.49
10,000m: 28:30.55
10,000m road: 28:00
Half marathon: 61:11
Marathon: 2:09.39
Career...
‘Before Rudisha’
Wilson Kipketer’s Top 5 Races
“This man is one of the toughest competitors we have ever seen” - Steve Ovett
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Kipketer was the man to beat in the late nineties over 800. With three world championship gold’s, three 800m world records, and one...
Joan Benoit Samuelson: A Column By Mark Tucker for Runner's Tribe
The first ever winner of the Women’s Olympic Marathon. The first ever! For any distance runner that would be an absolute dream sentence to come after your name. For Joan Benoit Samuelson, it’s reality.
In the heat, humidity and smog...
Tani Ruckle is Australia’s 12th fastest female marathon runner of all-time.
Introduction by Len Johnson
First, she couldn’t run. Then she couldn’t run without outside pacemaker assistance.
Then – well, OK, she could run, but she was just some slightly wacky Canadian fitness trainer with the crazy ambition of representing Australia. Running...
“Special Methods” – The Training of Said Aouita
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“We have special techniques. We always train alone. And we always run alone” – Said Aouita
A lot of the below information about the training of Said Aouita was taken from the book ‘Running with the legends’, by...
By Brett Davies
This week – on the 21st of November – Irish distance legend Eamonn Coghlan turned 70. In honour of the occasion, we take a look back at Coghlan’s rise to the top, then look at his greatest performances. We will then look at his career post-athletics and...
From the Clouds: The Career of Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Written by Sam Burke - © 2017 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved
“Borzakovskiy is already out of this race”.
Sebastian Coe commentating during the Sydney Olympic 800m semi-final when Borzakovskiy trailed the field significantly after one lap. Borzakovskiy went on to win the...
Written by Amity Delaney - Runner's Tribe
Cathy Freeman is one of Australia’s most successful runners. She was also one of Australia’s most decorated Indigenous athletes. She was significant, both in terms of her athletic accomplishments, and also for the achievements she garnered as an Indigenous athlete. I watched her...
Steve Prefontaine: A runners’ runner
A Column By Mark Tucker
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975)
“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at...
“In Europe, maybe most youngsters think it is safer to go to university and then get a high paying job. After all, there are easier ways to earn a living than as an 800m runner!" – Andre Bucher
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Sources
IAAF Andre Bucher Interview 2001.
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