"Get over it. If you have a bad workout or a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it, then move on.”
- Steve Scott
Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Part 1 looks into Steve Scott’s training during the later stages of his...
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“A lot of people thought I was crazy with the training that I undertook, and maybe I was.” - Derek Clayton
In 2017 Runner’s Tribe published a book referred to as ‘The Bible of Australian Marathon Running’. This 347-page paperback publication interviews Australia’s...
“There are lots of elements to running a successful marathon and I’ll bet insights into them are woven throughout all of the interviews in this book!” – Lisa Ondieki from Australian Marathon Stars
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Lisa Ondieki certainly rates as Australia’s top female marathoner, her...
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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...
"I ran my first sub-4 mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4’s as I have.”
- Steve Scott
Free Sources:
Steve Scott & Marc Bloom, Steve Scott the Miler Macmillan (1997)
Tony Benson and Irv Ray, Run with the Best (2001).
Steve Scott...
Written by Sam McLean – Runner’s Tribe
"If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it - only talk about it." Percy Cerutty
If the 'Australian Running Bible' was a novel, it would be a bestseller, with three co-authors. 'Rab' (Chris Wardlaw), 'Clo' (Pat Clohessy) and 'Dick' (Dick Telford). Forwarded...
Chris Wardlaw - dual Olympian and coach of Steve Moneghetti, Kerryn McCann, Craig Mottram and numerous other top distance runners shares his views on training.
Article originally written for ‘Australian Runner’ magazine by Chris Wardlaw. Reproduced with permission.
Training for distance is definitely not rocket science, though for middle distance it...
Coach Colm and the Training of David Rudisha
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“The secret is in the head, not the legs.” – David Rudisha
Two Olympic Golds, two World Championship Golds, 800m world record holder. The G.O.A.T – of that there can be little doubt. Like many star 800m...
The Training of Craig ‘Buster’ Mottram
“I didn’t think I would see an Australian do what he is doing. To have an Australian under 13 minutes for 5km is unbelievable.” -Steve Moneghetti
Free Sources:
– With thanks for help from Neil MacDonald from Geelong Cross Country
Steve Moneghetti once blamed Craig Mottram for...
“The exact measurements and figures I never say anything about, but it is a fact that nobody in Norway is close to the results that Jakob performs…I have been with and tested Norwegian world class performers for years, dating back to the time of the Kvalheim brothers (70s and...
