An Olympic year is special in so many ways, something that only comes around once every four years - and to many athletes is the pinnacle of their sport. Athletics is no exception, and for so many of our track and field stars the preparation in the lead up...
In this extensive Runner’s Tribe series the world’s best ultra and trail runners share their training. Every few days we will be posting a new athletes’ weekly program during a peak training period. Next up we have Australia's own superstar ultrarunning prodigy, Lucy Bartholomew.
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Home Town: Diamond Creek, Melbourne....
By Brett Davies
We were very fortunate to have the Kenyan distance superstar Paul Tergat as the Ambassador of the 44th World Cross-Country Championships - a highly successful event, certainly one of the best organised and captivating championship events ever held in this country. As one of the greatest distance...
Kiah Fry - My Story
Age: 33
Blairgowrie, VIC
Coach - Peter Schuwalow
Squad - Zenith Running
My first coach Robbie Morgan-Morris once said, “Just make sure you keep running and you will run for life.” So far he’s been pretty much on the mark, as they say, once a runner,...
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....
By Brett Davies
With Australian distance running legend Steve Moneghetti celebrating his 60th birthday last week (26/9), Runners Tribe has put together a special three-part retrospective on his best career performances. Parts 1 & 2 looked at his 10 best career performances. In Part 3, we look at his 5...
My name’s Bianca Puglisi, I am a distance runner from Victoria competing nationally and have competed internationally over my younger years. I was very keen when Runners Tribe reached out to me to give an insight to readers about my training and a little overview of my junior racing.
My...
By Matt Fox for Runner's Tribe
Kevin Batt, thanks for joining us. You’ve just returned back to base camp – a chilly Alamosa Colorado, from a trip back home to Australia in which you trained up at the annual falls creek training camp for a few weeks and then ran...
Note: Times have been update by RT to reflect the current world records.
By: Chris Gorski, Senior Editor
(Inside Science) -- The current world records for the marathon 2:02:57, set by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya on September 28, 2014 and 2:15:25 for women, set in 2003 by Paula Radcliffe, from the U.K.
These...
By your own admission you had a “poor” Nationals due to sickness. What happened and how did you recover?
Yeah 2011 was a poor Nationals from me based on my performance at the Championships. Everything leading into Nationals was going great. Six weeks prior I had posted a time that...
