Runner's Tribe recently caught up with 2016 Rio Olympian, 2013 World Champs 800m Bronze Medalist, and Big Bear Track Club Co-founder, Brenda Martinez for this awesome chat. (Phone interview transcribed by Runner's Tribe).
Where are you currently situated, and how is training going?
So I live in Big Bear Lake, which is...
Georgia Wassall is a rising star in Australian and world athletics. At 19 she is one of the most promising middle distance runner's the country has ever seen. In the World Youth Championships 2014 Wassall ran 2.02.71s, to finish third behind Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya, in the 800m....
Hailing from the Central Coast of NSW, middle distance star, Charlie Hunter, left Australian shores in 2018 to take up a scholarship for the famed Oregon Ducks. It was a decision that changed his life. He is now the proud owner of Australian indoor records over one mile (3:53.49)...
Ella Nelson: The Best is Yet to Come
By Grace Kalac for Runner's Tribe
The start of the 2016 season for rising sprint star Ella Nelson could not have been more flawless. By April, twenty-two-year-old Nelson, coached by Sydney’s Michael Dooley, had surpassed the Olympic qualifying standard numerous times, and boasted...
A Guide to Training in Kenya
Published by Runner's Tribe with exclusive permission from Sweat Elite - http://www.sweatelite.co/
If you’ve ever thought about heading to Kenya to do some training, meet some of the world’s fastest distance runners and experience an incredibly different culture, we’d highly recommend less thinking and more doing.
It’s...
Here is a selection of YouTube videos we found that relate to the top 9 Fastest Marathoners on Record-Eligible. A few of the races weren't available in any language or quality. Hence we've selected a variety you can watch and or scroll through that tell the story of the race.
Number...
Scott Overall will be running the London Marathon on April 24th, 2016 in order to secure his spot for the Rio Olympics. Despite having run the qualifier twice last year, he must finish in the top 2 at London in order to make the British Olympic team. RT caught...
By Mark Tucker
“I had broken 2:09. I forgot my exhaustion. Within a couple (of) hours, the agony of a world record run would manifest itself. The elation would be replaced by fear. I would be urinating quantities of blood and vomiting black mucous. The race left me so totally...
In the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Burundi's Venuste Niyongabo won gold. During his race, the country's civil war that would eventually claim between 200,000 and 300,000 mostly civilian lives and left more than half a million people displaced, stopped so that soldiers on both sides could follow on the radio....
Closing the door after bolt has bolted | A Column By Len Johnson
Usain Bolt didn’t need a third relay gold medal to confirm his place among the Olympic immortals, but getting one ensured he would not end on an anti-climactic note.
Bolt took the baton from Nickel Ashmeade for the...
