December is a time for numerous festive occasions. For most it’s the ever-eventful work Christmas party that often leaves a shady cloud over the workplace social scene or the high expectations of Christmas Day and New Years Eve that they look forward too. However, for the distance runners of...
Hi, my name is Emma Kraft and I am from Alice Springs NT, and I am a squad member of Adelaide based Team Tempo which is coached under Adam Didyk. Living in Alice Springs as you can imagine there are limited opportunities to compete at a high level due...
A few days ago, I was excited to be given the opportunity to write my first blog for RunnersTribe. For those of you who already know me, being given free reign to write about ‘whatever I want’ is a potentially dangerous prospect! Nonetheless, I thought I would actually take...
Hello to everyone reading!
It’s been quite a while since I wrote a blog for Runners Tribe and a bit has happened in the meantime. I have spent the majority of 2013 has preparing for a marathon debut, but I have also managed to run PB’s for 1500m, 3km, 10km,...
Forgive me for bringing the sport of cycling into this but my most recent inspiration came from watching Hell of the North, which follows the Paris-Roubaix one day classic from the eyes of 2007 winner Stuart O'Grady. With cobblestones, sharp corners, rain, mud, snow and sometimes scorching heat, the...
Hello Runner’s Tribers! It’s been a few moons since my last bloggage eh? Not to say that nothing has been happening worthy of mention, but I still hold pretty high expectations of my running, so I guess I’m probably being pretty harsh on the results this year – and...
Hello all,
It has been a busy month for me but I’ve found the time to write my third blog for runnerstribe.
I felt like I had a decent cross country season that included an individual Victorian U20 aggregate title in the XCR 13 series, a win at the Victorian all...
What a huge month of running in the Hunter's self-dubbed 'Region of Runners'! With Fernleigh 15, Run Newcastle, Armidale Fun Run, Friday Fire-up and the inaugural AGM of Newcastle Runners, there has been no shortage of banter around the tracks.
October 20 saw the return of the popular Fernleigh15 classic,...
A 3k race off no track work and marathon mileage wasn't a normal part of my marathon build-up but the end goal is the same - a hard run out to blow away the cobwebs and break up the training block.
Coming into the race I'd put 6 solid weeks...
My journey to date….
The opportunity to write this blog has provided me with a great opportunity to reflect on my journey, and the driving forces behind my running career. I’m sure there’ll be some of this that may resonate with each of you reading this, and hopefully motivate you...
