Thankfully, as distance runners in Australia, we are very lucky that for the most part our lives haven’t been too affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, some significant competitions have been taken away from the calendar, but considering the restrictions that have been in place and the difficulties...
I remember walking into the Cross Country Coach’s office at Notre Dame as an 8th grader. My Dad, a former Notre Dame track guy himself and a lifelong ND fan had brought our family to a football game in the fall of 1998. As I remember, he just walked...
Thankfully, I’ve got guys like Matt Ramsden and Ben Chamberlain pulling me around the track here in Perth in the meantime. Obviously, Chambo and Ramsden need no introduction, and their professionalism and elite mindset towards training is something that I’m constantly learning from as a Duathlete. My 10km pb time was well below par for my standards, sitting at 31.15 on the track. However, after weeks of hard work, during threshold sessions, Rambo and Chambo were pulling me through at PB pace for 8km’s and I felt pretty comfortable. After surviving a bunch of these sessions, I was feeling good enough to have a crack at my PB. The Hoka Isolation Challenge was the only excuse I needed to throw on the racing flats.
Late last year Catriona Bisset wrote this gem of a piece for Australian Athlete Magazine. We'd like to share it with you now on Runner's Tribe.
Be Vulnerable, Run Faster | A column by Catriona Bisset
“How did you improve so much?”
I heard this question many times over the course of...
The biopsy resulted in a diagnosis of melanoma. Fortunately for me, it was a very early one, meaning it hadn’t spread beyond the skin. However, if it had not been for the extraordinary circumstances that led to my Dad finding this mole, I may have not been so lucky.
By Anna Laman for Runner's Tribe
2020 was an incredible year for me, returning back to racing on Australian soil brought me an incredible amount of purpose and true happiness. I’ve got my training partner, Davina Smith, and new coach Alija Kajan, to thank for helping me get back on...
Session time, Bright has amazing running trails, grass ovals and forests all within a very short run of Altitude 1’s front door. We warm up from the front door and run to the nearby pine forest, this is a great place for our morning threshold run followed by some speed work. The trails are smooth, flat and sheltered, leading to all of us having a great session. It’s warm and sunny and we cool down back to our house happy.
I wanted to share with you my experience at Big Sky in Bright, and how this experience is different from what I feel when at home in Sydney. My auxiliary training (everything outside of my sessions) in Bright was almost identical to what I’d do in Sydney. I had one run that was longer than what I’d normally do, but that was really it. However, there were two things that were drastically different during my time here- the altitude I slept and recovered at, and the different styles of session that I experienced as a result of being here. This feeds in to my discussion of altitude training versus the training camp effect.
Last but not least… the countless options of trails!The town of Bright is surrounded by pine forests and these Logging roads make for some nice running. Snowy Creek road is a great option for a long out and back run, the Cherry Walk Nature trail follows the river- its flat and smooth under foot and great for sessions. Finally, If you want flat cycle-path: the Murray to mountains rail trail (Wangaratta to Bright) is approximately 85km.
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Matt Lynch – Runner’s Tribe
From the author: I’ve teamed up with @runnerstribe over the next fortnight to deliver a daily rundown of the 2019 @iaaf_athletics Championships direct from Doha, Qatar The Doha Diaries will delve into the day to day life of one of the richest...
