Hi! My name is Ellen Schaef, I am an 800m runner from New Zealand currently living in Colorado.
For the 16/17 season, I was training well and very consistently under Gregor Gojrzewski at Essendon and I managed to take my 800m time from 2.07.85 to 2.05.30 scoring a selection to...
In the Runner's Tribe workout series we ask the world's best athletes to share and explain some of their key training sessions which were integral to their success. The latest awesome edition is from NZ's Matt Baxter.
Matt Baxter - Runner's Tribe - The Workout Series
Matt Baxter's PB's
3000m 8:14.73...
By Mark Tucker - Runner's Tribe
“Strenuous exercise should not be taken until two and a half to three hours after eating” (C.W.H. Grant – The Australian Amateur – October 1951)
How much? How long before? And what should we eat (and drink) before a race and before we train? These...
In late 2004 Craig Mottram wrote an Olympic diary from the Athens Olympics. Today, we restore this masterpiece on Runner's Tribe, to inspire the new generation. Many thanks to Neil Macdonald (and Craig) for the below article.
Craig Mottram - One Special Day
For most of us, the 28th of August...
Few names in middle distance running get people talking more than Alan Webb. The ridiculously talented American was the first high school athlete in American history to break the four-minute mile when he clocked 3:59.86 in January 2001. However, it was his run four months later, on May 27, 2001, that revitalised American distance running; when he smashed Jim Ryun’s high school mile record stopping the clock at 3:53.43 to shatter Ryun's 36-year-old national high school record of 3:55.3. Webb would go on as a senior to break the American mile record with his 3:46 in 2007.
By Mark Tucker - Runner's Tribe
The ‘Mona’ Fartlek is probably the most well known training session in Australia. Named after legendary Australian distance runner, Steve Moneghetti, and devised by his well known coach Chris Wardlaw (a dual Olympian, Education guru and all-round good guy), this is one session I...
Training Diary Flagstaff 2017 – - Dr Philo Saunders - Senior Sports Physiologist: AIS: Australia
This is a detailed look at the 4 weeks training done at Flagstaff, Arizona during the month of May. Flagstaff is based at an altitude of 2100m and I have been going there with athletes each...
Mike Allen Q&A with Runner's Tribe
Mike Allen, PT, ATC is the UCHealth Director of Rehabilitation Services – South Metro Denver.
You've been working with 52-year old Colorado ultra runner Paul Hoover preparing him for his assault on the Leadville 100 this year on August 19. The previous year Paul collapsed at mile...
Casey Wood - Workout Series - Runner's Tribe
2017 has been the first year that I have switched my training focus to the Marathon, a much longer distance than I have raced before. At the end of January this year, I received an email saying I had been selected to...
Written by Daniel Quin – Runner’s Tribe
In Melbourne we are about to enter another Australian Football League finals series and narratives will be formed around Joel Selwood overcoming supposedly epic pain to participate. Or perhaps someone will do a Dermott Brereton and endure after a bone-crunching hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8X_O4ajyzE
The mythology that...
