(c) Runner's Tribe
Ultra- Marathon running is a booming sport. With seemingly endless wild natured (or crazy, however you spin it) runners lacing up every year, race organisers around the world have stepped up and delivered. Below is no exhaustive list, hell we left off Comrades, The Munga, Eastern...
MATT FITZGERALD – Runner’s Tribe
Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author. His many books include The Endurance Diet, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It?
It is a proven fact that individual pain tolerance predicts endurance performance. Given two athletes with identical physical traits, the one with...
Runner's Tribe - Run School
Minimalist, maximalist, zero drop, traditional, soft foam, hard foam, high stack height, low stack height, stiff soles, flexible soles, magic foam that makes you float or fly. Or whatever.
Whilst the science on all the above is minimalistic in itself, one study that shows that...
Perhaps you’re a seasoned marathon junkie who runs 10 miles before breakfast. Or perhaps you are eating a slice of cake on the couch while reading this very article. These details don’t matter. What matters is that there is an ever-evolving community of running ideas out there, and unless...
Don’t Skimp on the Hills | By David McNeill - Runner's Tribe
When searching for company for my day-to-day runs during the week, often one of the barriers between running with someone and running alone is the choice of location. Most of the time, I don’t mind driving to a...
MATT FITZGERALD - Runner's Tribe
Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author. His many books include The Endurance Diet, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It?
I’m currently coaching a runner, we’ll call in Dylan, who’s training for the Berlin Marathon. Recently he asked me why I’ve had...
MATT FITZGERALD - Runner's Tribe
Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author. His many books include The Endurance Diet, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It?
If you ask the average running coach what good running form is, he or she will probably answer with phrases like “midfoot...
If you’re someone who loves to run, it’s easy to convince yourself that running, alone, is sufficient for meeting your fitness goals and maintaining a high level of health.
While running can be very beneficial for the body, especially for improving cardiovascular health, it’s not the only form of exercise...
Many sporting techniques and skills are unique to a rather narrow field of expertise. Hockey players don’t need to know how to kick a football and tennis players needn’t perfect a high jump but one thing which often does translate is running. Whether it’s the short sprints of a...
I always laugh about how I got into running. My older sister, Emma, showed some potential in long jump whilst we were both in primary school. Our aunt suggested that Emma come along to try out little athletics at Hornsby District Little Athletics Centre and at the ripe old...
