I started athletics when I was 8 just at a little aths club in Hoppers Crossing, Melbourne. I wasn't a huge fan of running mainly because I was terrible and was shown up by the other kids all the time. In u10s when the 800m was introduced I knew...
Journalists everywhere love a cliché. Each well-worn phrase (see what I did there?) represents a few precious words of the 600-or-so length of most stories that they don’t have to think of for themselves. The more sophisticated practitioners disguise their superfluity by a ready resort to adjectives. Sports journalists are...
Hi my name is Dharam Deol. I am a 15 year old middle distance runner from Melbourne's Eastern suburbs. I was very happy when Runner's Tribe reached out to me asking me to share a little about my training sessions with it's readers. I feel privileged to have been asked,...
https://www.runnerstribe.com/steigen-tribe/team-steigen-tribe/ If you’re heading to the Snowy Mountains in summer, here are a few tips for my favourite things to do there! Take the chairlift up to Thredbo for some hardcore tobogganing Have a tasty lunch at Birchwood Café in Jindabyne Take a flotation device out onto the lake (would...
Running is such a tough individual sport and it is the runners around me who keep me motivated. I joined Gregor’s (Gregor Gojrzewski) training group at Essendon 6 years ago when I was 15. The head of sport at high school encouraged me to join an athletics club as...
By Matt Lynch - Runner's Tribe Now that the new year has come and gone, we begin our journey along the domestic yellow brick road towards the Australian Athletics Championships. There’ll be plenty of detours along the way coming in the shape of the “Summer Super Series”, as well as...
Boston Marathon, April 18, 2011 - a day to remember in marathon running history. The winner, Geoffrey Mutai, ran 57 seconds under the then-current world record, stopping the clock at 2:03.02. Mutai had a few factors working in his favour that day. Firstly, there was a strong tailwind of...
If you’ve been paying the slightest attention to this column over the years, you have probably worked out that I’m a big fan of the annual Track & Field News rankings. There’s lots of rankings lists going round now – imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, and all that...
Hey Runner's Tribe, my name is Georgia Winkcup and I’m a 3000m steeplechase and middle distance runner. My journey in Athletics started when I was just 8 years old as a little athlete running for Cherrybrook Athletics Club. My family has a history in athletics as my grandmother was...
My name is Louis McAfee and I am currently training with Gold Coast Run Co, a running group of all shapes and sizes led by Jacko Elliott and Andrew Stalling. After a brief stint in the US, I’ve had the pleasure of being involved with Gold Coast Run Co...
