By Brett Davies
The Rotterdam Marathon of 1983, featuring the match race between Australian Rob de Castella (AKA ‘Deek’) and American Alberto Salazar, was, as mentioned in Part 1 of this article, a hugely anticipated event on the global sporting calendar. It did not disappoint. To experience, exceptional performance in...
The strength training argument
by Mark Blomeley for RT's RUN SCHOOL
Strength training for runners continues to be a hotly debated topic. There are plenty of different philosophies around and most work to a degree. Increasingly though, there is very little disagreement that you should actually be doing strength training as...
'Running With The Rage (against the machine)' A Column By Mark Tucker
“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime
what better place than here, what better time than now?”
(Rage Against The Machine)
These are the type of song lyrics I loved listening to in the days leading up to...
Highlight of the year with running?
I had so many highlights and new experiences last season, but I would have to say winning the bronze medal at World Juniors was definitely my favourite. I found it a very difficult preparation with trying to peak again and balancing this with adjusting...
Some blokes take the conventional path to number one in Track & Field News’s prestigious annual rankings.
For over 70 years now the US magazine self-styled, and rightly known as, The Bible of the Sport has assessed athletes against three criteria – honours won; win-loss record; and, sequence of marks...
Why you need to stop rushing for the Holy Grail | By Mark Blomeley
There is an ever increasing trend that recreational runners want to run marathons and ultra-marathons. While I think it’s fantastic that so many more people are entering the sport with defined goals, it’s important to understand...
Pre race interview with Emma Bates and her husband, Kameron Ulmer. Emma won the Cal International Marathon in 2018 and was the top American at the Chicago Marathon in 2019. Her husband Kameron is her coach and founder of the Idaho Distance Project. The group has 4 women competing in the trials.
Stephen Dinneen is a well-known coach on the Australian middle distance and distance running scene. A fast runner himself, with PBs ranging from 3:48 over 1500m to 65 minutes for the half-marathon (all times taken from World Athletics)..
These days, Stephen is a coach to dozens of strong runners, ranging from...
In this edition of 4 Key Sessions, I want to talk about the kind of sessions I was doing to prepare for school championships and U/18 events – way back, last century.
These sessions – particularly the track sessions – are ideal for the schoolboy athlete, who is around 16/17,...
Jessica Hull has returned to her winning ways at the Portland Track Festival. The Australian, running for Nike, won in a sprint finish clocking 14:57.00. Hull, the Australian 5000m champion, is a serious contender for an Olympic final berth. One of Australia's most promsing talents since Benita Willis rocked the world, she has proven herself not only fast, but a winner of important races.
