A Column By Len Johnson
When Linden Hall ran 4:01.78 for 1500 metres at the Prefontaine Classic last weekend, she leapt to third place on the Oceania all-time list.
Hall’s fabulous performance was also good enough for third all-time Australian and third all-time Victorian.
Fair enough, you might reckon. The opposite of...
The Importance of Taking Breaks from Training:
A Column By Amity Delaney
As athletes, our love for running and our desire to succeed can often cause us to keep pushing our body and training when we should perhaps be taking a break to let our bodies and minds properly recover....
RT’s Run School featuring Mark Blomeley. Mark is a strength and conditioning coach with over 10 years experience in the sports and fitness industry. Currently in Brisbane, he is a specialist strength and conditioning coach for runners from international standard elites to the every day runner.
Stop thinking so short...
DSUF Podcast with Craig Burns and John Steffensen
There is something really special about a young person achieving a remarkable goal, or performing at a high level, or becoming really successful about something they are passionate about. It is this ‘something really special’ that has sparked my interest in high...
Hall's Amazing Rise to International Stardom
It's hard not to get a little carried away with the success of Linden Hall over the last 4 weeks. Her latest performance at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene (4.01.78) had to be seen to be believed. Not only did she run a controlled...
Easy as 1, 2, 3 – not!
A, B, C
It’s easy as 1, 2, 3
As simple as Do-Re-Mi . . .
One, two, three: that may be how easy love can be, as the Jackson 5 sang long ago. Selection? Now that’s another thing altogether.
Two recent controversies – one in Ireland,...
Going to college in the USA and transferring schools part 1 of 2
I made the decision to accept a scholarship to run and study at college in America at the beginning of year 12. I had been representing South Australia at nationals for cross country every year since I...
Richard Colman is a Paralympic and World Champion Wheelchair track athlete, Coach, Motivational Speaker, Ambassador, Blogger and World Traveler.
RT Journal by Richard Colman | The Dream Roll
As athlete’s careers develop they learn what it takes to achieve their goals in sport and life. After the huge build up in...
Genevieve LaCaze (Vic) boasts an impressive new personal best in the 3000m steeplechase this morning, after the Rio 2016 selected 26-year-old stopped the clock at 9:32.67 to place 4th at the IAAF Diamond League in Rabat (MAR).
Bettering her previous quickest ever time by more than a second, the performance...
Grand week of 1500 | A Column By Len Johnson
Olympic 1500 metres qualifiers for Jenny Blundell, Ryan Gregson and Luke Mathews – it hardly needs saying that it has been a great week for Australian middle-distance running.
In fact, taking into consideration Mathews’s earlier qualifying performance at 800 metres, Melissa...
