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2016 Australian Athletics Championships Men's 1500m Final video consists of normal filming and Stop Motion photography. Filmed, shot and produced by www.runnerstribe.com Thank you to Athletics Australia @athleticsaustralia and especially Cody Lynch. Music The Passion HiFi at EvilTwinRecords used by RT with permission by The Passion HiFi. 94th AUS T&F Champs -...
Morgan Mitchell (Vic) and Luke Mathews (Vic) will be automatically nominated for Rio 2016 selection after victory in the women’s 400m and men’s 800m at the Australian Athletics Championships tonight. Undefeated in the one-lap race so far in 2016, Mitchell started in the final tonight after impressive runs in both...
Overtraining Syndrome | RT Journal By Craig Burns I remember a few sessions where all I wanted to do was cry because I felt so defeated. The last 4 months. The last 4 months have been crap. I wouldn't say it’s been hell. I can think of worse things that would...
Thanks to Ross and Runners Tribe for giving me the opportunity to provide an insight into how I train and shed some light on some of my favourite training sessions. 2016 has started well with a solid two weeks of training at Falls Creek completed followed by 3 personal...
Olympic Selection Trials: Important Stepping Stone to Rio If the Australian team for Rio was selected today we would expect to have 21 males and 28 females being selected (plus a few additional athletes added as part of the women's 4x400m relay squad). But as we count down to the...
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Aussie Snap Shots from the World Half Marathon Championships 2016 at www.runnerstribe.com Photo by @Keith McClure Photography. Used by RT with permissio
Dreaded Lurgi ends Rio hopes | A Column By Len Johnson Forty years after going to my first Olympic Games I have had to reluctantly accept that I have no chance of making the team for Rio 2016. I arrived in Sydney on Thursday, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and thinking I...
https://youtu.be/ctWRhaUxzzY Class act rewarded | A Column By Len Johnson Cathy Freeman unzipped her body suit and sat down on the track. Sally Pearson let out a scream once her narrow victory had been confirmed. Nathan Deakes dissolved into tears of joy. Rob de Castella, so injury-proof he was nicknamed ‘The Tree’,...
Prologue: My last Runner’s Tribe blog was in September of 2013, it largely covered the World Cross Country Championships and the domestic season that followed. At times I touched on injuries throughout the piece but never delved into specifics as I wasn't sure of the severity of my predicament. It...
What We Learned from 'Super Saturday' - Proud to be an Australian If you have managed to catch any of the IAAF World Indoor Championships over the past 3 days you would have witnessed some tough competition, accompanied by some gutsy Australian results. It hasn't gone to plan for all our...