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By Ben Green B.Sc (Hons) Exercise & Health Level 4 Distance Coach IAAF Know Your Aerobic Training Zones VO2 Max, Steady, Threshold….what does it all mean?  Knowing your individual aerobic training zones is crucial to ensuring you maximise the adaptations you can achieve from each planned workout or training run as well as...
Only 10 days to go until we leave for the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France and the whole Australian World Youth Team is extremely excited, but nervous at the same time about our competition in Lille. We all have just come back from our pre-departure camp in...
“Webb could be the best in the world. He’s the greatest hope we’ve had since Jim Ryun” – Alberto Salazar, 2001. © 2019 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved. Few names in middle distance running get people talking more than Alan Webb. The ridiculously talented American was the first high school athlete in...
Craig Huffer is one hell of an interesting guy to chat to regarding middle-distance running. A huge junior talent, Huffer posted 3:36 over 1500m as a 20-year-old. To experience, exceptional performance in running, choose the best footwear for your runs like Tarkine Trail Devil shoes. His career then took him to...
For the first time in quite a few years I wasn’t at the nationals. Not by choice: the situation was imposed on me, first by a scheduled trekking trip to Nepal, then by the flaring up of a back condition which forced the cancellation of the former and precluded...
An article by Brett Davies British athletes Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram were among the most dominant middle-distance stars of the 1980s and the 1980 Moscow Olympics was the first time the 'big three' appeared together on the Olympic stage. The distance running highlight of Moscow was the clash of...
Welcome back! I’m sure we are all inspired by watching the Commonwealth Games especially with a Gold Medal performance by Michael Shelley and a Bronze Medal from my Team Tempo Team mate Jessica Trengove in the Marathon! And of course all the other great performance in Athletics! As you know...
Obstacles, adversities, setbacks - whatever you may choose to call them, are some things, that we do not ever want to cross paths with. But honestly, is it really possible? After spending 2010 in the U.K, doing little running, I was planning on getting back into racing the 2011 Australian...
We have heard it and said it all year – we are living in crazy times. We have also accepted the term – ‘this is the new normal’. Well I can definitely say it is hard to imagine things going back to the way they once were. When will we shake hands with strangers again, not have to hand sanitize every time we touch something, panic at the sound of a cough, or feel uncomfortable in large crowds? The world is definitely a new place, however what I will share with you now is how some Aussie athletes managed to fly all over the world to athletic meets while staying safe to compete during a global pandemic.
This is my first time writing a blog so not sure how I’ll go but RT has kindly asked me to share my latest running experiences with you so I thought I would embrace the opportunity and give it a go. Before I begin here’s a bit about me “Clare...
                   

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