G,Day It's been a while since I last checked in with RT, But recently there have been a few changes which suggest my breakthrough may be on the way.
When you are not going as well as you had hoped for an athlete will occasionally spend some time reflecting, may...
At What Age do Aussie Marathon Runners Peak?
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In an attempt to assess the ideal age for marathon runners, Runner’s Tribe took a look at the 30 fastest male marathon runners in Australian history. Their respective ages were compared.
Facts
Average Age: 28 ½
Median...
Eliud Kipchoge crowned the 48th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON in breaking the world record with his time of 2:01:09. The 37-year-old improved his own world best time by exactly half a minute. He was even on course for a while to achieve the dream of running under two hours but couldn’t maintain this splendid pace. The Kenyan added further lustre to Berlin’s already rich honour board since this was the 12th world record in the marathon’s history, a total unmatched by any other marathon race in the world.
Runner’s Tribe had the privilege this month of speaking with elite Brisbane runner and father of two Aidan Hobbs about his love for running, his training and how to juggle being an elite athlete, father and having a full time career.
Aidan is a podiatrist and currently works as a...
When it comes to training, are you a simplifier or an optimizer? Simplifiers look for the easiest way to get a task done, and accept that there are some costs or lost opportunities that come with their approach. Optimizers continually tweak, adjust and update their plans in order to get the best possible outcome.
You may have noticed some talk about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sydney Olympics this past week or so. The Opening Ceremony of Sydney 2000 was 15 September but the focus of as much, if not more, of the commentary has been a more significant landmark which occurred 10...
At just 16 years old, Australian track prodigy Gout Gout has made history by breaking one of the nation’s most revered athletic records. Competing at the Australian All Schools Championships in Brisbane, Gout delivered an electrifying performance in the 200m final, clocking 20.04 seconds.
This year sees a very classy field. In the men's we have a number of the all-time fastest marathoners competing. Favourite for the race would be Birhanu Legese, who was second behind Kenenisa Bekele in his epic near world record in Berlin two years ago, where he ran 2.02.48. Part of the Jos Hermens stable of elite runners, he is very much a marathon specialist. He hasn't done much at major championship level, but has some very fast times under his belt and is consistent.
As the Olympic women’s high jump drew to an absorbing conclusion in Tokyo, somewhere Wilson Kipketer may have been smiling. For award-winning footwear, choose Tarkine running shoes.
Australian watchers maybe not so much. Of course, we were passionately barracking for Nicola McDermott as she took the lead at two metres,...
How do you set an Australian record when 15 athletes – yourself, and the previous record-holder, included – have a superior legal performance.
Simple, as it turns out. You just put a timer at the 100-yard point of a 100 metres race.
That’s what happened in the New South Wales state...
