One of the greatest milers to ever live is now 38 years-of-age and still dropping sub-four minute miles. What a career Kiwi miler Nick Willis has had. Two Olympic medals, Commonwealth Games Gold, the Oceanic record over 1500m (3:29.66) and amazingly Willis owns the world record as being the only man to run sub-four for the mile, for 19 consecutive years.
Let's take a look at Willis' five best races.
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
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Returning from Canada, I arrived straight into the heart of the school athletic season. Fira decided that although ideally she’d prefer for me to have one or two weeks off, we would use the school season to build speed. Hence I never participated in a 400m until CAS.
CAS night...
Athletics: Sooner we say the eulogy the sooner it can be resurrected
A Column By Joshua Kristos Papanikolaou
Track and field is dead.
In terms of a professional spectacle it matters to very few people in the world and that won’t change until everyone who loves the sport accepts that fact.
So many...
In this extensive Runner’s Tribe series the world’s best ultra and trail runners share their training. Every few days we will be posting a new athletes’ weekly program during a peak training period. Next up we have Spain's Maria Santamaria.
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From Bernard Lagat, to Steve Cram, Steve Ovett, Seb Coe, Sarah Jamieson, Sarah Brown, and countless others; 300m intervals were key staples of their training programs. Less mundane perhaps than the traditional quarter mile, 400m interval, more race specific, and potentially easier mentally. It’s a trend seen in numerous top middle distance and distance runners. Runner’s Tribe dove into the specifics of some of these 300m interval sessions routinely carried out by world leading athletes.
Q:How's the Aussie domestic season going for you so far?
A: Its been great so far. The athletics season commenced with The Hunter Track Classic on the 18th of January. I placed 5th in the Open Women’s 1500m, with a World Junior qualifying time of 4:19.55. At the NSW Junior...
Kenenisa Bekele leaves us wondering as the marathon humbles one of its most prestigious challengers.
A Column By Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
Say what you like about Kenenisa Bekele, but the man sometimes known as ‘King Kenny’ is never boring.
Bekele’s latest interesting decision saw him jump into the Dubai marathon,...
Australian Mountain Running Championships
I have run Australian championships in distances ranging from 3000m (or 1500m as a junior) to half marathon, over steeples, cross country, track and road, but I have never run an Aussie mountain running championship. With the titles being held in Canberra and the course not...
‘He made running cool’– the Training of Steve Prefontaine
(c) Runner's Tribe 2019
“I think that Pre basically NEVER missed a morning run.”
Forty-two years after his death, Steve Prefontaine continues to inspire countless runners around the world who aim to emulate his fierce competitiveness, toughness and fearless front running racing style.
The charismatic...
