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Keeping an Even Keel | Riding the Waves of Success and Disappointment Over two consecutive weekends in February, I won two races. It’s been a while since I experienced back-to-back success like that. The successes I had over the previous four years were fewer and farther apart. And even now,...
Interview with Morgan McDonald: Wisconsin Ways How are you finding life in the US at the UW? The life of a student athlete at Wisconsin is a lot of fun! The sport, academics and social aspects are all pretty amazing. The only thing is that it can sometimes be a little difficult...
The Power of Consistency. This season has kicked of with a lot of surprises, with so many juniors flying through the finish line to produce some quality times so early in the season. How about the outstanding results from across all fields during the early stages of the Australian Athletics...
The Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon held in Otsu, Shiga, is one of the prominent Japanese marathon races of the year. It is a male only competition and has IAAF Gold Label status. What made you choose to compete in this race? Hey Ross & the Runners Tribe community. The Lake Biwa...
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...
Interview with Brittany McGowan: A freakishly good year You chose to do you’re pre domestic training up at Perisher this year. What was the reason for this and how do you rate your current fitness with the Aussie domestic season looming? My old coach Pat Clohessy retired late last year and...
You recently finished a rock solid 7th at the Zatopek:10 in a time of 29.09. Were you happy with this performance? I was actually pretty disappointed with my run at Zatopek. I was really hoping to smash through that 29 minute mark or run a PB at least. Looking back...
I am Tom Fawthorpe. A 24yr old middle distance runner from Victoria. The events I compete in are 800m and 1500m. I have been running since I was 13 for Ringwood Athletics club and am coached by John Walker. Firstly I would like to thank Ross at Runnerstribe for giving...
2015 is here, and unless it’s drastically different from other years, a great number of athletes will have spent the first days of January full of excitement and hunger to simply be the best they can this year, cheers to all the New Year’s resolutions that get us back...
By Matt Inglis Fox for Runner's Tribe Hi Garry, thanks for taking the time out from your home in Phoenix to have a chat with us at The Runners Tribe. You are the previous coach of the controversial Jarrod Bannister and now own your own company: www.javelincoaching.com. First things first,...