It’s difficult to sum up the last 12 months into one blog. So I will focus on giving a brief insight into the college life, how I ended up there and how the season went after my first year.
I had quite a successful final year of being a junior...
“Patience is a virtue”
There are many things rough times teach you as an athlete and for myself and the last four years, patience, among many, is a big one on my list. And it’s finally starting to pay off after the rough patch I’ve experienced.
At the end of 2009,...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...
...to Newy Parkrun.
...to the Queen (and cheers for the long weekend day off).
...to the Australian 30km track record.
...And to any happy runners celebrating a June birthday.
All of which has taken place since my last blog.
I'll start with the newest birthday. Last month, a new Australian 30km track record...
By Joshua Papanikolaou
Welcome to Runner’s Tribe Shawn and congratulations on your selection for the World Championships in the marathon.
Firstly, did you know it was a possibility that you could have been picked?
My coach, Nic Bideau, told me that I should fill out a nomination online, so I did.
You must...
Hi All,
At the time of writing I'm sat at home waiting to leave for my first race since the marathon
in February. The race is a the New South Wales 4x4k XC relay and will be a good race to sharpen me up a bit and also tell me where...
By Joshua Papanikolaou
Runner’s Tribe: Since London what have you concentrated on to build back up and bring you to a great stint of training and racing in the US?
Ben St Lawrence: 2012 was quite a disappointing year for me as far as top-end results were concerned. It had been...
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...
By Josh Papanikolaou
Ben St Lawrence, thank you for having a chat with Runner’s Tribe after your win in the 10,000m at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford.
The race was paced to give everyone at shot at the A-qualifier for the World Championships and you were well under that and...
By Joshua Papanikolaou
Joel Pocklington did not fail an attempt on his way to defending his national pole-vault title yet he could not carry on jumping towards a personal best.
Only a few months since losing his father to cancer, Joel battled back from injury to claim his third consecutive Australian...
I’m sitting at my desk with a pile of musculoskeletal anatomy notes in front of me, dreading the impending doom that is my last two exams for the semester (I’ve already done six!) and I thought now would be a great chance to procrastinate and churn out another journal...
