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By Matt Fox for Runner's Tribe Kevin Batt, thanks for joining us. You’ve just returned back to base camp – a chilly Alamosa Colorado, from a trip back home to Australia in which you trained up at the annual falls creek training camp for a few weeks and then ran...
While some of us are still dating everything with ‘/13’, the first month of 2014 is done and dusted. The summer track season is in full swing, crop top and shortie tans are well baked in and the average athlete protein intake has been upped by a mouthful of...
I have just arrived back from Iten, Kenya, after spending a solid five weeks training there in preparation for the track season here in Australia. Whilst I always enjoy heading down to Falls Creek over the December/January period, it was nice to have a change of scenery and run...
Q: Hey Scott, it's great to have you on Runner'sTribe. To begin with, where are you training at the moment and with who? A) I'm currently in Colorado Springs training for the London marathon. I'm here with Chris Thompson who is also running London, and we're training together. It is...
By Matt Fox for Runner's Tribe Tom Robertson, thanks for joining us. You just punched a pretty tough workout of 15sec intervals in preparation for what we hope will be Perth Track Classic; your next race. How are things going with you and how has the 2014 domestic season gone...
Hello Kelly, thanks very much for taking the time to talk with the Runner's Tribe. It's currently 44 degree's in Melbourne, how are you currently handling this heat when it comes to training? Kelly Hetherington: Yes, it is so extremely hot in Melbourne at the moment. I can't complain however...
(Q )Can you talk us through the key highs and lows of 2013? (A) Highs were running a pb of 3.37.10 in the 1500m at the Syndey track classic and a new pb in the 800m. I also placed 3rd in the Australian Championships in the 1500m, which also leads...
All I wanted for Christmas... This is for all those whose Santas wish lists included GPS watches, compression tights, heart rate monitors and racing flats. For anyone who started off Christmas Day with a hills session or snuck out of the family gathering before dinner for a recovery run. For...
2013 saw some pretty massive changes in my life. The biggest of these was finally graduating uni. With my thesis due in late November I had a pretty interrupted final few months of the year in terms of training. I was pretty fit in September, but with uni work...
December is a time for numerous festive occasions. For most it’s the ever-eventful work Christmas party that often leaves a shady cloud over the workplace social scene or the high expectations of Christmas Day and New Years Eve that they look forward too. However, for the distance runners of...