Written by RT Ross, Runners Tribe
An In Depth Analysis of Trail and Ultrarunning's Most Transformative Year
Step back from the individual stories and look at the bigger picture. 2025 was not just a good year for trail and ultrarunning. It was a paradigm shift. A year where records we assumed...
Linden Hall seems to have had the better of time just lately.
Approaching her 35th birthday, Hall shows no signs of a performance drop-off. Established as a world-class 1500 metres performer with a sixth place at the Tokyo Olympics and being the first Australian woman under four minutes, she continues...
Jim Walmsley is one of the most iconic endurance athletes of the modern era. Known for his historic wins at the JFK 50 and Western States 100, and now celebrated as the first American man to win UTMB, Walmsley has cemented his legacy in trail and ultra running history....
Tove Alexandersson is a legendary figure in the world of endurance sports, with a career that spans orienteering, ski-orienteering, skyrunning, and skimo. She has been crowned World Champion in multiple disciplines, a testament to her extraordinary versatility and dominance in endurance events. Tove's journey began at a young age with orienteering, where she competed in her first race when she was just 1 year old. This early exposure to varied terrains laid the foundation for her ability to excel in a wide range of challenging environments, from dense forests to rugged mountain trails.
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 record-breaking ultramarathoner who's represented Great Britain, Damian Hall.
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You don’t often get the best seat in the house to watch the shot put. Usually, it’s one of the worst, regardless of where you’re seated.
The throwing circle is normally at one end of the oval or the other. Often, it’s obscured by the infrastructure for other field events:...
Through the 2005 winter in Melbourne a group of middle-distance supporters coalesced around the idea of doing something to promote middle-distance running. Over several meetings the concept of a Victorian Milers Club was formulated.
Now, as I write this, Vic Milers is on the eve of meeting number 100.
It is...
Sunday 24 January 2026, Boston, and for the second time in two years two male Americans set world records at the same indoor meeting.
In 2025, at the Millrose Games meeting held in the New York Armory (apt venue for explosive performances!), Grant Fisher ran 7:22.91 for 3000 metres, eclipsing...
One bite at the annual rankings compiled by Track & Field News is never enough. As foreshadowed, then, here we are back for seconds.
Last time I wrote about the Australians who had been ranked in the top 10 in an individual event in 2025. There were 10 in all,...
When someone experiences a huge amount of good fortune or happiness all at the same time we often say all their Christmases have come at once.
I’m not sure if all my Christmases came at once on 10 January 2026, but at least two of them did which is something...
