If you had to choose one favourite session that you believe really worked for you and got you fit, what would it be?
Whether training for the steeplechase, 5k, 10k or marathon; running four hard repetitions of a mile with a 2-minute rest between reps (on or off the track – usually off the track but on the same course for benchmarking purposes) got me fit and was a good benchmark. When training for the marathon I’d sometimes do five instead of four reps.
It took just one minute 45.71 seconds for Joseph Deng to throw a hand grenade into considerations of the three men to represent Australia in the 800 metres at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Oh, and let’s not forget the aiding and abetting party to this chaos: I refer,...
By Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
Herb Elliott didn’t lose too often.
Never, in his junior and senior career over his specialty, 1500 metres and the mile. There might have been a mile in his schoolboy days at Perth’s Aquinas College he lost to a schoolmate three years his senior. But...
We have a pretty cool episode this week with Coach, Lee Bobbin. Lee is the coach of Cameron Myers, who just a few weeks ago broke Ryan Gregson’s U18 Australian 1500m record, clocking 3:40.60. This time brought Myers to just 0.68 of a second away from becoming the fastest...
It’s not often that runners turn their attention to the shot put, but the career of Valerie Adams demands our attention.
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In February this year, RT reviewed earSHOTS wireless headphones and we were highly impressed with the product The team at earSHOTS managed to fix...
Turn up the thermostat | A Column By Len Johnson
As a lawyer, Dick Pound has never been able to resist a pithy summation.
A few weeks ago, the current head of WADA was pontificating on Maria Sharapova. Critiquing the Russian tennis star’s defence of the failure by either her, or...
A column by Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
When Nike announced recently that its ‘window’ for the attempt to run the first sub-two hour marathon was 5-7 May, an intriguing possibility was raised.
The date dead-centre in the window, 6 May, is the sixty-third anniversary of the breaking of another famous...
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Over its 17-year history the Golden Gift has seen over 20 Olympians compete, running up and down the main street of Leonora, making it one of the nation’s most iconic running events. The event is not only a means of entertainment for the locals and visitors but also...
A strange thing happened when Track & Field News published its annual rankings for 1990. The number one in the men’s 1500 metres had never ranked in the top-10 before. Even more strongly, neither had number two; nor, for that matter, had number three.
Performance governs the rankings: Noureddine Morceli,...
