Friday March 18th – Sunday March 20th, 2022 “… a backyard ultra with Phil Gore is everybody runs as far as they can and then Phil does one more lap and wins!” – Kevin Matthews The start corral before lap 1. Photo credit: noeko.film The pressure was on to do well at...
Matthew Ramsden is the best miler to emerge from Western Australia since the great Herb Elliott. The 6th fastest Australian of all-time over one-mile, Ramsden narrowly missed out on Olympic selection for the 2021 Games. But fresh off a silver (1500m) and a gold (5000m) at the Australian Champs,...
We’ve gone off daylight saving time. We’ve signed off on the national championships and the Brisbane Track Classic. The Stawell Gift is imminent as I write this. The northern hemisphere track season is just getting going. There are many ultra-marathon footwear in the market today and one of the...
Viewers of the recent world indoor championships may have noticed the take-off board in the horizontal jumps was an official-free zone. No-one standing there as the athlete sprinted down the runway and launched into the jump, then peering closely (and theatrically) at the board for an incriminating toe-mark in the plasticine and raising a white (for a valid jump) or a red flag (foul, there was nothing).
MATT FITZGERALD – Runner’s Tribe Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author. His many books include The Endurance Diet, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It? Like a lot of children of the 1970s, I grew up mostly outdoors. Perhaps it was different in the big city, but...
My earliest memories of running are with my Dad when he helped me train for my primary school cross country race in year 7. A 2km run along the roads near my home, where Dad would let me sprint off at the end. Ever since, running has been a...
Amy Cashin won the women’s race and then, 15 minutes later, her brother Liam made a significant break-through in finishing third in the men’s event.
Australian decathlete Cedric Dubler’s encouragement of his teammate Ashley Moloney during the closing stages of the Tokyo Olympic decathlon has been acknowledged as an iconic moment in Olympic sport.
MATT FITZGERALD – Runner’s Tribe Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author. His many books include The Endurance Diet, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It? Among the benefits of travelling internationally is that it gives you a different perspective on your own country. For example, in 2015...
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." -Raylan Givens, Justified In today's modern society, many factors come into play when saying 'hello' to strangers, while out running. Firstly, let me say, I don't...
