When non-residents characterise Canberra as “the bush capital”, they’re usually evoking a range of emotions, most of them hostile. Contempt for the political and bureaucratic classes sits at the extreme end of that range with scorn, disparagement and bemused indifference following in descending order of malevolence.
Occasionally, though, the descriptor...
Jim Walmsley is without a doubt America's greatest ever ultra trail runner. At 30 years of age Walmsley is best known for his success in ultrarunning, and especially as the record holder of the Western States 100. He is also the world record holder for 50 miles.
Walmsley is soon to step onto the roads at the USA Olympic Marathon Trials, Feb 29, in Atlanta. Walmsley has been clocking 175 mile (280km) weeks in training in preparation and also stopped the clock over half marathon at 1:04.00 in Houston, January 2019. And over the last year or so, Walmsley is doing something he hasn't done much of since college - track sessions.
Have you ever given something everything you had and expected something amazing to
happen, only to unknowingly sabotage yourself and your success? That was essentially my
2019 season in a nutshell.
‘Athletics is bloody tough.’ This is the first thing any aspiring athlete should be told and made clear.
The second most important advice we should give development athletes is ‘are you ready to strive to fail?’
Brett Robinson, Jessica Hull and Stewart McSweyn made it a good week for Australian distance running this week, but it’s the sometimes under-rated Robinson who should be singled out.
It was hard not to notice Hull and McSweyn, who did their magic at the Melbourne Track Classic. The meeting may...
Stewart McSweyn and Jessica Hull have both secured automatic nominations to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the Melbourne Track Classic.
Is breaking 2:30 for a marathon a goal of yours?
I’m not big on labels, but I consider myself very much an ultrarunner and I’ve lived with the motto which is also something I say to my athletes ‘you can be competitive at all disciplines and distances, but make sure...
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?
Rob Krar competes in—and often wins—100-mile ultramarathons. When training for these events, he never runs farther than 35 miles. From a purely...
The Takayna Ultra is a 65km (and 22km) ultra-marathon event set-up top help save the Tarkine from logging, mining and off-road vehicle damage. This event will raise money to support the campaign to have takayna / Tarkine protected as a World Heritage listed National Park, and returned to Aboriginal ownership.
Brett Robinson has broken the Australian half marathon record at the Marugame Half Marathon clocking 59:57. The record has stood since 1968, when Darren Wilson clocked 1:00.02 in Tokyo, Japan. The performance pushes Michael Shelley, the two time Commonwealth Games Marathon champion out of the top-10, he now sits in 11th.
