2015 has been a pretty interesting year for me so far! As is usually the case with running, nothing quite went to plan, however I have had some really good learning experiences that I can take into 2016.
The year started down at Falls Creek in Victoria. After taking some...
Did ye get healed?
A Column By Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
Nitro Athletics has been and gone. It seems to have had an overwhelmingly positive reception – 1.4-million viewers Australia-wide on the first of three nights on free-to-air television, Melbourne’s boutique lakeside Stadium jammed to its 9000-ish capacity for the...
Hailing from Sydney, Wake Forest athlete, Zach Facioni, is a bit of a gun. A few weeks ago in Sydney, he beat a deep field, clocking 7:51.61 to win the NSW 3000m Championship. And over the past few years he has been re-writing Wake Forests' record books.
We caught up with Zach, to check-in on how he has fared during this global pandemic and what's going on...
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?
Running is a hobby for the vast majority of runners. Only for a tiny fraction of the runner population is the sport...
Performances often tend to bunch up around a perceived barrier, the men’s four-minute mile being the most famous historical example.
As we see the increased number of performances approaching the barrier, there is a tendency to assume one athlete will inevitably crash through it. Let’s call it the clump theory.
Of...
2015 Melbourne Marathon: The vital steps!
~ A race day recount ~
4.15am on October 18th
The phone alarm goes off but I have been lying awake for the past hour - I’m not too concerned about my lack of sleep as I recall only getting a few hours of quality zzz’s...
The On Cloudflyer is designed for runners who enjoy a decent amount of support, ON refer to it as 'supreme support'. Without being a maximally cushioned shoe (check out the Cloudstratus or the Cloudace for a little more cushion), with stack heights of 20mm (forefoot) and 27mm (heel), it packs enough cushioning for most runners, but is still ways off the max cushioned shoes such as the HOKA Bondi or Asics Glideride.
Runner’s Tribe were lucky enough to put a pair of Cloudflyers through their paces. Below is our review.
Earlier this year Runner's Tribe interviewed James Templeton to gain a unique insight into the world of one of the sports top agents.
Athlete agent James Templeton is living no ordinary life. In the mid-nineties, Templeton was a Sydney based financial analyst. Today, he travels the world with the likes of...
From where I was positioned with my head in downward-facing dog, leg and foot flexed
in the air at some humanly impossible angle and sweat dripping up my nose, the idea of
running around in circles suddenly didn't seem so crazy. In fact, quite a logical and natural
thing to be doing...
Sixty years ago, on 6 September, 1960, Herb Elliott won a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the Rome Olympic Games in a world record three minutes 35.6 seconds.
Sounds a little mundane when you write it like that, doesn’t it. There was nothing even remotely mundane about Elliott’s...
