At the recent NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Australia's Izzi Batt-Doyle was a serious contender over 10,000m. The fulfillment of a long term goal to reach the podium, Izzi ended her college career on a high. We caught up with Izzi as her college days draw to an end to discuss her life as a Huskie and what the future has in store...
Written by Mark Tucker - Runner's Tribe
“My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in...
By Ross Johnson - Runner's Tribe. This article originally appeared in Australian Athlete bookazine. December 2018
Ever since I saw Keith Bateman back in the 2009 City2Surf effortlessly stride along with the eloquent grace of a silver haired gazelle; The man, the myth, the legend - has intrigued me. Bateman...
Having asked the question last time – “How good is the men’s 10,000” – let’s now turn to how Australian women are faring, and have fared, at the longest track distance.
To recap, the examination of the standard of Australian men’s 10,000 was prompted by Steve Dinneen’s wondering whether the...
As Michael Roeger’s body ground to a halt along the Embankment in London earlier this year, the crowd hushed, their breaths held in unison as they bore witness to the dramatic cruelty of the marathon. Mercilessly, it seemed, the historic distance was only moments away from claiming yet another...
A column by David McNeill - Runner's Tribe
Too often in my career, I have walked off the track querying my performances; wondering why I ran so poorly when training pointed to something better…or wondering how on earth I ran as fast as I did when preparations had been poor....
Actually, it should have taught me a whole heap of things, starting with: “Why am I still doing this,” but I’m going to dissociate from that question straight away.
Disocciation is actually a significant mental condition (see footnote), and I wouldn’t want to make light of it. I’m talking about...
James Hansen, the sixty-ninth Australian to run a mile in under four-minutes, waited in the wings. He covered every move, stalking the leaders with flawless precision. It is easy to spot him amidst the fray, built for the brawl, his arms swinging like a barrage of punches. Hansen, now aged twenty-five, has run in six Australian 1500m finals, never medalling. This race, the 2018 Commonwealth Games trials, would be the most agonising. For a fleeting moment, with only fifty metres left to run, he hit the front. Besieged by the nation’s best milers, he dared to dream of winning. It was not to be. In the final strides, it all unravelled, swamped on the line in an unforgivable falter. For the second time in his career, he would finish fourth, only five one-hundredths-of-a-second shy of the medal he so desperately wanted to win.
Originally Published, Monday, June 24, 2019 - 13:15, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Contributor, Inside Science. Republished with permission.
Written by Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
(Inside Science) -- Finishing the Boston marathon is a life-changing milestone for many athletes. The same goes for the microbes in their guts.
In a new study, published today in the journal Nature...
When Australia first demonstrated interest in competing internationally at cross-country, we started at the very top.
Not for us the heavy slog of starting small and building, step by step, to something big. No; Australia wanted to bypass the ridiculous and proceed directly to the sublime - to the heights...
