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At 2,100-2,700m above sea level, there is a noticeable change in what can be managed and sustained in training. Whilst many athletes talk about undertaking a block of altitude training to improve performance, it can also have the opposite effect. Individuals respond in different ways and certain factors, such...
Recently, young West Australian middle distance runner, Jonas Aranda received an exciting offer to continue his education and athletic career at Harvard University. We scratched beneath the surface and discovered Jonas is the product of a long line of successful middle distance runners from Aquinas College, which traces back...
Period of Adjustment, the debut feature film for director George Roy Hill, was based on the Tennessee Williams stage play of the same name about two married couples experiencing relationship problems. A period of adjustment is what is faced by athletics – all sport, in fact – in adapting to...
In a clinical demonstration of 1500m running, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, dominated a stacked field at the Lausanne Diamond League.  It was a performance reminiscent of the great Hicham El Guerrouj -  a fast pace from the gun, with Ingebrigtsen taking the lead with 700m remaining, taking it a long way from home and never looking in doubt.
I started athletics when I was 8 just at a little aths club in Hoppers Crossing, Melbourne. I wasn't a huge fan of running mainly because I was terrible and was shown up by the other kids all the time. In u10s when the 800m was introduced I knew...
Eugene, USA; 17 September 2023 - Australian middle-distance sensation Linden Hall has become the first Australian woman in history to break 3:57 over 1500m on Day One of the Diamond League Final, while World Championships medallist Mackenzie Little sailed to bronze at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon....
Leanne Pompeani has had a phenomenal start to the 2022/23 season, kicking off with a victory at the open national 10,000m title at Zatopek in December. Her success continued as she placed second in the world cross-country trails, earning her a spot at the World Cross Championships in Bathurst....
By Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe The IAAF has shelved its plan to base qualification for the Doha 2019 world championships on its new rankings system. Instead, the rankings, which IAAF president Sebastian Coe acknowledged to be “a complex system”, will be trialled through 2019 so that athletes and federations can...
Hello, hello, hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home? (Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb) When World Athletics adopted a system of qualification based on rankings for its own world championships and the Olympic Games, which it conducts under the auspices of the...
Runner's Tribe When Adidas released their Boost midsole technology in 2013, it changed running shoe technology forever. From that point, other brands were playing catch up. The problem with Adidas’s boost technology, is that it isn’t proprietary, they simply used Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU).  Since then, numerous other brands have used...
                   

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