Interview with Morgan McDonald | Australia’s 4 x NCAA champion

Runner’s Tribe is currently running a large series of interviews with the best athletes on the planet. We will find out how they are handling the current situation, delve into some training talk, what inspires them and more. For our third interview in the series,...

Interview with Celeste Mucci – The history making rising star of Aussie athletics

Celeste Mucci holds the Australian u20 heptathlon record (5915) and competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she finished 4th as an 18yo. Celeste is also 5th on the Australian all-time list in the 100mh (13.02) and competed in the Doha World Championships where...

Interview with Patrick Tiernan | NCAA XC champ, Olympian and one of Australia’s best-ever distance runners

Runner's Tribe is running a large series of interviews with the best athletes on the planet. We will find out how they are handling the current situation, delve into some training talk, what inspires them and more. To start it all off we have a...

‘Deek’ crashes through into top-10 | A column by Len Johnson

World cross-country 1981-85: amid extraordinary scenes in Madrid, Robert de Castella takes Australia into the individual top-10. A year out from Bathurst 2021, Len Johnson continues his look at Australia in the world cross-country championships. The men’s race at the 1981 world cross-country championships in Madrid...

How Kenenisa Bekele Trains

September 29th 2019, and Kenenisa Bekele made history, clocking the second fastest marathon in history – 2:01:41, missing the world record by just two seconds.Bekele has many years of aerobic conditioning in his legs.  However, his race specific training for Berlin 2019 only spanned over an 8 week period during.  A remarkably short period of time.Bekele’s training diary leading in to the 209 Berlin Marathon is below. Most of this training was performed at sea level in the Netherlands.

No, this is a crowd! | A column by Len Johnson

Last weekend (Sunday, 8 March), 86,174 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground watched Australia win the final of the women’s cricket T20 World Cup. It was reported as the highest attendance ever for a women’s sporting event in Australia. Good on them. Got to be...

Jeff Browning Interview: The Life of an Ultra Runner

Runner's Tribe caught up with one of the world's leading ultra runners, Jeff Browning. Below is some seriously epic training snippets and advice from the winner of 30 ultra races.

Some great off-broadway moments | A column by Len Johnson

At Graham Crouch’s memorial some weeks ago, thoughts naturally turned to some of ‘Gruffy’s’ greatest runs. The memorial was conducted at Hagenauer Reserve, home to Box Hill Athletic Club. As a committed Box Hill member, Crouch ran some of his best races at the track,...

Pre Race interview with Patrick Rizzo

Interview with Patrick Rizzo. This is his 4th consecutive Olympic trials marathon. His best finish was at Houston in 2012.

Pre Race interview with Julia Webb

Interview with Julia Webb. Wife of Alan Webb, supermom of 3 girls and stroller half marathon world record holder.