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This is going to be a full-on, comprehensive, top to bottom deep dive of the 2019 women's Australian/New Zealand sprinting season. Or not. I don’t know. You can decide at the end. Either way, I’ll attempt to review, evaluate and calculate the season of every track event that doesn’t have a bell.  This article was first published in Australian Athlete Mag.

Almost 68 years ago, an athlete was plucked from obscurity to represent Australia in the marathon at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. Amazing. More amazing still was the fact that the athlete in question, Claude Smeal, was serving with the Australian armed forces in the...

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie - Down Under, Men at Work, 1981 What do you do when you're trekking around and in need of transport? Well, if it’s the 1970s and you are Australians in Europe, you get yourself a...

Milly Clark – an unfinished work It is always difficult to judge an unfinished work. And the marathon career of Milly Clark falls into that category. It is at the one time so brief, yet also so brilliant. A training-run debut – “we just thought it was an opportunity to get used to having drinks and practicing my gel intake,” she said in an iRun interview – was followed by a 2:29:07 serious debut in the October 2015 Amsterdam marathon. Amsterdam, in turn, earned Clark a spot in the Rio Olympic team where, in just her second serious marathon she was a top-20 finisher and first Australian home ahead of her more experienced teammates Jess Trengove and Lisa Weightman.

I was kicked out of Falls Creek. I’m not complaining. I put my hand up: it was a fair call. I’ll certainly learn from the experience. After more than 40 years of annual Christmas-New Year trips to Falls Creek you can be forgiven for thinking you’ve...

Some blokes take the conventional path to number one in Track & Field News’s prestigious annual rankings. For over 70 years now the US magazine self-styled, and rightly known as, The Bible of the Sport has assessed athletes against three criteria – honours won; win-loss...

Zatopek week 2019 was highlighted by two significant events. First was the death of Peter Snell just a few days before the race; second, the win in national record time of Stewart McSweyn in the fifty-ninth running of the men’s 10,000 metres. It would be...

The latest episode of our Workout Any Day ?️ series features two-time World Youth Games representative Aliyah Parker. Produced for Runner's Tribe by professional filmmaker Louie Hadfield of Rolling. Production Co https://www.facebook.com/rollingproductionco/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BzMZN_iF9o6/

  Winston Churchill once famously characterised Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” It hasn’t become any simpler a riddle, any less shrouded in mystery, nor less of an enigma in the time since. I’m not thinking as broadly as Britain’s wartime...

© 2019 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved. “The average I run per day is 11-12 miles for six days a week. But it’s not easy miles” – Bernard Lagat If there is an athlete that epitomizes longevity, then five-time Olympian Bernard Lagat is that man. Lagat...