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‘Flying Finn’  –  The Training of Lasse Viren © 2019 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved.  A lot of the below information about the training of Lasse Viren was taken from the book ‘Running with the legends’, by Michael Sandrock, unless otherwise stated. We highly recommend this...

A strange thing happened when Track & Field News published its annual rankings for 1990. The number one in the men’s 1500 metres had never ranked in the top-10 before. Even more strongly, neither had number two; nor, for that matter, had number three. Performance...

From Runner’s Tribe ADDICT comes the 4th instalment of the ‘Destination Doha’ interview series hosted by highly knowledgable/top distance runner, Mitch Brown. This episode features Ben Buckingham who is making his IAAF World Championship debut for Australia. Ben of St Stephens Harriers ran an 8:27...

When Jessica Hull ran 8:36.03 to set a new Australian women’s record for 3000 metres last September, it was widely – and correctly – reported that she had broken Benita Willis’s previous mark set over 17 years earlier in 2003. Willis, in turn, had run...

From Runner’s Tribe ADDICT comes the 7th instalment of the ‘Destination Doha’ interview series hosted by highly knowledgable/top distance runner, Mitch Brown. This episode features Australian 800m record holder Catriona Bisset. On Sunday, 21 July, this year at the Muller Games Diamond League in London’s Olympic...

Last week was a good week for remembering that sayings become clichés because there is more than an element of truth to them. First as we – we Victorians, especially – endure a winter without cross-country, suddenly, in the last week of July, cross-country was...

Since 2007, I have started every year with a training camp at Falls Creek, with the only exception being the start of 2020 where I wasn’t able to make it up there due to the bushfires. The start of 2021 was back to normal...

One day at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games, I watched on as the American 5000 metres representative, Duncan MacDonald, did a training session. My billet was a few metro stations beyond the Olympic stadium. A relatively short run took me down to the stadium and...

4 Runs a Day as a Child – The Training of Lydia Cheromei © 2019 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved. “I had to run to school because I was usually late leaving the house. If I arrived late there would be a caning for me” – Lydia...