A Column By Len Johnson Years ago, there were many sets of numbers I had committed to memory. The world all-time list of sub-2:10 marathoners, for example. The top 20 Australians (it helped that my own modest 2:19:32 was on that list!). It also helped that the weren’t that many numbers to...
We’ve barely recovered from New Year’s Eve. And now we’re only a week away from a world cross-country. A common complaint among the more ‘mature’ – don’t call us old! - is that modern life moves too fast, but a world cross-country 10 days into the new year? Too...
Written by Michael Beisty Disclaimer: The author is not a qualified medical practitioner or accredited coach. The information provided is not intended as medical advice or to replace advice given by trained medical or allied health professionals or qualified coaches. Content herein does not constitute specific advice to the reader’s...
What is it with the marathon. Seems like every December a platoon of Australians heads off to Spain and someone – or two – produces an Australian record. Not just anywhere in Spain. Just as the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain, the marathon records stay mainly in...
It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Black Friday sales – the shopping confection which serves as the sprint race to the Christmas F1 Grand Prix – out of the way, things winding down. Of course, there’s always a bit of athletics to December. But this week, suddenly...
Back in the day when ‘Deek’ – sometimes known as Robert de Castella – was king of Australian distance running, Canberra’s Stromlo Forest was his domain. The mobs of kangaroos living in the pine forests knew as much about his training as anyone else. You didn’t see the kangaroos so...
When the women’s 800 metres was restored to the Olympic program in Rome in 1960, Australia had immediate success – Brenda Jones taking the silver medal just eight hundredths of a second behind Lyudmila Shevtsova of the Soviet Union. Success, though not of the medal variety, also came when the...
Article written by Michael Beisty (c) Runner's Tribe Steve Poulton was part of a wave of upcoming distance runners that bridged the Manning, Farrington, Robinson, Stanley, Nee, Lotty, Toogood and McDonald era to a new awakening of NSW talent during the late 1970s. He was the ultimate clubman. Hardworking, he...
It can’t wait any longer. We’ve got to talk about Seth. Seth who? Seth being on the Milers program only once a year. O’Donnell that’s who. O’Donnell’s latest exploit came a couple of days ago – 13 November, to be precise – when he broke the Victorian Milers Club record...
In 1937, MGM released A Day at the Races, the seventh movie starring The Marx Brothers. Like most of the previous six, the film attracted favourable reviews and made good box office. One of those reviews was penned by none other than Graham Greene, the English author and journalist regarded...
