Runner's Tribe

Queensland sprinter Ella Connolly has continued her scorching form in the sprints, while Olympic finalist Mackenzie Little has asserted herself in the javelin at the 2022 Chemist Warehouse Melbourne Track Classic tonight.

Australia has claimed two medals on Day 2 of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, with high jumper Eleanor Patterson soaring to silver, and Ash Moloney claiming back-to-back global bronze.

Tokyo bronze medallist Ash Moloney is poised to win Australia’s first heptathlon medal at a World Athletics Indoor Championships, but an enduring knee problem has hindered him from performing at his peak in Belgrade, Serbia on Day 1 of competition.

Sir Isaac Newton is reputed to have developed his theory of gravity after an apple fell from a tree under which he was sitting and landed on his head. Stunning insight, you might say. But it is Newton’s three laws...

This episode of the Inside Running Podcast is brought to you by PILLAR Performance – Australia’s leading sports micronutrition brand – providing high-strength formulations to support recovery, elevate energy and relieve joint inflammation for endurance athletes.  Available online now...

By Brett Davies Australia has had a surprisingly successful history at the World Indoors, especially since there are no standard IAAF 200m indoor facilities anywhere in the country. Also, they are invariably held in the northern hemisphere, generally around the...

In the 1950s the four-minute mile was deemed to be the insurmountable barrier for athletes, beyond the limits of human endurance. That was until Roger Bannister first ran under that time at Iffley Road in Oxford, England, and, since, then,...

Insertional Achilles Tendinopathy is a painful and difficult condition that many runners and active individuals experience. Importantly insertional achilles tendinopathy (IAT) is a different pathology to other types of achilles pain and as such it may not respond to treatments given to other types of achilles presentations. It has been estimated that one third of achilles pain is IAT (1,2).  Here we discuss some key features of recognising IAT and important aspects of its management.

Australian track and field has two new national 3000m champions, with Tokyo Olympian Rose Davies and rising star Jude Thomas claiming the titles at the 2022 Chemist Warehouse Sydney Track Classic tonight.

In October, 2018, Jack Rayner hit a sweet spot. Running in the inaugural Commonwealth half-marathon championships (has there been another ne: I’m not sure), Rayner went boldly with the pace set by a pack of Ugandan and Kenyan runners all bringing much more impressive personal bests to the starting line than his modest 63:19.