Runner's Tribe

It has been a breakthrough year in 2011 for Anneliese Rubie as she embarks on a senior career in track and field for Australia. A place on the Australian team for the upcoming World University Games in the women's...

RT: Jeff, thanks for your time and congrats on selection for the London Olympics marathon. Did the selection come as a surprise?   JH: It was a pleasant surprise. I had hoped that Athletics Australia would pick a full team, but...

It's been a better period in my running than when I last wrote. Last time I was at the end of an 18 month period of lower leg issues. Now I'm healthy and am running well. I was able to...

I will start off talking about the lead up to the season in which I had a lot of interruptions all throughout the winter. It all started when I begun to come back from my break after the 2009...

Profile Nickname: Em or Brichacek Career highlight to date: Representing Australia at the World Cross Country Championships (2008 and 2009) also winning my first open national titles in cross country and 10000m (2011/2012) Favourite distance: 5000m Running idol: Emil Zatopek and Herb Elloitt RT:...

Yes, it has been a long time since my last blog. Blogging is also something that is very uncharacteristic of me, time just seems to always get the better of me and here I am with less than 10...

“How thing’s are on the sidelines” I said to myself that I was going to study today; so naturally I haven’t actually got much done at all so far and it’s already mid afternoon. Instead of doing absolutely nothing I...

In my last blog I made the terrible mistake of saying how I had actually had my first winter where I had been able to train right through and I obviously jinxed myself. While competing at the ITU triathlon weekend...

Life’s challenges are not suppose to paralyse you, they’re suppose to help discover who you are.” Bonjour! The 7th IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France 6th-10th July 2011 was a marvellous experience! I went with a great group of talented...

“What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?” - Steve Prefontaine I have read that this was Pre’s response when he witnessed his high school cross country team training. And I was reminded...