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Written by Callen Goldsmith (science graduate and avid runner) You need fast to spell fasted, so fasting should make you faster right? It only makes sense that this is the case. Why would they even write the word like that if it didn’t? So, if you’re faster by fasting, how fast...
By Grace Kalac - Runner's Tribe Linden Hall has written her name in the history books after running 4:00.86 at the Prefontaine Classic, surpassing her former coach Sarah Jamieson’s Australian record by 0.07. Hall finished sixth in the red-hot field, with the first four runners all dipping under the four-minute mark....
Journalists everywhere love a cliché. Each well-worn phrase (see what I did there?) represents a few precious words of the 600-or-so length of most stories that they don’t have to think of for themselves. The more sophisticated practitioners disguise their superfluity by a ready resort to adjectives. Sports journalists are...
My name is Christine Wearne. I am a 100m sprinter. I work full time as an Office Clerk while keeping up with my training program. Even though I work full time, sprinting is one of my top priorities in life. My job is very simple but I have my whole...
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Part 2 of 2- Watch part 1 by clicking on the picture below. In the Paris Diamond League (August 27, 2016) Genevieve LaCaze broke the Australian and Oceania 3000m steeplechase record in 9:14:28. With her 15th personal best of the season, LaCaze has smashed the outgoing record by four seconds, previously...
By Milly Jane Clark When I first started taking long distance running seriously 4 years ago, I kept a very detailed and meticulous training log. I was dedicated in keeping it up-to-date and found myself spending hours ensuring it had a complete recount of every single rep split or distance...
Australian Marathon Stars’ - Interviews and training insights with Australia's best ever - (Paperback Book)  ‘Australian Marathon Stars’ is more than a collection of interviews with Australia’s greatest marathon runners. The book dives deep into the background, development, training, coaching, nutrition, motives and perspectives of these legendary runners. For those with...
Len Johnson is currently in Rio, Brazil covering the games as he see's them. Please remember, these people are our guests | A Column By Len Johnson Went for our first run today in the Olympic city. A beach run it was, from Ipanema to Copacabana and back. A number of Olympic...
Winner of Ultra-Trail Australia - Kellie Emmerson, Uncut Over the last few years, HOKA ONE ONE athlete, Kellie Emmerson, has risen through the ranks to become one of the top ultra-trail runners in the world. Kellie has achieved numerous outstanding results accumulating in winning the 2018 Ultra Trail Australia 100km. Below...
By Mark Tucker “The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known” (Yoshida Kenko) When I was much younger my idea of an ideal life involved plenty of...