CoolRunning Articles

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Gathered here is an ad-hoc collection of articles on running, although not purely Australian-based, you'll find that they are of general interest. It makes a change to read a nice little article or story of interest, rather than the usual diet of facts and figures and race results ... Enjoy !

You can submit your articles by sending an email here, although we reserve the right to not publish all those sent.

2006
Feb	2006 Runner's World Australia & New Zealand magazine reader survey results & statistics
Feb	Coe and Ovett Revisited - Executive Breakfast
Feb	Report on SWEAT Training Camp in Penrose
Jan	Running Table Mountain (Cape Town, South Africa)
2005
Aug	How socks affect foot problems
Jul	Endurance Sports Training newsletter - July 2005
Jul	Distance Running News - issue 3
Jul	Athletics NSW Club Circular - 12th July 2005
Apr	End of an era @ CoolRunning
Apr	Easter Wordsearch
2004
June	Australian runners in approx 1900
June	Photos from NSW Cross Country Championships (19 June 2004)
June	Ever wondered who makes your sportswear ?
June	Child Obesity & Gov't grants to Sports Commisison
May	Arthur Lydiard - New Biography due for release
May	Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Book - Free Download
May	Photos from NSW Road Championships (NSW)
May	Bannister's four-minute mile "actually ruined world athletics"
May	50th Anniversary of sub-4 min mile interview with Roger Bannister
Apr	Athletics Australia's "Running Australia" Initiative
Apr	USA Marathon Demographic Snapshot
Apr	Updated Re-use of race entries
Apr	Easter Crossword
Mar	Shirley Strickland Obituary
Feb	Sole Charity Effort
Jan	Coast Classic 12hr Race Report
2003
Dec	Discussion document on staging road events
Dec	CoolRunning Seasonal Message
Dec	Dilbert buys running shoes (comic)
Nov	500Km Summer Challenge Relay Race Report
Nov	Jindabyne Marathon Race Report
Nov	Volunteers: Research into Stress Fractures in Athletes
Oct	Endurance Sports Training Newsletter
Oct	Chris Legh Triathlete Adds Science To His Ironman Arsenal
Oct	Thoughts of a Roads Scholar - Aged Marathonners
Oct	Asthma Study In Athletes - Volunteers Required
Aug	2003 IAAF World Championships, Paris, France
Aug	Next Steps - Fun Runs, Athletics Australia and Our Poll
Aug	A Race Director's Nightmare
Aug	Running Beyond The Black Stump
Aug	World Championships TV Guide
Aug	Norma's conquests: after Bondi, she'll take Manhattan
July	Athletics Australia's "Running Australia" Initiative
May	Re-use of race entries
Apr	Interview with Paul Arthur
Mar	Cancer and Chemotherapy and still Running
2002
Dec	CoolRunning Seasonal Message
Dec	First Marathon A Breeze
Dec	Hash House Harriers Cause Security Alert
Nov	Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset
Sept	Where Did The Time Go ?
Aug	Belconnen Fun Run Race Directorship Available
Aug	Mountain Man's New Challenge
Aug	The Roads Whipser My Name
Jul	Sydney Striders - Marathon Training Group
Jul	The Great Wall of China Marathon 2002
Jul	Ginger Meggs "Marathon" Cartoon Strip
Jun	Runner v Dog
Jun	Public Liability Insurance
May	In Memoriam: Nick
May	Australians Pay Homage to Deek in Boulder
Apr	Marathon Des Sables - My Saharan Adventure
Mar	My Favorite Day of the Week for Running
Mar	Doing the Roadkill Slink
Mar	Fun Can Really Be Stupid Sometimes
Mar	Do the Right Thing
Mar	The Wicked Curses Of An Un-broken Streak
Mar	3-day Madness in Canberra (Race report from Sri Chinmoy Ultra Triathlon)
Mar	Beginners Running in Sydney
Jan	McCann relieved to escape the burning bush
2001
Oct	Sports shoes: the shocking truth
Oct	Latest IAAF Rules Changes
Sept	World Mountain Running Championships 2001
Sept	We Must Run - Life Goes On
Aug	I Am At None with Nature
Aug	Coming Out of My Shell
Aug	Runner Report : 2001 World Veteran's Athletics Championships Marathon
Aug	Research Project on Running Performance
Aug	Sutherland To Surf - Doing right by the runners
Aug	The Good the Badwater and the Ugly
Jul	The Changing Faces of My Heroes
Jul	World Run Day 2001
Jul	Give Your Comfort Zone A Nudge
Jun	On the Mature Side of Youth
Jun	Great Wall of China Marathon
May	Annapurna Mandala Trail 2001
May	After Olympians Leave (Sydney)
May	"The World's Fittest Man"
Apr	Foresight-Looking Forward
Apr	Pat Farmer in 1995 Trans-America Race
Apr	20:20 Vision
Mar	Herb Elliott on Percy Cerutty
Mar	Emil Zatopek - The Indefatigable Czech
Feb	We Both Won!
Jan	The Time Remains the Same
Jan	New Discovery about Foot Arch
Jan	Run Across Vietnam - A Day of Heaven And Hell
Jan	Varying degrees of difficulty
2000
Dec	Home's Embrace
Dec	The Mirror Lies, the Runner Dreams
Dec	Stretching - Is it necessary ?
Dec	John Walker & Parkinson's Disease
Nov	The Arthur's Seat Challenge (6.7km)
Nov	How the world's media viewed the Sydney Olympics
Nov	It All Comes Out in the Wash
Oct	An Australian at Hardrock
Oct	Standing on Common Ground
Oct	Earning a Gold Medal
Sept	Weekend Warriors
Aug	Olympic Torch Relay
Aug	Mt Kinabalu, Borneo Run Up
June	The Fabric Of Our Running Lives
June	First Marathon Mentor
June	Running Logs - The Unwritten Word
May	Going Full Circle
May	Are You Properly Trained ?
May	In Pursuit of Unfulfillment
Apr	Max Scherleitner - Ageless Wonder From Down Under
Apr	I Sometimes Wonder
Apr	Hey There Georgie Girl !
Mar	The Robert Frost Trail
Feb	Roadkill
Feb	I Cannot Tell A Lie
Feb	Running Around The Block
Jan	CoolRunning Article in NetGuide Magazine
Jan	Athletics trying to catch up in the ratings race
Jan	Zen Track Rambling
1999
Dec	Myth : The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Dec	Running With George Sheehan
Dec	In The Shadows
Dec	Runner Suffering from knee & back pain
Dec	Current Australian National Rankings
Dec	Our Golden Triangle
Nov	Brutal Race in Hong Kong's Hills Lures the Tough and Silly
Nov	Being Thankful
Nov	Interview With "Best Of Best" Mile Runners
Nov	Kembla Joggers - New Force In NSW Distance Running
Nov	Sequel to 1956 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Nov	Beer Has Sustained Me
Nov	A Tick and a Tock from the New Millennium
Oct	Billy The Whizz : Ultra Cartoon
Oct	EARLY WOMEN'S ATHLETICS: Statistics and History
Oct	Another Dress Rehearsal
Sept	I don’t do track work there, anymore
Sept	Runners' "Hi"
Sept	The story of John Gilmour: a 2:38 Marathoner at Age 60
Sept	Envirosport Multi-day Run : Interview
Aug	Nothing's Easy
Aug	Running Over the Age of 30 ?
Aug	The Simple Life
Aug	Jeff Galloway - Everybody's Mother
May	Bernice Lynch
1998
November	Portrait Painted Of Steve Moneghetti
July	The Everest Marathon
July	Herb Elliott is back with the Olympic family
June	Toilet Training
June	Running out of marathon goals!
May	Viktor Saneyev
May	What price a "World Record"?
March	Running Japan
March	Josiagh Thugwane - Forever on the Run
February	Marathon Running in the Tropics
January	Vander-Kuyp deserts Melbourne Track Club
January	Kouros: Greatest Competing Australian?
January	The Sporting Success of Narromine
1997
December	1997 - The Year in Athletics
September	Like Mother Like Daughter
September	Bikila: My Sporting Hero
August	Eco-Challenge (Far North Queensland)
July	Heather Turland
June	John Walker & Parkinson's Disease
June	Emma Carney
June	Dave's Desert Challenge
May	Soft Soles Could Be Hurting Runners
May	Blind Runners Pound The Pavement
March	Cathy Freeman's World
1996
November	The day I jogged with the President
1994
?	Walker Takes Bare Essentials

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