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Anna Louise Chesher spent 10 days at the MELBOURNE RUNNING CAMP in January. She did at least 3 sessions a day- anything from Running (including trails, a Parkrun, track session, Long Run) strength Work, technique drills, aqua sessions at the pool and open water swims in the bay, plus had her meals a...

By Cindy King-Williams I have been doing Body Pump by Les Mills (‘Pump’) for nearly 15 years. Sometimes I wonder why I do it, and if it benefits my running. For those who are not gym junkies, PUMP is basically a group workout of high-repetition and low weight with classic weight room exercises s...

The City2Sea was where it was happening for the MELBOURNE PACK running group today. Whilst the group did their long run around the Edithvale trails, several Packers were hitting the city streets on a humid, warm Melbourne morning. Two of our men came second in the two races from the city to St Kilda...

In the Fukuoka International Marathon Samuel Gebremichael came 28th in 2.18.46 and Dion Finocchiaro came 75th in 2.28.01. Online client Ashley Miles from Hong Kong came 122nd in 2.31.37. Sammy had a massive crack at a super fast time and was with the leader, Moens from Norway (who eventually won in ...

In the Carman’s Womens Half Marathon in Melbourne Cindy King came 5th (3rd in 40-49) in 1.30.40 and Martina McDonagh came 11th in 1.33.55 (4th in 40-49). It was an outstanding result for Cindy who is running only four days a week. She finds that now being in her late 40s, cutting back the mile...

Three MELBOURNE PACK runners; three top performances at the Victorian 5000m Championships last night. In 27 degrees/80% humidity the boys did us proud. In the A race, Dejen Gebreselassie ran a 22 second PB to come 8th (6th Victorian) in 14.24, after leading for the majority of the race. It was a bol...

It was a great day out at the LARA FUN RUN today. D Jay Geb won the 10.2km trail race in 30.43, amazing Running on gravel! That is 3.00 pace on a course with plenty of stones and some undulations with lots of Emus and Kangaroos spectating. It was a course record by around 4 minutes. Kerrie Gibson wa...

It was nice to be at the Gold Coast airport’s marathon running festival over the weekend and watch so many inspirational performances. Both Melbourne Pack and Sweat Sydney runners did themselves proud with a swag of tremendous results. Dejen Gebresellassie was third overall and second Austral...