(Un)Official Athletics Australia/Running Australia chat

Maybe all of his stress fractures are coinciding with international races

Was it Stewy or Brett that left MTC?

his Insta is pure ai slop now. Sad. It was really good when he first started out.

Hills and long runs are pointless? Were you not coached by Mona lmao

True, I didn't realise. An athlete at his level is probably stuck in a tricky spot with managing injury and managing income via racing.

Pretty sure his world champs 5000m was coming off the back of a sacral stress fracture. There was a really good interview with his coach explaining what happened. Despite this, he still ran faster than Jack.

it isn't seth posting it i don't think, its his little boyfriend who follows him everywhere who has mastered the concept of controversy = clicks

Is Ed Goddard update? His strava has had massive blue bars for well over a year, but he only raced twice last year. Is he planning another marathon soon?

Is Cam a good shot of running 7:29/30 to take back his 3000m indoor record this weekend?

Jack Rayner has signed with Whiteline management. See post from a week ago: www.instagram.com/whitelinemgmt/

Not sure what this means re. training with MTC (he's in Falls with the others) but nice to see some changes for Jack.

Vic milers meet tonight on the domestic scene. Abby Caldwell continues her summer of racing in the 1500m and former Aussie record holder Catriona Bissett in 800.

Hayley Kitching - NCAA Indoor and Australian Short Track 1000m record on the weekend.

White Line Management appears to be run by Jayden Russ who runs Brisbane Athletics Academy/coachs Brisbane Boys College.
This opens up a can of worms. Wonder what it means for MTC more broadly.

Owned in part by Alastair Stevenson as well I believe - legend of Aus distance running. Previously coached by Nic Bideau

So would this mean that it's still 'aligned' with Bideau? Or would these guys be new competitors?

Given Rayner's affection to a bush doof, I'd say Whiteline Management is the perfect place for Jack to be.

Happy to tune in for the rumours and stuff, and from all the chat it seems bideau is not a character to admire, BUT - the disrespect towards jack seems a bit pale. The guy is working his butt off at falls as we chat, is the current Melbourne Mara champ and 10000m Australian record holder. Check out the Cardiff half 2018 vid on YouTube to see his chops. Good luck achieving that. I can’t predict his best is still in front on him, but at least give the fella some credit for what he’s done to date. (Also I’m a random old slow runner so don’t respond with the “jack enters the chat” crap).

I think most posters are genuinely massive fans of Jack and think he hasn't reached his ceiling yet across all distances.
The frustration for me stems from the fact that we have to put pieces of information and rumours together in threads like these to try and work out what's actually happening with our Aussie athletes.
Like someone said in the other MTC thread, you can jump on your footy team's socials page and see and injury/contract/movement updates almost immediately.
As fans following running, we have to hope that the runner themselves drip feeds us any sort of news via a random podcast or strava comment.
MTC is the biggest group in Australia with some of our best athletes. How do we not have some official comms from Rayner/Ramsden/Robinson/Gregson/McSweyn in regards to what brand/group they're with and what they're training for?
Gotta appreciate the likes or Lauren Ryan and Izzie Batt Doyle who put out lots of content and actually update people.
It's not easy being a fan of athletics.

It's the stuff MTC athletes do off the track that gets them the reputation they have. Running hard for a few hours each day doesn't really counter that