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Birth name | Michael Swinton Tulloh | ||||||||||||||
Born | Datchet, U.K. | 29 September 1935||||||||||||||
Died | 28 April 2018 Marlborough, U.K. | (aged 82)||||||||||||||
Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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Michael Swinton "Bruce" Tulloh (29 September 1935 – 28 April 2018) was a long-distance runner from England.[1][2][3]
Athletics career
[edit]He won the European title in the men's 5000 metres at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia with a winning time of 14:00.6. He was also part of a national title winning team Portsmouth A.C. in cross-country and road running in the 1960s. He was famous for running barefoot in many of his races. His twin daughters were teenage running phenomena in the 1980s setting age-best marks running for their club Swindon A.C. They also ran barefoot.[4][5]
He represented England in the 1 mile and 3 mile races at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.[6] Four years later he competed in the 3 mile and 6 mile races at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[7]
In 1969, Tulloh ran 2876 miles across America from Los Angeles to New York City in 64 days. This is described in his book Four Million Footsteps, published by Pelham Books and as a Mayflower paperback in 1970.
He was coach to British marathon athlete Richard Nerurkar.
Distance | Time (min) | Date | Location |
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Mile | 3:59.3 | 27 January 1962 | Hamilton, New Zealand[2] |
3 miles | 13:12.0 | 17 August 1961 | Southampton, U.K.[5] |
5000 m | 13:49.4 | 22 July 1964 | Helsinki, Finland[2] |
6 miles | 27:23.78 | 8 July 1966 | London, U.K.[5] |
10,000 m | 28:50.4 | 30 August 1966 | Budapest, Hungary[2] |
Personal life
[edit]He taught biology at The Bulmershe School, Dr Challoner's Grammar School and then Marlborough College for 20 years.
He wrote a book, Running is Easy, that is essentially an amateur's guide to becoming a good runner.
Tulloh also wrote for Runner's World. One of his most important contributions was a three-fold training programme for the ten-mile race (16.1 km): the first programme was how to get sub-80 mins (4:58 per km), the second was for sub-70 mins (4:21 per km) and the third for sub-60 mins (3:44 per km).[8]
Death
[edit]Tullloh died at his home in Marlborough on 28 April 2018. He was 82.[9][10][11][12][13]
Publications
[edit]Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN | Pages |
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Long-distance running | 1967 | Amateur Athletic Association | 31[14] | |
Tulloh on running | 1968 | Heinemann | [15] | |
Four million footsteps | 1970 | Mayflower | 0583116930 | 175[16] |
Naturally fit | 1976 | Barker | 0213165872 | 167[17] |
The Olympic Games | 1976 | Heinemann | 0435270273 | 72[18] |
The complete jogger | 1979 | Macmillan | 0333257189 | 138[19] |
The marathon book | 1982 | Virgin | 0907080332 | 190[20] |
The complete distance runner | 1983 | Panther | 0586059768 | 224[21] |
Bruce Tulloh's running log: the complete runner's companion | 1986 | Stephens | 0850598443 | 160[22] |
The teenage runner | 1989 | Kingswood | 043498177X | 156[23] |
Running your first marathon and half marathon | 1989 | Thorsons | 0722517955 | 64[24] |
Track athletics | 1994 | Blandford | 071372403X | 79[25] |
Running is easy | 1996 | CollinsWillow | 0002187310 | 192[26] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cobley, John (9 May 2015). "Bruce Tulloh Profile". Racing Past. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Bruce Tulloh". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "Michael Bruce S. Tulloh". Olympics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "Great Britain's Budding Zolas, the Tulloh Twins, Are 15-Year-Old 1,500-Meter Running Sensations". People. 16 December 1985. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Bruce Tulloh". Power of 10. UK Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "Athletes: Perth 1962 Team". Team England. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "Athletes: Kingston 1966 Team". Team England. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Tulloh, Bruce (7 May 2002). "RW's Classic 10-mile Schedules". Runner's World. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Smyth, David (17 April 2020). "Remembering Barefoot Bruce". Runner's World. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Robinson, Roger (29 April 2018). "Bruce Tulloh, barefoot champion of the 1960s, dies". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Nichols, Peter (4 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Shaw, Phil (8 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh: Long-distance runner who broke records in bare feet". The Independent. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ McGee, Patrick (11 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh, barefoot runner and biologist, 1935-2018". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Hyman, Martin; Tulloh, Bruce. "Long distance running". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Tulloh on running". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Four million footsteps". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Naturally fit". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "The Olympic Games". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "The complete jogger". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Wilson, Neil; Etchells, Andy; Tulloh, Bruce. "The marathon book". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "The complete distance runner". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Bruce Tulloh's running log: the complete runner's companion". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "The teenage runner". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Running your first marathon and half marathon". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Track athletics". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "Running is easy". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.