Autumn 2005 - British Milers Club

From the pen of the ChairmanIt may only be Autumn but already the2006 Summer fixture list is materialising.As I have previously reported UKA dictateto a great extent the dates for our GPMeetings. These are dates that the UKADevelopment and Endurance personnelconsider most suitable for the various agegroups to achieve Qualifying Times fortheir forthcoming Championships andalso to offer appropriate levels ofcompetition. Unfortunately our 2006 GP1appears to clash once again with thetraditional AAAvLoughborough Match. Wewere promised 12 months ago that thisclash would be avoided in 2006 but itmay take a Solomonic decision for this tobe achieved in the future.Looking back at the results of theendurance competitions of both our GP1at Sportcity, Manchester and theLoughborough Match, held on 21/22May 2005, it is quite obvious that bothMeetings suffered due to the clash. Inorder to extract a positive from thelooming 2006 clash we have been inlengthy discussions with both UKA andLoughborough management teams. Onesolution involves the staging of the BMCGP1 at Loughborough on the SaturdayEvening prior to the AAAvLoughboroughMatch on the Sunday. This would help tocreate a ‘Festival of EnduranceCompetition’ during this particularweekend. An element of mutually agreedDr. Norman Poole, Chairmantrading of the endurance events betweenthe 2 Meetings should ensure a higherstandard of competition is achieved in the2006 A races than we had in 2005.The conclusion of our discussions withUKA and Loughborough will be reportedin the 2006 Spring issue of the BMCNews.Although our 2005 GP1 at Sportcity wasaffected by the clash with theAAAvLoughborough Match we stillwitnessed a number of highlights on theManchester track. In particular the highstandard of the Womens 800m, won in2:02.52 by Jemma Simpson, continuedto be repeated throughout the Summer bya very strong group of developingathletes. A sub 2mins 800m surelybeckons for the athlete(s) in this groupwho develop their training in theappropriate progressive manner in thecoming months and years. Other athleteswho achieved this sort of breakthrough in2005 were Nick McCormick and AndyBaddeley. They both made majorimprovements in their 800m pb’s in our2005 GP’s, Nick running 1:48.25 whenhe won at Watford and Andy achieving1:47.09 in winning at Crystal Palace.The confident and strong manner inwhich they finished their respective racesreflects the way they have continued torace and improve over 1500m. I ameagerly looking forward to theircompetitions at the MelbourneCommonwealth Games in March 2006.The performance of our enduranceathletes came in for some criticism at theHelsinki World Chamionships. Thestandards of UK endurance coaching wassimilarly castigated by a number of themedia commentators. It has also beenpointed out to me recently that in the UKwe have approximately 10 coaches, whohave taken athletes from beingyoungsters or relative novices through tomajor Games (endurance) Finals, andwho are still continuing to practice theircraft. A number of their athletes have alsogained medals in these majorChampionships. The coaches I amreferring to have a lot in common. Mostof them were former athletes, they havebeen coaching for 25+ years duringwhich time they have been involvedcontinuously with their training group on3-4 days/week and they regularly watchtheir athletes in competitions.Unfortunately another thing they have incommon is that very few of them arecurrently involved with athletes close tothe top of the junior or senior rankings. Anumber of these coaches that I havespoken to have also said that they rarelyreceive requests from such athletes ortheir coaches for advice or an actualcoaching involvement.We can all draw a number of thoughtsfrom this information but the overridingissue is that these highly experiencedindividuals are probably the greatestunder utilised resource in the endurancebranch of our sport. The reasons for thisare many and one is simply that we donot publicise the achievements of thesecoaches sufficiently. Many athletes do notknow their names. I will be discussingwith my BMC colleagues how we canbest remedy this situation in the future.Two UK coaches who have skillfullyguided young athletes through theircareers to major Games medals asseniors are Lindsay Dunn and DaveArnold. Both of them gave highlyinformed presentations of their thoughtsand ideas at the recent BMC/UKANational Endurance Symposium. I amsure that you will find the details of theselectures, inside this edition of the BMCNews, very positive and stimulating.Whether you are coaching or trainingduring the coming months I hope that thefruits of your labours are of a similarnature.SubscriptionsSubs are due on 1st Jan. For those not paying this issue of BMC News will be the lastBMC News : Winter 2005 1

Andersson had covered the stretch fromthe 1500 metres mark to the finish in15.2sec, which was faster than eitherhe or Hägg had ever previouslymanaged, and the newfound speedcould be readily accounted for.Andersson had spent much of theprevious winter training with a 400metres specialist, Pekka Edfeldt, andmodifying his bounding stride and armaction. No doubt his other motivationwas the enticing thought that “while thecat’s away …” Hägg – very much a lionon the track – continued his tour of theUSA which was to be highlighted by aseries of mile races designed to revivethe “Mile Of The Century” conceptwhich had come to an end when thelast Princeton race was run in 1940and won by John Munski, of MissouriUniversity, in 4:11.0..The omens were not particularlyfavourable when Hägg easily beat GilDodds at two miles in Chicago and LosAngeles and then won a mile race inSan Francisco on 17 July by fully 25yards in a modest 4:12.3. Better was tocome, though, a week later in thelegendary miling town of Cambridge,Massachusetts, where John Paul Jonesand Norman Taber had set their records30 or so years before. Hägg was to faceDodds again – but this was to be adifferent Dodds running in his ownBoston area – together with lesserknown milers named Don Burnham, ofDartmouth College, who had won theNCAA title, and Bill Hulse, of New YorkUniversity, who had placed 2nd toDodds in the AAU 1500 and then wonthe 800 the next day. Hulse declinedthe offer of a 10-yard handicapadvantage and started with the others.even Andersson’s record being indanger. As it happened, Hägg easedaway quite comfortably on the last turn,but Dodds still beat GlennCunningham’s national record andHulse improved radically from aprevious best of 4:15.9!The three of them met again at theBaldwin-Wallace College track in Berea,Ohio, the next Saturday and after asteadier pace of 59.0, 2:02.0 and3:03.0 Hägg won in 4:05.4 andDodds’s US record lasted no more thana week as Hulse ran 4:06.0 for 2ndplace with Dodds 3rd only one-tenthbehind. The fourth race, at Randall’sIsland, in New York on 11 Augustprovided yet another victory for theSwedish visitor in 4:06.9 from Dodds(4:07.2) and Hulse (4:08.2). Thefollowing weekend Arne Andersson,who was now teaching in Gothenburg,ran his 15th race of the season at1500 metres on the city’sSlottsskogsvallen track where he hadset his mile record and he was providedwith ideal pacemaking from RolandKristiansson (58.0, 2:00.5). Still slowerthan Hägg’s schedule at 1200 metres,Andersson finished much faster with alast 300 metres in 44.0 to set a newrecord of 3:44.9 (rounded up to 3:45.0for official record purposes). Hägg, stillin New York, is supposed to have saidwhen he received an early-morningphone call from a Swedish journalist,“Which of my records was beatennow?”Hägg did not return home until lateSeptember after a long round ofbanquets and personal appearances,and in hindsight it seems an odd sort ofthing for him to have done in going offto the USA for an entire summer,knowingly leaving the door open toAndersson, but there had been a greatdeal of political persuasion brought tobear. The original invitation had comepersonally from Dan Ferris, theomnipotent secretary of the AAU, whichcontrolled all amateur sport in the USA,and the objective was to raise funds forthe American war effort. This wasachieved to the measure of $150,000,and no doubt there was an underlyingmotive for the Swedish Government inenhancing foreign relations at a timewhen their citizens could have beenregarded with some disdain formaintaining their safe, snug andprofitable neutrality.Despite the worthy efforts of Dodds andHulse it may well be that Hägg wascontent to win his races by a marginthat was no more than necessary in theinterests of Transatlantic fraternity. Heshowed a truer extent of his form withan 8:51.3 two miles in Cincinnati,which was less than four secondsoutside his own World record.Andersson, not lacking in staminaHägg duly won again in 4:05.3, to seta US all-comers’ record, but Dodds was2nd in 4:06.5 and Hulse ran a totallyunexpected 4:07.8 for 3rd place. Hägghad led through lap times of 58.4 and2:01.9 and had run the third quarter in60sec flat when Dodds challenged himto give every prospect at the bell ofBMC News : Winter 2005 3

despite his new emphasis on sprintwork in training, ran 8:57.0 for thesame distance in Gothenburg inSeptember.Gil Dodds beat Glenn Cunningham’sofficial indoor record for the mile with atime of 4:06.4 in Chicago towards theend of the round of meetings on theboards in the opening months of 1944,with Bill Hulse a long way back.Gunder Hägg had changed jobs, leavingthe fire service to become a clothingstoresalesman in Malmö, and hewaited until late June to begin hisseason. He soon made up for lost time:he promptly beat his own two milesrecord; in July he broke ArneAndersson’s 1500 metres record; inAugust he improved the two milesrecord yet again.Now Hägg ruled the middle-distanceevents as no other runner had everdone before him. At 1500 metres hewas one second faster than his nearestchallenger, Andersson. At 2000 metreshe was 0.8sec faster than Andersson.At 3000 metres he was 7.8sec fasterthan the next man, Henry Kälärne. Attwo miles he was 9.2sec faster, withAndersson again 2nd-ranked. At threemiles he was 10sec faster, ahead of theprewar record-holder, Taisto Mäki. At5000 metres he was 10.6sec fasterthan Mäki. Only one event was missingfrom Hägg’s glittering portfolio – themile.Arne Andersson had known full wellthat Hägg would step back on to thetracks of Sweden in his finest form. AsNorris McWhirter, the renownedathletics journalist and historian, waslater to write in a lyrical review ofHägg’s career:“As the track season approached hebecame more excited, yet morecautious. A track race to him was like aquest to taste some rare and forbiddenfruit. He entered the stadium as thoughinspired by a holiday mood. Thehardness of a track was a delight but tohim almost a bromide to the sensitivemuscles of his legs”. Andersson wasready and waiting for his great rival.After setting the first of his two-milerecords on the quaintly-contouredHofvallan track at Östersund, measuring367.29 metres to the lap, Hägg facedAndersson at 1500 metres inStockholm on 28 June and tried someshock tactics with a second lap in60sec, but Andersson was not fazed bythis and in the end won rather easily,3:48.8 to 3:50.2. It was Hägg’s firstdefeat in 56 track races since 1941. Itwas also the first time that he had lostto Andersson in 10 meetings.Andersson confirmed his form with astartling 3 ⁄4 mile time of 2:56.6 inStockholm on 5 July which took morethan two seconds off the previous Worldbest set by the American, Paul Moore,in 1940. Andersson’s lap times were59.0, 60.2 and 57.4, and it requiredno great imagination on the part ofGunder Hägg, who ran the 2000metres at the same meeting, toextrapolate that performance into a miletime inside the record of 4:02.6.The 1500 metres event at theSlottsskogsvallen track in Gothenburgon the evening of 7 July was intricatelyplanned and intricately documented.Lennart Strand, a clubmate of Hägg’swho had won the “B” race at Stockholmin a personal best 3:55.4, wasdesignated as pacemaker, which mighthave seemed a rash decision when heflew through the first lap in 56.0, butthe pace eased to 1:56.0 at 800metres – still 2.2sec faster than anyonehad previously passed that point in aWorld-record 1500(!) – with Häggfollowing in 1:56.7. At 1200 metresHägg went by in 2:58.0 withAndersson’s shadow darkening the trackwithin his view and strode powerfullyon to win by a full second. The timewas 3:43.0 – an improvement of1.9sec, or at least a dozen metres inrunning terms – on Andersson’s recordfrom the previous year. Andersson alsobeat his previous record, with 3:44.0 in2nd place, and Rune Gustafsson was3rd in 3:48.2. Strand, his job welldone, had dropped out … but morewould be heard from him in the future.The bevy of timekeepers even registeredeach separate 100 metres of Hägg’srace, as follows:13.8 - 13.4 - 14.5 - 15.0 - 14.514.8 - 14.9 - 15.6 - 15.1 - 15.415.6 - 15.4 - 15.2 - 14.8 - 15.0This set of figures clearly demonstratesthe surging nature of the contestsbetween Hägg and Andersson. Thepace goes up, down, up, down inseveral distinct sequences as the twomen raced furiously against each other,and the newsreel film of them capturesall the intense excitement of theoccasion with the wildly excitedspectators leaping up from their seatsand waving hats and programmes inacclamation.Hägg was getting stronger and faster asthe training load which he hadaccumulated over more than four yearsbrought its long-term benefit. When hehad set his World record of 3:45.8 in1942 he passed 1200 metres in2:58.9 and his last 300 metres took46.9sec. For his 3:43.0 he had passed1200 metres in only nine-tenths fasterbut had run the last 300 metres in45sec. It would be another 10 yearsbefore anyone beat his 1500 metrestime.Naturally, Hägg and Andersson werematched at a mile and the meeting tookplace at the 393-metre Idrottsplats trackin Malmö on another balmy evening,18 July, with a capacity crowd of over14,000 filling every seat and terracevantage-point. Rune Gustafsson, RunePersson and Lennart Strand were theonly other starters, having all run in theGothenburg 1500, but then who4 BMC News : Winter 2005

needed vast numbers of competitors inthose far-off innocent days long beforethere was any relentless pressure tochase after Grand Prix points? Givensuch matinee idols as Hägg andAndersson, plus two or three bit-partplayers, neither the promoters, nor thepublic, nor the press wanted for more.Until halfway the five-man race was acarbon copy of what had gone before:Strand led in 56.8 and 1:56.0; Häggfollowed in 56.9 and 1:56.7, withAndersson at his shoulder. Then Häggslowed to 62.7 for the third lap andreached the bell in 2:59.4, withAndersson still a metre or so behind.Past 1500 metres Hägg continued tolead but only just, and Andersson cameby him in the straight. The winningtime was 4:01.6. Hägg was 2nd in4:02.0. Rune Gustafsson, still only 10metres down with 100 metres to go,lost a lot of ground but even so finishedin 4:05.6.The obvious postmortem would havebeen concerned with the relatively slowthird lap. Why had Hägg not gone fasterto shake Andersson off? Surely thewinning time would have been muchcloser to four minutes had he done so?Yet in his 3:43.0 1500 metres Hägghad run that third lap only marginallyfaster (62.0) and that had been enoughto win him the race and the record. Theevidence here, as in many other of theHägg-Andersson duels, is that while thepromoters and the crowds wanted, andexpected, records on each occasion thetwo great men stepped on the track,Hägg and Andersson themselves weremore concerned with trying to beateach other, and if victory meantsacrificing a record-breaking time, thenso be it.Andersson ran 16 more races at 1500metres during the rest of the season,and had he been less lavish with histalent he might have broken two moreWorld records. In August he ran 1000metres in 2:21.9, only four-tenthsslower than Rudolf Harbig in 1941, and2000 metres in 5:12.6, eight-tenthsslower than Hägg in 1942. Hägg beathis own two-mile record in Stockholmon 4 August with a time of 8:42.4which was made up of two halves of4:23.0 and 4:19.8 – and must haveseemed very easy running to him. Hejust missed the 2000 record with5:12.0 in a handicap race in Gävle atthe end of July and also ran the 2ndfastestever 3000 metres of 8:07.6 inStockholm on 11 August. Nine dayslater the two of them met in the 1500final at the Swedish championships andAndersson won again in what was verydefinitely a tactical race, 3:49.6 to3:50.0.Of the 20 men who had run faster than3:55.0 for 1500 metres during 1944,16 were from Sweden. The others wereAleksandr Pugachevskiy, of the USSR,ranked 9th at 3:53.2; László Hires, ofHungary, 14th at 3:54.0; Bill Hulse,the AAU champion, 16th in 3:54.3;and Viljo Heino, the Finn who had set anew World record of 29:35.4 for10,000 metres but lost to Hägg in threeraces at 3000 metres, two miles and5000 metres, 20th at 3:54.9. At onemile the Malmö race had produced thefour fastest outdoor times of the yearand no one else had done better than4:12.0. Sydney Wooderson managedno more than three cross-country eventsand three track races during the year,winning the “Stalin Mile” in the Aid toRussia meeting at Fallowfield,Manchester, in 4:12.8. There was notrack activity of any great consequencein Australia or New Zealand for theduration of the war.Hägg was to run 38 races during 1945and Andersson 34. It proved to be theirundoing because early the followingyear the two of them were banned forlife by the Swedish Federation, togetherwith the long-retired ex-World recordholder,Henry Kälärne. Hägg had at lastregained the mile record after it hadbeen three years in Andersson’spossession, and Andersson had beenclose behind him once more. So whocould say what the two of them mighthave achieved with the incentive of thefirst postwar Olympic Games to takeplace in 1948? Hägg was still only 27and Andersson 28. They had brokenthe rules regarding expenses paymentsand they had to pay the price, but theywere by no means the only miscreants,and the farce of “amateurism” wasallowed to continue for another 40years or so before the sport finally facedup to reality and went professional.Hägg had returned to the US for his firstassay at indoor running at thebeginning of 1945, but the wholeventure turned out to be a mistake. Hesuffered flu before he departed on histhree-week voyage and won only one ofhis four one-mile races, with a besttime of 4:12.7 in his single outdoorappearance at the Penn Relays inPhiladelphia.Andersson’s first 1500 metres of notewas a 3:46.8 in Stockholm on 29June, but he only narrowly won fromRune Persson and Lennart Strand, both3:47.0, with the latter improving bymore than eight seconds at thus at lastcoming into his own after playing theminor role of pacemaker the previousyear. Hägg had recovered from hisAmerican ordeal but had still run nofaster than 3:51.4 for 1500 metreswhen he and Andersson came togetheragain for a mile race on 17 July at thesame Idrottsplats track in Malmö whereAndersson had run his 4:01.6 a yearall but a day before. Again there was asell-out crowd of over 14,000, andPersson, Strand and Åke Pettersson,who was another Malmö AI clubmate ofHägg and Strand, were the only othersrequired on the starting-line.Predictably, in view of Strand’s newfoundstature, it was Pettersson whomade the pace through a 56.2 firstquarter. This was almost as quick a firstlap as any in a World-record mile, andmaybe a shade too fast because theBMC News : Winter 2005 5

time slipped to 1:58.5 at the half-mile.After Pettersson dropped out Hägg wentahead and reached the bell in 2:59.7,which was just three-tenths slower thanhe had been the previous year. Knowingthat Hägg had run no faster than 62.7in that record-breaking race, there wereno cries of delight among the enthralledsupporters of their home-townchampion that he would magically runsub-four minutes for them. Rather, theyfeared Andersson’s finishing kick.At 1500 metres Hägg still led by fourtenthsin an unprecedented 3:45.4.Along the home straight Anderssondrew level, but Hägg respondedmagnificently and moved away again towin by a clear six metres. Hägg’s timewas 4:01.3 (officially rounded off to4:01.4) and Andersson’s 4:02.2. RunePersson was not far behind, 3rd in4:03.8. Twelve days later the Malmö AIteam of Gösta Jacobsson, SvenStridsberg, Strand and Hägg set a Worldrecord of 15:38.6 for the 4 x 1500metres relay. It was the 16th and lastWorld record of Hägg’s career.Most of his remaining races through toearly October were “potboilers”, thoughin August he did run 5:12.2 for 2000metres in Stockholm and set a Britishall-comers’ record of 9:00.6 for twomiles at a packed White City Stadiumcelebrating peactime in London. His lastmiling appearance was a debacle – andnot much better for Andersson – as thePrince-in-waiting, Lennart Strand, wonin Stockholm before a record crowd ofalmost 20,000 on 21 September in4:04.8, with Andersson a distant 2ndin 4:07.2 and Hägg 4th in 4:12.2.Andersson had enjoyed rather the betterseason overall. He ran 3:45.0 in ahandicap 1500 metres, plus a 3:46.0and 3:46.8, and beat SydneyWooderson when the end of hostilitieshad at last allowed Britain’s one-timemile record-holder to take on hissuccessors. At the same White Citymeeting at which Hägg had won thetwo miles Andersson took the mile in4:08.8 to 4:09.2. In Gothenburg inSeptember the result was the same, butboth men ran exactly five secondsfaster. For Wooderson (actually timed in4:04.1) it was the fastest mile of hiscareer and his last serious race at thedistance, though he was to becomeEuropean 5000 metres champion thefollowing year.Wooderson’s time in Gothenburg mighthave been even quicker but for anunfortunate incident near the finish,which was described in detail by JackCrump, the senior official of Britishathletics who from the late 1930s tothe 1960s managed to combine hisduties for the British Amateur AthleticBoard and the Amateur AthleticAssociation with copious writing aboutthe sport. Autocratic as Crump was, hewas always ready to praise those whohe felt gave their all for their country,and Wooderson was high in hisestimation. Of the Gothenburg race,Crump wrote in his memoirs, publishedin 1966:all of the sympathies of the 12,000crowd were with Wooderson, and therewas some booing against Andersson,who was himself quite upset by theincident”.Marcel Hansenne, the French runnerwho had been so impressed byWooderson before the war, was also aspectator, having run the 1000 metresearlier in the meeting, and hecomposed a glorious description of thelast lap, with Andersson leading, for hisreminiscences in 1953:“At the sound of the bell the pace,which was already very fast, increasedagain, and only Wooderson, whoseeyelids were lowered behind his glasseswhich glinted in the sunlight, was ableto keep contact. There were 18,000spectators present on this Sundayafternoon, and the sun was still high inthe sky for one of the most marvellousduels of all.“There are no words to describe thebeauty of this mile race as it soaredinto space, reaching heights whichintoxicated us. More and moreAndersson, this Colossus, seemed tobend under the weight of fatigue, andSydney Wooderson closed his eyesfurther and further with each stride,which was the most obvious sign of hissuffering.“Even so, the Englishman did not letgo. Not only did he hang on but again– yes, really! – he attacked the Swedeat 200 metres from the finish and –unbelievably! – he passed him after ashort struggle. Everyone in the stadiumrose to their feet for the last metres ofthis fantastic duel.“Andersson made a desperate effort 50yards from the finish with his armsflailing and his left arm caught Sydney,flung him half round, and almoststopped him in his tracks. It was, I amsure, a pure accident, but I am just ascertain that it cost Sydney the race …“Andersson could only follow behindWooderson’s furious short strides andat 60 metres from the finish he drewlevel. Then began an elbow-to-elbowbattle. The first to concede, even if itwas only 20 centimetres, would bebeaten. And it was Wooderson who6 BMC News : Winter 2005

gave way. Andersson won after takingenormous risks, and we understoodwhat a champion he was. A fighter,determined, fast during the race and inthe sprint at the end. Anderssonrepresented all the qualities of a 1500metres runner”.Jack Crump also recalled vividly thedeprivations suffered during the waryears by Wooderson, who on oneoccasion he had travelled all night inthe corridor of a packed train to fulfil apromise to run in a Scottish WarCharities’ meeting in Glasgow. The trainarrived several hours’ late and after ahurried meal and snatching a couple ofhours’ sleep Wooderson ran thehandicap mile in very wet and windyconditions. He then set off back to hisarmy camp at Crookham, inHampshire.Wooderson’s last great achievement wasto win the National cross-countrychampionship over a 10-mile course in1948, and he deserves to beconsidered alongside Steve Ovett andSebastian Coe as one of the greatest allroundrunners in the history of thesport. Wooderson’s 49.3 for 440 yardsin a club championship race certainlycompares with either Ovett or Coe –both of them national-class 400 metresmen – in terms of basic speed. So faras stamina is concerned, Ovett’s halfmarathon is on a par with Wooderson’sNational title. Their best performanceswere as follows:Wooderson: 440 yards 49.3; 800metres 1:48.4, 1500 metres 3:48.4; 1mile 4:04.1, 2 miles 9:05.0, 3 miles13:57.0, 5000 metres 14:08.8; 10miles cross-country 56:52.Ovett: 400 metres 47.5; 800 metres1:44.09; 1500 metres 3:30.77; 1 mile3:48.40; 3000 metres 7:41.3; 2 miles8:13.51; 5000 metres 13:20.06; Halfmarathon1:05:38.Coe: 400 metres 46.87; 800 metres1:41.73; 1500 metres 3:29.77; 1 mile3:47.33; 3000 metres 7:55.2 indoors;5000 metres 14:06.2.Coincidentally, the times forWooderson’s best 1500 metres andOvett’s best mile are the same – which,in theory at least, makes Ovett precisely109.344 metres the faster of the two.Those followers of athletics who are of anostalgic frame of mind and who like toengage in the conjecture of “dreamraces” between the champions ofdifferent generations would, in allcertainty, regard the hypothetical marginas being rather less. Of course, muchallowance has to be made for vastlycontrasting circumstances whencomparing an athlete of the 1930s withthose of the 1980s. In terms of tracksurfaces, footwear, training knowledge,medical and scientific expertise,opportunities for competition andfinancial incentive, the latter generationwas at a huge advantage.Recollections of Wooderson inevitablycentre on the incongruous image of thebespectacled little man in his baggyblack shorts and vest, but those who sooften saw the transformation when hestepped on the track painted a muchfuller picture. Jack Oaten, who for manyyears before and after the war was ahighly-respected athleticscorrespondent, particularly for theLondon “Evening News”, first sawWooderson in action as a 17-year-old in1932 and graphically summed up hisfeelings after Wooderson’s retirement:“That meek exterior concealed anunassailable spirit. Behind the meekJekyll was a Hyde imbued withunbounded confidence, resolution ofpurpose and immense courage. He wassteadfast and extremely painstaking ineverything he did. An air ofthunderstruck amazement was on thefaces of strangers as they watched aman who looked a helpless innocentpulverise the World. If only Woodersonhad been able to have a series of raceswith the great Swedes who were hiscontemporaries at the end of theSecond World War, the four-minutemile would have been accomplished byone of them”.In one particularly fulsome report in“The Times” Wooderson had beenendearingly described as “smaller andmore lightly built even than Lovelock,not so obviously the complete miler, butindisputably a pure blend of whipcord,nimble stride, pluck and stamina …the kind of little fellow who would worrySpringheel Jack himself out of a race”.The American coach, J. KennethDoherty, was effusive in his tribute toHägg when he reviewed his career atlength in 1953. “It is important to notethe almost perfect pace of Hägg duringthe last three-quarters of the race”,Doherty wrote of the 4:01.3 mile.“Andersson was famous for his terrifickick at the finish of his best miles, buton this occasion he was either not athis best or the amazing pace of 2:59.7for three-quarters was just too mucheven for his great ability. This is one ofthe few examples in track history inwhich a strong pace runner has beenable to run away from another, almostequally strong, who has a finishingsprint. One can only speculate on howit might have turned out had these twoall-time champions run again”.Lavish praise was also heaped on Häggby two other famous American coaches,Payton Jordan and Emerson “Bud”Spencer. In their book, “Champions InThe Making”, published in 1968, theyenthused:“Few runners ever matched Hägg’s finebody balance in which the basic legaction and arms worked in perfectsynchronisation … the beauty ofmotion that marked Jesse Owens andHägg is the same. Up to his day therehad never been a miler to competewith Hägg. No one before had his easeand speed, together with perfectBMC News : Winter 2005 7

unning style. Unlike Nurmi, who was afine mechanical runner with littlespeed, Hägg was fast. He could havebeen a quarter-miler.“Effortless and beautiful in stride, hewas the antithesis of Cunningham,Greg Rice, Gil Dodds or any of thegreat American milers of the era whostruggled and strained to run a winningrace. All of these men were toughcompetitors, though, and champions intheir own right. Hägg had the perfectstride and pace to run three 60-secondquarters and then come home on whathe had left. At the time he ran hisrecord mile his economy of motion wasfar better than Roger Bannister’s orJohn Landy’s. In physical assets, Häggwas more like Elliott and Snell. Hisfailure to run within five or six secondsof his capabilities must be laid to thepsychological barrier of the time.”So, according to this assessment byJordan and Spencer, Hägg could haverun a mile in 3:55 to 3:56!These are intriguing observations by twoauthors who knew a lot about speed. Atthe time of writing Jordan had a sharein the World record for the 4 x 110yards relay which had stood since1938, and Spencer had set a World400 metres record of 47.0 in 1928. Onthe face of it, Hägg did not in any waycompare with two of the earlier Worldrecord-holders for the mile in terms ofbasic speed: Hägg had run 1:52.8 for800 metres, but Cunningham andWooderson had set World records forthe distance of 1:49.7 and 1:48.4respectively. Even Arne Andersson wasmuch faster than Hägg at 1:50.8.A mile in under four minutes had,perhaps, been no more than a year orso away for the two Swedish middledistancevirtuosos. Hägg had remainedcautious, saying after his 4:01.3 thatsub-four ”should well be possible”.Roberto Quercetani, the renownedItalian track writer and historian whohad seen every great miler since LuigiBeccali, later wrote; “It is quite possiblethat another full season of joint effortswould have brought either or bothunder the magic four-minute mile”.Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson werethe first “modern” milers; the firstmiddle-distance men to race prolificallyand to meet each other frequently; thefirst to be encouraged to do so bymaterial reward. Between them theytransformed “the four-minute mile” froma pipedream to a practicality. There wasno antagonism between them, on or offthe track. They dined together after arace. They constantly complimentedeach other. Andersson had generouslysaid early in 1941 that Hägg was theman of the future. Now the pair ofthem, in turn, were readily hailingLennart Strand as their successor.Hägg and Andersson competed againsteach other in 23 races over the years.Hägg finished ahead of Andersson on15 occasions and set eight Worldrecords in the process. Andersson setonly one World record against Hägg butequalled or beat the previous Worldrecord behind him in four of theirmeetings. Hägg had intended runningthe 5000 metres, or even the 10,000metres, at the 1946 EuropeanChampionships, but instead he becamea widely-syndicated sportswriter. In theyear 1998, 53 years after their lastraces, Hägg’s best 1500 metres of3:43.0 and Andersson’s best of 3:44.0would have ranked 3rd and 5th fastestrespectively for the year in Sweden!The difficulties of running against theSwedes were graphically depicted byMarcel Hansenne, who remains one ofthe finest of all athletics writers – in a8 BMC News : Winter 2005

single afternoon racing against the bestrunners in the World and then takinghis place in the press-box to file hisreports with the very rare attribute ofbeing able to express lyrically anathlete’s innermost feelings. Hansenneset his first French record in 1945,beating Séra Martin’s 800 metres timewhich had stood for 17 years, and hethen confidently took on Andersson at1500 metres in Berne:“Never had I been so deeply humiliatedas in the stadium of the Swiss capital.Even though the Swede had alreadyrun 1500 metres in 3:44.0 and I hadonly done 3:52.6, I thought the contestwould be on even terms because oldmemories inclined us to believe thatthe famous Andersson, like hispredecessors, lacked strength at thefinish. I said to myself, ‘If you are goingto beat me, you will have to drop mebefore the last lap’.“After a slow first kilometre (2:45.0) wewere still together stride for stride. Itwas only 300 metres from the finishthat Andersson at last went into actionwhile I sheltered from the wind behindhis large frame. Already, I thought howsurprised he would be when I wentaway from him at the start of the homestraight.“With scarcely 100 metres to go, I wasabout to begin my well-known sprintwhen I saw him abruptly move away infront of me. The more I quickened, themore Andersson went away. Not beingable to understand it, I drew on my lastresources. Driving my arms and legs, Imade an attempt at a sprint. I gaveabsolutely everything I had and theresult was the following. From eightmetres my deficit stretched to a dozenmetres. It was as if it was magic”.Of Hägg, Hansenne was positivelyecstatic. “He gave the impression ofeffortlessness”, Hansenne wrote.“Whilst Andersson contorted himself,Hägg’s form remained perfect, his armsvery low and supple. The only point ofcomparison between the two of themwas that they were the two best 1500metres runners who had ever lived”.Hansenne watched Hägg run a 2000metres within two seconds of his ownWorld record and concluded: “GunderHägg was truly the most extraordinaryof all runners. Of all the Gods of theStadium, he was the greatest and mostmagnificent”.Bizarrely, for all the packed arenas inwhich the two great runners appeared,the most eagerly-acclaimed mile of thewar years had come about in verydifferent circumstances: Jimmy Wood, aPolytechnic Harriers clubmate of DougWilson, had been taken prisoner by theGermans at Crete and had later won animprovised mile race in 4:16.8 before acaptive (and captivated) audience of60,000 fellow inmates! Woodcontinued with a rewarding club trackcareer, including winning the Surreymile title and being included in a list of1500 metres “possibles” for the 1948Olympics, long after Hägg andAndersson had been forcibly retired.Hägg v Andersson1940:7 August, Gothenburg, 1500 metres – Hägg 2nd 3:48.8, Andersson 3rd 3:51.0. Kälärne 1st 3:48.7.29 September, Gothenburg, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:52.4, Andersson 2nd 3:52.6.1941:11 May, 4000 metres cross-country –Andersson 1st, Hägg 2nd 17.2sec behind.18 July, Gothenburg, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:50.2, Andersson 2nd 3:50.4.10 August, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:47.5 (World record), Andersson 2nd 3:48.6.24 August, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:58.4, Andersson 2nd 3:58.6.30 August, Gävle, 1 mile – Hägg 1st 4:09.2, Andersson 2nd 4:09.6.1942:1 July, Gothenburg, 1 mile – Hägg 1st 4:06.1 (World record), Andersson 2nd 4:06.4.3 July, Stockholm, 2 miles – Hägg 1st 8:47.8 (World record), Andersson 2nd 8:51.4.17 July, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:45.8 (World record), Andersson 2nd 3:49.2.21 July, Malmö, 2000 metres – Hägg 1st 5:16.3 (World record), Andersson 2nd 5:16.8.29 July, Malmö, 3000 metres – Hägg 1st 8:09.4, Andersson 2nd 8:11.4.23 August, Östersund, 2000 metres – Hägg 1st 5:11.7 (World record), Andersson 2nd 5:30.6.27 September, Budapest, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:50.6, Andersson 2nd 3:53.2.1944:28 June, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Andersson 1st 3:48.8, Hägg 2nd 3:50.2.7 July, Gothenburg, 1500 metres – Hägg 1st 3:43.0 (World record), Andersson 2nd 3:44.0.BMC News : Winter 2005 9

14 July, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Andersson 1st 3:48.4, Hägg 2nd 3:49.2.18 July, Malmö, 1 mile – Andersson 1st 4:01.6 (World record), Hägg 2nd 4:02.0.20 August, Stockholm, 1500 metres – Andersson 1st 3:49.6, Hägg 2nd 3:50.0.30 August, Stockholm, 2000 metres – Andersson 1st 5:12.6, Hägg 2nd 5:13.2.3 September, Malmö, 3000 metres – Andersson 1st 8:20.8, Hägg 2nd 8:22.4.1945:17 July, Malmö, 1 mile – Hägg 1st 4:01.3 (World record), Andersson 2nd 4:02.2.21 September, Stockholm, 1 mile – Anderssson 2nd 4:07.2, Hägg 4th 4:12.2. Strand 1st 4:04.8.World All-Time Top Ten at 1500 metres – End of 19453:43.0 Gunder Hägg (Sweden) (1) Gothenburg 7. 7. 19443:44.0 Arne Andersson (Sweden) (2) Gothenburg 7. 7. 19443:46.2+ Rune Persson (Sweden) (3) Malmö 17. 7. 19453:46.6+ Lennart Strand (Sweden) (1) Stockholm 21. 9. 19453:47.4+ Rune Gustafsson (Sweden) (3) Malmö 18. 7. 19443:47.8 Jack Lovelock (NZ) (1) Berlin 6. 8. 19363:47.8 Arne Ahlsén (Sweden) (1) Örebro 26. 7. 19433:47.9 Walter Mehl (USA) (1) Fresno, California 29. 6. 19403:48.0 Glenn Cunningham (USA) (2) Fresno, California 29. 6. 19403:48.2 Erik Ahldén (Sweden) (4) Stockholm 29. 6. 1945Note: + intermediate time during One mile race.World All-Time Top Ten at One mile – End of 19454:01.3 Gunder Hägg (Sweden) (1) Malmö 17. 7. 19454:01.6 Arne Andersson (Sweden) (1) Malmö 18. 7. 19444:03.8 Rune Persson (Sweden) (3) Malmö 17. 7. 19454:04.1 Sydney Wooderson (GB) (2) Gothenburg 9. 9. 19454:04.6 Rune Gustafsson (Sweden) (2) Gothenburg 1. 7. 19434:04.8 Lennart Strand (Sweden) (1) Stockholm 21. 9. 19454:06.0 Bill Hulse (USA) (2) Berea, Ohio 31. 7. 19434:06.1 Gil Dodds (USA) (3) Berea, Ohio 31. 7. 19434:06.6 Arne Ahlsén (Sweden) (3) Gothenburg 1. 7. 19434:06.7 Glenn Cunningham (USA) (1) Princeton, New Jersey 16. 6. 1934Performance made indoors:4:04.4 Glenn Cunningham (USA) (1) Hanover, New Hampshire 3. 3. 1938The only performances to survive from the 1930s in the Top Ten were Lovelock’s 1500 metres and Cunningham’s indoorand outdoor mile. Sweden now provided seven of the 10 fastest 1500 metres runners and six of the 10 fastest milers. Ofthe 20 performances listed above, all but four were achieved in races won by Swedish runners, and there seemed no reasonto suppose that the Swedes would not continue to dominate the events for some years to come, led by Lennart Strand.According to the Hungarian Scoring Tables, the 1500 metres was slightly the higher quality event as 3:48.2 for 1500metres was reckoned to be worth 4:06.3 for the mile.10 BMC News : Winter 2005

National endurance symposiumStratford-on Avon, October 23rdThe meeting commenced with a short introduction fromBMC Chairman Norman Poole who then went on tointroduce Dave Collins, UKA Performance Director. Dave,recently appointed, gave a talk, illustrated with slides beforetaking questions. Details of his presentation are to be foundon the BMC web-site.From there Bruce Tulloh, European 5k Champion 1962,went through some of the situations facing Kenyan runners,especially poverty, average wages £50 per month. Hereferred to the thrice daily running eg 06.30--40 minsrunning, 10.30---main session of the day with an easy runaround 18.30 with bed at 21.00. At thirteen a youngster,and there were plenty of them, would run around 20 milesper week. Bruce then introduced Alex Stanton, coach toPaula Radcliffe, who started when taking his own children tothe track...founded his own group...boys absent, all playingfootball... took advice from Harry Wilson. He went throughhis time with Paula from her early days.Items of interest included her plan to rest every 8th day, themake up of her work to total 10k in one session eg, 1600,rest,400 rest etc until 10k was completed.Alex felt that three outside ingredients were needed for theathlete to maximise their potentail. A physio, a dietician anda doctor, clearly a significant cost factor. He illustrated thisby saying that in France a blood test could be obtained in24 hours by paying £28 with results next day, in his viewcritical to performance monitoring. Something rather moreexpensive elsewhere. He said ice-packs/ice baths plusmassage played a vital role in "preparation". Other pointswere that speed was part of the programme all year longand that Paula's "steady" runs were not for the faint hearted.The group broke into clinics before lunch, each led byprominent coaches including the afore-mentioned.After lunch Zara Hyde_Peters, introduced Dave Arnold, longtimecoach of Kelly Holmes. Dave took us through his timeas her mentor from when she first appeared aged 12 in1982 up til the time she switched coaches. As a young girlshe rarely missed training, commencing with sessions just12 to 20 minutes long when 12. She raced sparingly. As weknow she went into the Army for a period but came back toDave in 1992 and found success under his tutelage. Hermany injuries meant she spent an inordinate amount of timein the pool and in the gym in order to retain elements offitness, without this her come-backs would have been longerin coming.He recalled some of her better sessions and one of 6 x 400in 60.34 (2 mins rest) is one that most male club runnerswould envy!Next Alan Storey intrduced Lyndsay Dunn, whose coaching"stable" has included Brendan Foster, Charlie Spedding andcurrently Nick McCormick. He emphasised that these menneeded a personal approach, what worked for one would notwork for another. Some did not "mature" until late twentieseg Spedding at 28. However all did solid mileage. Foster50/60 mpw when a junior,rising to 100mpw for his 5kperiod, sometimes to 120mpw. Spedding was running asimilar mileage(in winter) as a junior but it did not pay offfor a long time. Nick McCormick in the 2003 winter ran70/80 mpw. He experimented with altitude at Boulder inApril this year, training at different levels of altitude. And, asmentioned elsewhere, he has improved sensationally.(Ed. note. It is not possible to re-produce all the data givenby these coaches but those attending must have realisedthey were hearing from those that had "been there"˚andhave been grateful to have had the chance to hear fromthem).Magical 5-minute a day strength routine1) Grab a pair of light dumbbells and get into press-up position-arms straight and directly beneath your shoulders.2) Do a press-up. Then bring your feet underneath you, one at a time slowly.3) Keeping your back flat, stand up. (This is a deadlift)4) From a standing position, curl the weights up to your shoulders.5) Swing your elbows out to your sides so the weights are above your shoulders.6) Lower your body until your thighs are parallel with the floor. Pause, then stand up as you press the weights overhead.Repeat until five minutes has expired. Each week add a little more weight to the dumbbells until maximum is reached.This is the world's fastest full-body work-out!BMC News : Winter 2005 11

Running away from the problemby John AndersonThe gene pool is the same --- the tracksare still the same distance round --- theopposition still has only two legs --- thecompetitive opportunities are morefrequent and more varied --- and inaddition to that funding is moreavailable and more plentiful unlike thestars of the 70’s and 80’s and earlier inthe last century. Today’s runners have itmade.In the 70’s and 80’s and even more soin the 50’s and 60’s “perks” were hardto come by. There was no LotteryFunding and any financial support forrunners, if it came at all, came fromhelpful local butchers or otherbusinessmen who saw runners asrepresenting the kind of people theywished to be associated with or simplyout of spirit of Civic responsibility andpride. The very best consideredthemselves fortunate if one of the shoecompanies provided them with freegear.So what happened? How come with allthese benefits and improvements ourMiddle and Distance running successhas diminished almost to the point ofdisappearing. Curiously, the womenhave improved though even here onecould argue that the improvement hasbeen marginal. Certainly we haveheroines such as Paula and Kelly, butwe also had great women athletes inthe past. Ann Packer’s 800m OlympicGold medal in 1964 in a wet Tokyo oncinders is one shining example. Indeedthe roll call of brilliant British middledistance women from the 60’s, 70’sand 80’s includes not only the delightfuland successful Lillan Board but manyother Olympic finalists too numerous tomention.Indeed in Mexico in 1968, despite thealtitude, we had two women in the800m final, namely Sheila Taylor (laterCarey) and Pat Cropper. Four years laterin Munich in 1972 the 1500m wasintroduced and Sheila Carey was againwas one of two British women in thefinal. Interestingly, Sheila’s PB prior togoing to the Olympics was 4mins 16secs and the official World Recordachieved at the previous year’sEuropean Championships was 4mins9.7 secs. Sheila, whom I had theprivilege of coaching and undoubtedlyone of the toughest and dedicatedathletes I have ever met, broke theWorld Record by almost 5 secsrecording 4 mins 4.8 secs, yet didn’tget a medal!!The history of British Women’s MiddleDistance running is littered withheroines, high achievers, and worldclassperformers. British women haveconsistently held their own with thebest in the world. Only occasionally hasthere been a hiatus and that hasusually been followed by even greatersuccess --- to the present day!!So what happened to the men? Icertainly do not have all the answersbut I can make a few observations.The most obvious is the rise and rise ofAfrican runners, particularly Ethiopiansand Kenyans. Two significant reasonsfor this would appear to be money andopportunity. The Kenyans recognisedthat with the advent of professionalismtheir life style and culture meant thatthey were well prepared to takeadvantage of an opportunity to gainunrivalled wealth simply by running.The second concomitant reason was theproliferation of races, like the Grand Prixcircuit in Europe and the profitable roadrunning circuit particularly in the USA.Indeed, when marathons and halfmarathonsbecame sources ofsubstantial income African runnersdemonstrated that their dominance ofthe marathon was as predictable astheir track dominance.It is reasonable to suppose that therewill be no diminution of the Africanflood of fabulous talent unless or untilAfrica becomes highly industrialised andadopts Western culture, ideas andlifestyle - ----- don’t hold your breath!!So then, is middle and long distanceracing a lost cause so far as Britishmale middle distance and long distancerunning is concerned? I suppose theanswer to that depends on whether youare optimistic or pessimistic.If you are pessimistic stop reading nowand take up tiddly winks!! Running andracing is in the blood and is part of theEnglish / British heritage. We havealways had great runners and they stillexist but they need to be found,nurtured and inspired.12 BMC News : Winter 2005

If there is a deficiency in excellencethen the problem does not lie with thecurrent and future crop of runners butrather with the system, themanagement of the system and those ofus who describe ourselves as coaches.If, first of all we look at some of thepast heroes, it would be my view thatathletes such as Seb Coe, Tom McKean,Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, DavidMoorcroft, Peter Elliot, if they were intheir prime today would give anyrunners in any part of the World aserious run for their money. None of theabove feared any athlete from any othercountry and saw their task, not only tobeat the opposition but to prove thatthey were the best in the world – andthey were!!Even their performances from theirheyday still attract admiration. Seb’s800m world record for example is stillall but unattainable. Think of any one ofthe above and rerun in your mind yourfavourite performance, be it worldrecord, Olympic gold medal orwhatever, and whilst that may be thestuff of dreams, we should be in thebusiness of turning dreams into reality.My conviction, having coached peoplelike Moorcroft, Bedford, EddyWedderburn, John Graham, PatScammell, Richy Harris, Yobes Ondieki,Liz McColgan, Sheila Carey, LynneMcDougall, to name but a few, is thatthe recent generations of youngstershave as much talent, if not more, butare under - achieving.There are probably as many answers /solutions as there are coaches, butthere are some aspects which areworthy of debate and certainly weshould be prepared to indulge in debateif we are really interested in raising theflag and reminding the world that weare capable of making an impact ondistance running.There are three main areas that meritscrutiny and in no particular order ofpriority they are:-1. Coaching2. “The System”3. Identification, Selection andRetention of Athletes.CoachingLet’s start with the easy bit – any coachworth his or her salt will regard it asmandatory that they should continue tostudy, read and absorb knowledge andinformation apposite to a greaterunderstanding of the processesinfluencing the improvement ofperformance, throughout their entirecoaching life.Coaches come in all shapes and sizes,with different levels of expertise,ambition and passion. Some direct theirenthusiasm and skill towards their clubteams, whether it be track, crosscountryor road. Others see their role asdeveloping individual athletes to GreatBritain level and beyond.Whatever role the coach takes orwhatever the coach wants to achieve inhis or her work with athletes, it is atruism that our traditional system isboth beneficial and detrimental to theproduction of world-class athletes. Wehave built into our thinking and systema complex series of conflicting ideas.Some are created by a mis-placedconcept of loyalty, whether athlete /coach or club / athlete centred. Someare created by the artificial andsubjective assessment of whatconstitutes a good, very good orexcellent coach. Others are created bythe artificial and nonquantifiablecoaching qualification. In other words itis not the level of coaching qualificationwhich determines the great coach butrather it is the output over a period ofyears. This can be the production ofexcellent teams within the Club orplaying a development role within theclub by assisting young athletes todevelop into good seniors.One proposition is that the proliferationof Level 1 and level 2 coaches hasmeant an enthusiastic group of clubbased workers who cater well for thosevery young athletes joining the club forthe first time. Whilst the work they do isexcellent for the health of Club athleticsit may not necessarily help thedevelopment of world-class athletes.The real risk is that in their enthusiasmand eagerness to work with youngsterscoaches may find within their squadexceptional talents and understandablywish to keep those youngsters withintheir ambit. This usually means that thecoach learns by experimenting withyoung athletes which may or may notbe successful but whatever happens thecoach, if he or she makes mistakes canalways go back and start again with anew group – in other words a coachhas many career opportunities – but theathlete only has one career.Is there a solution to this problem? Inmy view it requires a fundamentalrethink in coach education and anattempt to change the culture.UKA have a responsibility to meet theneeds of their members and thisincludes coaches. The system, whilstencouraging club loyalty, should offer apathway for those coaches who wish tobe associated with aspirations to worldclass. These coaches should then beencouraged on the one hand tocontinue to service their club but shouldbe brought together frequently to workwith those youngsters who also aspireto excellence. This could be done on aregional basis involving the new Hubprinciple.There would be a responsibility onthese coaches to actively scout andrecruit up and coming young talent andBMC News : Winter 2005 13

to participate in group sessions both onand off the track, road or country.Bringing together the best youngathletes to work with highly motivatedcoaches offers the only structured wayof putting British runners back at thetop (and for that matter Britishcoaches). This would require afundamental change of heart andattitude from those who would directendurance in order to ensure that meritruled and not some other criteriaunrelated to the coaches talent.Lest any one challenge the concept thatworking with other high achieving, highaspiring coaches will not bring progress,let me remind you that if you wish to flywith eagles you don’t swim with theducks.Additionally I would remind you thatKenyans and Ethiopians frequently fromtheir earliest days run with other giftedathletes thus is the spirit of competitionand racing engendered.The SystemThe system can be viewed as two parts.On the one hand the Club System,which is the essence of British athleticsand running, and on the other handUKA charged with enhancing the sportfor the benefit of its members and forensuring that the quality of BritishAthletics at International level reflectsthe investment made by theGovernment. Unfortunately these twoobjectives are often not compatible.The tendency of UKA under theprevious coaching regime had been totreat coaches in two separate ways. Ifthe coach was part of their system,either paid or unpaid, this led to anumber of privileges includinginvitations to accompany NationalTeams. This in turn afforded thosecoaches who travelled with teams andwho were involved with squad sessionsetc the opportunity to engage with moreathletes. No merit-based criteria wasevident in the process by which thesecoaches came to be appointed.The coaches who worked with clubstherefore unless they were fortunate indiscovering a talented athlete could findno way of progressing beyond the clubto National and International level. Thisinevitably meant that many gifted andhighly motivated coaches felt frustratedand overlooked.Fortunately, there is a new regime andthe prospect of a new culture under thenew Performance Director, Dave Collins.He has made it clear that he valuescoaches in a way that has never beenseen in the previous administration. Notonly has he eschewed the idea that allgood coaches come from abroad but heis intent on giving homegrown coachesthe opportunity to excel. He visualises apathway which would enable thosecoaches who genuinely wish to fly withthe eagles to get their wings in fullflight.The process has begun by fundingcoaches to improve their knowledge andskill and this will undoubtedly assist asthe concept is developed.Whether we like it or not if the aim is toraise British running talent to the topthen the most talented athletes mustwork with the most talented coaches.Clearly if this is to work coaches whohave contributed to the athletes successand who wish to be involved in theirfurther progress should become part ofthe team.Future success will result fromsuccessful teams – groups of athletes;groups of coaches and groups of othertechnical experts coalescing as one.Identification, Selection andRetention of AthletesFirst find the athlete!! Make sure theyhave chosen the right parents!! Bepatient – it can take years - DaveMoorcroft broke the world 5k record 14years after I started coaching him. Hisearly ambition was to be selected byWarwickshire for the English Schools –he was unsuccessful!We need to scour the country to spotthe early talent. We need people with agood eye who can look not only at thewinners of races but those who arecoming 2nd, 3rd, 4th,and 5th and whoone day might be the new Moorcroft.1. To this end we should create a bodyof talent spotters who would haveresponsibility for a particular areaand who would be expected toscrutinise all the schools in their areaand recruit vigorously.2. These youngsters should be recruitedstraight into a County Squad andkept together as a unit, meetingregularly and being evaluated byexperienced coaches.3. Each of these athletes should beencouraged to join their local clubproviding the club is prepared to offersupport and cooperation.4. Membership of these groups shouldbe viewed as a privilege and highstandards should be expected.5. Local club coaches who work withthis group should be invited to bepart of the team with the athletesfrom their club who are part of thesquad.6. Talent spotters are critical and neednot be coaches. Former athletes andeven parents could be recruited towatch the local schools.14 BMC News : Winter 2005

7. Clearly good relationships with the from South Africa to give a lecture onlocal school are fundamental. physiological aspects of endurancerunning. Since I regard Tim Noakes asIt goes without saying that if you keep something of a guru I flew down fromdoing the things you have always done Edinburgh to London (at my ownthen nothing changes.expense!) to listen and learn at the feetof an expert. To my amazement andI will finish where I started. I have no regret when I arrived at the venue thedoubt that here and now in Britain only other middle distance coach ofthere are “Seb Coes” , “Steve Ovetts”, significance was Frank Horwill. We“Dave Moorcrofts” et al waiting to be remarked on how sad it was that noonefrom the establishment had seen fitguided towards their destiny. I am evenmore convinced that we have coaches to attend. Perhaps that should haveof world-class who can lead them there. been a barometer on the health ofIf we are willing to change ---- we can British distance running.do anything!!!!Some years ago one of my heroesProfessor Tim Noakes arrived in LondonBook reviewThe World Junior Athletics Annual 2004/5 is surely the mostcomprehensive book relating directly to juniors published . This 140page tome is published by World Junior Athletic News at 40, BerkeleyRd, London, NW9 9DG . It contains the results for the 2004 World's,plus cross-country results 2004/5 and the performances of world juniorsat senior championships. Where else would you find world bestperformers to 50 places? World record progression for juniors, world agebests? There is a feast of information for those who are interested andespecially for those who seek to compare UK youngsters with the rest ofthe athletic fraternity…there are many surprises for those who arecomforted with the thought that we have junior riches just waiting toswamp the rest of the world. This book is highly recommended.Peta BeePeta Bee, always a useful source ofinfo writes in the Times. Here issome more data from her:-Jeanette Crosland, a consultantdietician to the BOA, says that dietaryprotein is known to be required toenhance the recovery of muscles afterintense exercise, it should not beincreased too greatly at the expenseof all carbohydrate for people playingsport. "A high-carbohydrate snackalong with some protein isparticularly useful as an immediatepre-workout meal" Crosland says. Butthe type of carbohydrate consumedcan also be influential. In two studiespublished recently in the InternationalJournal of Sports Nutrition, Dr EmmaStevenson, a researcher at theUniversity of Nottingham School ofBiomedical Sciences, looked at howthe glycemic index of a pre-workoutmeal affects performance.Dr Stevenson gave athletes either ahigh-GI breakfast of cornflakes andmilk, white bread with jam and asports drink or a low GI meal ofmeusli and milk, tinned peaches, anapple, a yoghurt and apple juice andasked them to carry out a 60-minuterun three hours later. She found thatthe low-GI, pre-exercise meal wasmor ebeneficial in terms of improvingperformance."It promoted fat oxidization, sparingcarbohydrate for use later in the run,which led to a significantly betterperformance". In another experimentelite cyclists were fed either low-GIlentils or high-GI mashed potato. Anhour later both groups commencedto cycle and the former were able tokeep going 20 minutes longer thanthe latter. Further research hasindicated the benefits are maintainedup to three hours later.”BMC News : Winter 2005 15

World championships 2005Men's 800James McIlroy, despite the set-back ofthe AAA's, continued his excellent form.The first round, six heats, required firstthree in each plus six fastest "losers" togo forward. Five of the six came fromthe first two heats. Their opening lapswere 51.72 and 52.95. The third heatonly offered 57.06, the fourth 54.46,the fifth 53.34 and the last 53.13 andthis latter provided the last "fastestloser". Clearly the early runners laiddown the standard and the remainderdid not respond. Our man secured animpressive second place in the openingheat, displaying something of his newfound confidence, with a 1:46.44.The next round required first two, plustwo, from three races. No doubtconscious of this, the opening lap inheat one the bell was reached in51.18,replicating the spirit shown inthe initial round. With the fourth manclocking 1:44.80 at the finish. Ignoringthe obvious the second race gave a belltime of 53.42 with overall slowerfinishing times. The third, and lastrace, with a recognition of what wasneeded, dashed to a bell time of 51.94but this time most of the competitorscould not hold the needed pace but thethird man came home in 1:44.90 andthis was not enough to secure a finalspot. James McIlroy ran 1:45.91 for aseasons best in this race.Men's 1500Qualification was three heats, first fiveplus nine "fastest losers". Heat one ranat 57.37, 1:58.56 and 2:55.32.Michael East ran fifth to guaranteegoing forward with next five behindhim all going through. The secondheat, 58.87, 2:01.73 and 3:02.47surrended all chance of throwing up"fastest losers" but the last heat ,56.94, 1:58.98 and 2:59.95 bit thebullet and provided the remaining fourother places available.Nick McCormick drew the second heatand the 1200 was reached as shownabove. At this point all were flying anda last 300 of 39 seconds provedbeyond him. So ended a magnificentseason for him in which he hadimproved his PB by six seconds... atthe sharp end!!! Both he and hiscoach, Lindsay Dunn, deserve ourwarmest congratulations. We can lickour lips in anticipation of what theymight achieve next year.The semi-finals demanded first fiveplus only two "fastest losers" in order tomake the final. The first was far fromextravagant being won in 3:40.51 withno less than eight men finishing withinone second. In the other heed wastaken of this time and bell was reachedin 2:52.72, no less than nine secondsfaster than the other race. Here anunwell Michael East could onlymanage 3:40.27 for eleventh. Noteonly 37 starters from 200(?) countries.Women's 800Five heats with first four plus four"fastest losers" to go forward. SusanScott ran in the second heat, finishingfourth in a time close to her season'sbest. The fourth heat gave the, thus far,fastest bell time…60.29. The last heat,surprise-surprise, gave the fastest belltime, 59.15 and provided three of theextra places, the fourth coming fromthe previous heat.Three semi-finals. First two plus two.Sue Scott drew the first heat and witha significant bell time of 58.82 itprovided both the extra places for thefinal. Our girl, despite running aseason's best of 2:01.77, was eighth.Women's 1500Two heats (Totalling 28 runners!!!) firstfive plus two to go forward. Heat onereached 1200 in 3:26.73 with aconsequent modest winning time of4:10.58. Helen Clitheroe ran in heattwo and a 1200 time of 3:20.77enabled her to finish in seventh placeand pick up the last "fastest loser" berthin 4:09.13.Come the final an average 1200 timeof 3:19.97 threw up a last 400 of40.38….. and that’s around 53/400pace!!! Despite running well under 60second pace for the last 300 Helenwas back in tenth but with a season'sbest of 4:05.19. Note all four Russiansmade the final.16 BMC News : Winter 2005

Various methods of improving endurance1. The long steady runThe key word here is what is meant by "steady". Onephysiologist of note suggested that athletes take theirresting pulse before an outing, then deduct it from200then, 60% of the result and add it to the restingpulse. This rate should be achieved throughout the run.For example -resting pulse before run=60bpm, deductedfrom 200=140bpm, 60% of that =84bpm+60bpm-144bpm throughout the run. A problem with thisformula is that not all athletes have a max. pulse of200bpm, some more and some less.Another method of calculating the effective speed of asteady run is based on the 4-second rule whererecognized distances slow by an average of 4-secondsper 400 metres. The average time on one's best 1500metres per 400 metres is taken to which is added 20-seconds, this is converted to a mile time. For example,given best time of 5mins/1500m, that is 80secs/400mplus 20 seconds=100secs/400secs=4x100secs=6mins42secs/mileapprox..2. Running at your actual or estimated 10kspeed10k speed is 90% aerobic, it's also 90% of your VO2max. One can either run 10k full out once per week ordo a repetition session covering more than 10k indistance, for instance , 7x1600 with 100m jog recoveryin 45secs. If no 10k time has been recorded , take theaverage time per 400m in your best 1500mperformance and add 12 seconds to it. Given a time of4mins / 1500m, this is 64 / 400m + 12 secs =76secs / 400m = 5mins. 03secs / mile = 31.40 secs /10k3. Running at your actual 5k or estimated speed5k speed is 80% Aerobic and 95% of the VO2 max.One can either run a measured 5k course full out or dorepetitions once per week. To estimate one's 5k speed ,simply add 8 seconds to the average 400m time in yourbest 1500metres. Given a 1500 time of 4mins 30secs,this will be 72secs/400m+8secs=80secs=5.20mile(16:40/5k). A good sessionfor this time would be 7x800 in 2:40 with 100m jog in45 secs.4. Running at your actual 3k or estimatedspeed3k is 60% aerobic and 100% of your VO2 max. Toestimate one's 3k speed, add 4secs to one's average400m time in one's best 1500 metres. Given a time of3:45 / 1500 this is 60secs / 400m + 4 secs = 64 secs/ 400 = 8 mins / 3k. Two extreme sessions should bealternated, 4 x 1500 in 4 mins with 400 jog recovery (3mins) and 16 x 400 in 64 with 100m recovery in 45secs.A specimen 21 say cycle to boost endurance in12 weeksDay 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7Day 8Build up to running for 2 hours at training effectpace.35 mins slow recovery run.Run 10k at maximum effort or 7 x 1600 with100m jog (45secs) recovery at calculated 10kspeed.35 mins slow recovery runRun 5k at max speed or 7 x 800 with 100 jogrecovery at calculated 5k speed.RESTRun 3k at max speed or 4 x 1500 with 400 jog(3mins) at estimated 3k speed35 mins recovery runDay 9 As for day 1Day 10Day 11Day 12Day 13Day 15Day 16Day 17Day 18Day 19Day 20Day 2135mins runRun up and down a long hill where ascents total3k.RESTCycle 40 miles at 15mph (Stationary or mobile)Run for 6 minutes at full effort. Recover fully,then run half the distance done in three minuteswith 3 mins rest x6. Do not repeat the 6 minuterun again until the recovery reaches 90 seconds.35 mins runRun 600's 18secs slower than one's best. Pulserecovery 120bpm within 90secs.RESTCircuit training (six exercises minimum).16 x 400 at estimated 3k pace with 100m jog.Start day 1 again.compiled by Frank HorwillBMC News : Winter 2005 17

Just another wintercompiled by Frank HorwillThe famed New Zealand coach, Arthur Lydiard, assertedthat many athletes do precisely the same training each yearand only improve marginally. One might be a hundred milesa week enthusiast. Did this volume bring spectacularresults? If it did, perhaps 150 miles will bring even greaterrewards. If it didn't and even a long cessation from runningdue to injury, one might have to rethink one's winterstrategy which will enable one to kkep injury free andsuccessful.The case for voluminous training has been well made out inpractice and research. One of the parameters associatedwith peak fitness is mitochondrial density in the muscle.These sausage-shaped cells, visible only though ultrapowerfulmicroscopes, can be likened to "furnaces" whichburn fat and carbohydrates to produce the chemical ATP. Allphysical activity is launched with the production of thissubstance. A chicken, which cannot fly, has practicallynone; a racing-pigeonwhich can fly at 100mph for 100miles, is saturated with them.When the scientist, Holloszy, made some of his rats run 2hours daily at 50% VO2 max, about 65% of maximumheart-rate on specially calibrated treadmills for 14 weeks,their mitochondrial numbers increased 100% and theiraerobic enzyme cytochrome c improved by 50%. Now,running at 65% MHR is not very fast; given a maximumpulse of 200bpm, this works out at running at 130bpm.What would happen if we ran for the same duration at 60%VO2max, about 73% of maximum heart-rate? Using thesame maximum, the pulse rate would be just over 140bpm,about one and a half minutes per mile slower thanmarathon pace. The evidence is that African runners andpast and present great white runners do their mileage at75% VO2max. which is 84% of MHR. That's around165bpm throughout all outings. A substantial increase inspeed over Holloszy's rats and a mammoth increase inmitochondria. The so-called steady run, so beloved byBritish runners, should not be so steady!! If we get this intoour heads, we most probably won't be training the same aslast year or previous years.Prof. Tim Noakes (The author of LORE OF RUNNING), thefamed South African physiologist, in his comprehensivestudy of the African and European runner , declared that theAfrican trains much faster than the European ALL THETIME. If you are not a pulse-monitor devotee, here is a tableof suggested speeds for longer runs based on your 10ktime:-Best 10k timeSuggested target for longer runs43:30 (7:00/mile) 7:30 to 7:40/mile41:26 (6:40/mile) 7:10 to 7:20/mile39:22 (6:20/mile) 6:50 to 7:00/mile37:17 (6:00/mile) 6:30 to 6:40/mile34:11 (5:30/mile) 6:00 to 6:10/mile33:09 (5:20/mile) 5:50 to 6:00/mile32:07 (5:10/mile) 5:40 to 5:50/mile31:05 (5:00/mile) 5:30 to 5:40/mile30:42 (4:50/mile) 5:20 to 5:30/mile29:00 (4:40/mile) 5:10 to 5:20/mile27:58 (4:40/mile) 5:00 to 5:10/mileNow, this may be new territory for many. It's not much goodsaying at the outset, "I can't do that". Better to say, "I willtry". In fact most will be able to hold a target pace for 8miles and quite a few for 10 miles en route to a 20-miler. Astart has been made and with repetition and perseveranceall runs will be at the required pace as Australian RonClarke, holder of numerous world records from 3k to onehour was to discover. His first excursions after a 4-year layoff were painful, but with time, running 30k at 5-minuteswere automatic. He didn't do much else other than that andwas well rewarded. I think many UK distance runnerswould be happy to record his times: 27:39 for 10k, 13:16for 5k and 8:19 for two miles. We can start with five runsa week of five miles each with one day at ten miles andprogress to a mile extra a month to a minimum of five runsat ten miles and one at twenty miles a week. Whether youwish to compete at cross-country or not, your VO2 max (Ameasure of fitness) will be hoiked up by 15%. But, if youhave cross-country expectations, is there a predominantlyaerobic speed which will transform you into a toughcompetitor? There is. The last British (male) to win twoworld c-c championship silver medals, Tim Hutchings, henow commentates for Eurosport, trained weekly at thespeed which the physiologist Dudley discovered that dailyexposure to just ten minutes per day would TRIPLEmitochondria in 12 weeks. The magic speed is 3k pace. Ifyou haven't got a 3k time , add 4 seconds to your averagetime in your best 1500 metres. Here are some sessions totry for a 9 min/3k runner (72/400):-Week 1 16 x 400 in 70-72 with 100 jog recovery in 45secs.Week 2 8 x 800 in 2:20-2:24 with 200 jog in 90 secs.Week 3 6 x 1200in 3:30-3:36 with 300 jog in 2 mins 15secs.Week 4 4 x 1500 in 4:40-4:48 with 400 jog in 3 mins.Week 5 3 x 2k in 5:50-6:00 with 500 jog in 3 mins 45secs.18 BMC News : Winter 2005

Week 6 24 x 200 in 34-36 with 20 seconds stationaryrest.Week 7 8 x 1k in 2:55-3:00 with 100 walk recovery in 2mins.Newcomers to this type of training should do half of thelisted sessions for the first 7 week block then progress tomaximum. An occasional substitute can be to run 2 milesat maximum effort with others. For a change, a fartlekequivalent can be done on suitable surfaces, for instance, inplace week 4 as listed, run hard for 5 mins, jog 3 minsx4.Another noted physiologist, Veronique Billat, also backs 3kspeed as a winner. She advocates a 6 minute test run atmaximum effort (This might be a second a lap faster than3k speed). On another day run half the distance achievedon the test in three minutes six times with three minutesrecovery. When accomplished on time, reduce the recoverytime in 15 second blocks down to 90 seconds and then doanother test run. Example -6 minute test run = 2k distancecovered. Training will be 6x1k in 3 mins with 3 mins restreducing to 90 secs in due course. Billat suggests that thissession pushes the accumulation of lactic acid in the body;so you can run faster in greater comfort.If your basic speed let you down in the dash for the tapelast season, what are you going to do about it? Harry Wilson(Ovett's coach) had a simple answer : " Distance runnershave to sprint at the end of a race when they are tired. Theyshould replicate this in training by doing a small amount ofsprinting after a middle-distance session". A good start is toa 20m fast run up and sprint 30mx6. The sprint is initiatedby a violent and correct arm action. Poor technique isquickly revealed in this work out which the old Sovietcoaches called "Pure speed". Leg strength should beinvestigated in poor finishers and if found wanting a goodstrengthener is to hop up a gradient every other day for 25metres , gradually extending the distance to 50 metres .Well, are you going to do the same work this winter as last?If it did not work as well as expected , rethink your nest sixmonths training .BMC News : Winter 2005 19

Derek Ibbotson’sviews on todayMile world record 3:57.2 - 1957Re our present middle-distancerunners, I get very disappointed withtheir tactics in the heats etc. Youknow the strength etc of the others inyour heat because of TV showingmost of the Grand Prix races etc.You may work out that you have aslight chance to qualify for the nextround but why run in 7th or 8thplace and finish in 3:48 or so? It isbetter to be aggressive -take the leadif it is to slow. It is better to be beateninto 6th or 7th but run 3:43 or better.The problem has been in thesponsorship money making it easierfor them-I know that they are nowgoing to change it drastically. Make itso that they get better sponsorshipvia results during the season in bigchampionships or world rankingplaces.When I was in charge of Pumasponsorship money from 1966 to1992 the retainer was small and themain money was gained byperformance on times on the track (orheights/distance in the field).We could do with getting the top 8 or10 in particular in track eventstogether so they can train togetherand push each other in training etcunder the guidance of a top coach(obviously their own coaches wouldhave an input with their personalknowledge of the athletes).In my day there was no money as anincentive but I just wanted to be thebest in the world and that drove methe extra mile in training. I would setout my session for the day and if itwas going well I would decide toanother 10 minutes trainingEditor's Note: Derek, in common witha number of contributors has drawnattention to, in his/ their view, thedesirability/benefit of group trainingsessions with like class runners.Where has it all gone?Lack of talent in middle-distance and distance running is not simply a Britishdisease. In turn, Finland, Sweden, the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Spain,Russia, New Zealand and Australia have all produced world-beaters and have allslipped to a greater or lesser extent. Britain cannot solve the problem by itselfalthough that is no reason not to try.The nub of the problem is that there are now fewer young people taking upmiddle-distance and distance running in the developed countries, as an examplethere are in 2005 barely 25% the number of ranked (ie of reasonable standard)marathon runners in Britain than there were 20 years ago. If the base fromwhich talent arises is contracting to such a degree then standards will fall.Many of the various explanations offered are beyond UKA to rectify. Life style,alternative (easier?) sports and activities etc. Above all else, the problem inBritain for athletics in general, is one of image. Whether or not it is theThatcherite influence, the value given to sport in Britain by the media is largelycommercially-driven and success is seen in monetary terms.The IAAF puts much effort into organizing development centers and seminars forThird world countries, highly commendable but should they consider similarprojects for the developed countries? There is certainly good commercial sense tothe idea for no matter how much starry-eyed enthusiasts like myself revel inwatching hosts of East Africans run rings around most of the rest of the world itis the TV watching public, who in the main fund the sport, may not be soenthralled.There is another view however, not one palatable to BMC members. That is torecognize that it is unlikely that European countries can seriously challenge theAfricans at 800 upwards , and so resources should be concentrated on thetechnical events - the hurdles, jumps and throws - where the Africans cannotcompete so easily.Planning to increase yourmileage this winter?Here is one way...by Bob PhillipsUnder 15 years of age. Week 1. Severe, 36 miles (6 days of 6 miles a day,inclusive of one track session with a 2 mile warm up and a mile warm down.)Week 2. Light. 12 miles (4 days of 2 miles fast, 1 day of 4 miles steady, 1circuit session.) Week 3. Moderate. 24 miles (1 day 8 miles, 4 days of 4 mileseach.) Week 4. Severe.45 miles. Week 5. Light 15 miles. Week 7. Moderate30 miles. Week 7. Severe 56 miles. Week 8. Light. Week 9. Moderate. 36miles. Week 10 Severe . 70 miles. Follow previous weekly pattern.Decide as you go on the comfortable maximum.Under 18. Week 1. Severe, 42 miles. Week 2. Light. One-third of severe week.(14 miles). Week 3. Moderate. Two-thirds of severe week. (28 miles). Week 4.Severe. Add one-quarter to severe week. (52 miles). Continue plan to requiredmaximum.Over 18. Week 1. Severe 48 miles. Follow outline plan.Note that each week of any volume should include a relative speed session(track reps. Or farlek), a hill rep. Session and one run longer than all the others.20 BMC News : Winter 2005

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Join the 5k revolutionFrom 1970 to 1980, fourteen UKrunners ran sub 13 mins.30secs.for 5k.The fastest being Brendan Foster with13:14.6 in 1974. From 1981 to 1990,ten UK men ran sub 13.20. The best ofthese was David Moorcroft with a worldrecord of 13:00.41 in 1982. From1991 to 2000 , ten athletes from theUK ran sub 13:20, the best being IanHamer with 13:09.80 in 1992. (In1986 and 1992 five men beat 13:30in each year)Moorcroft's mark is nine seconds clearof the next best UK performance. From800 through 2 miles the second bestever UK performer is barely one secondbehind the best. Can we not concludethat since 1982 the 5k has not been aUK headline event?A number of letters have appeared inAW over recent years lamenting ageneral decline in the numberscompeting in some distances events,especially in county championships andalso comparing recent performanceswith those of the past. One popularassertion is that numbers entering thesport are declining. This is not quietcorrect. (Editor's note, There are varyingviews on this matter as other articles inthis issue suggest.) Tens of thousandsrun in city marathons (and halfmarathons)annually in the UK. Morepeople run in the great North Run thancompete in the 5k throughout theworld! Have such events blown awaythe interest in track competition? Thereare big financial inducements tocompete on the road. We do not get, atclub level, such rewards nor do we getathletes wearing charity bibs whencompeting in a track race at a gradedmeeting.One of my athletes, in the first few daysof a new job, was seen going for a runat lunch- time. His fellow workers allasked him, "What marathon are youtraining for?" They were somewhatbewildered when he told them he was a5k track runner. If the same massiveorganisation was directed and publicitywas directed towards popularizing the 5and 10k track events the results wouldbe interesting.Running a marathon in four hours isseen, by the lay-public, as a greaterachievment than running 5k in 15minutes. What's more, many officiallypaid coaches and unpaid coaches ofwide experience are prepared to devoteconsiderable time to just getting peoplearound the marathon course in onepiece. These coaches have taken UKAcoaching exams to improve Britishmiddle-distance running, unless, ofcourse, they have specialized in themarathon.It's astonishing that at international levelwe have female 5k runners, eight to beprecise, who have run sub 15 minutesfor 5k which is a time not achieved insenior men's county championships inmore than half staged!!Harry Wilson asserted that whatcoaches ask runners to do is quitesimple. They are asked to adopt aregular pattern of training for a numberof years. They are required to gear thattraining to the demands of their chosenevent. There is little point runningaround the roads at 8 minute mile paceand expecting to run. 5k at 4mins 48secs mile pace. One man, fifty yearsago, ran but 28 miles per week all yearround but the make up of those 28miles was designed to generate fourconsecutive laps at the right speed.A 5k runner always has to rememberthat the event requires sustainedrunning. Not much point in doing13x400 in 64 secs and jogging 400mafter each rep. The total recovery timewill amount to 36 minutes (Editor'snote. That will obviously depend on thespeed of jog, see Bernie Ford in thisby Frank Horwillissue). Two and a half times longer thanthe race! An athlete aiming to run13:20 may START with that session,however, when achieved it will be timeto jog 300m recovery and with time,only 50m rest. One international toldme that his specific session was12x400 in 60secs with 400jog. Hewondered why he had run 13:40/5keleven times and could not improve.His GB vest was gained in the halfmarathon,but he could not run a goodhalf-marathon.The first man to break 14 mins for the5k, Gundar Haegg, relied on fartlekaound a measured course, running ittwice daily in one session which tookin uphill and downhill stretches. Theascents were sprinted followed byrelaxed downhill running. Full speedstriding on level stretches accounted fora mile of the circuit. In the winter, theroute was frequently covered in thicksnow and the temperature plunged tozero Centigrade. He still trained on.During 1942 he set ten world recordsfrom 1500 to 5k in 82 days.Ron Clarke was the first man to rununder 13:30 seconds for 5k in 1965and then 13:16.6 a year later. He hadan unusual running career settingAustralian junior records aged 18 from880 to 3k. A year later he broke theAustralian senior 2k record. During thisperiod he was coached by FranzStampfl who was repetition runningzealot. He then disappeared for threeyears to marry and father three children.He then returned to running in 1961with one thing clear in his mind, "Nomore interval training for me. Itdestroyed my love of running, however,if done properly it brings good results."He built up to running three times aday all year round using very much thesame routine throughout as follows:Morning run-5k fast in tracksuit. Midday-12kfast in tracksuit, followed bygym work. Evening run 21k fast in22 BMC News : Winter 2005

tracksuit. On Saturdays and Sundays heonly trained once per day running 32kat 3:08 per km (5 min mile pace).Once per week he found time to returnto his major dislike, doing 10 x 200fast with a 200 jog recovery.A prolific racer, he used his Europeantours to sharpen up frequently racing800 and 1500 in one week followed by3k and 2mile races. In the space of 44days in 1965, he set 12 world records,including the 5k twice, the 3 milestwice (I saw his first one at the WhiteCity Stadium), 6 miles and a staggering35 second improvement on the old 10krecord with 27:39.4, 16k, 20k, andone hour!!! In 1968, he returned fromaltitude training at Font Romeu to breakhis own 2 mile record with 8:19.8.Perhaps his greatest race was a 10krun in gale-force conditions at CrystalPalace (witnessed by you Editor so Ican endorse the author's description)where he lapped Dave Bedford threetimes! He finished but six secondsoutside his own record, many peopleincluding Clarke thought the run worth20 seconds faster at least which wouldhave created one of the longest durationdistance records.When an athlete loses most of his racesbefore an Olympic Games and thenwins the 5k gold medal and repeats theprocess four years later as Lasse Virendid in 1972 and 1976 we sit up andtake notice. One of his team-matesKaarlo Maaininka , who won a silverand a bronze in 1980 freely admittedreceiving two units of blood shortlybefore these races (Blood doping). Thesearch then was for steroid abuse.Viren's coach claimed to havediscovered the art of peaking for theright occasion. Each year he increasedthe volume of training which involvedrunning two or three times per day,seven days per week, 12 months ayear. Before major races he often justjogged for nine days. When 19, hewent to Brigham Young University inUtah where interval training was themainstay of fitness. He returned home awiser person, his English had improved,he had raced indoors for the first timeand he no longer feared overseas travel.At this point he joined up with RolfHaikkola whose methods were acocktail of Nurmi, Igloi, Lydiard andCerutty. (In The Coach magazine, lasttwo issues, his coaching of Viren isdiscussed in detail.)If you want to be a good 5k runner goto a coach who has had success at theevent male and female, past andpresent. Listen to him/her AND readwidely about the event. Your successwill be down to you. How much do youwant success?Bits and piecesThe recently formed association of clubs has alleged that UKA has donated huge sums of money to the BMC to stageraces to the neglect of young athletes competition. The sum given to the BMC was £2,500 to put out on the UKA's ownendurance races. The letter advising this was seemingly sent, without the authority of the association's committee, and apromised retraction has yet to surface.-----A Hertfordshire based coach is reputed to have said the BMC have failed to achieve their target to raise Britishmiddle-distance standards, those with ,memories will recall the Golden period, circa 1978-1995, when BMCmembers, coached by BMC coaches, collected a basketful of medals and world records! The further allegation thatthe BMC is not successful flies in the face of over-subscribed races and continuing support from UKA.-----Congratulations to Michael East in becoming the first Brit for eleven years to win the Emsley Carr mile.-----The book Athletics Enigmas by Alistair Aitken, reveals that Maria Mutola, who as a junior ran 4:12.72 and 1:57.63for African junior records, was very impressed by Seb Coe's training, as was her coach Margo Jennings. She tried touse the 1500 to train for 800's. She trained a lot over distance, mostly fartlek. Her long successful career does notneed detailing her. Coe's 10 day cycle would be:- day 1-5k speed, say 68/400, day 3-1500 speed, say 60/400, day5-3k speed, say 64/400, day 7-800 speed, say 56/400, day 9-400 speed, say 52/400. Intervening days was a 5 or10 mile run. Note the 4 second differential.BMC News : Winter 2005 23

Amanda PritchardIn 1994 Amanda Pritchard, born 18.3.1980, ran 25.1,2:10.66, and 4:45.0 as an under 15. She was numberone at 800 in her age group. The next year she ran 57.8and 2:12.99. In 1996 her best marks were 55.80, 2:7.32and 4:36.0 becoming the leading Brit at U/17 at both 400and 800.Come 1997 she was the leading girl at 400,U/20, with54.60 although only 17, plus fifth ranked U/20 at 800with 2:8.28. Her future seemed more than rosy. Nowhowever the wheels started to come off.In 1998 she clocked 57.8 for 400 and the trouble shedeveloped in her back would take years to correctlydiagnose and treat. Eventually she commenced training forthe 2000 season but a foot injury put an end to that.However she was able to achieve non-running training (shenow confesses she never ever wants to acqua-jog again) upto the time of the U/23 Championships but the damagedfoot did not allow participation. Readers can calculate howlong she has been out of action.In 2002 she met up with a surgeon who had been involvedwith working on ballet-dancers feet. An operation saw atendon removed from her arm and placed into the damagedfoot. The foot was in plaster for two months followed by asurgical boot for another six weeks. The surgeon insistedshe not run for nine months!!Next year Amanda moved to Ireland where she, somewhattentatively, joined some sprinters in light training. The footstill gave trouble but calls to surgeon caused him to insistthat there was nothing wrong, the repair was good. Evennow she finds that after twenty minutes running the footgoes numb but it does not seem to affect her currentperformances.Last year, 2004, saw a return to competition after SIXyears! A best 400 of 54.31 gave some hope for the futurebut tendonitis sidelined her until December (Readers willnot be surprised to learn her favourite TV programme isHolby City). The knee tendonitis matter prevented a fullweight training programme being carried out but a six week"holiday" to Australia at least gave a change of scenery!On her return her training group set off to a warm-weathertrip to Spain but after four days she sustained yet anotherinjury, this time a calf problem. Her 2005 seasoncommenced with some unsatisfactory 400's and herchances of achieving the nominal 53.5 for selection forWales in Melbourne seemed far away. So she switched herattention to the 800.It was with a degree of embarrassment that when lining upfor the "B" 800 at the BMC meet in Solihull she heard theannouncer tell the world that she had set her PB SEVENyears earlier!! Happily she was able to better it in that race,things were looking up.More trouble, a ligament problem meant that any chance ofa good run at the AAA's was gone as she could not run.Recovering from that she tried to enter the BMC "A" race atCrystal Palace but her form relegated her to the "B" race.Running around 60/61 for the first lap she finished in2:3.96, a massive PB. At last, after an eternity, her youthfulpromise looked like being fulfilled.Her next run was the "Welsh Trials" in Cardiff. The heatswere cancelled, not enough entries despite guest runnersand she lined up against, amongst others, Hayley Tullettand Karen Harewood. A slowish first lap found her leadingin around 63 and although passed she came again andposted a second lap of around 60/61 for a winning2:3.85.Coach Phil Banning must have been a proud man.If there is a moral to this tale it is that, in this case at least,"stickability" pays in the long run. This athlete has had ahistory that no doubt is echoed by many. At a time whenconcern is widely expressed about young athletes droppingout of the sport this lady has "hung in there".24 BMC News : Winter 2005

Developing high school 800/1600 meter runnersby Skip Stolley, Coordinator, AAF/CIF Coaching Programs (USA)The following is a capsule of myphilosophy for coaching distancerunners:• There is no MAGIC MILEAGEFIGURES that will guaranteesuccess in distance running.• We need to train our runners forRACING, not for mileage or speed.• In distance running, there is anenormous difference betweenrunning fast in TRAINING, andrunning fast in a RACE.• REST and RECOVERY are criticalaspects of training for the distanceraces.• Distance running is a MOVEMENTSKILL, not just aerobic exercise.• Distance runners do not PEAK withspeed work.• Distance runners need to be able torun fast -- like DISTANCE RUNNERS-- not like sprinters.• Every race is a TEST OF COURAGE.For runners to achieve their goalsand realize their full potential, wemust encourage them to take thattest.• The most important time we spendas coaches is NOT the time wespend with our athletes on the track,but the time we spend PLANNINGWHAT TO DO with our athletes onthe track.10 questions for us to consider1. The 800 and 1600m races arespeed/endurance events. Do we giveour athletes WITH SPEED a chanceto run these races.?2. What does the 800-METER RACEdemand you be able to do to besuccessful?You have to bring good basic speed(if not sprint speed) to the event.You have to be able to run the last45-50% (350-400 meters) of therace anaerobically.You have to be able to race andmaneuver in traffic.3. What does the 1600-METER RACEdemand you be able to do to besuccessful?You have to bring good basic speedto this event.You have to be able to run the last35-40% (550-650 meters) of therace anaerobically.You have to be able to execute andrespond to tactics.4. What does that tell us about how800-meter and 1600-meter runnersSHOULD TRAIN?Both 800 and 1600-meter runnersneed to train to develop good speed.Both 800 and 1600-meter runnersneed to do a good deal of anaerobictraining to develop a high-lactatetolerance.Both 800 and 1600-meter runnersneed to train to execute and respondto tactics in their races.5. How do SPRINT MECHANICS applyto running the middle distanceraces?THEY DON'T! There is no place inan 800 or 1600-meter race whereyou can run like a sprinter, high onthe balls of the feet with exaggeratedarm-action. 800/1600-meterrunners have to be able to run fastusing middle distance runningmechanics.6. Do we prepare our athletes to gointo their races WITH A PLAN forracing their opponents, or do theyusually just run to hit splits?7. Is a PACE PLAN a race plan?NO! Athletes have little or no controlover the pace of their races unlessthey can front-run start to finish. Ourathletes need to be prepared tocompete well in races of alldescriptions: fast-paced at the start,then slow-paced in the middle . . .slow-paced at the start, progressivelyfaster thereafter . . . and fast-pacedthroughout.8. What kinds of RACING WEAPONScan we train our athletes to takewith them to the starting line?The ability to run fast from the startof the race.The ability to initiate or respond tochanges in pace in the middle of therace.The ability to run fast at the end ofthe race.9. In an 800-meter race, do TACTICALCONSIDERATIONS differ for400/800 and 800/1600 typerunners?YES! 800/1600 runners have todevelop exceptional speed-staminato sustain the basic speed they haveover 800-meters.400/800 runners have to have theendurance to use their speed overthe last 200/300 meters of the race.10) In a 1600-meter race, doTACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS differfor 800/1600 and 1600/3200 typerunners?YES! 1600/3200 runners have to forcethe pace in the middle stages of therace to strip the 800/1600 types oftheir superior speed at the end ofthe race.800/1600 runners have to be ableBMC News : Winter 2005 25

to maintain contact with the frontrunnersin the middle of the race sothey can utilize their speed to catchand overtake them at the end.Applying strategy to the800 metersIn a race proceeding at 6-7 meters persecond, tactical errors can beirreversible. 800-meter runners have tomake decisions and respond to eventsin their race in a split second. Amoment's hesitation can be thedifference between winning and losingin a race that lasts about two minutes.runners have to bewary of others comingup from behind on theiroutside shoulder andbecoming "boxed-in". Inmost cases, they are farbetter off running a fewextra meters in lane 2or 3 through the first300-400 meters untilthe field strings-out toavoid all the contactand boxing-in thattends to occur in theinside lanes.• Running in lanes or alleys aroundthe first curveRunners behind at the break-line are ata disadvantage because they will haveto run wide for much of the remainderof the race in order to move up andgain position on the leaders. Theyshould make the most of the situationby not breaking for lane 1 or 2immediately from the outside lanes, andrun a diagonal straight line to the nextcurve to minimize the extra distancethey have to run and avoid thecongestion in the inside lanes.• A fast, early paceTactically, a fast first 400-meterspunishes an 800/1600-type runnermore than a 400/800-type runnerbecause it is closer to their maximum400-meter speed.• PassingRemember that half of this race is runon the curve! (More than half on wideradiustracks.) When passing, positionon the outside shoulder of the runnerahead must be gained on the curve inorder to move past on the straight andinto the inside lane before the curve.• Staying out of boxesThe 800 is almost always a tightlybunchedrace, so 800-meter runnershave to be able to run in traffic. Whenpositioned in lane 1 behind the leaders,• Interruptions inpaceThe biggest challengefacing an 800-meterrunner is avoidinginterruptions in pace. A basic rule in themiddle distance races (800 and 1600-meters) is that a runner can only makeTWO aggressive accelerations in a fastpacedrace. Runners who have tospend those two accelerations torecover from being tripped, pushed, cutoffor getting out of a box will findthemselves stripped of the ability toaccelerate once more at the end of therace.Applying strategy to the1600 metersSince the 1930's when the world recordstood at 4:06, the "Magic of the Mile"lies in the opportunity it gives a frontrunnerto break away from the field. Butsince the middle stage of the race isrelatively short, position runners whostay relatively close to the leaders canuse superior speed to overtake them atthe end.• Front runners win by breaking awayThe leaders of the race usually assumefront-running positions and force thepace because they believe they arevulnerable to being beaten by fasterfinishers in a slow-paced race. Theywant a fast-pace from the start so theiropponents will fall behind or tire to thepoint of being unable to increase thepace at the end of the race. If they havenot been successful in gapping the fieldafter 800-meters, they can employsome short bursts of faster running toinitiate a break. This tactic is calledsurging.• Position runners win bymaintaining contact with theleadersThe first rule of position-running is,"Never lose contact with the leaders!" Ifsuccessful, they can often use superiorspeed to overtake them at the finish.This simple strategy is oftencomplicated, however, by the fact thatthere are other runners in the race withthe same plan. In this case, anotherposition-running strategy called a longfinish can be effective. The object ofthis tactic is to surprise the field bydramatically increasing the pace wellbefore the finish . . . usually after about1000 meters . . . and is based on thepremise that the front-runners will bedemoralized by losing the lead, and thatother position runners will lack theconfidence (or toughness) to respond26 BMC News : Winter 2005

with so much distance remaining to thefinish.• Final ThoughtsSome athletes are natural front-runners.Over the course of their entire careers,most coaches are fortunate to find 5 or6 such runners who can dictate thepace of their races. Despite theadvantages we may attach to positionrunningtactics, we should not make themistake of discouraging our runnersfrom taking the lead and forcing thepace if that is where they feel mostcomfortable and in control in a race.Anaerobic training for middleidstance runnersEmphasis is on creating a high-lactatestate with repeated bouts of fast running. . . separated with an incompleterecovery period.A) Interval training6 Examples of Interval Workouts (For a2:00 HS 800m runner)1. Increasing speed/decreasing recoveryreps5x (4 x 200m) @ 33 - 32 - 31 -30 - 29 w / 50 - 45 - 40 - 35 - 30sec interval by set (no additionalrecovery between sets!!)2. Russian intervals5x (3 x 300m @ 48 w/jog 100m at30-sec) Jog 800m between sets3. Tempo intervals2 x 1000m @ 2:55 (70-pace)w/60-sec Int --4:00-- 4x500m @1:21+ (65-pace) w/60-sec Int --4:00-- 2x 1000m @ 2:55 w/60-secInt4. Pick-up reps8x 400m @ 70 w/90-sec Int and#s 2,5,8 @ 635. Neg-split reps2x (300m-500-400 w/neg-split last100m)@ :32+14 (=:46 300m) . . .66+14 (=1:20 500m) . . . 48+14(=62 400m)2-min btw reps/jog 1200 btw sets6. Sit 'n Kick Reps5x (400m @ 64 . . . rest 30-sec . .200m @ 28) jog 1200m btw setsB) Surging training2 Examples of surging workouts (For a2:20 HS 800m runner)1. Oregon surges2x (600-1000-600) surging 200s@ 37-47-37-etc. Jog 600mbetween sets.2. Cone surges (place cones at 133mintervals around the track)5-4-3 laps striding to one cone andsurging to the next. Jog 800 btwsets.LindgrenA recent comment by former USA high-school "wonder runner" Gerry Lindgren may be of interest."People worry about getting hurt, about injury, but that does not make sense to me. Logic and knowledge are just theenemies of running well. You have to put the miles into have strong legs. You need strong legs to win races. Hugemileage is the only way"Lindgren, as a senior, was reputed to run up to 200 miles per week.Good news?The United Nations report that by 2050 the population of Ethiopia can be expected to have grown from 66 million to 175million.(Editor's note:- I hesitate to seek the estimated growth in Kenya's population.)BMC News : Winter 2005 27

A chat with Bernie FordBernie had PB's of 13.26 and 27.43 and reckons that he was, at best, a second tier athlete. Both these marks wereachieved in 1977 --- 28 years ago and as of now rank him 41st at 5k and 13th at 10k on the UK All-Time list.He is dismayed, and concerned, over the current state of log distance running in the country. Asked about his training hedescribed it as "ordinary". Not blessed with natural speed he would run his 1500's "gun to tape", just hoping he hadenough pace to forestall the inevitable sprint from "natural" milers. With a best of 3.44 this did not always happen but hewas at least able to recognize where his best chance lay.He recalls running three ten mile road races on successive week-ends around 47 mins each but is surprised to read 50minute efforts so lauded to-day. His training never exceeded 90 in any one week. The make up would be of fast steadyrunning plus days of 6 x 1000 or 6 x 800 with 90 secs 400 jog (Note the speed of the "recovery"). He reasoned anymiddle-distance type who chose to train with him would be burnt off by the harsh recovery. A particularly pleasing session, bearing in mind his 800 PB was of the order of 1.56/1.57, was one where he averaged 2.04.Other sessions would be 20 x 300 with 100 jog or 28 x 400. He enjoyed Southern Counties organized training camps atCrystal Palace. At one such Harry Wilson said that Steve Ovett would do 15 x 300. This was putting the longer distancetypes on their mettle. Bernie said he managed 19!!! In training he says he always aimed for short rests and if he regrettedone thing it is that he did not experiment with longer rests and faster pace.As to to-day he feels the demand for instant success means that people will not undertake the commitment of up toseveral years to achieve real success. He recognizes however that he was within 100 meters of the 10k world recordwhereas to-day it is out of sight and a dis-incentive.Summing up he feels faster "steady" running is a positive requirement plus a tough mental approach. In the mean-time he"trains" regularly to keep fit but, to his regret, cannot find time to coach others.PB's, other than those listed include a 2:10.51 marathon, and in the same year, a 3:44.7 1500!28 BMC News : Winter 2005

Then Snell came past like a runaway horseWho follows Herb Elliott?by Bob PhillipsPeter Snell had all the speed heneeded. He was Olympic 800 metreschampion. He had all the stamina heneeded. He regularly ran 22 miles on aSunday morning. All he lacked for mileracingwas the experience, and heseemed to get by perfectly well withoutthat.“I found myself running in completefreedom from restraint”, he wrote. “Iwas holding nothing back and I don’tthink I’ve ever felt such a gloriousfeeling of strength and speed withoutstrain as I did during that finalexhilarating 300 yards. I knew I mustbe well within four minutes as I racedround the last curve. I straightened,heard for the first time the rising roar ofthe crowd, and kept on driving. Stillthere was no conscious effort and I flewthrough the tape in full free flight”.Snell had run successive laps of 60.7,59.9, 59.0 and 54.8 and had brokenHerb Elliott’s mile record of 3:54.5 byone-tenth of a second, havingpreviously competed in barely a dozenmile races of consequence, and even ofthose few only three or four hadcounted for anything really significant.He had won the national title in March1959 in 4:10.3. He had run 4:01.5 farbehind Elliott in Dublin in September1960. He had lost to the American,Dyrol Burleson, 4:05.6 to 4:05.7, inAuckland the following January. Hisbest time of 4:01.3 had been achievedin a local handicap event on New Year’sDay 1962.Now, later that January on a grass trackin the North Island town of Wanganui,with half the 30,000 local populationjammed round the barriers, he hadachieved 3:54.4. Bruce Tulloh, theEnglish distance-runner who was to winthe European 5000 metres title later inthe year, had come 2nd in 3:59.3 andvividly described his view of the lastlap: “The shout was ‘2:58 … 2:59’,just audible above the roar. I puteverything into the next 220 yards andthought I was going fast until Snell letgo over the last 250 yards. He came bylike a runaway horse, and I wasconscious enough to admire him andfeel disheartened".Peter Heidenstrom, the renowned NewZealand athletics historian, saw the racefrom the sidelines and wroteexpressively about what was goingthrough his mind: “All eyes are on Snell,watching for him to strike with thesprint that has pulverised every runnerthe World has put against him. Hestrikes ! Like a cobra, so quickly onedoes not see it happen. In a blink of theeye he is 10 yards ahead of Tulloh,then the gap becomes 15, 20, 25yards. We are seeing something that nohuman has ever witnessed before. Snellis a madman, murdering time,slaughtering it. We watch in numbedawe as he pounds the earth away frombeneath his feet as if he hates everyinch of it”.Snell’s pre-race ambition had ranged nohigher than 3:57 (though his coach,Arthur Lydiard, had forecast 3:55) andit took a day or so for him to come toterms with the facts. “It was quiteunbelievable that I had produced thisperformance, and the disbelief didn’tvanish until I got back home toAuckland and the congratulations beganto pour in, including one from Herb”, herecalled later in his biography.Unlike Elliott, Snell was no teenagephenomenon. At Mount AlbertGrammar School, in Auckland, he wasstill the 3rd-string miler at the age of 17and in his final year ran a moderatelypromising 4:48.4. The attention hegave to athletics was shared withplaying badminton, golf, hockey andrugby football, and he had reached thequarter-finals of the national under-17tennis tournament. Introduced by afriend to Arthur Lydiard, his first ventureinto hard training was, like HerbElliott’s, in the company of MurrayHalberg, but when he attempted to staywith Halberg for 15 miles he, too,unsurprisingly fell by the wayside.Undeterred, he gave up his other sportsto devote himself to running.Lydiard, like Elliott’s volatile mentor,Percy Cerutty, was a former marathonrunner. He had twice won the nationaltitle and had competed in the 1950Empire Games. It was more accurate tosay that Lydiard still was a marathonrunner, as he led his group by exampleand took up serious training again atthe age of 40 to provide company forone of his runners, Ray Puckett.Lydiard’s training methods were tocome as a shock to Americans andEuropeans when they heard about themafter his athletes began to gain greatsuccesses. Halberg and Lydiard’s twoother best known athletes, Bill Baillieand Barry Magee, were distancerunners, and so 22 miles over the steepslopes of the Waitakere Ranges camenaturally to them. Snell, the half-miler,was expected to do the same. No halfmilerhad ever before trained like this.In 1959 Snell won the 880 and themile at the national championships butdid not rank in the top 100 in theWorld in either event. In February1960, after two years’ tutelage fromLydiard, he set a national half-milerecord of 1:49.2 and was selected forthe Rome Olympics. The previousholder had been Doug Harris, who in abrief and injury-curtailed career had run1:49.4 in 1947, and of whom Lydiardwas to say, “He could have had a fourminutemile when others were stillBMC News : Winter 2005 29

dreaming about it”. Harris was one ofthe timekeepers when Snell brokeElliott’s mile record and his career wasfeatured in the March 2002 edition of“Track Stats”.A training programme which wouldhave been considered suicidalIn March of 1960 Snell averaged 100miles a week. In May he ran the 22-mile Waiatarua training course in2:12:45. Not until June did he beginhis trackwork and he tested his speedwith a 400 metres time-trial in 48sec.None of this highly intensive andunconventional preparation was knownto anyone outside New Zealand, andeven if it had been it would probablyhave been dismissed as suicidal.For his first- round heat in Rome therewere only four competitors, with threeto qualify, and as two of the others hadrun 1:46.6 and 1:47.3 earlier in theseason, and the third of them was theimmensely experienced Hungarian,István Rózsavölgyi, we youthful knowallsnibbling our grapes and sipping ourbeers on the back straight expected notto become well acquainted in the daysto follow with the sight of the noviceNew Zealander, looking positively burlyalongside the waif-like Hungarian.Snell, to our astonishment, won in whatseemed an extravagantly fast 1:48.1,but it was actually the lanky Swiss,Christian Wägli, with his raking strideand his devil-take-the-hindmost runningfrom the front, who had most taken ourfancy.Even when Snell reached the final withfurther personal bests, I still vividlyrecall airily dismissing his chances of amedal. Roger Moens, of Belgium, heldthe World record at 1:45.7, and therewas George Kerr (Jamaica, or rather“British West Indies” for those Games)and Paul Schmidt, of Germany, also inthe final. So it was with stunnedamazement that we watched Snellcharge past Moens in the last 50metres or so. Arthur Lydiard hadprovided five members of the NZ teamin Rome: Snell, Halberg and all threemarathon runners, Jeff Julian, BarryMagee and Ray Puckett. Snell andHalberg had won gold and Mageebronze. “While the coach is gaining fullunderstanding of his pupil, the pupilshould be gaining full confidence in hiscoach”, Lydiard explained of his beliefs.“That is essential before the pupil willgo without question through thephysical agony of running the 100miles a week that you tell him he mustrun”.In 1961 Snell and Halberg remainedthe dominant figures in their events.Snell and George Kerr each ran the 3rdfastestever 880 yards of 1:47.2 in adesperately close race in Dublin. Anhour later a makeshift NZ team of GaryPhilpott, Halberg, Magee and Snellbroke the World record for the 4 x 1mile, with Snell running 4:01.2 on theanchor stage. Halberg set World recordsof 8:30.0 for two miles and 13:10.0 forthree miles and missed Vladimir Kuts’s5000 metres record by two-tenths. Onlythe 1500 metres and mile, which thetough-as-nails Halberg had largelyforsaken for the longer distances, hadremained untouched.The appearance of these gritty NewZealanders at a press conferenceorganised during the tour for the FleetStreet scribes was eloquently describedby Doug Gardner, who was then thefeatures editor for the authoritativemonthly “World Sports” magazine.Snell, he said, was “dark, ruddy, fullfaced;trusting, one felt, but tough”.Halberg was “hawk-like, deadpan,lined, experienced, wary”. The four ofthem entered the room “like the Earpbrothers preparing for trouble in aTombstone saloon; quiet, confident,enigmatic, relaxed, prepared to befriendly but ready to be belligerent”.Philpott, the least known of the quartet,was much more of a half-miler than amiler – though he was said to have runa four-minute mile in training – andmaybe he lacked the single-mindednessof his colleagues. On one occasion heapparently forgot he was supposed tobe running in the Aucklandchampionships and went to the cinemainstead.The Swede who Elliott namedas his successor gets a life banHerb Elliott had thought that the Swede,Dan Waern, who had finished 4th inthe Olympic 1500 metres, might be theone to challenge his records, but Waernhad fallen from grace, just as his Worldrecord-breakingcompatriots from the1940s, Gunder Hägg and ArneAndersson, had done before him.Waern was suspended from competitionby the IAAF in September 1961 afterthe Swedish Federation had failed torefute claims that he had received morethan the legitimate expenses to whichhe was entitled. Swedish tax officialshad said that Waern had earned over£2000 from athletics in 1960 and hadbeen paid some £200 for a 1500metres race in August 1961 in whichhe had beaten Gordon Pirie.The Swedish Federation had apparentlytaken no action against Waern becausethey believed that under-the-counterpayments to star athletes were sowidespread that it would be unfair tosingle him out for punishment. TheFederation’s President was quoted assaying that “it would cause Worldwiderepercussions if all the athletes we canmention were suspended”. At the age of28 Waern may well have believed that,to coin a phrase, he had had “a goodrun for his money”, but he was a lossto the sport.Tall, slim and fair-haired, he always ranwith what appeared to be a broad smileon his face. He often trained at GöstaOlander’s Völödalen centre deep in theforests and lakelands of the North ofSweden and had been a World-classrunner since 1956, finishing 2nd toBrian Hewson in the 1958 European30 BMC News : Winter 2005

Championships 1500 metres. He heldall the Swedish records from 800metres (1:47.5) to 3000 metres(7:59.6) and had set a World record of2:17.8 for 1000 metres. He hadbroken four minutes for the mile oneight occasions, and only four daysbefore his life ban took effect he hadrun 3:58.9 in Stockholm with a last lapwhich was said to be 53.9. In morethan 40 years since his enforcedretirement, only six Swedes have runfaster than him at 1500 metres and thenational record has advanced little morethan two seconds.Snell followed up his Wanganui milerecord with a string of other outstandingperformances in the early months of1962. A week later in Christchurch hebroke the 800 metres and 880 yardsrecords in the same race by a long way,running 1:44.3 and 1:45.1. Anotherweek after that he ran his first everindoor race in Los Angeles and brokethe previous record for the standardAmerican distance of 1000 yards bymore than two seconds. Back home toAuckland, he ran a 3:56.8 mile. InTokyo in March he set an indoor 880yards record. Returning to Los Angelesin May, he beat Dyrol Burleson with a3:56.1 mile. A Commonwealth Gamesdouble at 880 and the mile in Perth,Western Australia, at the year’s end wasnot quite a formality but close to it.In 1958, when Elliott had set his milerecord, there had been six others underfour minutes during the year. In 1962there was twice that number rankingbehind Snell. Seven of them wereAmericans – Jim Beatty (3:56.3), JimGrelle (3:56.7), Dyrol Burleson(3:57.9) being the most prominent.Three were Britons – Stan Taylor, MikeBerisford and Bruce Tulloh. The otherswere Olavi Salonen, of Finland, andMichel Jazy, of France. There were 46men faster than 4:05, compared with34 four years earlier. The 100th man inthe 1962 list had run 4:08.7, asagainst 4:10.6 in 1958.Beatty (pronounced “Bate – ee”), Grelleand Bobby Seaman, who had run3:58.0, were all members of the LosAngeles Track Club, founded by an avidathletics enthusiast and writer, DickBank, and were coached by theexpatriate Hungarian, Mihály Iglói, whohad been responsible for the “MagyarMarvels” of seven years before who hadset so many World records from 1000to 10,000 metres. Of that crumblingdynasty László Tábori was stillpersevering under Iglói’s guidance inthe US but ran no faster than 4:06.2.Sándor Iharos and István Rózsavölgyihad remained in Hungary, but Iharoswas eliminated in the EuropeanChampionships 5000 metres heats andRózsavölgyi had retired in sadcircumstances. His parting words werepoignant: “My nerve breaks and Icannot go on. I keep tormenting myselfwith the thought that I am becoming asecond-rate athlete”.The English-speaking nationsstill dominate the mile eventThe mile remained an Anglo-Saxonpreserve. More than two-thirds of the102 fastest in 1962 (at 4:08.7) camefrom Great Britain (39) and the USA(32). Canada provided eight, Australiaseven (including Herb Elliott’s youngerbrother, Laurie, at 4:07.6) and NewZealand five. There was a suggestion ofsomething stirring in Africa. Athletics inRhodesia, where the former EmpireGames mile champion, Jim Alford,, wasnow coaching, had become raciallyintegrated, and a Rhodesian, TerrySullivan, who was South-African born ofIrish heritage and had broken fourminutes in 1960, had won theCommonwealth Games bronze behindSnell and another New Zealander, JohnDavies. Also competing in the mile atthe Commonwealth Games had been aKenyan, Kipchoge Keino, who ran4:07.0 in the heats.Snell, required to exist on $20 dollars aday expenses while touring abroad,gave up his career in quantity surveyingat the beginning of 1963 and joined themarketing department of the cigarettefirm, Rothman’s, which was a majorsponsor of athletics in New Zealandand which. also employed ArthurBMC News : Winter 2005 31

Lydiard. With a future managementcareer in prospect and the opportunityto race and train reasonably assured,Snell celebrated by winning a “royal”mile in the presence of the Queen onthe new grasstex all-weather track atDunedin. By no means superhuman,Snell beat Davies by less than a yard in3:58.6. It was the first sub-four minutemile that Davies had run and that theQueen had seen.Jim Beatty was regarded as the naturalchallenger to Snell – not least by Beattyhimself. Born in New York and broughtup in North Carolina, Beatty was aNapoleonic figure, only 5ft 6in (1.68m)tall and abundantly self-assured. Aninsurance claims assessor byprofession, at the age of 28 he was theleader of a new wave of Americanmilers now being given the opportunityto compete after college graduation andfulfil their potential. He had been 2ndat two miles and 5000 metres in theNCAA Championships while at theUniversity of North Carolina and hadmoved to California at the end of 1959to train with Iglói.He had run in the Rome Olympic 5000metres heats and in 1962 had becomethe first man to break both four minutesfor a mile indoors and 8min 30sec fortwo miles outdoors. In an interview thatyear, after running 3:56.3, he hadpredicted that someone would run a3:50 mile within 10 years. Iglói, whoselifetime of coaching would produce 31World records, reckoned that Beatty wasready for 3:51-3:53, with laps of 56-57, halfway in 1:54-1:55, the bell in2:54, and a last lap no slower than 59.It was logical that in May of 1963Snell should again visit the US for aseries of races against Beatty, Grelle,Burleson and Seaman. Happilycombining the tour with hishoneymoon, Snell beat Burleson andSeaman in Los Angeles in 4:00.3, asBeatty won the 5000 metres fromMurray Halberg. The next week at theModesto Relays Iglói’s track club elitewas out in force for the mile, but therewas little they could do against Snell infull cry. “All the emotion, tension andworry poured out of me in a terrific finaleffort”, Snell later wrote. “Never beforehave I sprinted like this in a race. Ilunged and tore round the final curve intotal abandonment. Straightening up, Irisked a look back. I was amazed tosee a gap of about 10 yards. The othersseemed to be walking”.Snell had run 3:54.9. The Americansfinished a long way behind. CaryWeisiger was 2nd in 3:57.3, ahead ofBeatty and Grelle. Had the race beenheld in 2003, rather than 1963, itwould have been worth a great deal ofmoney to the winner, but Snell’s rewardwas a wrist-watch, to add to the twoothers he had won previously in theUS. When he visited Jim Grelle, whowas a sales representative for Colgate-Palmolive, in his Los Angelesapartment, Grelle showed him sixunused watches on display in histrophy cabinet. At the Compton RelaysSnell beat Beatty by half-a-second in3:55.0, with Burleson 3rd in 3:55.6and Grelle, Weisiger and Seaman allunder four minutes.The mile event had moved on apacefrom the 1950s. Snell had now run3:55.0 or better on three occasions. Inthe month of June alone 14 sub-fourminute miles had been run in fivedifferent races by seven athletes. In1954 Roger Bannister had improvedHägg’s record after nine years by lessthan two seconds. Nine years afterBannister, the record had advanced fiveseconds. Jim Beatty’s conviction that3:50 would come in the next decadeseemed to make a lot of sense.Snell starts his build-up towardsthe Tokyo OlympicsSnell’s preparations for the 1964 TokyoOlympics began in October of theprevious year with a mile race againstJohn Davies and the former Australianboy wonder, Ron Clarke, and he waswell beaten by both of them, running4:12.0. Unlike Elliott, Snell seemedhappy to compete when he was farfrom properly race-fit, either through asense of responsibility to meetingorganisers and the public or simplybecause it fitted in with his trainingprogramme. On this occasion, he hadwarned beforehand that he expected atime of no more than about 4:15, andstraight after the race had finished hewent off for a 15-mile run and didanother 20 miles with Clarke the nextday. By the beginning of February, Snellwas able to run 3:57.7, with BillBaillie, New Zealand’s World recordholderfor the one hour run, managingto break four minutes behind him forthe first time in his life at the age of 29.Snell also appeared to possess thesupreme ability of being able to hold hisform, once he had reached it, withoutany competitive stimulus. After a visit toSouth Africa, where he ran the first subfourminute mile on the AfricanContinent, and another mile in April,when he beat John Davies in a closefinish in Auckland, 3:58.5 to 3:58.6,Snell did not compete at all for sixmonths until the first-round heats of theOlympic 800 metres. Yet that apparentunquestioned self-confidence wasunderlaid by occasional self-doubt. NeilAllen, covering the Tokyo Olympics for“The Times”, met Snell at the trainingtrack a week before the 800 metresheats and found him in a depressedmood. Snell related a dismal tale: “Mytraining was going so badly back at thebeginning of last month that I got to thepitch where I couldn’t care less aboutthe Olympics. There are times whenyou wonder how on earth you could runa 4:30 mile. You no longer have theability to punish yourself”.None of this pessimism showed throughonce the Games began. In defence ofhis 800 metres title he won his heatand semi-final and the final onsuccessive days, finishing with a time of32 BMC News : Winter 2005

1:45.1 ahead of Bill Crothers, ofCanada, and glancing over his shouldera couple of times and giving theappearance, in Neil Allen’s words, of“some master of hounds making surethe pack was behaving”. An untutoredKenyan military policeman, WilsonKiprugut, who improved in every roundon his previous best, as Snell had donein Rome, took the bronze medal in1:45.9 after leading at the bell.Of the 43 competitors for the 1500metres, which began the day after the800 metres final, the fastest at thedistance during the year had been thethree Americans – Tom O’Hara at3:38.1, Dyrol Burleson at 3:38.8 andthe 17-year-old Jim Ryun at 3:39.0.The precocious Ryun, still at highschool, had kept Jim Grelle and ArchieSan Romani, the son of the 4th-placerin the Berlin Olympics of 1936, out ofthe US team, while Jim Beatty, havingparted with Iglói, had failed to qualify at5000 metres. Another seriouscontender at 1500 metres was WitoldBaran, of Poland, who had run 3:56.0for the mile.Eliminated in the heats was the prolificEast German record-breaker, SiegfriedValentin, never remotely close to hisbest in major championships, togetherwith Salonen, of Finland, and AlbieThomas, of Australia. In the semi-finalsO’Hara, Ryun and another EastGerman, Jürgen May, were run out of it.Kipchoge Keino, of Kenya, who hadachieved a 4:03.8 mile in Septemberand had finished 5th in the Olympic5000 metres, narrowly missed reachinganother final with a time of 3:41.9which was by far the best ever achievedby a Central African. The nine finalistswere Snell, Davies (both New Zealand),Bernard, Wadoux (both France),Simpson, Whetton (both Great Britain),Odlo_il (Czechoslovakia), Baran(Poland) and Burleson (USA).Winning the Olympic title, as ifall the others were waiting forhim to do soMichel Bernard led at 400 metres, justas he had done in Rome four yearsbefore, in 58.0. Davies was in front at800 metres (2:00.5) and 1200 metres(2:59.3), but when Snell went awaywith 200 metres to go the race wasover. Snell ran his last 400 metres in52.6 and last 200 metres in 25.4. “AsI let go, I had the strange feeling thatthis was just what all the rest had beenwaiting for me to do, as if it was aninevitable part of the race over whichthey had no power of control”, Snellwrote afterwards, with no hint ofcondescension. Odlo_il was a surprisesilver-medallist, as Jazy had been inRome, and Davies was 3rd.Within a few minutes Snell and ArthurLydiard were up in the press-boxwatching the closing stages of themarathon on television. It was an eventfor which Snell, like Elliott before him,felt a strong affinity. Snell had run2:41:11 for the distance but had beenreduced to a walk to complete thecourse. Abebe Bikila, Ethiopia’schampion from 1960, was en route towinning again and Snell wasenraptured: “I had a sweeping feeling ofadmiration for the unbelievable Bikila asI watched his fantastic time ticking upon the clock – the same feeling RonClarke was to give me later in Americaand Europe. His performance mademine seem insignificant”.Bikila and Snell made history together.It was the first time anyone had twicewon the Olympic marathon and the firsttime anyone had won both the 800metres and 1500 metres at the OlympicGames since Britain’s Albert Hill in1920. The Games also, curiously, werethe first occasion on which Snell hadever raced at 1500 metres. ThoughHerb Elliott’s Games best performancecomfortably survived, Snell had alreadyBMC News : Winter 2005 33

set a record of sorts with the fastestever semi-final of 3:38.8.Records of much greater importancesoon followed. In November, on theWestern Springs speedway track inAuckland, Snell beat Valentin’s Worldrecord 2:16.7 for 1000 metres by onetenthand would probably have gone asecond or so faster with better pacedistribution. Back at the same stadiumfive days later there were 20,000spectators for a return match at a milebetween the three Olympic medallists.Snell was always close to thepacemakers through the first three laps,though the sensational half-mile in1:54.0 was three seconds ahead ofwhat he had planned. The time at thebell was 2:54.0 – more than fiveseconds faster than in his previousrecord from 1962 and more than threeseconds faster than anyone hadpreviously passed this point in a recordbreakingmile.The last lap was what Snell laterdescribed as “mechanical desperationrunning, completely withoutinspiration”, but he learned a great dealfrom it. “At last I had run myself to thelimit in a mile race”, he wrote. “I hadput myself in a position to achieve 3:50or better”. Snell had already said thathe thought he was capable of runningclose to 3:50 either that year or nextbefore he retired, but it seems now, inhindsight, as if his mile record thatnight in Auckland was an end in itself,rather than a new beginning. In hisbiography, he wrote revealingly of therace: “I also made up my mind thereand then that I would never run anotherone like it”.A final season in 1965 – and asad farewellWhatever the cause, Snell’s final seasonin 1965 was not what he would havewanted. He had raced more than hehad intended to at home at thebeginning of the year, and then in theNorthern Hemisphere summer – for thefirst time in his career – he went on toEurope from North America. Maybe itwas all too much. Maybe the desire hadbeen sated by the Olympic wins andthe mile record. Maybe the gastricproblems he suffered in Canada, wherehe toiled home in 4:15.0 and made animpassioned speech of apology to thecrowd afterwards, left their mark.In the US he had run well enough: inLos Angeles on 4 June he had narrowlybeaten Jim Grelle, as both ran 3:56.4,and he had then lost to Jim Ryun, nowall of 18, in another close race in theAAU mile, 3:55.3 to 3:55.4. Yet inLondon at the beginning of July wewatched in disbelief as Snell driftedlistlessly back through the field to finish7th in an invitation mile held inconjunction with the Women’s AAAChampionships, and we scarcelynoticed that the Olympic silver-medallistand bronze-medallist, Josef Odlo_il andJohn Davies, had finished 1st and 2ndin 3:56.8 and 3:56.9.Two days later I was in Dublin for theClonliffe Harriers’ meeting at the John F.Kennedy Stadium (formerly known asSantry), and not for the first or last timein my journalistic career I suffered aconflict of loyalties – where thedetachment of the professional reporterclashes with the passion of the eternalfan. I was covering the meeting for mythen employers, United Newspapers,and the mile provided a good story forthem because it was won by AlanSimpson in a time of 3:56.9, whichwas only three-tenths slower than hisBritish record, from a fellow-Briton,Mike Wiggs. Simpson was a local boy,so far as one of the group’s titles, the“Sheffield Morning Telegraph”, wasconcerned, and the report would getheadline treatment. I was alsopersonally delighted for Wiggs, beatinghis previous best by two seconds with3:57.5, as he had been a teenageclubmate of mine at Watford Harriersbefore becoming a protegé of GordonPirie’s. Even so, my most heartfeltthoughts were with Snell.The imperious hero of the TokyoOlympics had lost to Simpson, who hadbeen 4th in the 1500 metres at thoseGames, and to Wiggs, who had beeneliminated in the 1960 Rome 1500metres heats and had finished last inthe Tokyo 5000 metres. The scene ofthe debacle was the same stadium inwhich Herb Elliott had set his Worldmile record seven years before. It hadhappened in a year in which middledistanceand distance running wasundergoing the most radicaltransformation in its history, and amongthose principally responsible werenumerous others who had previouslyrun in Snell’s shadow – Clarke,Herrmann, Jazy, Keino, May, Odlo_il .World records were broken in 17different middle-distance and distanceevents during 1965 – 1000 metres,one mile, 2000 metres, 3000 metres,two miles, three miles, 5000 metres,six miles, 10,000 metres, 10 miles,20,000 metres, one hour, 25,000metres, 30,000 metres, the marathon,the 3000 metres steeplechase and the4 x 1500 metres relay. Snell lost hismile record to the Frenchman, MichelJazy, on 9 June and three days afterthe final race of his career – beaten into3rd place at 1500 metres but fulfillingan ambition to run in the BerlinOlympic Stadium where Jack Lovelockhad won the 1500 metres for NewZealand almost 30 years earlier – Snelllearned that his 1000 metres recordhad been broken by Jürgen May, of theGerman Democratic Republic, who hadbeen eliminated in the semi-finals of theTokyo 1500.Having been silver-medallist at 1500metres in Rome, Jazy had switched to5000 metres in Tokyo but had finished4th after starting his sprint too soon. Asa World record-breaker, he had alreadyestablished himself with new best timesat 2000 and 3000 metres in 1962,and during the summer of 1965 hereached the acme of his career,beginning with his 3:53.6 mile in34 BMC News : Winter 2005

Rennes which came closer to being theperfectly judged mile than anythingprevious, with laps of 57.5, 59.2, 60.9and 56.2 and halves of 1:56.5, asJean Wadoux led in 1:55.7, and1:57.1. Later in the month Jazy brokethe 3000 metres and two miles recordsin the same race and shared in a 4 x1500 metres record of 14:49.0 whichaveraged just over 3:42.0 per man.A golden month in which theFrench “printer” re-wrote therecord-bookBetween 2 June and 30 June, Jazy hadrun 13 races and won them all, alsoincluding three successive Europeanrecords at 5000 metres. In hissplendidly-titled autobiography, “MesVictoires, Mes Défaites, Ma Vie”, hewas to describe this purple patch in hisrunning career so elegantly as “quatresemaines d’état de grace” (“four weeksin a state of grace”) and he achieved itall in a cool and calculating manner,rather than in a frenzy of Gallic passion.Of his comportment during his recordbreakingmile, he wrote: “My mind wasclear and I recognised on the tracksidefriends and journalists who wereencouraging me … from 880 yards on Isensed that I was moving intoconquered territory”.Jazy was employed in the print room ofthe prestigious Paris daily sportsnewspaper, “L’Equipe”, and later tookup journalism, writing extremely well inputting his achievements into context.The first of his three improvements at5000 metres had removed VladimirKuts’s European record, and Jazyremembered what had gone through hismind beforehand concerning Kuts: “Imust stop thinking of him as aninaccessible god”. Equally, Jazyrecognised his limitations. After his milerecord, he noted soberly, “Elliott is stillbetter than me, better than everyone”.Jazy’s 3000 metres record of 7:49.0lasted barely two months because inAugust it was beaten first by the EastGerman, Siegfried Herrmann, with7:46.0 and then by Kenya’s KipchogeKeino, with 7:39.5. Herrmann, like hiscompatriots, May and Valentin, was anenigma when it came to majorcompetition, but he possessed not onlya wonderful range of abilities from 800to 10,000 metres but the most gracefulstyle. He ought really to have producedfaster times at 1500 metres and themile during his lengthy career and hewas maybe one of those unfortunaterunners whose best distance was 3000metres, and that was not recognised asa championship event. Keino, who hadappeared at the 1962 CommonwealthGames and 1964 Olympics, has anunchallenged place in athletics historyas the first Kenyan to reach the veryhighest levels.It would be almost another 30 yearsbefore the records for 1500 metres andthe mile passed into seeminglypermanent African care, but Keino gavea clear indication during 1965 of whatthe future might hold by not only settinghis 3000 metres record and his 5000metres record of 13:24.2 towards theend of the year in New Zealand butalso running 3:54.2, 3:54.4 and3:54.9 for the mile. Keino neveractually held the World records for1500 metres or the mile, but he camevery close and set a standard for otherKenyans to follow.The athlete who deserves credit forsetting a lead in North Africa isMohammed Gammoudi, whoseOlympic medal-winning achievementsfrom 1964 to 1972 at 5000 and10,000 metres (one gold, two silverand a bronze) place him as one of thegreatest of all distance-runners butmaybe obscure the fact that he also ran3:41.9 for 1500 metres to prove thatthe Algerian-born Frenchman, Patrick ElMabrouk, who had finished 5th in the1952 Olympic 1500 metres final, wasnot a middle-distance anomaly fromthat part of the World.For all this, the athlete of the year in1965 was unquestionably Ron Clarke,who had started out in the mid-1950sas the miler of the future, had beensurpassed by Herb Elliott, and had thenresumed a running career in 1962which would eventually leave himjustifiably bracketed with Nurmi andZátopek as one of the greatest distancerunnersof all time. Clarke never didquite manage to join the “Sub-4 Club”,with a best time of 4:00.2 in 1968, buthis 19 World records at distances fromtwo miles upwards and his habitualfront-running strategy, regardless ofopposition and conditions, caused awholesale revision in ideas of how trackraces should be run.In 1966 John Landy, the ex-milerecord-holder, was to write of Clarke inlavish tribute. “Clarke has pushed thefrontiers of human endurance furtherthan any man before and thereby hasopened up a dazzling vista ofunbelievable times yet to be run fromthe one mile to the marathon. FollowingClarke’s precept and example, athletesof the future will have to gear theirthinking to a policy of ceaselessintensive training and regular racing atnear-record levels”.Snell retired from competition, reflectingthat he was ready to “let the runningout of my system”. He signed off bysaying, “It’s pointless to argue whether Iwas as great as Elliott or anyone else.It’s irrelevant, too, to conjecture now onwhether I could have or should haverun a 3:50 mile. My career was neverdirected towards a 3:50 mile. It was tobecome the best in the World over mydistance”.Lydiard and Cerutty predictmuch faster milesArthur Lydiard, who went off to Finlandby invitation to show the country whichhad once had the best middle-distanceand distance runners in the World howto regain lost pride, had always lookedBMC News : Winter 2005 35

a long way ahead. Five years earlier hehad pronounced on the future of milingwith absolute certainty. “I say the milewill be run – and could be run now bySnell, Herb Elliott or Dyrol Burleson –under the right conditions in 3min47sec”. Percy Cerutty, writing to theAmerican coach, Payton Jordan, afterthe 1964 Olympics, had made an evenbolder prediction, as was entirely in hischaracter: “We can expect to see themile run in close to 3:40. After all, 55seconds for each 440 is not sprinting”.Herb Elliott recalled that “Cerutty oftentalked of four 55-second laps for themile”.Having spent some time in Finland andDenmark at the invitation of thenational federations, Lydiard was nonetoo complimentary about the quality ofthe athletes he found there. Of theFinns he said, “In the winter, instead oftraining, they’d sit in front of thetelevision and watch ice hockey. Assoon as the snows went they got on thecinder tracks and did a lot of speedrepetitions, but they had no staminarunners get to 22 or 23 years of agethey’re not the great champions theyshould be. It’s 17 years since JohnWalker was at school, and every yearI’ve been back to the national schools’championships and seen talentedyoungsters win, They’ve got everyattribute of a great champion, andwe’ve had 17 of them since JohnWalker. But where are they ? They’vebeen destroyed by that damned trackThe 3:47 mile would not happen until1981, and it would need a first halfmilein 1:53.3 to achieve it. Oddly, theone man who had tried that during1965 was a 20-year-old American, BobDay, who had gone through the first lapof the NCAA final in 55.3 and passedhalfway in 1:53.4. His last lap took67sec, but the week before he had runthe fastest ever virtually solo mile,leading from the first back straight,through laps of 58.5, 58.5, 59.5 and59.9 for a time of 3:56.4. He neverquite matched that form again, but theUS was to get the World mile recordback, anyway, the following year for thefirst time since 1937.Some quarter-of-a-century later, andnow into his 70s, Arthur Lydiard stillhad plenty to say for himself about hiscoaching methods in New Zealandwhen he was approached on thesubject by the former Britishinternational 400 metres hurdler, MartinGillingham, for the magazine, “AthleticsToday”: “I’ve only coached about 20athletes in my life. I coached four toOlympic medals, another to a Worldrecord, and two more to wininternational marathons. That’s sevenathletes among the best in the Worldwho all came from within two or threemiles of my home. That’s why I saythere are champions everywhere. You’vejust got to train them properly”.base”. Lydiard had been in Finland in1967 and it may be no coincidencethat there was a major revival in thecountry’s standards of middle-distanceand distance running in the early1970s.He was also disparaging about theattitudes in other traditional middledistancestrongholds in the 1990s: “InBritain and New Zealand these daysthey give good teenagers lots ofrepetitions to do and by the time thesewith a stopwatch running their guts out.Instead, they should be running aroundthe fields and hollows, building up, andnot racing as much”.Lydiard’s impressions had long beenconfirmed by an old champion, whohad much to say about his successorsin the modern era. More than 40 yearsafter setting his mile record amongmany others, and 30 years after his lastrace, Paavo Nurmi expressedunbounded admiration for Elliott,36 BMC News : Winter 2005

Halberg and Snell and mused as to howhe would have fared against them.“When I see a good race, I sometimeswish I was there running myself. Itwould be very interesting to competewith the present-day top-class runnerswith the knowledge about coaching Inow possess”.Aged 65, and a prosperous buildingcontractor, Nurmi also sounded aprophetic note for the future of middledistancerunning. “The higher thestandard of living in a country, theweaker the results often are in theevents which call for work and trouble.I would like to warn this newgeneration: ‘Do not let this comfortablelife make you lazy. Do not let the newmeans of transport kill your instinct forphysical exercise. Too many youngpeople get used to driving in a car evenfor small distances’ ”.Finland would still produce more finerunners in the future, but Nurmi hadread the signs correctly. In 1922, whenhe headed the World rankings, therewere nine Finns among the leading 50in the World at 1500 metres. In 1962there was one.World All-Time Top Ten at 1500 metres – End of 19653:35.6 Herb Elliott (Australia) (1) Rome 6. 9. 19603:36.4 Jürgen May (Germany) (1) Erfurt 14. 7. 19653:37.6* Peter Snell (New Zealand) (1) Auckland 17.11. 19643:37.6* Kipchoge Keino (Kenya) (1) Auckland 15.12. 19653:37.8 Michel Jazy (France) (1) Colombes 28. 7. 19633:38.1 Stanislav Jungwirth (Czecho) (1) Stará Boleslav 12. 7. 19573:38.1 Tom O’Hara (USA) (1) New Brunswick, New Jersey 28. 6. 19643:38.6 Dan Waern (Sweden) (2) Gothenburg 18. 9. 19603:38.7 Siegfried Valentin (Germany) (1) Potsdam 27. 8. 19603:38.7 Michel Bernard (France) (2) Colombes 28. 7. 1963Note: May and Valentin were both from the then separate German Democratic Republic (East Germany); * time en route toone mile.World All-Time Top Ten at One mile – End of 19653:53.6 Michel Jazy (France) (1) Rennes 9. 6. 19653:53.8 Jürgen May (Germany) (1) Wanganui 11.12. 19653:54.1 Peter Snell (New Zealand) (1) Auckland 17.11. 19643:54.2 Kipchoge Keino (Kenya) (1) London 30. 8. 19653:54.5 Herb Elliott (Australia) (1) Dublin 6. 8. 19583:55.3 Jim Ryun (USA) (1) San Diego, California 27. 6. 19653:55.4 Jim Grelle (USA) (1) Vancouver 15. 6. 19653:55.5 Jim Beatty (USA) (2) Compton, California 7. 6. 19633:55.6 Dyrol Burleson (USA) (3) Compton, California 7. 6. 19633:55.6 Josef Odlo_il (Czecho) (2) London 30. 8. 1965Interestingly, the leading five at 1500 metres are also the leading five, in different order, at one mile, while none of theothers appear in both lists. Of the 10 fastest ever milers, six had set their best times during 1965. The standard in the milewas now slightly higher: 3:55.6 for the mile is worth 3:38.3 for 1500 metres, according to the Hungarian Scoring Tables.Article by Bob Phillips, author of "3:59.4, The Quest for the Four Minute Mile", published by Parrs Wood Press.BMC News : Winter 2005 37

Milers club to quicken paceof middle-distancersAN initiative of Victorian coaches and supporters will bearfruit at Box Hill tonight when the Victorian Milers Club stagesits first meeting with men's and women's 1500-metres races.The club hopes eventually to operate along the lines of thehugely successful British Milers Club, which annuallyconducts races over distances from 800 to 5000 metres. Theaim is to produce faster times. Races are paced by rosteredclub members.Tonight's races at Box Hill will test potential for a similar clubin Victoria, where middle-distance runners are well served bythe interclub system, but the aim is to augment thiscompetition with a small number of races aimed at producingfaster times.Several leading middle-distance runners have entered. Formost, it will be their first serious race of the Melbourne 2006Commonwealth Games season.by Len JohnsonGeelong's Mark Tucker, at three minutes 41.67 seconds, isthe fastest entrant. Another Geelong runner, Louis Rowan,has reportedly been in good form, while Glenhuntly's DavidRuschena made a significant breakthrough over 5000 metresthis year.Leading women include Libby Allen, Alicia Tye-Smith, KateSeibold-Crosbie and Simone Braakhuis.Middle and long-distance will be the major emphasis of thefirst part of the Australian season with several more meetingsplanned.Melbourne will stage a national series meeting atNunawading on November 19, featuring races over 5000metres as a lead-up to the Zatopek 10,000 on December 1.38 BMC News : Winter 2005

BMC site on your mobile!by Tim GroseThe BMC has announced the the launch of an experimental new service-aversion of ite website specifically designed for viewing on devices with smallscreens like mobile phones. It is available on www.britishmilersclub.co.uk/mobileNote that unlike many "WAP" sites, BMC Mobile is also fully available onstandard PCs. At present news and results are available. It is hoped to add UKranking lists and enter online system in due course.5k & 10kWhilst the BMC must be primarilyinterested with middle distance itcannot be other than concerned withthe longer track races. For some timeit has been involved, with UKA, inhaving "endurance" races at itsmeetings.As there are very many mobile services, it is obviously hard to know whether thesite will render properly on every device. Your feedback is thus most welcome.Please be sure to state what device you have and if you can send some screenshots taken with digital cameras then so much the better.Tim Grose - timgrose@britishmilersclub.comPat FitzgeraldTreasurer & AdministratorB.M.BDear Pat,Ref: Young Athletes Academy, Residential Course,Ogmore, 23-25 September 2005.I am writing to say a big thank you to the BMC for the superb course that I have justattended in Ogmore.It It was definitely the best weekend of my life. I am an U-15 with Colchester &Tendring AC, not too talented but I work very hard and just love running and haveachieved reasonable success.Even though they were the hardest sessions I have ever done, I thoroughly enjoyedthe training. It It was a fantastic opportunity to run up the sand dunes in particular. Thesquad coach, John Cooper, was excellent and all the other athletes were great. I alsofelt that the workshops were brilliant. Dave Arnold and Tony Elder were extremelyinteresting and David Lowes taught me a lot about drills and strengthening exercises.I have come home really inspired. I have learnt loads from the course and I am veryfocussed on what I need to do in the future and feel I can now move up a level tofurther success.Many thanks,Yours sincerely,Andrew PooleAndrew PooleThe current shortfall in performancelevels, as compared with previousyears, is the cause of numerouscomments, by way of e-mails etc,from interested individuals. Theshortfall is reflected at 800 and1500, although there has been somerecovery this year at 1500. Howeverthe 5k and 10k lists are depressing.Only one runner under 13:55 at 5kand our best 10k at 28:40.We can all look back at the athletesof yesteryear and cry in our beer butthat helps not at all. It is the intentionof this magazine to extend itscoverage to these distances, plus the'chase, in order to obtain views onhow, if at all, improvements may bemade. Some will appear, if receivedin time, in this issue. The views ofany reader who feels he/she canmake a contribution is welcomed.The 800 through to the 10k are, itcould be argued, sister events. Theyrequire speed and endurance(witness the closing lap of thewomen's 10k in Helsinki). Manyrunners will graduate from 1500 to 5and 10k as has been shown in thepast. Please therefore send in yourviews.BMC News : Winter 2005 39

QuotesAlleged quote from multi sub four man John Walker"All they want to do is play bl**dy computer games!"Homer SimpsonNourredine Morcelli"You tried your best and failed miserably. Lesson is, never try"" When I step to the line my mind is filled with questions........who will be second who will be third?"Distance running - yesterday and todayby Ken NorrisI was interested to read an article inAthletics Weekly recently on the"new" interval running and reflectedupon my own training in the 1950's.I started running at the end of 1948(aged 17) and my training consistedof running reasonably hard for 3 or 4miles. Over a period of time thisgradually changed and I ran slowerbut with 6/8 strides of 150/300yards in the middle.By the time I was 21, I was trainingover 5/8 miles, 5 or 6 times a week.(I never ran every day or twice perday), rarely running flat out butrunning 200/400's at 880 yardspace periodically during the run. Ifound great difficulty maintaining myconcentration without slowing overdistances longer than 440 yards, so Idid not do them. This evolved into amore structured interval sessionwith 440's at my mile speed with440 jogs at about 2mins/2.15. Bythe time I was 23, I could handle20x440 in 67's with 2min 440'sbetween each. For extra speed, I ran220's and 330's or alternated 220and 440 fast intervals. The 220'sand 330's were about 30 and 48secs.I then gradually reduced the restperiods in time and distance so thatin winter, I would regularly run20x440 in 64's (220 jog in 54 secs)or 20x440 in 62's with a jog of 440in 1min50 secs. For variety, I wouldsometimes alternate 440's with faster220's and occasionally I would run amixture of 440's and 660's. At alltimes I was aiming at running my jogas fast as I reasonably could ( I thinkit is better to jog fast than run fast).My aim in the jog was to hit 28/50and 1.45 secs. My times on the roadwere slightly faster.50 years ago I ran 29 minutes for10k on the road and just over 29minutes on the track. How many ofto-days athletes can achieve thesetimes now?(Editor's note:- four Britsbroke 29 on the track in 2005) Todaysfood/shoes/tracks are all better.We are supposed to be stronger. I didno weight training and only a limitedamount of circuit training. So, why isit that my times would place me inthe top five(at least once actually top)over each of the last five years? I beata number of athletes faster thanmyself. Does the BMC place overmuch emphasis on paced races andnot enough on tactical running? I canremember being beaten in Budapestwhen the Hungarians deliberatelyslowed the pace down and beat me atthe finish. The following year Ireturned the compliment. You live andlearn. But do our present crop ofathletes? Winning is all about being inthe right place at the right time. Neverbeing at the back of a group ofathletes risking being dropped whenone in front kicks; avoiding beingtripped up by another athlete. I wasfavourite to win a EuropeanChampionship when tripped andfinished third. You must learn fromyour mistakes. I am sure some dobut many athletes don't putthemselves in the position of possiblywinning. How many run in minorraces and experiment with tactics?I think that the athlete who trains allwinter without any racing is NUTS. Ifit is pouring with rain and I haven'tgot a race on a Saturday why, someask, should I go out and get wet? Ican recall training on Xmas day witheight others and again with only fiveon a bitterly cold Boxing day. Oneweek later we (TVH) placed six inthe first twelve in the Middlesex c-cchampionships.You have to be both mentally andphysically strong. Neverunderestimate or overestimate youropponents. It does not matter whathe/she did last week. That is notnecessarily a guide to what he/shewill do to-day. How many times doyou finish a race saying " I don'tknow what went wrong to-day, I justdid not have it there". This happensto other athletes too. Respect thembut don't roll over and admit defeatbefore you have started.I did a full days work five days aweek. It must be possible for to-day'srunners to beat my times by adistance and be up amongst theworld leaders.Ken Norris, world rankings 1954, 20th at5k, 6th at 10k. 1955,19th at 5k, 9th at10k. 1956, 34th at 5k and 10th at 10k40 BMC News : Winter 2005

Paul Evans - preparing for 10k and marathonby David ChalfenAthletes at a recent UKA Marathon Squad weekend inBirmingham were given a chance to quiz UK 10,000m andmarathon star of the 1990s about his training and lifestyle.In a forum led by UKA Marathon Coach Bud Baldaro andthe successful Winchester endurance coach Nick Anderson,Paul talked through his humble beginnings as middlingfootballer (“ I could run around midfield for ages but theproblems started when I got the ball!”) and indeed moderateyoung athlete. He ended up running 10,000m at bothBarcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 Olympics, and had aprominent marathon career highlighted by his victory atChicago in a PB of 2.08.52.Paul talked of how he returned to dabble in running aged25, very quickly reduced his 10k PB to 32.30 with littletraining (though he says he had very little talent), and thenhad a rapid build up where, advised by a London-basedcoach, he upped his training to 3 times per day whilstworking full time at a demanding physical job in a shoefactory. Progress continued but then stagnated, albeit atabout 29 minute 10k level by then. It was the combinationof linking up with coach/manager John Bicourt, reducinghis training to a more manageable twice per day, andearning enough prize money in the one-off Sun Great Raceof Britain in 1990 to enable a full-time commitment torunning, that enabled him to reach what was then worldclass 10k running.His training - a typical week where there was no race towork around set out below, is fairly simple, albeitdemanding, and it is perhaps the attention to detail andsetting up a lifestyle structure around it that was just asimportant in taking him to the performance levels hereached.Sunday - long run - c 90 mins in 10k phase, increasing upto 2 hours 10 minutes in marathon phase. The pacewould build up from c 6 min miling to the last 20minutes at about marathon race paceMonday - am 60 mins steady pm 30-40 mins steadyTuesday - am 60 mins steady pm session of 20 x 1mineffort (100 m jog) when in marathon training, 16 x 1min efforts when in 10k prepWednesday - am longer run 75- 90 minutes, again oftenbuilding up the pace similar to Sunday run pm 30-35mins easyThursday - am 60 mins steady pm 30 mins steadyFriday - am 40 mins pm 30-40 minutesSaturday - hard track session - typically 8 x 1mile c4.26/4.33 (2 min recovery) when in marathon training,or 8 x 1000m at about 5k race pace when in 10ktraining. Preceded by 30 mins warm up, 20 mins warmdown. He described how as he got towards a peak, hetended to shorten the recovery time between reps ratherthan increase the speedTotal weekly mileage about 100 in 10k prep, 120 inmarathon phase. The steady runs in the morning wouldoften finish quite fast, perhaps 5.15/miling, the afternoonruns were generally about recovery and comfort. Althoughthere were ocasional variations, marathons were either April(several high place finishes in London) or Autumn - Chicagoor New York. After a 3 week break post-London, summerwas a serious focus on the track 10k, at which his PB was27.47, and he would move directly from the 10k training tomarathon phase. As shown above, in his case the transitiondid not involve major training alterations.Some key points:-• nearly all running was done alone, both because of thetimes of day and the relative isolation in rural Suffolk.On weekdays, morning runs about 7.30pm before takingyoung children to school, afternoon runs about 2.30pmbefore school collection.• many thousands of miles done around school playingfields adjacent to his home, about 1.5 miles per lap.The routine was used to ensure as much running aspossible was done off road• Paul would get up about 7.00, drink coffee and juiceand stretch for 5 minutes before running and have afuller breakfast after the school drop off. He was in bedby 9.30 at night usually• He was not a great fan of X Country races, but did themoccasionally• When a full time runner he regularly had 3 massagesper week, around midday, and when going onoccasional but, in his view, critical trips to altitude, hewould fund the massager to accompany him.BMC News : Winter 2005 41

Like many of his GB elite peers, there was little detailedscientific back up in his ongoing training - 'The best coachis yourself and your knowledge of how your body feels' - butthat said, the massage was clearly given high priority andhe ensured his trips to altitude were well planned andresearched for optimum benefit, and he stressed that it iseasy to get altitude training badly wrong, especially byovercooking the intensity early on. He never used a heartrate monitor and did no structured strength and conditioningand wonders hypothetically whether it may have given hima slight performance edge if it had been integrated into hispreparation.In terms of diet, he led a fairly simple pattern, largely basedaround unprocessed food and with fruit as his main snackbetween meals.Asked by Bud whether he ever thought there was any finetuning that may have taken him ‘ into 2.07 land’ Paulrevealed interestingly that he had ‘found a box that fittedPaul Evans’, describing how he was objectively of theopinion that he lacked the pure talent (and possibly basicspeed) to aspire to major championship medals, and felttotally fulfilled in terms of what his running career (and itwas indeed a career for several years) brought him. Sincehanging up his racing flats, he has qualified as a personaltrainer, and now works for English Athletics as aDevelopment Officer in Suffolk.42 BMC News : Winter 2005

Bits and piecesRecent research suggests that music can enhance performance by up to 10%, if played during training or racing. Inaddition, if listened to before competition it can create greater focus and/or assist relaxation. Perhaps we could get Sony(orsimilar) to sponsor middle-distance running?-----Letter to BMC.Just a short note to to let you know that Laurence(Cox) made it to the final of the World Youth Championships inMarrakech. He was unhappy about his run in the final, where the field was destroyed by a 3:36 run by a Kenyanrunning for Bahrain. However his ninth place made him the top European, which must be a positive. Thank you forproviding the BMC events leading up to the selection.Michael Cox-----The "Honours Board" in the last issue has had other nominations. Mike Dunphy's name has been put forward. He wasNational Sec for five or so years, others put forward are Maureen Smith, the late Ron Holman, Malcolm Coomber, KathBinns and Mike Tollitt.World rankingsThe stats shown here are as at early October for 2005. There may be some adjustment when final auditing takes placebut it shows where the leading 12 British athletes figured on the world list.MensWomens800 1500 5k 10k s/c 800 1500 5k 10k s/c16 16 118 144 73 56 24 8 9 30110 47 358 145 86 72 33 46 42 35161 55 385 171 91 72 43 54 45 74163 67 392 228 118 75 66 55 95 86202 90 406 360 131 77 93 74 113 112218 97 466 376 138 101 104 100 200 115219 106 528 437 141 118 115 143 233 120224 120 609 569 144 127 132 160 271 149231 141 624 613 151 137 139 203 288 158236 152 652 627 245 138 149 229 290 208240 157 669 651 253 145 158 241 301 261257 159 656 688 272 155 166 243 324 290Whilst these figures do not tell the whole story eg the women's 'chase is still undeveloped in many countries, one canobserve in which events UK has a better showing. As is indicated elsewhere in this magazine the men's 5 and 10k is notin robust health. Overall, and this has at least something to do with the lesser acceptance of women's athletics abroad,the UK women outperform the men.BMC News : Winter 2005 43

Missing in Europe - track 10,000mGlobalPerhaps IAAF policy has contributed tochanging the men's 10k landscape.Everyone from seasoned coach to votechasingsports politician talks of theAthlete Pathway. Well, consider andcontrast the athlete pathways at thesharp end of world endurance:Helsinki Men's 10k A qualifying time-27.49-achieved in 2004 by 41 athletesof whom just 6 were born outsideAfrica, 1 within EuropeHelsinki men's marathon Team qualifier-31.40- achieved in 2004 by 320athletesHelsinki Women's 10k A qualifier-31.40-achieved in 2004 by 31 athletesHelsinki Women's marathon Teamqualifier-2.37-achieved in 2004 by 206athletes.Yes, the marathon circuit and prizemoney offers more opportunities withmore lucrative rewards than do the 10ktrack races, but we are still looking hereat a large difference in performance inwhat it takes to get your ticket sorted forthe world's in the marathon comparedto the 10k.DomesticSeeing how the stats are demonstrated"on the ground", over the winter andspring there was a healthy pool of UKrunners realistically looking at theLondon Marathon as a passport toHelsinki, and so it proved, for thewomen in particular. Virtually nomention of any UK-based guys having arealistic shot at this time round at the10k trial at Watford as giving them achance to run in Helsinki, and so itproved, with two English guys achievingthe Commonwealth Games standard,nearly a minute slower.The malaise is pretty much Europeanwide -it seems that even on currentstandards the AAA's men's 10k is inline with much of Europe with onlySpain having a clear lead inperformance standard (this year,stattoes, 12th place in 28.56 thoughonly one in sub-28.30)The AAA's 10k now seems establishedas a June fixture at Watford, which hasserved its purpose in securingchampionship qualifying times for a fewBrits in what are usually ideal distancerunning conditions. Apart from the lessthan-a-handful of world class Brits whocan secure a slot in an IAAF GP 10k,we should assume that the best ofBritish with any 10k aspirations willgive some focus to the race and trainspecifically for it.So what is there outside the AAA's 10k?BUSA takes place in late April whichpretty much rules out anyone who hasraced the London marathon. BUSA alsocomes arguably at an awkward time forthose who have peaked for the Inter-Counties XC in early March. The Inter-Counties 10k seemsto hold little attractionnowadays, and theone-per-countyapproach preventsrunners from areas ofmultiple strength fromperforming. The UKAEndurance Initiative10k at Birminghamthis July this year didat least build on the2004 event and get agood number offinishers, men andwomen, with somesolid performances.Would there be anynational interest inhaving a 10k trackrace, at a shelteredvenue, somewhere reasonablyaccessible within England, say two orthree weeks pre-London marathon? Itcould appeal to :-• Runners holding their form from theInter-Counties XC in early March-12k and 8k form surely prettyreliable over 10k• Marathon runners looking for areasonable indicator of form (bothAlan Storey and Paula Radcliffeassert that one should approach amarathon in 10k PB shape).• Possibly incorporating the BUSAchamps (there are now a number ofexamples of 10k track champs beingheld away from the main fixture)Rankings show that in 2004 97 Britsran sub 31 for 10k on the road andamongst the women there were 78subs 36 on the road. No doubt somehave reservations about 25 laps on thetrack but 10k is 10k, and there are noworries about hills, cars, dogs, mis-44 BMC News : Winter 2005

directions or inaccurate distancemarkers. So, in theory, there should bea critical mass of national level runnerswho could benefit from 10k trackevents at optimum times and venues.They won't all be on their way tointernational championships but theraces could play a development role forthese runners.EuropeanMoving up from national level, it isdisappointing, and especially so thisyear when not a single Brit toed the linein the Euro Challenge 10k. Originatingas just Spain v Portugal, the EuropeanAssociation (EAA) expanded its rolespecifically to give Europe's leading 10krunners a chance to race competitivelywithout playing second fiddle to worldclass Africans. Strategically slotted intwo weeks after the World X so that, intheory, runners peaking for that couldcarry their form to a race with broadlysimilar physiological demands.Alternatively, it has been used as a highintensity blow out en route to Aprilmarathons. Both the numbers ofathletes and the standards havedeclined significantly in the last fewyears, but given that it offers 10 slotsfor UK runners (and the qualifyingstandards have been modified such thatGB could actually fill all 10 places), tohave no one attend looks likeopportunities going begging. Both thedate and venue are known are setmonths in advance. This year therewere performances in the regional andnational road relays that might perhapshave done more to bring on the athletesconcerned if that form had been used inthe European forum.David ChalfenThe author is currently completing hisUKA Level 3 Endurance Qualification.His PB was measured by the calendarrather than the stop-watch. But, heorganized the women's field for the UKEndurance Initiative 10k inBirmingham in July 2005.BMC News : Winter 2005 45

Non StanfordNon Rhiannydd Stanford was born inJanuary 1989. Her mother had beena gymnast, a gymnast coach andInternational judge. It was thereforenot surprising that her early successshould be in that sport and made the"Team Wales" for a competition inAmerica as a young girl. In parallelshe became a keen swimmer, anothersport requiring many hours of training.Non( her name is that of the mother ofthe Welsh patron saint) found the twosports difficult keep up in tandem andswimming became the premier choice.Moving school saw the advent ofathletics into her realm of interests.Aged twelve( 2001) she notchedan 800 of 2:26.9, a 1200 of 3:49.6and a 1500 4:55.4 theseperformances witnessed her in theupper echelons of her age group. In2002, now aged 13, and under theguidance of coach John Griffiths, sheclocked a 4:39.20 for 1500. This sawher as the leading Briton of her age. Ayear later. now 14(2003) a 4:34.24at 1500 was the fastest by a Brit atU/15. Here then was a talent ofpromise.2004 was the 50th anniversary of theBannister mile and together with otherprominent youngsters she was invitedto race a mile at Oxford. There sheaccomplished a time of 4:51.31during the season she added a2:10.77 800 and a 4:23.5 1500 anda 9:22.84 3k. Together with EmilyPidgeon she had established herself asone of the leading U/17 performers inthe country and both had another yearin this division! Another feature was a5k road run of 16.48.During this period she averaged fourrunning sessions per week and asimilar number of swimming sessions,a situation, injuries allowing, thatpertains to-day. Is there a lesson herefor coaches? The swimming is done ina scheduled manner as a member ofSwansea Swimming Club althoughshe now no longer swimscompetitively. It does not sound likean "easy ride".Cross-country has always played itspart and that is planned to continue. Apersonal circuit training session is alsoa part of her routine for core stability.Assistance from Elite Cymru enablesher to have regular physio sessionsand medical check-ups. The currentyear has however been plagued withminor injuries that have restrictedtraining slots to no longer than acouple of weeks with resultantindifferent performances. The betternews was the invitation to join "Kelly'sHeroines" and she has enjoyed beyondmeasure the esprit de corps of the girlsgetting together for training. Nonhopes it will continue and she thanksKelly, and Norwich Union, for theirinput.As to the future she regards the 1500as being the short and medium termtarget. In the longer term perhaps 5and 10k. Immediate targets are theWorld Junior C.C team and the Juniorteam for the World Champs inBeijing next year where the qualifyingmark of 4:28.00 looks, injuriesallowing, to be well within her scope.She acknowledges that more runningsessions, and less swimming, may bea feature of the years ahead but seemstotally level headed about herapproach.Outside of sport Non has achieved 5GCSE A star marks and 5 ordinary Amarks this summer. She will studyChemistry, Biology, Mathematics andHistory at A level with the intention ofreading Medicine at University. Acurrent local problem has been that forsome time her club has been withouta track as the recently constructuredone awaits certification, hopefully "anyday now". Her current level ofperformance means it is difficult tofind an athlete to train with althoughsometimes a lad can be persuaded to.This gives enhanced value to runningwith Team Kelly.With the constant problem of dropoutsit is vital that talented youngstersare kept in the sport and Non'sparents are very supportive. It is to behoped that she, and others like her,can retain their interest and go on tofulfil the promise they have shownthus far.46 BMC News : Winter 2005

The day I weptIt was a BMC non residential trainingweek-end in Harlow, Essex, at the endof which the club would hold its AGM,the customary time for club officers tobe elected. It was the practice tocircularise the current officers as totheir intention of continuing in office ornot. They had all indicated that theywere prepared to continue. When theproceedings reached the stage for theelection of officers and the post ofChairman was put forward he declined.He was then the national middledistancecoach as well. Other profferedincluded :- Vice-chairman, held by theSCAAA staff coach for MD, President,held by the national long distancecoach , Membership Secretary andTreasurer. All declined to continue. Aclub without a committee cannotoperate efficiently or democratically, ifat all. This clearly was the intention ofthe abstainers-to finish the BMC off!What was behind this treachery? Tounderstand their infamy it's necessaryto look at the BMC's previous history tothis attempt at a coup de grace.The BMC made slow but steadyprogress from its start in 1963 to1968, staging invitation mile racesthroughout the country and an annualtraining week-end: it also issued ajournal -the BMC News, every sixmonths which contained informativecoaching articles. One of the committeeinjected large sums of money annuallyinto the club's coffers for the nexttwelve years which enabled it toincrease its race programme and alsoits educational role by organizingadditional residential training weekendsfor young athletes. The status ofBMC officers in the coaching fieldincreased and most were given officialAAA coaching positions. In 1980 theUK Coaching Scheme came into beingwith the cry "event specialization", theset being a national event coach foreach track and field discipline and staffcoaches for each area (North, South,Midlands etc).Each area had a nonelected coaching committee whichanswered to the national one known asthe UK Coaching Committee. Thewhole was supervised by a UKCoaching Director. The BMC was notinvited to take any part in this scheme,unlike the current trend. The BMC wererecipients of complaints againstofficially appointed coaches accusingthem of flagrant poaching. The UKCoaching Director, when approached todeal with these matters, was dismissiveto the point of arrogance. There werealso numerous complaints about unfairselection for GB international vests.Strangely GB women middle-distancerunners were the weakest link in theset-up and the BMC were notbackward in highlighting this, in aconstructive manner, much to theirritation of the UK Coaching Directorand his disciples. The BMC had begunto step on many official toes and thosewho held both BMC and officialcoaching positions chose to hang on tothe latter and ditch the former. One hadkudos the other notoriety.A smirking former BMC Chairman, thenthe national m-d coach, said to theBMC founder as he was leaving themeeting, " You've got you’re a job onyour hands now".The gloating UK Coaching Directorobserved, shortly afterwards, " I hearyour BMC committee is'nt much copnow". Eight years later he resigned andhis much praised (by him) coachingempire crashed. To-day, twenty-threeyears after the attempt to smash theBMC UK Athletics holds up BMCmeetings as an example of where thesport should go. UK Athletics alsoentrusts many of its coaching strategiesto be executed by the BMC. Lastlysponsors have been impressed by itsachievements and are supportivesignificantly.There is an old saying, "Be good topeople on the way up, you may needthem on the way down". Some peoplein 1982 didn't remember this.Written by BMC member No.34Nikki HamblinMembers will be interested to know why Nikki, a leading runner in her age group in 2004, has not been around this year.She developed a foot injury for which orthotics were prescribed. Unhappily the prescription did not cure the problem andafter just one 400 early in the season the injury flared up again. A further diagnosis led to different orthotics being createdand she recently finished second in a biathlon (swimming and running). It appears she had real success at this sport priorto specialising on the track. Her 2004 season led to the award of a scholarship at Millfield a year ago and we must hopethat the way is clear for her to build upon her 2004 success. Note that she began regular swimming sessions from agethree, twice per week, a story not a miilion miles away from that of Non Stanford, and again I ask, with all the ignorancethat old age brings, can, in any way, this early "aerobic" preparation be compared with the Kenyan run to and from schoolstory?BMC News : Winter 2005 47

Your country needs you for the 10kcompiled by Frank HorwillWhat are the physiological requirements? The 10k is 90%aerobic and 10% anaerobic, it's also run at 90% of yourVO2 max. This means that given ten hours of training , nineshould be devoted to aerobic running and one to anaerobicwork.What constitutes aerobic work? This is running where themajority of the oxygen required can be breathed. A commonerror is to believe that such work is confined to steady orconversational running. Marathon pace is 99% aerobic,half-marathon is 94% , 10k is 90%, 5k is 80% and 3k is60%. ALL these speeds should be used in a 21-daytraining cycle.What is Anaerobic running? This exists where the oxygenintake falls well short of the body's needs and includes 800speed (67% anaerobic) and 1500 metres pace (50%). Afull out 400 metres is run 83% anaerobically.How can you estimate your 10k potential? There are severalmethods :-1) The novice should take the average 400 metres time inhis/her best 1500 metres and add 12 seconds to it,multiply by 25. For example, best 1500 of 4 mins. =64 secs per 400m + 12 secs = 76 x 25 = 31 mins.40 secs/10kNote, however, this can change dramatically, forinstance. Paula Radcliffe's best 1500 is 4:06 (roundedoff) which is 65.5 per 400m. Her best 10k time is 30mins. 01 secs (72 sec./400). Her 10k average 400mspeed is 6.5 secs slower than the average in her1500m.2) Double the 5k time and add 60 secs. Given a 5k time of15 mins this would forecast a time of 31 mins/10k.However Dave Bedford had a best 5k of 13 mins.17seconds in 1972 and ran a world record of 27:30 in1973, which works out double his 5k time plus 56secs. Jon Brown's conversion was even better with a 5ktime of 13:19 and a 10k time of 27:18. which isdouble plus 40secs.When should one start preparing for the event? Start inOctober and race cross-country twice per month, that's atotal of twelve races in the winter.When should specific training start? The beginning ofFebruary.What sort of repetitive cycle should be adopted? Most worldclass10k runners have a 14 or 21 cycle which is repeatedseveral times before peak fitness is reached.What sort of diet is best? Research has long established thatfrequent moderate-sized meals daily (every four hours) leadto a greater physical output, greater acclimatisation toextremes of heat and cold and altitude. 75% of each mealshould consist of low glycaemic carbohydrates, 20% proteinand 5% non saturated fat.What sort of race programme should be adopted? The oldadage of racing over and under distance is valid. Researchsuggests that the third 10k race in a six month period islikely to be the fastest. A good racing sequence is a race afortnight as follows:- 1st race------half-marathon.2nd race-3k. 3rd race-5k. 4th race-10k.What sort of training should form the mainstay of thewinter?1) One run a week building up to 18 miles at 30 secs permile slower than one's target 10k mile speed.2) One run per week building up to 21k at 15secs per mileslower than in your target 10k time per mile.3) One session per week of hill running building up to theASCENTS from 3k to 5k total. Long hills (1200m)around an incline of 1 in 15 should be sought.4) A weekly fartlek session on the lines of 5-4-3-2-1minutes of hard effort running with one minute jogrecovery after each run. In due course this should be 2 x5-4-3-2-1 minute efforts with a 3 minute jog after thefirst block.3) Three times 3k time plus 4mins 45secs. At world classlevel the addition is just 4 mins.Example, best 3k = 9mins x 3 = 27 mins = 31 mins 45 secs/10kHow much training time is involved? A minimum of sixhours per week and a maximum of twelve hours. Theaverage being nine hours.After each of the above, next day there should be a 35minute recovery run, which can, in time, be repeated 10hours later.What specific schedule should be done at the beginning ofFebruary?48 BMC News : Winter 2005

Day 1 Slow aerobic - run 13 miles about 15 secs permile slower than the mile time in target 10k.Day 2 Slow aerobic - 35 mins recovery run. 10 hourslater, repeatDay 3 Aerobic - Target 10k time rehearsal - 7 x 1600with 100 jog (45 secs)Day 4 Slow aerobic, am 35 mins run repeated pm.Day 5 Fast runs at 5k speed...7 x 800. 100m jogbetween.Day 6 RestDay 7 Fast aerobic - 3k speed. 16 x 400. 100 jogDay 8 Slow aerobic - 35 mins run in am repeat in pm.Day 9 Slow aerobic repeat day 1.Day 10 Slow aerobic - 35mins run in am repeat in pmDay 11 Anaerobic - 9 x 500 at 1500 speed with 200mwalk (2mins)Day 12 Slow aerobic - 35 mins run repeat pmDay 13 RestDay 14 Slow aerobic - run 18 miles.Day 15 Slow aerobic - 35 mins run am repeat pmDay 16 Fast aerobic 10k target pace - 5 x 2k with 100mwalk recoveryDay 17 Slow aerobic - 35 mins run am repeat pm.Day 18 Fast aerobic - 5k speed. 5 x 1200m with 100mwalk recoveryDay 19 Rest.Day 20 Fast aerobic - 3k speed - 8 x 800., 200 jogrecovery.Day 21 Slow aerobic - 35min run am repeat pmDay 22 Anaerobic - 4 x 400 x 200 at 800 speed with 45secs rest and 5 mins rest after each set.Day 23 Slow aerobic 35 mins run am and repeat pm.Day 24 Start with day 1 again.Before all track sessions jog a timed 15 - minutes andafterwards jog a timed 10 minutes.Special note. According to Dudley's revolutionary researchwhich lasted 12 weeks and measured mitochondrialincreases in subjects at different speeds he declared thefollowing:- One mile run at at 10k speed was worth morethan 3 miles of steady running. One mile run at at 5k speedis worth more than 4 miles of steady work. One mile run at3k speed is worth more than 5 miles of steady running.BMC News : Winter 2005 49

BMC Nike Grand Prix 2005The BMC Nike Grand Prix seriescontinues to show that if you organisemeetings to give athletes what theywant, then you won’t be short of peoplewanting to compete.A total of 1331 athletes finished racesin the BMC Nike Grand Prix in 2005giving an average meeting size of 266for the five race series. This was asignificant increase on 2004. If you addin another 865 Athletes who finished inthe 6 meeting Junior Grand Prix Series,then the popularity of BMC organisedevents is clear.There was a need to continue theprogress that had been made inprevious years and to improve on lastyear’s performance. There was amarked increase in the regional racingprogramme, thanks to the efforts of PatFitzgerald, and the introduction of theBMC Academy and the BMC YoungAthletes Grand Prix series. It wasinitially thought that these meetingsmight actually lower the numbers ofyounger athletes competing in theSenior Grand Prix series. In the endthese fears where unfounded as largenumbers competed in both series.As well as the numbers competing therewas also encouragement in thestandards achieved. In particular thewomen’s 800m showed an outstandingdepth of talent with 23 separate Britishperformances under 2:05. This made iteasily the best ever year in the 9 yearhistory of the race series. The men’s800m races did not have the samedepth but did produce the 2nd fastest800m performance by a Britain thisyear from Andy Baddeley in 1:47.09.There were encouraging signs to in the1500m with a record 40 maleperformances under 3:45. Perhapsthough the most significant races forBritish 1500m running did not comeover the actual distance. NickMcCormick used the opening 2meetings to win races over distance at3000m and under distance at 800m,to set himself up for a 1500m breakthrough that took him to the WorldChampionships. In the mile Mo Farahled 7 people under 4 minutes as heproduced a performance well ahead ofhis best metric equivalent. The women’s1500m also produced a crop of fastwinning times topped by LisaDobriskey’s 4:09.08 in the finalmeeting.Creating opportunities for U20 and U23athletes to achieve European qualifyingstandards is always an aim of theGrand Prix series, and this year thestandard was exceeded 16 times in the800m and 1500m. The leading Juniorperformances came from Emily Pigeonwith a 16:04.46 UK U17 5000mrecord at Manchester and a 10:16.07UK U20 Steeplechase record atWatford.BMC Nike Grand Prix Best Times 2005Event Men Women800m 1:47.09 – Andy Baddeley 2:01.98 – Rebecca Lyne1500m 3:38.95 – Lachlan Chisholm (Aus) 4:09.08 – Lisa DobriskeyMile 3:56.49 – Mo Farah --------3000m 7:56.57 – Nick McCormick 9:09.60 – Renee Meivier (USA)5000m 13:21.17 – Micah Kogo (Ken) 15:57.49 – Eleanor Baker10000m 28:33.74 – Barnabas`Kosgei (Ken) 31:46.53 - Kathy Butler3000m STCH 8:37.46 – Luke Gunn 10:13.68 – Lizzy HallAge Groups in the 2005 GP for 800m and 1500mMenWomenSNR U23 U20 U17 Tot SNR U23 U20 U17 TotManchester 42 29 23 14 108 16 11 14 17 58Watford 84 45 36 2 167 24 27 15 6 72Solihull 51 38 37 9 135 28 23 26 29 106Cardiff 56 17 24 4 101 15 9 12 13 49Crystal Palace 66 26 27 23 142 27 19 14 26 86Total 299 155 147 52 653 110 89 81 91 371% 46% 24% 23% 8% 30% 24% 22% 25%50 BMC News : Winter 2005

First and tenth fastest British times (1997 - 2005)800mMenWomenBest British Av. 1st Av. 10th Best British Av. 1st Av. 10thBritish British British British‘97 1:46.87 1:48.13 1:51.04 2:03.4 2:05.21 2:13.58‘98 1:47.13 1:48.29 1:50.85 2:01.93 2:04.85 2:12.11‘99 1:48.00 1:48.27 1:50.21 2:04.57 2:05.94 2:12.74‘00 1:46.97 1:47.97 1:50.91 2:05.10 2:06.16 2:12.74‘01 1:47.67 1:48.99 1:51.64 2:04.94 2:05.80 2:12.77‘02 1:47.18 1:48.21 1:51.94 2:03.70 2:04.83 2:12.15‘03 1:46.68 1:47.72 1:50.90 2:04.55 2:05.14 2:10.20‘04 1:47.37 1:48.60 1:51.96 2:00.77 2:03.13 2:11.47‘05 1:47.09 1:48.73 1:50.66 2:01.98 2:03.05 2:08.141500mMenWomenBest British Av. 1st Av. 10th Best British Av. 1st Av. 10thBritish British British British‘97 3:37.5 3:41.05 3:45.40 4:15.2 4:18.18 4:42.2‘98 3:39.5 3:42.14 3:47.01 4:14.85 4:17.80 4:28.63‘99 3:41.83 3:42.85 3:45.51 4:10.84 4:17.02 4:27.82‘00 3:39.79 3:41.89 3:49.02 4:15.28 4:17.74 4:33.02‘01 3:39.27 3:43.19 3:47.62 4:13.02 4:16.23 4:32.03‘02 3:41.06 3:43.16 3:47.90 4:11.24 4:17.93 4:28.60‘03 3:39.72 3:41.62 3:48.85 4:14.82 4:16.81 4:25.95‘04 3:40.11 3:43.59 3:50.46 4:10.56 4:15.49 4:31.72‘05 3:38.49* 3:41.92 3:46.91 4:09.08 4:16.82 4:28.44BMC News : Winter 2005 51

BMC Rankings 2005(BMC races only)Compiled by Tim GroseMen 6001:22.6 Matthew Birchall1:23.8 Andrew Stanton U171:24.1 Jonathan Young U201:26.5 Jonathan Pearson U171:26.9 Christopher Howey U201:27.7 James Hogg1:28.4 Zak Scott U201:34.7 Marc Cochrane U171:39.2 Adam Greenwood U171:42.6 Richard Hopkinson U17Men 8001:47.09 Andy Baddeley1:48.03 Sam Ellis1:48.13 Ciaran O’Connell1:48.16 Ian Munro1:48.25 Nick McCormick1:48.25 Justus Koech1:48.26 Steven Fennell U201:48.38 Tom Carter1:48.41 Michael Rimmer U201:48.60 Joel Kidger1:48.70 Damien Moss1:48.76 Darren St Clair1:48.82 Lachlan Chisholm1:48.95 Kieran Flannery U201:49.01 Alasdair Donaldson1:49.13 Chris Mulvaney1:49.23 Ed Jackson1:49.23 Michael Coltherd1:49.25 James Nasrat1:49.36 Stephen Davies1:49.37 Jimmy Watkins1:49.37 Chris Warburton1:49.43 Gareth Balch1:49.44 David Campbell1:49.46 Graeme Oudney1:49.49 Neil Dougal1:49.51 Ben Green U201:49.57 Paskar Owor1:49.62 Richard Hill U201:49.72 Chris Reynolds1:49.77 Chris Bolt1:49.87 Neil Speaight1:49.92 Tim Bayley1:49.97 Lee Merrien1:50.01 Tom Settle U201:50.02 Matthew Bowser1:50.04 Gavin Massingham1:50.04 Gary Vickers1:50.12 Chris Gowell1:50.16 Rob Watkinson1:50.17 Richard Davenport1:50.50 Jamie McCullagh1:50.53 Michael Smart1:50.53 Andy Whetstone U201:50.54 Rob Hooton1:50.72 Adam Bowden1:50.77 Tim Alexander1:50.79 Gregg Taylor1:50.82 Kevin Kane1:50.86 David Kelly1:50.88 Matt Shone1:50.95 Richard Ashe1:51.03 Russell Bentley1:51.06 Nahashon Rutto1:51.06 Andrew Brown1:51.1 Tom Mayo1:51.12 Gary Davenport1:51.18 Tom Holden1:51.18 Eddie King1:51.3 Scott Sterling1:51.47 Tom Gayle1:51.52 Mark Mitchell U201:51.54 Chris Moss1:51.58 Drew Graham1:51.61 Abdul Aziz-Abdulrahman1:51.64 Aladdin Bouhania1:51.73 Feidhlim Kelly1:51.82 Matt Wood U201:51.84 Ian Lowthian1:51.85 Stuart Morland U201:51.85 Scott Thomson1:51.88i Paul Laslett1:51.89 David McCarthy U201:51.90 Chris Mackay1:51.93 Colin Costello U201:51.95 Tom Druce U201:51.97 Gareth Hill1:52.03 Andy Teate1:52.04 Matthew Barnes1:52.07 Frank Baddick1:52.19 Shukri Omar1:52.25 Pat Davis1:52.26 Steve Evison1:52.28 Darren Gauson1:52.28 Myles Barrett U201:52.33 Dave Ragan1:52.33 Phil Winfield1:52.34 Chris Parr1:52.41 Nick Samuels1:52.43 Matthew Nicholson1:52.44 Sam Coombes1:52.48 Dean Clark1:52.56 Adam Michell U201:52.57 Ian Rawlinson1:52.65 Anthony Moran U201:52.67 Alex Felce U201:52.7 Ben Harding U201:52.8 Andy Young1:52.81 Rhian Hastey U201:52.89 Alan Piggford U201:52.90 Jonathan Taylor U201:52.90 Marc Elliott1:52.91 James Mills U201:52.93 Steven Morrow U201:53.04 Stuart Bailey1:53.09 Jordon West U171:53.10 Darragh Greene1:53.3 Paolo Natali1:53.33 Adam Vandenberg1:53.35 Martyn Gibbons U201:53.42 John Rogers1:53.49 Eoin Cummins1:53.52 Mark Wilkie1:53.58 Richard Jones1:53.62 Nicky Moore U201:53.63 Mark Murison1:53.64 Robert Goodwin1:53.69 Daniel Stevens1:53.70 Joe MacDonald1:53.70 Alexander Pritchard U201:53.70 Chris Saville1:53.74 Tom Marley U201:53.76 Simon Rusbridge1:53.77 Alan McDonnell1:53.79 Laurence Cox U201:53.79 Chris Brown U201:53.8 Danny Crates1:53.82 Tim Wallis1:53.86 Alasdair Stewart U201:53.89 James Thie1:53.92 Peter Bridger1:53.96 Jonathan Williams1:54.01 Andy Prophett1:54.05 Dan Acheson1:54.08 Richard Girvan1:54.10 Tom Causebrook1:54.11 Ian Hough1:54.12 Andrew Lagan U171:54.16 Tom Osborne1:54.16 Gareth Allott U171:54.24 Lea Farmer1:54.26 Joe Van Der Toorn U201:54.28 Ben Craddock U201:54.33 James Murray1:54.36 Chris Maludzinski1:54.41 Stephen Gill U201:54.45 Michael Sawrey U201:54.46 Gavin Keight1:54.47 Mark Wiscombe1:54.47 David Thornton1:54.48 James Minter U201:54.51 William Strangeway U201:54.53 Ben King1:54.67 Rob Banjac U201:54.72 Simon Minting1:54.73 Ian Salisbury1:54.75 Garry Bristow U201:54.76 Craig Price U201:54.79 Paul Clarke1:54.8 Andrew Coffer U201:54.84 Graham Wright1:54.85 Andy Knight V351:54.87 Lewis Timmins U201:54.89 Nick Bradley U201:54.91 Fintan Mc Gee1:54.99 Simon Burton1:55.0 Ieuan Thomas U171:55.01 Tim Haughian U201:55.04 Mark Kennedy U201:55.05 Mark Sanford1:55.20 Rob Whittle1:55.2 Henry Hammond1:55.20 Richard Vint1:55.2 Richard Clayton1:55.22 Robert Smith1:55.23 Chris Bryant1:55.27 Jonathan Mellor U201:55.31 Daniel Quinn U201:55.39 Jamie Russell1:55.4 David Harmer1:55.40 Martin Flook1:55.4 Tom Warrender1:55.4 Oliver Holden U201:55.40 Alastair Smith U171:55.49 Ross Glover1:55.5 Jonathan Young U201:55.52 Ciarán ó Lionáird U201:55.53 Danny Barkes U201:55.56 James Griffiths U171:55.62 Simon Marwood1:55.63 Tim Hawkes1:55.63 Richard Menzies1:55.71 Bobby Whittaker U201:55.76 David Hall1:55.78 Conor Healy U201:55.8 Dean Lacy1:55.8 Andrew Burles1:55.81 Gavin Parkinson1:55.86 Thomas Boardman U201:55.9 Martin Airey1:55.90 Mike Tallis U201:55.92 Jacob Harman U171:55.94 Robert Hodges U201:55.97 Richard Larsen U201:56.01 James Horman1:56.05 Andrew Rayner1:56.05 Paul Miles1:56.06 Rob Hughes1:56.1 David Woods U201:56.11 Richard Newton U201:56.2 Andrew Stanton U171:56.2 Tom Bilham U201:56.31 Chris Davies1:56.34 Darrell Bellinger1:56.34 Joe Thomas U201:56.35 Michael Dyer1:56.37 Brian Stopher1:56.37 Adam Clansey1:56.38i Karl McCulloch1:56.4 Peter Emmett1:56.4 Toby Underdown1:56.4 Andrew Ingle1:56.4 Anthony Gray U201:56.4 Daniel Stepney U201:56.42 James Wardman1:56.42 John McCole1:56.46 Ian Fisher1:56.49 Craig Pearson1:56.5 Steven Horne1:56.51 David Forrester U171:56.56 Rick Ward U171:56.59 Michael Miller U201:56.6 Frederic Tremblay1:56.65 Michael Corbishley1:56.69 Rob Berry V351:56.7 Joe Mills1:56.7 Joe Durrant U201:56.70 John Mannion U201:56.71 Sam Walsh U201:56.71 Ciaran McCaughey U171:56.74 Daragh McDaid1:56.75 Paul Carron1:56.78 Luke Evans1:56.8 James Phillips U171:56.8 Scott Harris U201:56.81 Sam Hutchinson U171:56.83 Thomas Meakin1:56.83 George Martin U171:56.86 Duncan Marsden1:56.90 Curtis Pearce U171:56.92 Bryan Brett1:56.93 Nathan Elliott U201:56.98 Iain Barrett U201:57.00 Russell England1:57.03 Dave Taylor V401:57.04 Steven Mayers1:57.05 Laurence Chandy1:57.06 Eoin Tivy U201:57.10 Chris Gillespie1:57.1 Martin Williams1:57.2 Sam Bradley U201:57.2 Andrew de-Camps U201:57.2 Michael Hobson U171:57.23 Simon O’Leary1:57.27 Ashley Rymer U171:57.30 Jake Coom U171:57.3 Jonathan Randle U201:57.33 S Gregory U201:57.37 Martin Heys1:57.4 Mark Brown1:57.41 Paul Couldridge1:57.44 Richard Plummer1:57.5 Daniel Scott U201:57.5 Rob Mullett U201:57.53 Carl Tipton1:57.53 Simon McGuinness1:57.63 Adam Green U171:57.7 Marc Turner1:57.73 Mark Fallaize U201:57.74 David Reader1:57.75 Soren Terkildsen FruerlundU201:57.76 Ben Warren1:57.9 Anthony Wilson1:57.90 Stephen Lisgo U201:57.9 Chris Johnson U201:57.92 Steven Sinclair1:57.93 Richard Warburton U201:57.96 Jean-Francois Lignier U171:57.97 Ross Edgley1:58.00 Jordan Donnelly U201:58.04 Daniel Yates1:58.1 John Nunn V351:58.2 Nick Todd U1752 BMC News : Winter 2005

1:58.2 Matt Bristow1:58.24 Jonny Ayres U201:58.28 Michael Cole U171:58.3 Daniel Beier1:58.32 Liam Smyth1:58.34 Jamie Fenaroli U171:58.38 Gary Richards1:58.41 Richard Franzese U201:58.47 Stephen Borrill1:58.5 Paul Martin1:58.51 Andrew Gibson U171:58.52 Ben Styles U201:58.53 David Notman1:58.53 Jamie Smith1:58.56 Ketan Desai1:58.59 Klaus Mortensen1:58.60 Guy Amos V401:58.6 Richard Lang U201:58.63 Rory Campbell U201:58.68 Nathan Bibby U171:58.7 Nick Jarvis U201:58.71 Mark Leicester U201:58.75 Adam Dyson1:58.78 Neil Hawkins1:58.8 Matthew Addison U201:58.8 Daniel Ryan1:58.8 Ben Paviour1:58.8 Chris Axe1:58.86 Russell Osborn1:58.92 Perry Howarth U171:58.93 Stephen Long1:58.94 Nathan Coleman-Farrow1:58.94 David Bishop U201:59.00 Daniel Treacy U201:59.0 Mike Roberts1:59.0 Seymour Scott1:59.02 Scott Wardman1:59.05 Keith Dunlop1:59.07 Liam McCully U171:59.08 Harry Webb U171:59.1 Chris Knight U171:59.1 Kofi Agyei V401:59.2 Phil Williams1:59.29 Dan Gaunt U201:59.3 Russell Betts1:59.3 Stuart King U201:59.36 Nathan Quigley U171:59.4 Simon Fraser1:59.41 Peter Matthews U171:59.45 Andrew Blair1:59.5 James Miller1:59.5 Luke Browning U201:59.5 George Hill U201:59.5 Phil Clamp1:59.55i Nik Babic1:59.55 Michael Salter U171:59.57 Oliver Berry U201:59.57 Ben Rusius U201:59.6 David Boyce1:59.64 Richard Dowse1:59.7 Anthony Bird U171:59.7 Robert Holbrow U201:59.7 Chris Sargent1:59.7 Greg Norman U201:59.77 Ben Scarlett U201:59.84 James Williams U171:59.9 James Ellis1:59.9 Gareth Klepacz1:59.96 Chris Baddick U202:00.0 Luke Thomas U202:00.10 Ian Tinsley2:00.12 Andy Thomas2:00.14 Joe Townsend U172:00.22 Christian Booker U172:00.3 Douglas Johnson2:00.3 Mark Cowen2:00.30 Joe Wade U172:00.31 Terence Brady U202:00.50 Nigel Wright2:00.7 Federic Temblay2:00.72 Lee Ladd U202:00.75 Jamie Atkinson2:00.79i Steffan Hughes2:00.8 Seb Somers U202:00.8 Chris Hearn2:00.83 Tom Hockedy U202:00.88 Tom Wade U172:00.93 Darren Shinnie U202:00.98 Gareth Jones U202:01.07 Stephen Donegan2:01.1 Alexander Gibbins2:01.2 Robert Jackaman2:01.23 Neil Cowzer2:01.3 Jack Martin U202:01.31 Phil Hall V402:01.4 Richard Wallace U202:01.4 Michael Lloyd U202:01.5 Mike Benford2:01.5 Nicholas Gasson2:01.5 Chris McQuillen-Wright2:01.6 David Cooper U172:01.68 Timothy Howe U202:01.7 Andrew Carr2:01.8 Richard Daniels U202:01.9 Jeremy Bradley2:01.90 Richard Brown2:01.9 John Slade U202:01.91 Callum Cullen U172:01.98 Sam Dalgleish U172:02.1 Alistair Smith U202:02.1 Tom Jenkins2:02.2 Chris Gallagher U202:02.3 Dan Mullett U202:02.3 Lewis Moses U202:02.34 Alex Wall-Clarke U202:02.4 Tom Bolton2:02.4 Nick Farrell U172:02.42 Russell North U172:02.49 Robbie Hawkins2:02.5 Michael Claff2:02.57 Iain Dyson U172:02.6 Matt Southam U202:02.77 Tom Grimley U172:02.8 Alex Hudson2:02.8 Davey Platt U152:02.82 Chris Mulroy U202:02.86 David Cole U202:02.9 Lee Cook U202:02.9 James Teuten U172:02.91 James Senior U152:03.0 Dave Clingan V502:03.11 Robert Bates U202:03.3 Iain Stewart2:03.4 Matthew Withey U152:03.4 Jon Thorpe V352:03.4 Matthew Gunby U202:03.5 Oliver Harradence2:03.5 Rento Veraj U172:03.6 Iain Stuart2:03.6 Pat Canavan U202:03.74 Michael Williams U172:03.83 Conor Sweeney2:03.90 Peter Bains2:03.9 Ben Robinson U172:04.14 Dan Beck2:04.18 Nico Constanti U172:04.20 Oli Williams U202:04.22 Duncan Stevenson U172:04.24 Daniel Barry U202:04.56 Richard Edmonds2:04.74 Josh Fairclough U172:04.79 Matthew Jones2:04.89 Tom Emmett U172:04.93 Huw Adams U172:05.0 Emile Tambeh2:05.08 Simon May U172:05.1 Phil Norman U172:05.31 Mark Davies U202:05.4 Tim Watson2:05.49 Nicholas Johnson U152:05.5 Adam Smith U202:05.5 Ryan Smout U202:05.56 Matthew Young U172:05.6 Adam Harker2:05.6 Richard Davies U172:05.70 Matthew Mills U202:05.7 Callum Skelley U172:05.82i Simon Lawson U172:05.82 Ryan Crompton U172:05.84 Fred Wilson U172:05.85 Chris Reade U172:06.0 Khalil Thompson U172:06.05 John Cooke U172:06.10 Mark Norris U202:06.2 Ben Ivorson2:06.3 Stefan Emary U172:06.4 Chris Hamp U172:06.4 Kurt Edwards U172:06.5 John Cullen2:06.5 Mark Challen U172:06.6 Edwin Cawthorne U172:06.61 Alex Bryce V402:06.7 Simon Baker U202:06.79 Josh Holland U172:06.8 Ethan Cross U152:06.87 Jonathan Butler U172:06.9 James Blackmore2:06.94 Thomas Barry U172:07.0 David Bedwell V502:07.0 Craig James U172:07.1 Edd Richards2:07.1 Carl Dunne2:07.22 Tom Smith U172:07.28 Andrew Gibson U172:07.30 Stephen Broadhurst U152:07.4 John Knibb V402:07.42 Jonathan Yates U172:07.68 Martyn Moon U152:07.8 Darren Franklin U172:07.8 David Carbutt U202:07.9 Tom Moore U152:08.0 Adam Carmichael U202:08.1 Dave Dobriskey U172:08.2 Bob Minting V552:08.21 Thomas Jefferies U172:08.34 Kenneth Boyd U172:08.38 Jamahl Adams2:08.40 Scott Legg U152:08.5 Richard Felton U152:08.6 Daniel Clarke U202:08.7 Ross Williams U152:08.88 Jamie Dixon U172:08.90 Richard Belton U202:08.9 Neil Robinson U172:09.00i Kevin Pye V452:09.0 Robbie Schofield U152:09.06 Brian Hickey2:09.08 Joshua Moody U152:09.1 Jorge Villacampa2:09.1 Matthew Berwick U152:09.15 Jack Hallas U152:09.30 Daniel Challenger U172:09.39 Adam Hurley U172:09.5 Adrian Iszatt V352:09.55 Jeremy Gilmour U152:09.61 Martin Cousins U152:09.7 John Scott V352:09.81 Max Roberts U202:09.82 Mike Timmins U202:09.86 Matthew O’Neill U152:10.1 Richard Rogers2:10.1 Nick Dunn U152:10.19 Harvey Speed U202:10.2 Jason Jeffery U172:10.2 Philip Almond U172:10.36 Sean Williams U172:10.49 Tomas Northcott U152:10.7 Liam Corcoran U172:10.73 Gareth Johns U202:10.8 Chris Dobson U172:10.81 Thoma McDermott U172:11.2 Scott Williams U152:11.36 Jacob Fehily U172:11.4 Jamie Knapp U152:11.63 Rory McPheatos U202:11.7 Shahab Razavi2:11.73 Nathan Riding U172:11.8 A Atkinson U172:11.96 Jamie Bussell U152:12.08 Alexander Thomas U172:12.1 Craig Wrigglesworth U172:12.15 Louis Christoforou U152:12.23i Rob Monk U172:12.3 Bobby Smale U202:12.4 Paul Sellars U172:12.41 Luke Rigler U172:12.44 Jack Skeet U152:12.5 Sam Petty U152:12.67 Philip Smith U152:12.93 Dominic Henry U172:13.30 Harry Preston U172:13.4 Mathew Basford U172:13.41 Michael Smith U202:13.50 Swabir Abdulrehman U202:13.8 Peter Monaghan V402:13.8 Andrew Kaighan U152:14.0 Phil Moore U202:14.16 John Hilton U172:14.25 Johnathon Jefferies U152:14.33 Matthew Allott U152:14.34 Matthew Slaney U202:14.4 Ollie Jose U172:14.45 Luke Nicholas U152:14.46 Conor Mugan U152:14.6 Dan Anderton U152:14.8 J Farrell2:15.1 Chris Gaffney U152:15.3 Lewis Hards U152:15.5 Pete Skinner2:15.63 Daniel White U172:15.72 Paul Leck U172:15.89 Andrew Warburton U172:16.1 Ben Walmsley U172:16.52 Alex Shelley U152:16.52 Rhys Jones U172:16.54 Miles Hollinshead U152:16.58 Andrew Smith U172:16.6 Matt Timothy U172:16.6 Dan Hughes U202:16.83i Dafydd Jenkins U172:16.84 Christopher McLaughlenU172:16.95 Joshua Kinch U152:17.0 Mike Bayliss U172:17.1 Sacha Henty U152:17.14 Lenny Shail U172:17.54 Tom Mahon U172:17.66 Richard de-Camps U172:17.93 Ben Jones U152:18.4 Jack Moxley U152:18.43 Nigel O’Brien U172:18.5 Pieran Clark2:18.53 Forbes Bryce U172:18.62 Nick Brown U172:18.7 Ian Goldsmith U152:18.79 Christopher Moore U172:19.06 Steve Leigh U202:19.4 Steve Choules V402:19.62 Nicholas Lingley U152:20.1 Jack Flannigan U152:20.25 Daniel Johnstone U172:20.6 Ashley Williams U152:20.6 Matt Cann U152:20.62 James Stacey U152:20.68 Callum Fisher U152:20.8 Dean Scott U132:21.1 James Cotterill U152:21.16 Steve Nash U152:21.23 Jamie Breslin U152:21.59 Charles Birch U172:21.7 Jack Hutchens U132:21.94 David Whalley U152:22.0 Paul Read V502:22.10 Kristian Jackson U132:22.5 Luke Elmore U152:22.56 Sean Fontana U152:22.65 Lachlan Oates U152:23.17 James Wignall U152:23.69 Thomas Purnell U132:24.1 Oliver Lee U152:24.1 Graeme Kay V452:24.4 Gary Piazzon U172:24.9 Alexander Teuten U152:25.3 Alex Kelly U152:25.31 Harry Cox U152:25.8 Matt Cobb U152:25.86 Greg Rendell U152:26.42 Matt Dear U132:26.8 Jamie Crellin U152:27.00 George Brown U132:27.0 Jacob Landers U152:27.12 Jack Hutchins U132:27.2 Bob Chapman V552:27.5 Jamie Mather U152:27.9 Chris Sykes U152:28.6 Matthew Parker U152:28.85 James Lynch U172:28.95 Josh McHugh U132:29.04 Ben Grant U152:29.3 Sam Seldon U152:29.35 Shane Munford U152:29.52 Mathew Daley U152:32.15 Daniel Jackson U132:32.53 Alistair Massie U152:32.6 David Robinson V452:33.19 Max Lott U132:33.2 Thomas Legeland2:33.2 Joe Steel-Martin U152:33.76 Aaron Bennett U152:33.8 Ryan Davis U152:34.00 Robert Ine U152:34.30 Ross Thomas U132:34.88 Graeme Wood U152:35.3 David McDermott V502:35.4 Philip Sharpe U152:36.43 Dan Biles U152:37.12 Drew Hollinshead U132:37.81 William Sandifer U132:40.1 Kevin Burnett V502:40.73 Scott Chapman U112:40.85 Ewan Martin U152:40.86 Paul MacFarlane U132:41.3 Hugh Bayley U132:42.4 James Proctor U152:42.40 Callum Brown U132:42.67 James Rafferty U132:44.1 Jamie Bayliss U152:44.31 Craig Robertson U132:44.8 Oscar Tweed U132:44.82 Jamie Mist U132:45.96 Andrew Morrison U152:46.0 James Barker U132:46.06 Sam Bedwell U132:46.32 Callum Wark U112:47.0 Ben Quirk U152:49.36 Ewan Driffield WaddellU132:50.6 Thomas Tackzoe U132:50.74 Barri Mason U172:54.54 Cameron Mackie U132:54.78 Evan Cornforth U112:56.64 Fraser Donnachie U132:58.58 Murray McDonald U133:00.15 Lewis Cornforth U133:01.27 Lewis Lockhart U113:04.89 Angus Cochrane U113:09.62 Gordon McFarlane U113:10.96 Aaron Clancy U113:11.45 Sam Murray U133:13.23 Cameron Campbell U13Men 15003:38.95 Lachlan Chisholm3:39.50 Chris Warburton3:39.79 Andy Baddeley3:40.14 Scott McGowan3:40.20 Tom Carter3:40.58 Paul Hamblyn3:40.79 Lee Merrien3:40.83 Adam Bowden3:41.36 Colin McCourt3:41.37 Gary Murray3:41.91 Mark Christie3:42.40 Ed Jackson3:42.48 Abdul Aziz-Abdulrahman3:42.55 Bob Winter3:42.57 Moses Kipsiro U203:42.73 Mohamed Farah3:42.86 Michael Skinner3:43.11 Mark Draper3:43.24 Gareth Turnbull3:43.4 Kris Berry3:43.45 Mark Tucker3:43.54 Kevin Sheppard3:43.55 Richard Ashe3:43.65 Phil Tedd3:44.11 Danny Darcy U203:44.19 Chris Bolt3:44.29 Paskar Owor3:44.61 Daniel Vogeli3:44.81 Steve Sharp3:45.0 Mark Pollard3:45.23 Mitch Kealey3:45.37 Mounir Gueroua3:45.59 Colin Costello U203:45.61 Thomas Johansson3:45.65 Michael Smart3:45.65 Mark Warmby3:45.65 Richard Weir3:46.0 Matthew Barnes3:46.01 Mark Sanford3:46.25 Luke Watson3:46.41 Luke Gunn3:46.53 Anthony Moran U203:46.67 Mark Buckingham3:46.67 Christophe Chayriguet3:47.2 Gregg Taylor3:47.3 Darren Gauson3:47.32 Matt Shone3:47.4 Michael Coltherd3:47.61 Jermaine Mays3:47.82i Gareth Price3:47.93 Olle Wallerang3:48.0 Tom Snow3:48.1 Ross Toole U203:48.12 Andy Whetstone U203:48.14 James Fewtrell3:48.15 Paul Miles3:48.32 Andrew Rayner3:48.38 Rob Watkinson3:48.40 Alan Wales3:48.52 Ben Ruthe3:48.57 Ken Pihlblad3:48.73 Alex Felce U203:48.85 Ian Rawlinson3:48.90 Tom Penfold3:49.01 Angus Maclean3:49.07 Richard Welsh3:49.13 Alex Hodgkinson3:49.18 Shukri Omar3:49.34 Scott Sterling3:49.38 Corin Hughes3:49.54 Frank Baddick3:49.67 Paolo Natali3:49.80 Mikkel Kleis3:49.90 Tim Bayley3:49.95 Matthew Lole3:50.00 Robbie Bugden3:50.00 Brian Lindberg3:50.20 Jonathan Blackledge3:50.41 Laurence Cox U203:50.54 Richard Jones3:50.6 Gavin Massingham3:50.66 Andrew Fulford3:50.70 Noel Pollock3:50.79 Gareth Balch3:50.83 Simon Plummer3:50.93 Emmett Dunleavy3:51.04 Chris Parr3:51.07 Nick Talbot3:51.16 Lee Bowron3:51.2 Dan Samuels3:51.31 Peter Bridger3:51.32 Adam Dyson3:51.35 James Hayden3:51.39 Shaun Moralee3:51.4 Rob Whittle3:51.45 Henry Hammond3:51.5 Tom Gayle3:51.59 Fintan Mc Gee3:51.69 Tom Settle U203:51.82 Matthew Ashton3:51.86 Dave Ragan3:52.13 Andrew Hennessy3:52.28 James Williams3:52.38 Chris Hart U203:52.42 Paul Whitelam3:52.47 Morten Toft Munkholm3:52.49 Dan Dalmedo3:52.61 Martyn Cryer3:52.62 Gary Vickers3:52.81 Martin Williams3:52.89 Tom Holden3:52.97 Joe MacDonald3:53.08 Phil Wicks3:53.09 Mike Buntin3:53.14 Daniel Pettit U203:53.18 Jorge Thomas3:53.2 Ryan Stephenson U203:53.3 Stuart Stokes3:53.37 Chris Reynolds3:53.45 Oliver Holden U203:53.52 Matt Janes3:53.63 Tom Wiggers U203:53.75 Adam Vandenberg3:53.82 Dave Mitchinson3:53.84 Peter Emmett3:53.88 Mikkel Black Christensen3:54.01 Ben Moreau3:54.03 Russell BentleyBMC News : Winter 2005 53

3:54.08 Søren Molbech3:54.11 Kent Sorensen3:54.24 Bruce Raeside3:54.25 Matthew Nicholson3:54.27 John Rogers3:54.49 Kevin Dunbar3:54.51 Darrell Bellinger3:54.56 John McCole3:54.58 Alistair Smith3:54.69 Ben Warren3:54.69 Jonathan Taylor U203:54.97 Dáire Bermingham U203:54.98 John Laselle3:54.98 Richard Newton U203:54.99 Glen Coppin3:54.99 Robert Goodwin3:55.05 Tom Warrender3:55.15 Ross Millington U173:55.32 David Proctor3:55.33 Matthew Addison U203:55.41 Brian Maher3:55.48 Paul Erwood U203:55.67 Kelvin Hardy U203:55.74 Lewis Cadman3:55.76 Jonathan Mellor U203:55.78 David Doherty3:55.80 Jamie Atkinson3:55.81 James Ellis3:55.89 Ieuan Thomas U173:56.05 Eoin Healy U203:56.08 Rory Fraser U203:56.1 James Mills U203:56.21 Henrik Them3:56.24 Dave Webb3:56.30 David Awde U203:56.5 Ryan McLeod3:56.53 Stephen Mears3:56.57 Thomas Minshull U203:56.69 John Hutchins3:56.83 Glen Comish3:56.87 David Forrester U173:56.90 Ben Jones U203:56.96 Iain Whitfield U203:56.98 Phil Williams3:57.00 Andy Vernon U203:57.01 Matt Wood U203:57.07 Tom Russell U203:57.1 Philip Burkart3:57.17 Mike Tallis U203:57.2 Ian Hough3:57.21 Simon Marwood3:57.3 Tom Marley U203:57.3 Patrick Hambly U173:57.36 Simon Burton3:57.44 James Bailey3:57.57 James Boxell3:57.6 Thomas Boardman U203:57.61 I Conroy3:57.63 Eoin Higgins3:57.64 James Philipson U203:57.64 Kojo Kyereme3:57.67 John Shine U203:57.67 Conor Mc Gee3:57.7 Mark Brown3:57.7 Dean Lacy3:57.74 Ben Paviour3:57.84 Jonathan Thewlis3:57.97 Gearoid O’Connor3:57.97 Gareth Riddell3:58.00 Lee Carey U173:58.1 Matthew Bowser3:58.1 Mark Cowen3:58.15 Darren Talbot3:58.16 David Thornton3:58.4 Mark Wiscombe3:58.4 Louis Jones3:58.47 Matt Bristow3:58.5 Lewis Moses U203:58.58 Rob Mullett U203:58.61 David Bishop U203:58.64 Chris Rimmer U203:58.66 Ian Salisbury3:58.7 Simon Rusbridge3:58.7 Jordon West U173:58.71 Chris Brown U203:58.87 Stephen Gill U203:59.0 Paul Martin3:59.01 Chris Axe3:59.02 Andrew Renfree3:59.11 Alexander Smith U203:59.17 Luke Northall3:59.29 Dino Bozzone U203:59.29 Craig Pearson3:59.38 Joe Van Der Toorn U203:59.44 Steven Horne3:59.47 Robert Hodges U203:59.5 Anthony Wilson3:59.75 Stephen Lisgo U203:59.79 Andrew Welch3:59.96 Ben Harding U203:59.97 Ian Munro4:00.04 Simon Lewis4:00.09 Ian Vickery4:00.10 Damien Moss4:00.24 Rhuaridh White U204:00.4 Kevin Deighton U204:00.5i James Tydeman4:00.51 Phil Bradshaw4:00.66 Gareth Jones U204:00.67 Michael Corbishley4:00.70 Kevin Nash4:00.8 Russell Osborn4:00.87 Nick Samuels4:00.88 Matt Murray4:01.04 Douglas Selman U204:01.25 Russell England4:01.37 Jordan Donnelly U204:01.4 Max Prien4:01.50 Matt Clay U204:01.7 Nathan Bibby U174:01.79 Moray Anderson4:01.83 David Notman4:01.84 Curtis Pearce U174:02.0 Steven Fennell U204:02.01 Matt Shaw4:02.06 Andrew Dunwoody4:02.13 James Wardman4:02.2 Neil Gamester4:02.2 Kevin Heywood4:02.24 Danny Barkes U204:02.27 Wynne Evans U204:02.32 Jonny Ayres U204:02.33 Max Colligan V354:02.35 Daniel Gurmin4:02.54 Robert Flannery4:02.7 Jonathan Young U204:02.84 Tom Bolton4:02.9 Joe Durrant U204:02.99 Gordon Lee V354:03.0 Daniel Beier4:03.09 Jacob Harman U174:03.10 Alec Duffield U204:03.24 Gary Thornton4:03.25 Garry Bristow U204:03.25 Ben Craddock U204:03.3 Simon Anderson V404:03.39 Karl McCulloch4:03.40 Mike Burrett4:03.72 Terry Stanley U204:03.79 Adam Clansey4:03.8 Andy Teate4:03.90 Stephen Donegan4:04.0 Kofi Agyei V404:04.0e Ben Lindsay U204:04.1 Graeme Mason4:04.23 Simon Lawson U174:04.3 Andrew Ingle4:04.41 James Trollope U174:04.42 Simon Mills U204:04.48 Eoin Mc Cormack U204:04.49 James McCully U174:04.62 Dale Bickham4:04.64 Bobby Whittaker U204:04.78 Nathan Elliott U204:04.82 Andrew Pickett4:05.0 Bryan Brett4:05.04 Martin Mashford U204:05.1 Michael Hobson U174:05.14 Daniel Watts U204:05.19 David Marsh U204:05.25 Aidan Bailey4:05.36 Ross Clarke U174:05.56 Richard Stone U174:05.56 Alexander Pritchard U204:05.67 Karl Fitzmaurice4:05.80 Jamie Clark U204:05.8 David Fewell4:05.83 Joe Townsend U174:05.9 Steve Waldron4:05.98 Jonathan Holt U204:05.98 Aaron Hargreaves4:06.08 Paul Evans4:06.09 David MacQuarrie4:06.37 Dave Norman4:06.50 Phil Clamp4:06.58 Roy Smith4:06.80 Andrew Inskip U204:06.92 Joe Holden U204:06.95 Ashley Rymer U174:07.1 Stuart King U204:07.10 Nigel Malkin U174:07.11 Simon McGuinness4:07.12 Edward Lumley4:07.4 Phil Parry V404:07.44 Stuart Boon4:07.44 Steve Davies4:07.54 Christian Booker U174:07.57 Andrew Friend U204:07.77 Michael Hunt4:07.92 James Bleakley4:08.0 John Wills4:08.09 Ciaran McCaughey U174:08.15 Alex O’Gorman U204:08.21 Gareth Suffling4:08.26 Gavin Wilcox U204:08.29 Richard Menzies4:08.3 Andy Thomas4:08.36 Sam Dalgleish U174:08.55 Matthew Gunby U204:08.6 Chris McQuillen-Wright4:08.78 Kevin Lawlor U204:08.8 Jack Martin U204:08.92 Andrew Stanton U174:08.95 Aidan Adams4:09.07 Marc Hartley U204:09.3 Barry Royden V354:09.46 Rick Ward U174:09.5 Andrew Dougal4:09.8 Chris Gillespie4:09.92 Glen Watts U204:10.05 Adam Elliott4:10.1 Sebastian Duffy4:10.14 Richard Peters U174:10.35 James Drinkwater U204:10.4 Simon 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U204:15.48 Gavin Hanrahan U174:15.55 John Mannion U204:15.64 Sam Walsh U204:15.65 Daniel Heathcote U174:15.78 John Lisiewicz V404:15.8 Will Devenish4:15.96 Jon Archer4:15.98 Chris Gallagher U204:16.0 Matthew Barrett4:16.16 Tom Woodhouse U174:16.30 Perry Howarth U174:16.35 Dewi Griffiths U154:16.4 Alex Taylor4:16.5 James Williams4:16.6 Mark McDonald V354:16.83 James Wilkinson U174:16.90 Phil Norman U174:16.98i Gareth Evans U204:17.00 Harry Harper U174:17.15 Paul Rockliffe4:17.32 Josh Holland U174:17.4 Lee Munn U174:17.53 Jon Walch U204:17.7 Adam Cleaver U204:18.09 James Russell U174:18.20 Glen George U174:18.32 Tim Traynor U174:18.33 Craig Murphy U174:18.48 Tommy Henders U174:18.60 Andrew Bowen U174:18.95 Edward Johnson U204:19.0 John Knibb V404:19.24 Robert Jowett U174:19.5 Alistair Smith U204:19.84 Sam Diston U204:19.99 Thomas Lewis U174:20.39 Paul Bridgeman U204:20.4 Neil Hawkins4:20.4 Glen Wooldridge U174:20.71 Chris Bounds U174:20.87 Dafydd Jenkins U174:20.96 Simon Bennett 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for runners by runnersRUNThe newAir PegasusDOES YOUR SKIN W ANT BETTER-CUSHIONED SHOES?Running can have its drawbacks. The relentless poundingof feet jars your body from top to bottom. O bviously yourbones, tendons and muscles get smashed around but sodoes your skin. Think about it: women wear sports brasand men wear supportive underwear,but what about therest of your poor skin? Properly cushioned running shoeswill go some way to softening the blow for your wholebody – shoes like the new Air Pegasus. The new Air Pegasusis the latest edition of a shoe that has been protectingrunners, joints, m uscles and skin since 1983. It f eatures asofter lateral crash pad and full-length Air-Sole unit thatenable smooth heel-to-toe transition, making pavementsseem friendlier and face-lifts even more unneeded. Both ofwhich seem like pretty good things to us.nikerunning.com