Michael Swinton "Bruce" Tulloh (29 September 1935 – 28 April 2018) was a

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from England who competed at the

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Athletics career

Tulloh became the British 3 miles champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1959 AAA Championships and at the 1962 AAA Championships. Tulloh won the European title in the men's 5000 metres at the 1962 European Championships in

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with a winning time of 14:00.6. He was also part of a national title winning team Portsmouth A.C. in cross-country and road running in the 1960s. He was famous for running barefoot in many of his races. His twin daughters were teenage running phenomena in the 1980s setting age-best marks running for their club Swindon A.C. They also ran barefoot. He represented

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in the 1 mile and 3 mile races at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in

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, Western Australia. Four years later he competed in the 3 mile and 6 mile races at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In between he won his third AAA 3 miles title at the 1963 AAA Championships. In 1969, Tulloh ran 2876 miles across America from

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in 64 days. This is described in his book ''Four Million Footsteps'', published by Pelham Books and as a Mayflower paperback in 1970. He was coach to British marathon athlete Richard Nerurkar.

Personal life

He taught biology at The Bulmershe School, Dr Challoner's Grammar School and then Marlborough College for 20 years. He wrote a book, ''Running is Easy'', that is essentially an amateur's guide to becoming a good runner. Tulloh also wrote for ''

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''. One of his most important contributions was a three-fold training programme for the ten-mile race (16.1 km): the first programme was how to get sub-80 mins (4:58 per km), the second was for sub-70 mins (4:21 per km) and the third for sub-60 mins (3:44 per km).

Death

Tullloh died at his home in Marlborough on 28 April 2018. He was 82.

Publications

References

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Athletics career

Personal life

Death

Publications

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