Bruce Tulloh Few runners have more experience of running and coaching than Bruce. He won his first school race in 1947, his first track title - the Hong Kong 5000m - in 1955, and his first senior British title - the AAA three miles - in 1959. Throughout the Sixties he was one of Britain leading distance runners, winning a national title or setting a national record every year until his retirement from international competition in 1967 at the age of 32. He set new British and European records for Two Miles, Three Miles and Six Miles and competed in 2 European, 2 Commonwealth and one Olympic Games. The highlight of his track career was winning the gold medal in the 5000m at the 1962 European Championships. His best marks were: mins secs 400m 51 800m 1: 53 1 mile 3: 59.3 2 miles 8: 33.7 3 miles 13: 12.0 6 miles 27: 23.7 and on the road he ran hrs mins secs 5 miles 23: 10 miles 48: 20 miles 1 41: 44 He was twice runner-up in the English cross-country championships and was in the winning England team in the 1964 international championships. In 1969 he broke the record for runing from Los Angeles to New York - it was him, not Forrest Gump! He ran the 3000 miles in just under 65 days, reducing the previous record by 8 days. He re-entered competition in the Masters Division in 1981 and is still running. He ran hrs mins secs 10K 32: 30 age 50 10K 36: 15 age 60 10 miles 57: 52 age 60 half marathon 1 16: 06 age 60 His best marathon is 2hrs 39, at the age of 43, and his last serious marathon was 2hrs 47 in London, 1994, at the age of 58. His coaching career started when he became a teacher in 1965. Since then he has gone on to coach at all levels, from eleven-year-old boys and girls to Olympic level. His most successful athletes have been Mike Boit and Richard Nerurkar. Mike Boit was Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist at 800m, and African record holder for the Mile, with times of 1min43.5 for the former distance and 3mins 49 for the latter. Richard Nerurkar was BritainÕs leading distance runner in the Nineties, winning the World Cup Marathon in 1993, placing fifth in the World championships 10,000m in 1991 fifth in the 1996 Olympic Marathon and running 2hrs 8mins 36 secs for the marathon in London 1997. A biologist by profession, he taught Biology at Marlborough College for twenty years before becoming a full-time coach and writer. He was for 15 years Coaching Editor of RunnerÕs World magazine. He is married,with 3 children - all of whom won national track titles at school or university level. Bruce Tulloh's publications include: Tulloh on Running Heinemann, 1967 Four Million Footsteps Mayflower, 1970 World Athletics Handbook Mayflower, 1970 Naturally Fit Weidenfeld, 1976 Natural Fitness Simon & Shuster, 1977 The Olympic Games Heinemann Educ., 1976, 79, 82 The Complete Jogger Macmillan, 1979 Biosocial Aspects of Sport (ed.) Galton Foundation, 1979  The Teenage Runner  Heinemann, 1983, 89, 3rd ed. 2004 The Complete Distance Runner Granada, 1983 Bruce Tulloh's Running Log Thorsons, 1986 Run Your First Marathon Thorsons, 1989  Running is Easy  Collins Willow, 1996  Running Over Forty  Tulloh Books, 2001 Sue Tulloh Sue is the co-author of  Running Over Forty . She started running in 1962 to get her figure back after the birth of her first child. Within less than two years she won the Southern Junior cross-country, was runner-up in the national junior race and finished 7th in the national senior cross-country. She also won the national 5km Road Walking title. Although she gave up competition to look after her family, she has been closely involved with BruceÕs coaching for nearly 40 years, holding the watch, feeding athletes in training camps and massaging legs in places as diverse as Helsinki, Finland, Toluca, Mexico, Nyahururu, Kenya, Kent, Connecticut and Croyde Bay, England , Font Romeu in the Pyrenees and St. Moritz in the Alps. She returned to competition in the Masters category and recorded times of 40 minutes for 10K, 90 minutes for the Half Marathon and 3hrs 25 for the Marathon, while in her early fifties.  back to top