Michael Swinton "Bruce" Tulloh (29 September 1935 – 28 April 2018) was a long-distance runner from England who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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 Belgrade, Yugoslavia with a winning time of 14:00.6. He was also part of a national title winning team Portsmouth A.C. in cross-country and road running in the 1960s. He was famous for running barefoot in many of his races. His twin daughters were teenage running phenomena in the 1980s setting age-best marks running for their club Swindon A.C. They also ran barefoot.
He represented England in the 1 mile and 3 mile races at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, 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 Los Angeles to New York City in 64 days. This is described in his book Four Million Footsteps, published by Pelham Books and as a Mayflower paperback in 1970.
He was coach to British marathon athlete Richard Nerurkar.
+ Personal bests Distance Time (min) Date LocationMile 3:59.3 27 January 1962 Hamilton, New Zealand3 miles 13:12.0 17 August 1961 Southampton, U.K.5000 m 13:49.4 22 July 1964 Helsinki, Finland6 miles 27:23.78 8 July 1966 London, U.K.10,000 m 28:50.4 30 August 1966 Budapest, Hungary
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 Runner's World. One of his most important contributions was a three-fold training programme for the ten-mile race (16.1 km): the first programme was how to get sub-80 mins (4:58 per km), the second was for sub-70 mins (4:21 per km) and the third for sub-60 mins (3:44 per km).
Death Tullloh died at his home in Marlborough on 28 April 2018. He was 82.
Publications
Title Year Publisher ISBN Pages Long-distance running 1967 Amateur Athletic Association 31 Tulloh on running 1968 Heinemann Four million footsteps 1970 Mayflower 175 Naturally fit 1976 Barker 167 The Olympic Games 1976 Heinemann 72 The complete jogger 1979 Macmillan 138 The marathon book 1982 Virgin 190 The complete distance runner 1983 Panther 224 Bruce Tulloh's running log: the complete runner's companion 1986 Stephens 160 The teenage runner 1989 Kingswood 156 Running your first marathon and half marathon 1989 Thorsons 64 Track athletics 1994 Blandford 79 Running is easy 1996 CollinsWillow 192
See also Barefoot running
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