Arthur Newton/Walter George.
Arthur Newton/Walter George.
The "Hundred-Up" exercises also appear in the 1904 book "An Alphabet of Athletics" by Eustace Miles on pages 58 - 62 with some interesting illustrations. It is not mentioned in the recent New York Times article and has more detail about the exercises. You can see it yourself. It is digitized by Google from the University of Michigan collection and is on books.google.com. It appears you can also buy reprints of it online elsewhere.
Stock LRC Response wrote:
I'm guessing Walter George just wasn't counting his morning run, or warmups and cooldowns from his form exercises, as he didn't consider them to be quality work. So he was probably doing 50-75 miles per week, plus extensive form drills. Really guys, 4:12 off 75/week plus drills is not that impressive.
I don't think he did a morning run
He was a pro runner and from memory the amateurs did not beat his record for another 30 years. Now that is impressive
Does anyoen one know how many photos of Walter George exist? They only had one on his wikipedia page.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Alfred_Shrubb_-_Lon_Myers.JPG
From what I understand the camera technology in George's time was too primitive to take moving actions shots so as far as I am aware there are no photos of George actually running.
Adam C wrote:
Does anyoen one know how many photos of Walter George exist? They only had one on his wikipedia page.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Alfred_Shrubb_-_Lon_Myers.JPGFrom what I understand the camera technology in George's time was too primitive to take moving actions shots so as far as I am aware there are no photos of George actually running.
That's Shrubb and Myers, not Walter George.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
Stock LRC Response wrote:I'm guessing Walter George just wasn't counting his morning run, or warmups and cooldowns from his form exercises, as he didn't consider them to be quality work. So he was probably doing 50-75 miles per week, plus extensive form drills. Really guys, 4:12 off 75/week plus drills is not that impressive.
I don't think he did a morning run
He was a pro runner and from memory the amateurs did not beat his record for another 30 years. Now that is impressive
Good Lord, is no one's sarcasm detector working around here?!
I don't think that is Alfred Shrubb. The file name is wrong. Lon Meyers was born (Februray 16th, 1858) almost 22 years before Shrubb (December 12th, 1879)was. Shrubb began racing in 1899, the year Meyers died.
Here is a photo of Walter George, from a book called "Running Through The Ages."
Adam C wrote:
I don't think that is Alfred Shrubb. The file name is wrong. Lon Meyers was born (Februray 16th, 1858) almost 22 years before Shrubb (December 12th, 1879)was. Shrubb began racing in 1899, the year Meyers died.
Good point. The name on the photo is wrong.
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