The one exercise that might change your running forever

I can’t remember where I first read this but forgot to post it straight away…

“I was leafing through the back of an out-of-print book, a collection of runners’ biographies called ‘The Five Kings of Distance,’ when I came across a three-page essay from 1908 titledĀ ‘W. G. George’s Own Account From the 100-Up Exercise,’” he writes. “According to legend, this single drill turned a 16 year old with almost no running experience into the foremost racer of his day.”

W-G-George“Walter Goodall George’s earliest sporting interests were rugby and cycling, but he went on to win over 1,000 amateur prizes and races and set long-standing records as a professional runner. “He becameĀ unbeatable over the middle distances in an era before training became scientific,” the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography writes, all while pioneering his own personal brand of “scientific” training, namely the 100-Up”

Some links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/100-up-running_n_5406664.html

http://hundredup.com/learn-georges-100-up-running-exercise/