Arthur Hamilton Newton is not a name that would be recognised as easily today as “Rudisha” or “Bolt” but he’s nevertheless one of the great heroes of the sport and his exploits puts a welcome perspective on much of what has happened to athletics since his heyday. Arthur Newton was a prolific runner and coach…
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Book review: “Running for their lives”
Walking around Dun Laoghaire before travelling to the Snowdon International race, I browsed a local bookshop and picked up hardcover book with an interesting looking sepia cover. Two runners were on the picture: Arthur Newton and Peter Gavuzzi, perhaps the fathers of modern ultra running, and this was their story, written by debutante author Mark…
Arthur Newton
Arthur Newton was the finest ultra-runner of his generation, despite a late start to his running career, and turned to coaching later to share the wisdom he had found through self-experimentation. Like Arthur Lydiard, Newton had very little existing knowledge to go by in trying to find the necessary endurance to compete at the highest…
Ultra running and ultra marathons
Ultra-running events are simply running events longer than the established distance for the marathon event (that is longer than 26.2 miles or 42.2km). The set distances of 50km, 50 miles (80.5km), 100km and 100 miles (161km) are fast becoming the standard event distances for this discipline of running as are 24 hour and 48 hour…
