Emil Zatopek was known as "the Czech Locomotive." I recently learned of his remarkable running career and life while listening to the book-on-CD version of Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. Zatopek was reportedly one of the first modern runners to extensively use interval training. He supposedly did a workout that consisted of 80 (yes, 80) 400 meter intervals with 200 meter jogging recoveries between the intervals! You can read a bit about him here:http://www.runningpast.com/emil_zatopek.htm
Born to Run is an interesting read so far. The link below is to Amazon which has a short video of the above mentioned author Christopher McDougall talking about why he wrote the book and the trap of the modern running shoe.
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