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Available as a free PDF download here http://www.scribd.com/doc/13695/Gordon- ... njury-Free
Pirie was a 3 time British Olympian in the 50s. Friend of Adi Dassler and helped him reinvent the spiked track shoe. A strong proponent of weight training for runners.
If you like Chi, Pose and so on...this guy was writing about good running mechanics before 10 years before Romanov and Dreyer came along and Pirie was openly blaming pillow soft shoes and increased injury as early as the late 70s.

Some weight training recommendations for distance runners:

Barbell High Pulls (warmup) 1/3 bodyweight 10 reps
Barbell Rows: 2/3 bodyweight 3 sets of 6-10 reps
1 Arm Dumbbell Presses - 1/3 to 1/2 bodyweight for 3 sets of 6-10 reps each arm
Dumbell curls- 1/3 -1/2 bodyweight for 3 sets of 6-10 reps each arm
Deadlift - bodyweight plus for 3 sets of 6-10 reps
One hand swings - 1/3 to 1/2 bodyweight 3 sets of 6-10 reps each arm
Barbell Cleans - 3 sets of 6-10 reps (no weight suggested...but likely similar relative weights)

Weight training followed by chinups, push ups, leg lifts and situps.

"Weight training does not go hand-in-hand with muscle bulge, unless you either munch a lot of steroids, or do a lot of slow, easy pumping. When we do maniac, high speed, all-out maximum weights, we get very fast and strong without putting on any bulk at all (you will not begin to bulge all over the place, girls). Most truly super-fit people don't look the part; fitness is a hidden quality. But when they “operate”, however, their performances reveal those “hidden” talents. The opposite of this case is The Incredible Hulk, who can't even jog across a room to visit his girlfriend without needing a rest when he arrives."

Really a good little book...it really makes it clear that the new minimalist running shoe movement is not anything new but really just reactionary: getting back to the way things were done in Pirie's day on up to the mid 70s...before cadillac pimp running shoes flooded the market.

Various articles pin "the modern running shoe" on Nike, c. 1972. I don't remember it, but it sounds about right.

Yep...Oregon coach Bill Bowerman, who apparently didn't run at all before traveling down under to visit Arthur Lydiard reasoned a longer stride with heel strike would be more efficient (much to Lydiard's horror, when he found out about Bowerman's ideas) Bowerman devised the waffle sole to protect the heel and foot from his new running technique...ruining his CNS with toxic fumes and his wife's waffle iron in the process. The story goes that he and Phil Knight initially sold the waffle stompers out of the trunks of their cars at track meets,.