, you fall forward on to the next foot. If you had no leg muscles, you would fall flat on your face on the pavement. Instead, your quad muscles stretch slightly with each fall forward, then contract to straighten the knee, and launch you into your next
of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics) to Joan Samuelson, Alberto Salazar and Peter Gilmore, the unsung American marathon runner who ran 2:12:45 at Boston last April. Daniels has also coached the less fleet of foot, including small-college runners at Cortland State
. “In her first plyometrics work-outs, Deena hit the ground like a flat-footed 15-stone man, but we kept emphasising, ‘get your feet up fast. Get your feet up fast.’ “Drossin did rope skipping, running skipping drills, box jumps and even high
