Cinders
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Cyrus Harding felt the volcanic tufa with which the plain was strewn, and which was but pulverized
cinders
hardened into solid blocks by time, tremble beneath him, but he could discover no traces of fresh lava.
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Jesse Owens, on the other hand, ran on cinders, the ash from burnt wood, and that soft surface stole far more energy from his legs as he ran.
Rather than blocks, Jesse Owens had a gardening trowel that he had to use to dig holes in the
cinders
to start from.
As of the end of last year, 1,314 men had run under four minutes in the mile, but like Jesse Owens, Sir Roger Bannister ran on soft
cinders
that stole far more energy from his legs than the synthetic tracks of today.
So I consulted biomechanics experts to find out how much slower it is to run on
cinders
than synthetic tracks, and their consensus that it's one and a half percent slower.
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