A System of Physical Education, Theoretical and Practical (extract)

174 EXERCISES OF PROGRESSION. [SECT. JI. endurance takes the most prominent place and passes probably from muscular to respiratory effort. A correct action and position, quite irrespective of time, should first be obtained; these should then be practised at half speed, and ultimately at the highest rate of speed. When, in addition to the proper action and position, the proper and uniform rate of speed bas been acquireu, the race may be extended to the quarter and whole mile. Long distances, such as five or ten miles, may also be practised, with emulation, but systematically, and above all progressively, both as regards distance and speed. There is much art in husbanding and profitably spending the physical resources in both modes of pro- gression, and there is no exercise in which men can be engaged where fatigue so soon and so distressingly supeTvenes, if unskilfully performed.