An Athletics Compendium

F. Running ~ General How to excel onthe running path: a practical guitdoe the routine of training. RugbAy:lbert Frost, 1894. 37p; pbk Includes much on diet and medicine, with heavy promotion of Elliman's embrocation and Brand's essence, who paid for advertising space. The vents covered are the sprint, mile and te miles. Hints on running and race-planning / Thomas Hampson. London: Chatterbox, 1935. 96p BL:D A short work by the Olympic &00m champion. It includes a chapter on the public schools sports by Sydney Wooderson, anndotes onthe Championships and records. Athletics for health: running theory & practice / J. E. Lovelock. Seven Kings: The auth1o9r3,7. 23p; illus; pbk BL: Mic.A.9404(l 6) (microfilmcopy) Running & runners / Guy Butler. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. 175p; illus; index BL: 7908.eee.7 An unassuming but well informed textbook which teaches techniqutehrough a study ofmore than a hundred championsf,rom W. G. George toJ. E. Lovelock. 'A. (3. K. Brown is an outstanding example of the striding runner. So fdaosets he cover thgreound with his strides that even in a 100yds hise only using an honest-to-goodness sprinting action probably for the first 50 yards of the distance. Thereafter he is striding, not sprinting in the technicalsense ofthe word. On the other hand, an examination of Sydney Wooderson's action tahte end of a race seemtos show that he very definitely chops his stride; works his arms and generally breakisnto a thorough-going sprint' Although many of the training ideas have been superseded, Butler's original accounts of outstanding runners are of enduring interest. The book is also notable for its wealth of statistical material which includes furlong times taken during various half-miles. and lap times taken during some 25 outstanding mile/ 1500m races. The appendix contains a letter from W. O. George vouching for the authenticity of his training times of 59:f2o9r 12 miles, 49:29for10 miles and 4:10.25 for the mile. 5 The art of pace-judgement: an entirely new angle on training and racing for the runner, whether champion or novice / Guy Butler. London: Vail, 1948. 24p; pbk BL: 7917.de.97 6 Racing and training / Arthur F. H. Newton. London: George Berridge, 1949. 94p; illus Variant title:Racesand training BL: 7918.aaa.62 7 Running / produced coinllaboration with J. H. Dodds [i.e. Dodd]. London: EducationaPlroductions, 1961. 32p; illus; pbk (Athletic techniques) BL: 7926.de.4 8 Run to thetop / Arthur Lydiard and GaGrtihlmour. London: Herbert Jenkin1s9,62. 181p; illus BL: 7923.tt.33 Lydiard gives a clear exposition of training methods which were responsible for the success of Olympic champions Halberg and Sneil. LikeCerutty, his outlook is essentially empirical, bhuist writing does norteach the inspirational level of the Australian coach. Lydiard's methods, thoughat the timuensupported by much in the way of physiological fact, have since become the basis moufch modem distance training. ^ Subsequented. F10 9 Modern training for runnin/gJohn Kenneth Doherty. London: Prentice-Hall, 1964. xi, 281p BL: X.441/182 Essentially descriptive rather than prescriptive and lacking much inthe way ofpractical coaching advice or physiological analysis, this is a collation of training methods otfhe period andis a landmark work. [ 1 1 5 ]