Athletic Training

72 ATHLETIC TRAINING best to protect the chest with a piece of news– paper or brown wrapping paper. Cross-country running in this country is usually done over a course of from 5 to 7 miles, 6 miles being the length of the inter– collegiate course. A cross-country course should be over a country road or turf, never on asphalt or similarly hard pavements. I do not encourage running on the pavement, because it injures the legs. A little effort will find a suitable course in the country or a park. Different methods of training are required for the man or boy who takes up cross-country running for health and the one who pursues it to become a champion runner. The one whose object is merely health and the build– ing up of the body will not train as hard or consistently as the one who wishes to become a· champion. What I shall say on the sub– ject of training for this event applies more particularly to the boy who trains for the race. The boy who merely wants a good exercise can follow any part of this training that he so desires or finds suitable. At the start let us assume that the boy is training for a race of 5 or 6 miles. If he