Athletics of To-Day 1929

66 Athletics of To-day TRAINING. Do not try to run a quarter mile race until you have been in training for a month or six weeks and leave your serious training until you have devoted a fortnight to getting into fair physical condition by long walks and easy jog-trot half and three-quarter mile runs. After this begin to practise sprinting roo and 250 yards at just under top-speed. Do plenty of body– building and stretching x rcises. Learn how to run round the curve of the track by dropping the inside arm and remember that the bend is never the place to attempt to pass a rival. Do not run a quarter mile trial or race 1nore than one day a week. A quarter-miler should be a sound judge of pace. Develop this sense with the aid of a time schedule and a friend holding a stop-watch, who should shout your times to you as you flash by him. The following is l'rfussabini's Time chedule, which represents the average of running at the intermediate distances in a quarter mile: roo yards 200 yards 300 yards 440 yards Average Performer I2 secs. 23 S CS. 35! ~ecs. 53 secs. The 52 sec. man II 23i 35 52 The sr sec. man II 23 34t 5I The 50 s c. man II 22t 34 so The 49 sec. man II 22 33i 49 The 48t s c. man IO 2r! 32! 4 Each day's work should start with five minutes body– building x rcises and one asy jog-trot quarter, to warm up before stripping out. As to sch dul , one can offer only sugg stions, since each inclividual must ascertain for hims lf what suits him b st. Th w rk may vary b tw en the sugg stions A and B, giv n hereunder, for a week's work when one is really fit: