Bredin on Running & Training

"ODDS AND ENDS." 95 no claim to equalling A's record, having only run 196 yards, he could certainly be regarded as being as fast a man as the latter. It seems at least possible that the future championship meetings will be held always at London instead of the old plan of taking the North, Midlands, and South of England in rotation. The entries invariably seem more numerous when the championships are run at Stamford Bridge. Surely it would be fairer to men who have a chance of winning more than one event to run all heats off the evening before the meeting was held. This would be of no advantage to a miler who intended to compete in the four-mile race, but it would lessen the amount of work that sprinters, quarter, and half-milers are compelled to undertake in the space of a little over three hours. Large fields are chiefly attracted by the standard medals offered to men completing a certain distance inside a specified time. Even those who take very strict views on the subject of "pot-hunting" can hardly make such an accusation against a good second class runner for turning out at the Championship meeting and endeavouring to beat time, and receiving a memento in the shape of a small bronze medal for succeeding in his attempt. But the majority of such runners are out of place in a championship race in a good year. In '98, twenty-five men entered for the half-mile race, which had to be cut up into four heats and a final. At least fifteen out of this number had no chance, and I feel sure would not have entered J.... for the standard medal (I believe only one me r' gained in the preliminary heats). If all