Bredin on Running & Training

RUNNING AND TRAINING. considerable applause. My appearance, a little later, was heralded with no such sign of approval from the spectators, and the Swindon runner, whilst the start was being photographed, observed, "You mustn't mind them cheering me a bit and leaving you out; you see, I've run here so often." Never did I experience less satisfaction in defeating a good man than I did on that occasiOn. The season of '92 I wound up by reducing H. C. L. Tindall's 6oo yards record by one-fifth of a second in the race for the L. A. C. Challenge Cup at Stamford Bridge. I had the assistance of a pace-maker in the horne straight, which did not invalidate the record, though I believe the A. A. A. have since passed a rule to the effect that all records must be made in a race where the competitors start with the intention of going the full distance, or words to that effect, which practically puts a stop to coaching, and at all events prevents men joining in at various points to pull the would-be record-breaker along. My season of '93 opened somewhat disastrously from an athletic point of view. Starting training at the end of January, so as to get into condition for the 0. U. A. C. v. L. A. C. match arranged for the rrth of March, I first competed in the Keble Strangers race, a level r,ooo yards, on Feb. 23rd. The best 'Varsity man who started was the three miles blue, B. C. Allen, but before the race I was advised to keep an eye on H. M. Stilliard, who I believe was then engaged at a local bank. In the race itself I kept behind him, allowing Allen to enter the straight for home with a six yards lead, and though I got away