Bredin on Running & Training

RUNNING AND TRAINING. 0. U. A. C., as the London club won by the odd event only. I continued to train and run in various sports through- out the spring, and began to get into proper form towards the end of April, a 6oo yards handicap, won from scratch in I min. I2! sees. round some twenty competitors, and a level I,ooo yards at Tufnell Park in 2 mins. I7i sees., being the m.ost noteworthy perform– ances. In the latter I defeated Harold Wade, who had also experienced little success that season. Bacon had beaten him in a level mile at Manchester, W. E. Lutyens had finished in front of him over half a mile at Godalming, and this third defeat in scratch races might well have proved disheartening to the mile champion, who had carried all before him the previous summer. But Wade was very busy at the time, and resided some distance away from a track, so most probably he had not taken sufficient exercise to do himself justice. On the 3rd of June I encountered W. J. Holmes, the holder of the half-mile championship, in a scratch race over that distance at Southport. The event itself is not worth recording were it not for the sake of the prizes given for it. They were two in number-a twenty-five guinea cup, and a gold medal for the second man. I won the cup, easily defeating Holmes, who annexed the medal, in about I min. 59 sees. In the dressing-tent, after the race, he congratulated me most heartily on my success, and observed that he wasn't yet quite fit, but hoped to giYe me a better race should I care to meet him in the championships a month later. That evening, sitting next to a member at the club