Bredin on Running & Training

MY CAREER AS AN ATHLETE. 133 before starting on the last quarter, which must be covered inside sixty-six seconds to comply with the conditions. I have never been able to obtain any satisfactory proof of this feat having been performed, and should be inclined to consider that, Wharburton being a long-distance runner, it is extremely improb– able that he could ever have done it; but on the other hand, if it is not an impossibility, Myers above all other men would have been the one most likely to succeed in such an attempt. The rst of July, r893, was a fine English summer day, the heat being tempered by a moderate breeze blowing across the Northampton County Ground, where the Amateur Championships of that year came to be decided. The track is a large one of some 6oo yards to the lap, not quite level, there being a drop of perhaps two feet between the highest and lowest points of its surface. I think the r oo yards race was decided before the quarter. Bradley, the previous year 's winner, was allowed to choose in which direction he preferred to run, up or down the straight, the officials pointing out that there might be some doubt as to whether the A. A. A. would accept a record made down the slope of one foot in the complete distance. So the race was decided up this slight gradient, and against the breeze. H. T. Bell, the Guy's Hospital and L.A. C. athlete, was at that time in his best form, and was Bradley's only opponent. They got away well together, Bradley just leading at thirty yards, from which point he began to forge rapidly ahead, and finishing at top speed, won by four yards in ten seconds. This, in my opinion, was the fastest roo yards Bradley ever ran, and though I