Bredin on Running & Training

MY CAREER AS AN ATHLETE. 141 month. The championships were held on that date at Huddersfield, the weather being both windy and rainy. It poured in torrents during the morning, but cleared up into an April day by the time the sports commenced. My first race was the quarter, in which I took the lead from Ovenden after covering some 180 yards, and won by about ten yards in fifty seconds. After rather a short interval for rest, Horan made the pace in the half until some sixty yards from home, when I managed to get away and won in I min. 56g sees., running right out this time, by a similar distance. A comparison between the weather on this occasion and the previous Saturday can be obtained by Horan's half-mile times. He ran in exactly the same way in each race, did within one yard the same time for the first quarter, and at Huddersfield it took him I min. 58~ sees . to cover the full distance, at Stamford Bridge practically I min. s6t sees., a difference of close on fourteen yards, added to which Horan, when f1t, was the most consistent half-miler I ever saw or met. It is frequently argued that men running in London can show better times than at North of England meetings, or, to put it plainly, that Stamford Bridge track is a fast one. This is not my experience, and although my records have been made at the latter ground, this was not unnaturally due to the fact of my competing with frequency there, at L. A. C. and various other meetings. The second fastest quarter I ever ran was in a handicap at Southport-49 sees.; and the time of the half-mile on the Northampton county ground in '93 of I min. 55t sees. I only once bettered at Stamford Bridge. All quarter-mile races are run o er the four laps to the mile course at Stamford