Bredin on Running & Training

RUNNING AND TRAINING. Bridge-that is, since 1892, when the old long straight was shortened. On the next occasion of my turning out for the level quarter, at the Kildare sports, the quarter was started (the only time in my experience as a competitor) from close by the wall at the top of the grounds, and running right-hand inside, ended some twenty-f1ve yards round the bend leading into the ordinary finishing straight-this with a view of my breaking the record, in which I did not prove successful, occupying 49i for the journey. Leaving the grounds somewhat hurriedly, I reached Victoria Station in time to catch the Newhaven and Dieppe boat train, having sent my entries for the meeting at Paris on the following .day. When Newhaven was reached and a move made on board, the stormy winds did blow, and one of our party, a philanthropic German Baron, connected at one time with the Stock Exchange, after interrogating a porter (whom he must have mistaken for an able-bodied seaman) as to whether we were likely to have a rough crossing, absolutely refused to continue the journey. However, we had but little tossing, and as I subsequently lay at full length sucking a pipe (concealed underneath a cap) on the top row of the saloon, watching a card– board notice whereon was printed "Smoking not allowed" sway to and fro; an extra violent lurch caused the medium-sized portmanteau belonging to the Honorary Secretary of the A. A. A. (who was lying down opposite me) to slip from under his head, where, with the aid of a rug, it had done duty as a pillow, on to the upturned and decidedly white-looking face of a fellow-passenger, who immediately sat upright and gave vent to various quaint French oaths. But all's well that