Bredin on Running & Training

ISO RUN ING AND TRAINING. at which meeting I met my late conqueror off the scratch mark. My heat was an early one and I won it, very comfortably towards the finish, in 49-! sees. As the members' dressing-room is directly under the grand stand, those inside can detect by the clapping of hands and stamping of feet when anything takes place on the track pleasing to the spectators; and I sat there awaiting the conclusion of the remaining heats. When the men turned out for that one in which Fitzherbert was a competitor, I was especially attentive. As time passed quietly on I concluded that he had failed to show good form, and therefore, even if he qualified by being in the first three for the final, my late position behind him would be somewhat easily reversed, when a rat-tat-tat commenced overhead and increased in volume, until there could be no mistaking the fact that something to arouse both excitement and approbation was taking place, and I shortly afterwards was informed that he had beaten his field in sof sees., after at 350 yards appearing not to possess the slightest chance. The vital question then arose, How much extra could we each find for the final heat? Tossing for choice of positions on the mark, I guessed correctly, and, slipping away directly the pistol went off (feeling extra fit), I ran for the first 300 yards at almost full speed, by which time I led the Cambridge man about ten yards. Some fifty yards from home I caught the leaders and won by five yards in 48i sees., equalling H. C. L. Tindall's time in June, '89. I believe this is one second faster than a quarter of a mile has ever been covered at Stamford Bridge, over the course of four laps to the mile, and Fitzherbert, who practically speaking ran the distance