Bredin on Running & Training

RUNNING AND TRAINING. but a little freshness and edge had been taken off my keenness, and I consequently longed to get the race over whatever its result might be. We drew lots on the grass for choice of positions, Jordan observing to me, "Don't win by too much" (or words to that effect), but I wasn't brimful of con– fidence, and owned it by stating that I should be only too thankful if I won at all. I do not remember accurately how the positions went, but the brothers Blignaut were on the inside and I was somewhere near the rails when the pistol sent us off. My intention was to get away and open up a respectable gap between myself and Fitzherbert, but the Blignauts started sprinting, and continued, after rounding the first bend, to carry on the running so fast that I didn't get in front until we had reached the top of the back straight, and I oo yards from home I might have led Fitzherbert two yards. Jordan had then taken third position, but at about that point he dropped out of the race, and Fitzherbert came up to my shoulder some fifty yards from home . For the next twenty I managed to struggle on, just leading, but a third successive victory in both the half and quarter championships was not to be, however much I might have desired it, and Fitzherbert broke the worsted a winner by half a yard. Philip J. Blignaut finished six yards behind me, so that he must have covered the distance in so ~ sees. The last event was not the least interesting, Bacon, the four miles champion, being opposed by such good men as Crossland and Watkins, C. Pearce, the '93