Bredin on Running & Training

SPRINTING. 9 distances covered in practice, for by so doing a certain amount of the necessary dash will be lost. A great number of men who begin their athletic career by sprinting well subsequently lose speeds and gain stamina owing to their method of training. Myers was credited with covering 120 yards in twelve seconds shortly after his f1rst appearance on the path. When in England in '8r, he was easily defeated by W. P. Phillips in the roo yards championship. By that time he had developed into a fine quarter-miler, and we are therefore apt to conclude that his forte lay at the latter distance. But had Myers confined himself to the shorter distances only, it seems reason– able to believe that he would have been as successful in them as he proved to be at two and four furlongs. Any ideas on this subject must be purely conjectural, but I may relate the manner in which I put a most complete end to any chances that I might have once possessed of shining as a sprinter. In '87 I won a level 150 yards race at the L. A. C. spring meeting, from a field of moderately good men. Amongst the starters on that occasion who were destined to subsequently earn athletic fame were A. J. Gould and E. H. Felling. The latter part of that summer I spent at Linton, then a quiet, unfrequented little village on the Devon– shire coast. Having entered for some of the West of England sports held each autumn, I practised running in a field, and was joined by a kindred spirit (though not a very athletic one), and we subsequently arranged a tour together; but as my friend insisted that he would not attend sports without competing therein, we spent a feyv days endeaYouri ng to discover by frequ ent