Bredin on Running & Training
CHAPTER II. QUARTER-l\'liLING. AMONGST the many distances that I have enjoyed running, when in good condition, that of a quarter of a mile has ever been my favourite. Other preferences I have had; 6oo yards no doubt suited me rather better, and half a mile has occasionally not come amiss, but in so far as it is possible to derive pleasure from the exertion, and during the progress, of a severe foot race at any recognised distance, I have to the greatest extent experienced this feeling throughout races at a quarter. Since 1892, when I first managed to beat fifty seconds in public over a complete 440 yards, to the summer of the last year of the nineteenth century, during which I won a quarter handicap from six yards start in forty-nine seconds, I have competed in consider– ably over one hundred races at this distance, and, with the exception of a few crack 'Varsity athletes, and the winner of the last two seasons' amateur championships, have met all the best amateur runners who have appeared with frequency in this country; so that whatever knowledge may be obtained by practical experience I think I can lay claim to. In regard to the first part of this little book I endeavour to recount all that I have been enabled to learn, observe, and conclude, by means of a somewhat lengthy experience R.T. c
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