Bredin on Running & Training

44 RUNNING AND TRAINING. will play an equally important part in regard to training as will the running practised on a track . In dealing with mile and long-distance races, I would like to impress upon the staying class of runners the desirability of setting and maintaining a fast pace throughout any race in which they oppose fast-finishing men. I have frequently seen a good stayer finish his race comparatively fresh and yet beaten by another man whom he might have completely stopped had he made full use of his stamina during the race. If, by carrying out this plan, a risk is entertained of beating oneself, it may have a similar effect on one's adversaries; and in truth there is no other chance of success open to the stayer. Few athletes seemed to be aware of this fact, or act up to it, better than F. S. Horan, in the three scratch half-miles in which we were both fated to compete, and had he on any of these occasions caught me slightly " off colour," he would without doubt have reaped the reward that his plucky running certainly deserved. \V. E . Lutyens, on the other hand, may be cited as a prominent example of what I can only term lack of good judgment (on the part of the runner who can only depend on winning his races by travelling at a fast rate throughout.) during the many mile amateur championships that he competed in, all of which I had the pleasure of witnessing. Although Lutyens could certainly do, if not beat, fifty-two seconds for a quarter, he was to no extent a fast finisher, and on each of the occasions I now refer to "\vas called upon to meet exceptionally good men in this respect (ex– cluding the winner in '92, Harold Wade, who ran a mile very fast from start to finish). Bacon, to vvhom I