Bredin on Running & Training

So RUNNING AND TRAINING. roughly speaking, be covering about three yards more than the American per mile.) On the other hand, most Americans over here fail to quite reproduce their best form in short- and middle-distance events, but English– men have shown faster times across the water than they have ever done on this side of it, notably G. Jordan and C. H. Lewin in club matches during the autumn of '95; and H. W. Workman last year. Bradley again, though far from well, was credited with running his fastest roo yards in America, when beaten by B. J. Wefers in a level century. I have been informed on most reliable authority that in Australia a man can run three yards faster in one hundred than he is able to do here, and this statement seems to be upheld by the performances of the amateur champion from that colony who two seasons ago arrived in England with the credit of being an "even timer " but quite failed to prove equal to covering roo yards in ten seconds in this country. It is frequently stated that the British atmosphere is heavier than that of America. This might account for the comparatively poor times Americans occupy for long– distance races, as the lighter the air the more exertion would be caused to the lungs, and consequently the greater the general fatigue to the human body, in any exercise that produces excessive and laboured breath– ing-at very high altitudes men have frequently been compelled to rest after walking a few hundred yards owing to the rarefied state of the air. An American athlete generally springs into his best form at an earlier age, more suddenly, and certainly retains it for fewer seasons, than does his trans-Atlantic cousin, perhaps also owing to climatic differences.