British Manly Exercises

16 R U N N I N G . It may, onsubsequent days, be extended successively to five, six, and seventimes the distance. Fatigue is then generally quite removed;and the run may either be continued farther, or the runners, if neither heated nor winded, may accelerate their pace. They may next attempt a mile in ten minutes, and repeat this, till, being gradually less and less heated, they can either extend the distance, ordiminish the time, in any measured proportion. At this pace, six miles may afterwards be run in an hour. R A P I D R U N N I N G . This is bestapplied toa short space in little time. Three hundred feet upon anopen plain will not gene­ rally be found too great. At each end of this, a cross line may be drawn ; and the runners may arrangethem­ selves on one line, while the umpire is placed at the other. On the latter giving the signal, the running com­ mences; and he who first passes him gains the race. It isextremely useful alwaysto run beyond the line at a gentler pace, as it gradually lowers the actions of the respiratory and circulating systems. FEATSIN RUNNING. The practiceof running maybe carried to a great de­ gree of perfection. A quarter of a mile in a minute is good running; and a mile in four minutes, atfour starts, isexcellent.