Instructions in All Kinds of Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

12 followingday, insteadof doubling the above distance, they may run over it three or four times without stopping. It generally hap­ pens that, towards the close of the run over four times the above distance, the legs begin to be fatigued. The exercise should, there­ fore, be limited, for some time, to this ex­ tent ; afterwards, to that of five, and then of six times the distance. In the run of seven times the distance, the fatigue of the lower members is entirely removed; and there is no longer any difficulty in the further con­ tinuation of the run. The runner may now, if he is neither overheated nor forced to breathetoo quickly, even accelerate his pace.