Running Recollections and How to Train

123 In his teens he accepted the " Queen's Shilling," and spent a year oi" two soldiering, but finding he could run a bit, he purchased his discharge, so as to devote his energies to track work. And now that circumstances have com­ pelled him to seek some other means of livelihood, he can be found in the verypeaceful occupation of farming in the neighbourhood of his native village. When at his best, T can safely assert that there never lived a man who could finish as Bacon could in distance races, I myself having seen him at one, two, four, andten miles finish the greater portion of the last lap with a dash and speed worthy of a sprinter. Bacon's ideas on training are quite in accord with those of Bredin and Len Hurst, so that there is no need to specially statethem at length.