Running Recollections and How to Train

139 adopted has not only been sanctioned by professional men, Vmt has met with the unqualified approbation ofamateurs. The following statement, therefore, contains the most approved rules, andis presented to the reader asthe result of much experience, founded on the theoretic principlesof the art. The pedestrian, who may be supposed in tolerable condition, enters upon his training with a regular courseof physic, which consists of three doses. Glauber's salts are generally preferred, and from one ounce and a half to two ounces are taken eachtime, with an interval of four days between eachdose. After having gone through the course of physic, he commences regular exercise, which is gradually increased as he proceeds in the training. When the object in view is to accomplish a pedestrian match, his regular exercise may be from 24 miles a day. He must rise at five in the morning, run half a-mile at the top of his speed up hill, and then walk six miles at a moderate pace, coming in about seven to breakfast, which should consist of beef-steak or mutton chop, under-done, with stale bread and old beer. After breakfast he must again walk six miles at a moderate pace, and at twelve lie down in bed without his clothes for half-an-hour. On getting up he must walk four miles, and return by four to dinner, which should also be beef-steaks or mutton chops, with bread and beer as at breakfast. Immediately after dinner he must resume his exercise by running half-a-mileat the top of his speed, and walking six miles at amoderate pace. He takes no more exercise fur that day,but retires tobed about eight,and next morning proceeds in the samemanner.