Track Athletics in Detail (extract)

THE HURDLES 35 of the motion is to lunge slightly forward at the hurdle and to clear the obstacle by a dexterous movement of the legs. The movement is some­ what similar to that which a man would make if he were suspended from the ceiling, his toes just I20-YARI) HUKDLE RACE, 1NTERCOLLEGIATES, l8()5 touching the floor, and a series of hurdles on a treadmill were passing under him. lo avoid be­ ing struck he would merely lift his legs, as he has learned to do in the exercise described onpage 29. The low hurdles being placed twenty yards apart, it is of course necessary to take a gieatei number of steps between obstacles. Seven stiides