Handbook of Summer Athletic Sports / Comprising: Walking, Running, Jumping, Hare and Hounds, Bicycling, Archery, Etc.

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TRAINING FOR MILE RUNS.

Here the training should be long and severe, and no amateur can hope to do very much in mile runs in the way of time. It is true that there are some young men, calling themselves amateurs, that have made fine records at mile runs, but they were in reality professionals; that is, they made a business of running, even if they did not take money prizes. Begin with sprint racing if you hope to become eminent as a mile runner, and keep on extending the length of your trials gradually. It takes a good year's hard work to make a respectable mile-runner.