“What was it?” asked Fred. “I don’t remember.”
“Why, he said it was much better to be under-trained than over-trained. Another thing, when a fellow was training for a certain event he’d never let him run the full distance in practice.”
“Is that so?” exclaimed George. “That doesn’t sound logical to me though.”
“All right,” said Grant, “but you know which school won all the meets held anywhere around home, don’t you?”
“We did,” said George.
“That’s just it,” exclaimed Grant, “and yet you say that trainer was no good.”
“I didn’t mean to say that. All I said was that it didn’t seem reasonable to me not to let a fellow run the full distance.”
“Well, Mr. Smythe used to say that the great temptation for most fellows was to do too much work. They’d go out and run all the afternoon and hang around until they were tired out and then wonder why they felt heavy in the legs and had no life in them.”
“Sailing can’t hurt us anyway,” said John.
“That’s right,” agreed Grant, “and I’m in favor of doing this: stop training for the events to-morrow. That’ll leave us two days to rest up before the games are held and we can devote those two days to learning how little we know about sailing.”