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FOLLOW EXPERT ADVICE.

In pouring out all this wealth of instruction I am fully aware that my readers may not have been constructed on exactly the same lines as I was myself, and on that account I have endeavoured to make these hints as catholic as possible. I have tried to cover the whole ground, but am nevertheless conscious that I may have omitted to do so successfully in one or two instances. Besides this, it is by no means impossible that improve-ments may be discovered from time to time. We have not yet heard the last word on running, and shall very possibly still be waiting for it for centuries to come.For this reason I would advise all my readers to seek cut the most experienced trainer they can find-some such man as Harry Andrews; in short, a man who may be said to know pedestrianism backwards, and to accept his advice and instruction in every detail.

Two heads (when they are both good ones) are always better than one, and a pedestrian !@ attention will, as a rule, be so fixed on the means by which he can get over the ground quicker than his rivals that he will not im-probably omit to notice that he is perhaps killing him-self in the process. It is his trainer’s duty to notice this, and to atop his man getting ahead too fast. Getting to his beet several days before the race won’t benefit a man much. He wants to get there on the actual day itself, and he must remember that training-scientific training -in designed to achieve that end. No man can stay at his best for any considerable length of time, and, as his keenness and enthusiasm should preclude his recognition of the impossibility of his being “ better than his beet;’ he must necessarily rely on his trainer for the wise graduation of his training. Remember above all things that you are running for your club even more than for yourself, and that your trainer will remember this at the moments when you yourself are liable to forget it.

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