Identifier: completeathletic00muss (find matches)
Title: The complete athletic trainer
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Mussabini, S. A Ranson, Charles
Subjects: Athletics Physical education and training
Publisher: London, Methuen & co. ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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on the pad of the foot) in his ordinaryclothes and boots before breakfast. Startingwith 250 yards, and getting used to this, thedistance is lengthened to 440 or even 500 yards.The pace is quite a half-speed one—that is to say,at the rate of 10 miles per hour—which would,of course, mean the 440 yards being covered inabout IJ minutes. Strengthening the body allover and stimulating the breathing organs, thisexercise, which may be taken on the roads orpaths, has transformed not a few runners, whocould not maintain their sprint dash rightthrough, into fairly powerful finishers. As a guide to the varying classes of sprint-runners a schedule of times is set out over someintermediate distances of a 120 yards sprint,which should be closely studied and tested. Itdoes not pretend to actually present the actualtimes of the runners as they pass the differentpoints, but they certainly will do so approxi-mately and to within a yard or so. But thedifficulty of getting rigid standards lies in the
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t a 2 a < SPRINT-RUNNING 39 fact of no one running through on quite an evenkeel of graduaUy increasing pace. Some arerelatively faster at 50 yards, others do their bestrunning from 50 to 90, and, again, the exceptionalsprinter is far better in the last 50 than the first ;and so on according to the peculiarities of eachindividual. But this schedule does give, in itstrue colours, the average of the running and itsfull result in the wide bounds which divide thechampionship class from the lowly 12 secondsman for the full 100 yards. Schedule of Average Times made by theVarious Classes of Sprint-Runners at120 Yards 50 yds. 75 yds. 100 yds. 120 yds. The 12 sees, man 6* sees. 9^ sees. 12 sees. i4i sees. ,. iif ,. . 6-^ ,. 8^ ., Hi „ I3TiJ .. ,, Ili ,, . 6i- „ 8* ., Hi ., 131 ., ,, iii- ., . 6tV .. 8* ., Hi „ i3i .. ,, II (The 6 .. 8* „ II 12-1^,7 .. average sprint-runner) The io; sees, man . , 5h .. 8A „ lof „ I2A .. .. io;- ,, . 5* .. 8tV .. 10* „ I2A .. ,, loi „ . StV 7A

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