Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-26

| more or less danger of losing some of
their usefulness. Those who ride the
wheel for health, as we'll as those who
ride it tor speed, will do well TO devote
| a few minutes day, in the morning
and evening preferable, TO the use OF
Indian clubs end dumb bells. These
should be used in the most free and
swinging action. and in addition there
should be certain amount or brisk
walking done after the ride. This is to
set the inactive muscles 10 working.
For those who wish to develop speed
aud enter for racing, there are many
pitfalls TO be- avoided, for the system
OF training has totally changed around
OF late years, and from being Injurious IN
many cases, mas become great aid 10
the health o. the young people II they
will take only one precaution, VIZ, not
go beyond their strength. Both Tor
speed and long-dlstance riding the same
rules hold good The first great essen
tial is not 10 attempt to diet In any
way! Eat what you feel inclined to,
but avoid much pie. pastry and milk
diets, and eat your fill of good meat and
vegetables slowly, masticating well.
The use of tobacco should be as limited
as possible. The only ether Items are
work, work and again WORK.
Jump out Of bed Ia the morning, take
cold bath. use the clubs and bells for
10 or Is minutes, and eat a couple OF
crackers just TO stay the stomach, then
get out OF the house and walk nile or
so, finishing with slow dog-trot run,
Just fast enough not to drag, until tired,
or the wind gives out, but under no
circumstances continue TO cover set
distance 10 the distress OF the runner.
Then ease of and walk quietly home
so as TO run no chance OF taking cold,
while eating heavy breakfast exercise
has prepared the stomach for. Take
| light but substatiaI lunch, and wait
until the evening before again exerris-
ing. This may be before or after meals.
Riding should never DO INDUCED In i'm
mediately after heavy meal. Get out
the bike see that all is right, mount
and start to ride slowly, getting the
! pedaling automatically correct as before
described.
Then increase TO good, hard. level
pace, according 10 the road, and con-
tinus this, if possible, for at least two
miles, increasing the distance as the
condition improves. Never squirt at the
end, nor in any way distress yourself.
! Do thissevery day, without miss, rain
| or shine, and the result will be apparent
in very few days. II race is in pros
pect, il will take a month TO produce
any condition to speak OF, and not I'M
| l. 2 M oil =
lance receive attention, then the
| ground may be covered twice a day Or
under five mlles) TO accustom the rider
TO the distance posts, but no racing
must be permitted, no speeding against
the watch: too many races, both OF men
and horses, are run the day before the
race itself. O.
Have a friend to time you some day
when you do not know 1t, and so get 8
fair gauge OF your speed, but the great
secret is to slug away to the extent OF
your strength the whole time you train,
without ever passing the limit where
the sustained effort falters. The rider
who does this most successfully Is the
one who wins.
When the race comes off never mind
about the others or what they are doing.
You know what pace you can set; ii
you are in front keep steadily along; II
you are behind you know that the pace
must bring them back to you unless
| they are very superior 10 you, and la
that case you have no business in their
| company.
Such training as this will not only
produce condition" but 1t will improve
the health and strength OF every boy
who undertakes 1t.
If caught In the rain and soaked do
no stop riding until you reach home or
shelter, where you can take your
clothes of. Colds are never caught by
continuous movement in wet clothes,
but only by sitting or standing around
in them. Get them of, put your feet
into hot water, IL possible; rub the en-
tire body, and feet especially, with
whisky. Then put on the dry clothes,
or, il a road house, roll in between the
blankets until the clothes are thorough
| ly dried.
Girl or boy, carry needle and thread
10 your case, and more important than
all, bottle OF calendula, which can be
purchased for Is to so cents at any
| homeopathic or drug store; this is the
most sovereign remedy for bruises or
cuts, and is simply marvellous in its
effects, far, far beyond arnica.
For 30 years this method Of training
has been in vogue in Europe, and for
the boy who proposes holiday trip on
his bicycle a two weeks course will
prove ia every way most valuable.
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