Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-28
HOW TO RUN CORRECTLY.
lone serviceable Advice by q Former
Champion and PhysicaI Director.

Iome scrviceable Advice by q Former
Champion and PhysicaI Director.
Anything faster than walk in stiff,
measured steps is considered by most
people undignifed, probably because
faster gait than a walk--a good,
easy, graceful stride for running-isa
thing almost impossible to them. To
see many, even of our young men,
speeding after car or attempting to
catch the last boat is sight to make
Mercury, the swift messenger of the
gods, weep for very shame and to
make an old trainer curl his lip with
honest contempt.
A speedy and graceful gait, physical
instructors say, is easily acquired.
But attention must be paid to the
proper position one should assume in
order to obtain the greatest amount
of progression with maximum ve-
locity and a minimum expenditure Of
bodily energy.
The correct position to be assumed
when running is set forth clearly by
Randolph FAIRIES, the intercollegiate
mile and half mile champion runner,
former President of the intercollegiate
Amateur Athletic Association of
America, and now the director of
physical education at the University
of Pennsylvania.
"When running" declares this
authority, emo matter what the dis.
tance, the arms, or, more properly
speaking, the upper extremlties.
should be used chiefly from the shoul.
der with precision, and should swing
in harmony with the legs or lower ex.
tremities. The right arm should move
with the left leg, and the left arm
with the right leg, in order to main
tain perfect balance and to gain
greater speed. The trunk and head
should be allowed to assume their
natural position, which, if a person
carries himself properly, will be in
the erect posture or nearly 80. The
runner ought never to lean forward.
''All distances under and including
one mile should be run upon the toes,
while distances over one mile should
be run upon the ball of the foot. or
the part just back of the toes. Run.
ners should put their feet out in front
of them in perfectly straight line,
making the advanced step with one
foot when the other is directly be-
meath the body, keeping each arm in
its relative position and the legs close
together, in order to concentrate
energy. A good stride will cover
about seven feet, seven feet two inches,
seven feet four inches or seven feet
six inches. 1t is great mistake to
overstride, because in so doing an un-
necessary amount of energy is wasted,
and fatigue comes on more quickly.
If one is able to stride seven feet al
first he is doing we'll. 1t is best to
increase the stride by inches. In this
way good stride may be obtained
without unduly taxing the muscles.
"Never kick your heels up behind
you-that is, behind the axis of the
body-because it will cause q loss of
locomotion and also of time by max.
ing the legs trail through a greater
space, unnecessarily. AS one prog.
resses, alighting first upon one set Of
toes and then upon the other, or ball
of the foot, as the case may be, great
care should be exercised in coming
down upon the ground lightly. If at
tention be paid to this the body will
escape much iarring, which is i'm.
portant to the muscles and nerves."