Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-02
Is
A FAITHFUL
TRAINER

Lots of people think it's cinch TO
be a champion athlete. The average
citizen who takes in an athletic meet
now and then has an idea that all that
a young man like Hannes Kolehmain-
en- does to win worlds laurels is TO
go out and take a practice run now
and then.
All that the average citizen sees or
the development in a runners con-
dition is the racing that he engages
in. Another race will put him right.
IS an expression heard often at attn
letic gatherings, but the ordinary man
does not realize that there are hours
of hard work and dozens of little
things to be done in preparation be-
fore another race" comes.
Trains Carefully
Take Kolehmainen, for instance.
There never was a youth more care
full of his condition than this lad from
Finland. and a study of his methods
will invariably bring out the COM
ment: ITS no wonder he's worlds
champion" Kolehmainen's system of
massage has been written of at length
in these columns. Sufficient to say
now that the same faithful rubber
who looked to his wants during the
Olympic games in Stockholm is living
in Brooklyn with Hannes. He is paid
not a cent, and never was. His has
always been a labor Of love. When
Hannes decided to come to America
last fall his attendant said: Il will
go also and get a Job" And so it
happened.
Hannes Kolehmainen, his brother,
William, the worlds professional dis
lance champion. and the attendant
live together The trio are as happy
as newly-married folks in their little
suits of rooms. They cook their own
meals. Hannes Kolehmainen eats no
meat. He specializes on fish and oat-
meal with plenty Of vegetables as a
filler" The greatest amateur runner
in the world eliminated meat from his
diet more than year ago and de-
clares that since he took this step he
has been better man in every re-
spect
Up at Six A. M.
Six O'Clock in the morning is the
hour that starts Kolehmainen to train,
ing. He hops out. Of bed, and after tax,
ing half a dozen long breaths, gets
into his clothes for bit Of walk.
f1annes tries to walk two hours before
breakfast. Sometimes his work inter-
feres, but it's safe to assert that he
gets two hours leg exercise before
breakfast three days out of four.
When he returns from the walk Koleh-
mainen gets a light rub. after which
he puts away breakfast that would
kill an ordinary apartment dweller.
The Kolehmainens do all their prac-
tice running at the same time each
day, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Hannes has his job arranged so that
he can get away at that time every,
day, and when training, he never
misses a day, no matter what the
weather may be.
Cares for Muscles
The care of the muscles is another
thing about which Hannes Kolehmain-
ep is resthan particular He never
allows his muscles to get chilled. Pre-
pairing for a two-mile race, he will
make as much fuss over his leg sim
eWs as does the ordinary Marathon,
who expects to do over twenty-five
miles. Nor will Hannes allow his
muscles to get chilled when he has no
race in the immediate future On
very cold days Kolehmainen wears
stockings that reach well up his
thigh to insure keeping the. cold out
of the great muscles that have made
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world
III the average athletic enthusiast
were to spend a day with Hannes
Kolehmainen, get up with him at 6
a. m, walk two hours with him be-
fore breakfast, and then go through
the rest of the day with the Finlander,
doing something at every turn to bet.
ter his condition, Hannes' wonderful
ability to glide away from the other
distancers and smash worlds records