Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which will offer an additional advantage for the training of the Mott Haven candidates. The walk for seventy-five yards is being made twice its former width. This will enable the men to do their outside work without being interfered with by others who are running at a different pace and by the public. As several men will be able to run abreast, short races can also be held. But the greatest advantage may be looked for in bringing out men for the hurdle races. By means of posts which will be set on the sides of the walk, both...
...gymnasium must have felt how inadequate it for the large numbers which make use of it. Sprinters, half mile runners, mile runners and working people manage to to congregate on the three and a half foot walk at about the same time, so that one has to regulate his pace to suit the crowd rather than the distance for which he training. Moreover it is no unusual thing to see a bare-legged sprinter go dashing into a snow drift to save himself a collision. This state of affairs is likely to grow worse rather than better; after the midyears...
...front of the gymnasium and started out to cover the five and a quarter miles in the quickest possible time. The course was the same as last year and was marked by a trail of paper, laid previously during the afternoon. The men started at a very fast pace and soon were separated into two squads. The three leaders kept well together the entire distance and the slower men struggled along about a quarter of a mile behind. The trail lay across the common to Concord avenue, to Walden street; thence across the fields to the junction of the Fitchburg...
...very successful, especially since they are a form of open air sports and about the only one which we have at this time of the year. Many men doubtless hesitate to join them because of their length, but they are seldom much over an hour in duration and the pace is never set so rapidly but that most men can follow it. These runs are well worth joining and we recommend all men who want a good form of exercise to take part in them...
Aside from the length and hard pace, however, the run was interesting. At nine minutes of four the hares, A. Blake '93 and J. O. Nichols L. S., started from the gymnasium in the direction of Allston. Five minutes later the hounds started with J. O. Manley '93 as master. The trail led through Allston, up over Corey Hill, beyond to Brookline, round Chestnut Hill reservoir, then on to Jamaica Plain Pond. From there the trail led to Brookline, down Huntington Avenue, through Back Bay Park. where the pace was increased and kept undiminished until the hounds reached the Cambridge...