Show MANY years ago ellsworth vines the star tennis player and an d not a bad golfer made this thi 8 remark its surprising how long it takes a fellow to get into hard competitive condition and what a short time it takes to get out again and vines was a hard trainer this happens to be completely true it is one answer to gunder haeggi showing in w the recent IC aa games at madison square garden where he practically collapsed in the mile run haegg the te great swedish flash ash outdoors and and in shape has run the mile in 4 02 lie he was timed aimed t around gunder 4 31 over an indoor track with no hance chance c to train soon after he landed this means a lost or missing margin close to 29 seconds or something more than yards in the best mile t that h at haegg ever ran he would have beaten rafferty Rader tys 4 16 4 mile by over 80 90 yards ITO for r a 4 16 mile is barely more than a gallop looking as for far back as sole jole ray a 4 16 mile would have been a common canter for the old timer rafferty Raf lerty has always been abight a fighting miler then we had bad and nural was one of the great runners of au all tinie time from the mile to meters from that point on down to arne Anders sons on Is record mile in we have seen the records fall via glen cunningham lovelock haegg and others who hammered the figures down S split put second by split second but in a au 11 this natural ability has needed the hardest sort 0 of I 1 wa work rk plus able trainers and able coaches who have yet to receive the credit they deserved the th e greatest race tome to me the mile has always been st ot of all races it corne come 3 in the way of speed and han any other distance yards the even the re largely speed tests al must aust be admitted that the dash ash or the quarter Is ung distance calling tor for speed but the mile Is in between the sprints longer distance races 1 to the marathon arage age normal human be city and farm usually thinks in terms of the a mile to some place or T r 10 miles you know just at t that means le e today Is the ideal corn com of it speed and aa t draws and keeps the terest erest the and the in too much ot of a hurry 2 and 3 mile races are watch country most of our best as s been turned in from rom the dash to the mile we few runners with the pati am ain for longer distances seen een better at the shorter with paddock wykoff to owens and many others as largely a matter of a hau halt a stride main or major goal in ng has been to reach the ur minutes flat fiat here Is that demands both speed ina to the ultimate limit may come when some one four minutes but that Is target now arne andersson has brought the mile to just a trifle more than a second from the tour four minute mark I 1 I 1 pour four minutes will be reached and beaten but hardly through the war period for with au all the ability one may have there is still the ma matter ater ot of condition and hard training ahr through u gh a long period for example gunder haegg Is still the greatest distance runner in the world over the one two and three mile tests his record is one ot of the most amazing in all sport yet out ot of condition his last show ing at at the mile are close to 29 seconds apart we have always believed there are no su in s sport p ort records are only ma made to b be broken what they all want is th the target sooner or later they bowl this target over it has been said there Is no substitute for work also there Is no substitute for experience I 1 I 1 certainly in a mile run there Is no substitute for a long hard haird training period that brings the legs and the wind working together as a team and that goes for a mercury tops ps in training while hile were speaking ot of condition if anyone cares to know about the all time top in physical training 91 it be a bad idea to visit the four navy preflight pre flight schools at north carolina georgia st mar marys y Is ind and iowa these four major pro pre light headquarters were first set up b by y comar tom hamilton carried on by comar frank an and are now under comar killer kane in addition to the academic and military side they have done an incredible lob job ot of conditioning |