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Excerpt from A Break in Training: And Other Athletic Stories Arthur Ruhl; Illustrated by a Frontispiece in Color
Mr. Hollis knew - and gritted his teeth at the horrid truth of it - that he hated that track, hated his task, and had in him that moment no more of the Spirit of the race than a mule in a dusty treadmill.
The Spring and lift were all gone out of him. Even the turn, with his body leaning inward and his legs eating up twenty - three feet of the track a second, thrilled him no more than the lazy gait of a two-mile jog. He couldn't get his back into it. Running only from his legs down, he seemed to be carrying his body as he would an over-loaded knapsack. AS he bore down to the finish of the quar ter, and knew that from where the train er stood, on to the last two-twenty, he must spurt, he shrank inwardly, as a tired man Shrinks from bracing up to an ice cold plunge.
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