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From the Journal of Hygiene and Herald of Health uit het jaar 1895

If you feel the need of running have the courage to do it and you can
soon persuade others to join you.If you must have company:children
at least will be always glad to accompany you... Wear knee breeches woolen stockings and low running shoes or better still wear no stockings and no shoes whenever the weather will permit. There is wonderful comfort in a bare foot as everybody knows. Contact with the earth is healthful. And in summer after a rain or in the dewy morning how refreshing a running foot bath through wet grass. Even in winter a short run barefooted through the loose snow may be made perfectly safe for those who have taken the right training producing a warmth and glow in the feet which will last for hours. Never race for prizes or run against time or compete for anything.
Avoid over strain. Don´t make work of your sport. Leap and bound
down hill and you will find it jar you much less than straight running. Run up hill zigzag. Stop whenever you feel any discomfort get your wind and then run again. By constant practice a man could run as long as he could walk. In some places in the Orient outrunners and footmen accompany carriages and keep up with the horses. In the bardic chronicles of Ireland we read of the horse boys running all day by the side of the tourist ready to be at the bridle whenever the master halted. And wonderful tales travellers tell us to day of runners in Mexico Japan Africa.The runs I recommend are through
the dewy meadows of morning over the hills of afternoon or through the
aisles of forest temples runs with an easy breath a light foot and a gay heart. You may not like Selkirk become able to run down wild goats but you can at least run down your avoirdupois (body weight) run up your spirits and run out if not outrun your doctor.

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