Run Out of My Life

On September 20, the Rizal Athletics Stadium was crowded.

18:55 pm.

The broadcast of the conference venue was introducing the contestants in English. Su Zu looked at the boiling audience on both sides and couldn't tell whether they were infected by the emotions of the arena or were more enthusiastic about each contestant. Waving small objects such as light stick bunting flags, all kinds of unintelligible shouts came one after another.

“…The fourth line, a young player from China, Su Zu-zu, the first in the preliminaries and semi-finals—”

Su Zu saw a camera with a strange station logo appearing in front of him. At the same time, he introduced his name twice in English on the radio, and politely raised his hand and waved to the audience and the camera.

This Asian Championships is just an ordinary competition for other participating member countries. The Japanese delegation with the most participation is only about 90 people, and there are basically no media personnel accompanying each country.

Perhaps the Philippine authorities urgently need such a large-scale event to divert domestic attention. Not only did the opening ceremony on the first day involve about 6,000 students, ethnic cultural dance performers, and taekwondo youth performers At the opening ceremony, colorful programs were performed, and after that, a lot of effort was put into audience organization, and local media and TV stations were also organized to broadcast live broadcasts.

From the first track to the eighth track, players from all over the world have finished their introductions on the radio, and the referee of the Asian Amateur Athletic Federation began to signal the players to take their places.

According to the semi-final rankings, Su Zu is in the fourth lane of the 100m final, and on his left is the Saudi player Al Yami in the third lane, a typical Central Asian player with a beard , the fifth is Chen Jian, the sixth is Kazakhstan's Chenuohal, Shen Yunbao is the last place in the semi-finals, was arranged in the eighth.

There is occasional eye contact between the players, but there is almost no communication on the field before the starting line. The atmosphere before the game was relatively tense, and each player was in the stage of psychological adjustment. Even Su Zu, Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao couldn't speak, let alone other athletes from different countries and regions, who didn't understand the language. If you really want to provoke and attack your opponent with a few words, you have to understand it first.

And from the inspection and registration to the arena, almost all of them are followed by inspections and referees to prevent any irregular means. If they are found to be unsportsmanlike, they will be disqualified.

If you want to abuse and vent, you have to wait until the end of the game, or in the interviews with reporters before and after the game.

"Onyourmarks." The side starter gave the order.

The eight men's 100-meter finalists followed the instructions and finally moved a bit. They returned to the starting line and squatted down.

The assistant referees on both sides checked the starting position of each competitor, whether their feet were on the starting block, whether their fingers touched the starting line, and whether there were any illegal actions.

After everything was confirmed, the starter raised the starting gun and began to prepare to shout the password.

"Slow down, calm down, prepare, prepare..."

Shen Yunbao adjusted the position of his feet on the starting block. Due to his height, his starting block was adjusted a bit forward compared to other athletes, which helped him to have a better start. Power, fully accelerate to seize the advantage in the start.

Bent over and lowered her head, watching her fingers press in front of the starting line, Shen Yunbao adjusted his breathing to be calm and slender.

He is the eighth track, the edge of the track closest to the auditorium. The auditorium on the sidelines quieted down due to the noisy sound of the players preparing to start, but Shen Yunbao could still hear the rustling. The rustling noise may be whispering or chewing food.

"Athletes with short stature can also run fast. Athletes in the United States have always been short of small players."

The moment he leaned over to start running, Shen Yunbao unconsciously remembered what he said when he first met the head coach Yuan Guohua. Yuan Guohua is his head coach and also the head coach of the track and field relay team.

As an ordinary old man, he was the man who made brilliant achievements in the men's 100 meters in the Chinese sprinting era.

Actually, given the general height of Chinese people at this time, neither he nor Yuan Guohua could be said to be short. However, athletes are the best among the best, especially sprinters. With the height selection of mainstream elite athletes, there are very few below 1.7 meters. After all, if the stride frequency is not fast to a certain extent, it will suffer too much in terms of stride.

Shen Yunbao also knows the disadvantage in this regard. He needs 49-50 steps to finish 100 meters, Chen Jian is about 47-48 steps, and Su Zu can finish in 43-44 steps, but Now only 46 steps are selected according to the optimal combination of cadence and stride length.

He is 27 years old this year. To be honest, he has entered the end of his career in sprinting. Watching generations of newcomers enter the national team, his pressure is also increasing, and he gradually feels a little bit. Powerless.

As a veteran athlete who has never achieved much individual performance, he can't help but feel discouraged at times.

First, a strong athlete like Chen Jian joined, and he became the first 100-meter sprinter for several years, and then Su Zu came out and broke the national record.

The results of the two of them are almost unimaginable by Shen Yunbao. The best result he has achieved so far in the competition is the one in the Yangcheng Station of the National Track and Field Grand Prix in April. 10 seconds 29.

That was really a competition among the best sprinters in the country.

It was the first time that Shen Yunbao ran into 10.30 seconds, his best performance, but only fourth.

His state in the National Championships and the Asian Championships this time was very poor. He ran in 10 seconds 4 and 10 seconds 5, while Su Zu and Chen Jian had already run in 10 seconds. 20. It is said that in the sprint competition, one step is one step at a time, and the speed is 0.1 seconds faster, and the speed is endless.

This time, Shen Yunbao also had the idea of ​​retiring several times. The new generation grows up, and the old people can't keep up, so naturally they have to make room for them.

But the coaches in the team are trying to persuade him, and they are all asking him to consider and wait until the Athens Olympics before withdrawing. There are new people, but they still lack experience. In this way, his main project has gradually shifted from the individual men's 100m event to the group relay event.

"Maybe I really don't need to run 100 meters in the future, just run this last year's relay race well."

Shen Yunbao swept the corner of his eye to the left hand side, and crossed the arms of different colors. The fourth and fifth lanes were all his teammates.

All kinds of thoughts flashed in my mind, and the starter had already started shouting the password.

"Set."

The runner moves neatly from a squat position to a bowed start position.

"Pop!"

The match guns sounded.

Shen Yunbao took the lead in rushing out. He was no worse than Chen Jian in his starting reaction, and with enough racing experience, he could still run under the sound of gunfire to a certain extent.

Overlooking from a high altitude, Shen Yunbao in the first 20 meters has been leading all the players by one position in the eighth lane. At this distance, for Shen Yunbao, even Carl Lewis and Maurice Green are not afraid.

Su Zu also jumped out the moment after the gunshots sounded.

In this group, his starting reaction was not slow, and he did not use the pressure gun to run in this group. In this regard, his skills and experience are not enough to be safe every time.

Su Zu has been doing starting training since the beginning of the sports school. It has been nearly two years now. From the very beginning, the starting is a mess, and now he has gradually moved closer to the first-class sprinter.

Of course, there is still a difference in the world-class starting reaction speed of Chen Jian, but after the preliminaries of 100 meters and 200 meters in the National Championships, he also recovered the March and April consecutive the state of the game.

At 30 meters, Su Zu was still in fifth place. In front of him were Shen Yunbao, Chen Jian, Ayami, and another Kazakh player, Chenuohal, was neck and neck with him.

Fifty meters, Su Zu caught up with Shen Yunbao and Ar Yami.

Sixty meters, Su Zu and Chen Jian are on a horizontal line.

Seventy meters, eighty meters, ninety meters…

Puff puff puff…

The sound of fast pedaling and friction of spikes and rubber track is like the sound of firecrackers.

More than ten seconds passed in a flash.

In the auditorium on the sidelines, the local shouts in various accents of English, dialect and accents were deafening. Eight runners have already crossed the finish line.

The first place in the men's 100m final on the timing board has appeared.

Athlete Name: Su Zu; Nationality: China; Time: 10.16 seconds