Born to Run

"Ye Qin, how did it feel to meet Michael Johnson? Isn't it exciting? Oh, I forgot to bring my camera, otherwise I should take a few group photos."

In a two-story dormitory building at Baylor University, Ye Qin is lying on a massage table at this time, Zhuang Wei is standing behind him, his arms are constantly kneading Ye Qin's leg muscles.

I have just completed the adaptive warm-up training, followed by continuous 200-meter and 400-meter tests, which are less than half an hour apart. I dare not say that they can perform 100%, but for an athlete, such an intensity It's not small. It's not about how much you ran overall, but the difference between training and testing games.

When training, the emphasis is on repeated back and forth. The accumulation of quantity and quality will not completely fight, but will continue to stimulate the body within a certain intensity. After running 200 meters within half an hour of the test, I ran another 400 meters, and the muscle and Achilles tendon loads were not small. In order to maintain the athlete's state in the Olympic Games 100 meters, there must also be an interval of two hours.

"I didn't recognize the other party just now." Ye Qin squinted his eyes and allowed Zhuang Wei to give himself a muscle massage. He seemed a little tired. "I used to watch videos and watch the two world records set by Michael Johnson. There is a feeling of turmoil. I really saw it in person today, but it seemed quite calm."

"Hey, your kid has a good mentality." Zhuang Wei laughed. "It's worth it for me to come out with you this time. If nothing else, just these famous coaches and athletes will not be in vain."

"Master Zhuang, why have you worked so hard?"

Sitting in front of Yeqin’s massage bed, Chen Zhongzhou smiled helplessly. He took care of many things in the whole team. Even though Yeqin had training and competitions every day, at best, Zhuang Wei’s working hours would be two mornings and evenings. For a few hours, give Yeqin a muscle treatment and massage.

Zhuang Wei didn't care, he laughed, "Coach Chen, see if I am working hard now."

The tone seemed to be a little embarrassing to Chen Zhongzhou, mainly because of the passport and visa issues he had issued before. At that time, Chen Zhongzhou had already explained in advance, the photo and some personal information were handed over to the other party to apply for a unified official visa. As a result, Zhuang Wei simply forgot. Chen Zhongzhou had to help him run a few trips before calculating the rest of the work, and he owed him a favor.

"By the way, Ye Qin, what did Michael Johnson tell you?" Chen Zhongzhou was too lazy to say when seeing Zhuang Wei's hippie smile, and turned to look at Ye Qin.

He has read the information about Zhuang Wei in his youth. At that time, he had good results in the hammer discus event, but it was probably because of his temperament. He was always a little worse, and he was not too popular with the coach. Later, he simply retired and switched. And started massage therapy.

Ye Qin didn't answer right away. Instead, he opened his eyes to reveal the color of thought, and said slowly, "He said I had too much control over the rhythm and speed, and I didn't completely let go of running along with my body."

"Huh?" Chen Zhongzhou was a little stunned when he heard this. The 400-meter race is a sprint event characterized by speed and based on speed endurance. It is the longest and most difficult sprint in the sprint. project. The key to the success of the 400-meter race lies in how to allocate one's speed and physical strength in the most reasonable and effective way.

Ye Qin had been thinking about this issue on his way back. He started to follow Yan Ning’s physical education after attending the city middle school student sports meeting in his first year of high school. The main event was 400 meters. At that time, he wanted to have the strength to do it in the second half of the journey. In the final sprint, the rhythm and speed of suppression will be properly controlled in the first half.

His speed in the first half is not fast, including when he runs 200 meters, it is not that his absolute speed ability is not good, but a long-term fixed training mode. As long as it is 400 meters, he will think about allocating speed and physical energy for the first one or two hundred meters, and over time, he will form a habit.

Before this point, Nie Fangping, Randy Hunter and others did not notice any problems. This is how the 400 meters should be run, and Ye Qin himself did not have a deep understanding.

But since this year, he did run 400 meters and found that occasionally there would be something wrong in the front and back half of the race. It seemed that there was something wrong with his rhythm.

"Should we let go more?!"

Ye Qin thought silently in his heart that the most important weapon he used to run 400 meters was his sprint ability in the second half. If he completely let go of the first half of the run, would he be impulsive in the 80 meters and 50 meters in the final straight? ?

Chen Zhongzhou's eyelids were also drooping at this time, and he seemed to be lost in thought.

He has not been in contact with Yeqin for a long time. It has been almost half a year from the beginning of winter training to the present, but he arranged for Yeqin’s training plan for half a year. He didn’t know how many training games he watched. Vaguely he seemed to feel Michael Johnson said The problem is quite reasonable.

When running 400 meters indoors, Yeqin's results are close to the results of last year's World Indoor Championships 400 meters champion. Of course, there are Yeqin's superb cornering skills, and the adaptability to indoor competitions is higher than other runners, but Whether it's breaking the 400-meter national record in the Zhaoqing National Track and Field Concession, or the 400-meter race in the Osaka Grand Prix, the tone of Randy Hunter and Chen Zhongzhou is actually a little worse.

"By the way, Brother Chen, you turn down my bag, the outermost pocket. I met someone on the track and field just now and gave me a business card."

Ye Qin put aside the entangled problem in his mind, and prepared to wait for Randy Hunter to come back and discuss it again. Suddenly he remembered the Victor that he and Yang Yao met during adaptive training in the track Do-Conte and Traver Graham both.

"Who did you meet?" Chen Zhongzhou put away his reverie, got up and searched for Ye Qin's backpack.

"Oh!" Ye Qin was about to answer, when the words reached his lips, he suddenly couldn't help hissing slightly.

Behind him, Zhuang Wei didn't move slowly, and grinned, "Ye Qin, your kid is now more able to withstand the strength! I tell you, the kid has gained a lot of muscles during this time, with 72 kilograms. Right?"

"Not yet, 71 seems." Ye Qin first replied to Zhuang Wei. He is now used to massage and physiotherapy, and his body muscles can indeed tolerate relatively heavier massage techniques.

As he said, he looked at Chen Zhongzhou, "Traver Graham, the coach of last year’s Olympic men’s 100-meter champion Jax Trin, I now know that the original 200-meter champion Sean Lauder was also him. Taught by you."

"Huh!" Chen Zhongzhou and Zhuang Wei couldn't help but exclaim.

One person can bring out two sprint Olympic champion coaches in one Olympic Games. Even if both of them are in the national team, the title is still a bit staggering.

"That business card was given to me by a white man who was with him. It seemed to say that it was selling some nutritional products and that I could find him if I needed it."

Ye Qin casually said ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For the white man, he now thinks that the other person's look is a bit weird, but he didn't think deeply for a while.

"Nutrition?"

Chen Zhongzhou raised his brows, but he couldn't help but pick up his eyebrows. When he looked at the business card in his hand, he saw the words "Balque Company, Victor Conte, the founder of the Olympic Games champion" on it, and he was even caught up in it. meditation.

Although Ye Qin has grown rapidly in recent years, he is still a teenager after all. He has not come into contact with many dark sides before, and may have heard about it, but he absolutely does not know how deep the water is inside.

But Chen Zhongzhou is different. In any case, he is also in his 30s. Although he does not have a deep understanding of some international affairs, he has also been in the sports industry for more than ten years. Some of the swimmers in the 90s He has heard about bad things, women's middle and long distance race runners, etc., some of the taboos that have changed. To a certain extent, they can all be classified as "functional nutritional products", but whether in the Olympic Games or the IAAF, they are all prohibited.

"Ye Qin, I need to teach you a lesson."

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