Run Out of My Life

    Su Zu basically announced the end of his championship in the men's 200m final at the National Track and Field Championships.

    On the fourth day of the championship, today is also the last day of the competition. Both the men's and women's 4X100m relay races and the 4X400m relay races are held this evening.

    The relay race is the most important team event in track and field, both for viewing and competition.

    The Ronghai provincial team once again proposed to let Su Zu participate in the relay team competition. Although they had given up the idea of ​​Su Zu joining the relay team, they won the men's 100m championship in Suzu After winning the men's 200m championship, I had to let some people have some ideas.

    And the leader of the provincial team also seems to know the relationship between Zhuang Tao, the 400-meter coach, and Su Zu, and through this relationship, he also asked Zhuang Tao to help with ideological work.

    Because the relay team is registered according to the group, it is still possible to adjust the players to join before the start of the game. Once the relay team starts play, only two members of the team are allowed to participate in subsequent matches as substitutes. Substitutes should also be athletes who have signed up to compete in relays or other events at the Games.

    Looking at a 1.9-meter tall man with a tangled face, Li Zhizhong finally gritted his teeth and rejected Su Zu's poor health as an excuse.

    Zhuang Tao actually understands this. The two have communicated about this before.

    The relay race is a team event, not like a single event, in addition to requiring strong personal strength, it is very important to cooperate, if the cooperation is not tacit, a handover may lose a lot of time, just shake , the handover is in the wrong position, and I can't feel the feeling of wasting half a second or a second, but it is very difficult to make up for this time on the field. The sprint competition itself is measured in hundredths and thousandths of a second.

    Moreover, Su Zu and the other relay team members of the provincial team have hardly run in, and the players are not familiar with each other and the starting speed is not understood, it is easy to cause the drop of the baton, and such mistakes are caused at that time, Whose responsibility is it?

    If it was before the National Championships broke the record and won the 100m championship, Li Zhizhong might not have been able to refuse, after all, many domestic competitions have to go from the local team. There are a lot of troubles.

    But the situation is different now. At a time when domestic track and field events are generally in a downturn, a new national record is like a shot in the arm.

    For at least one or two days, local media and newspapers in Ronghai Province have published "Outstanding athletes in our province have broken the competition and national records in the men's 100-meter race at the National Track and Field Championships, and have created new glories" headlines.

    There are even some businesses and enterprises, who know people through the provincial and city teams, contact Li Zhizhong on a whim, expressing that they want Su Zu to take the advertising endorsement and other information.

    The image of a character will gradually become a local business card in various sports events after a certain competition. What used to be a lot of difficult things will now finally become a lot easier.

    At 18:40 pm on September 14th, Su Zu and Li Zhizhong appeared in the audience together. Although he did not participate in the competition, the final of the relay team cannot be missed.

      team. Second place was 40.22, and third was 40.38.

    "What? Regret not going to the competition?"

    After the final results came out, Li Zhizhong saw Su Zu frowning and thinking hard, and asked with a smile.

    "No, nothing will change if I attend."

    Su Zu shook his head. The reason why he did not participate in the relay race for Ronghai Province was that he had not gotten used to it. The athletes were too unfamiliar with each other, so he would agree not to participate. If the cooperation is not enough, he will also fail to help run the fourth pole of the Ronghai Provincial Relay Team, and it may be even worse.

    "The main reason is that the relay race is not easy to run. Except for the Guangdong team which ran 39.70 seconds this time, the other teams didn't even make it in 40 seconds. I watched our relay team in the Asian Games last year. It only ran 39.09 seconds."

    Although Su Zu is currently a substitute in the relay team, he still learned some information about daily training and relay races from Yuan Guohua.

    Since 1972, the men's 4X100-meter relay at the Olympic Games has never been lower than 39 seconds. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the U.S. team's relay time was 37.61. For more than 1 second, it is like a sprint in the sprint, and the difference in strength is too great.

    "In the Asian Games last year, I remember telling you about the final results. The Thai team in the championship game, the runner-up is the Japanese team, and we are the third runner-up. In fact, the relay race is not only about personal strength, There are still high requirements for athletes’ skills and tacit understanding.” Li Zhizhong recalled the situation of last year’s Asian Games, when he and Su Zu were still in the Hedao City team, Su Zu was training at that time, and he watched the game carefully. .

    The champion of the men's 4X100m relay in the 2002 Busan Asian Games was the Thai team, but the Thai team's individual sprint strength was generally weaker than the Japanese team and the Chinese team, in the 100-meter and 200-meter events Basically no top three.

      The Japanese team of famous sprinters such as Xuanzhi.

    This is also the reason why both Su Zu and Li Zhizhong are reluctant to join the Ronghai Provincial Relay Team rashly to participate in this relay race. If the strength of sprinters is not too different, the handover technique is a very, very critical part.

    From the first to the fourth, there are a total of three handovers. If the sprinting strength in the team is relatively average, but it can save 0.5 to 1 second when the baton is handed over, it is almost impossible to catch up easily on the field.

    Why did Yuan Guohua gather a group of sprinters for training early, and even asked to eat and live together, in order to deepen the tacit understanding and understanding between the team members.

    Athletes who are familiar enough with each other can have a full understanding of each other's speed and can maintain the maximum acceleration and sprint speed during the baton transfer and handover process. Waiting for the athlete in front of him to be almost there before starting to accelerate, he lost a lot of time in vain.

    In the Busan Asian Games last year, the Thai team won the championship with a score of 38.82 seconds, relying on the advantages accumulated in each handover, even if the four relay team members had a personal 100-meter strength After 10.35 seconds, he was still able to run an extremely good relay race.

    "The main opponents in this Asian Championship are Thailand and Japan. I also checked the test results of your training. If you replace Yin Hangchao, you have to run the fourth. It turned out that Chen Jian, who ran the fourth, had to change to the second, and the order had to be changed. The adjustment is quite big, and it may not let you participate in the competition."

    Li Zhizhong and Su Zu analyzed the situation of the relay team. When the team was training before, if Su Zu ran the fourth bat, it was because several athletes who were already familiar with the fixed bat times had to Adjusting the position, the overall result is similar to the original.

    In addition, there are not many veteran players in Su Zu's skill in taking over the baton, and there is a certain risk. If there is no necessary situation, Su Zu may not be given priority to play.

    But Li Zhizhong also knows that this kind of thing is uncertain, especially after Su Zu broke the national 100-meter record, it is difficult to predict whether coach Yuan Guohua will make adjustments.

    After the men's 4X100m relay race, the athletes on the field have adjusted and started the next round of the men's 10,000-meter final. A group of more than 20 athletes are waiting for the gunshots in front of the starting line .

    Buzz!

    Suddenly there was a throbbing sound.

    "Huh?" Li Zhizhong glanced at Su Zu and seemed a little puzzled.

    "I'll take a call."

    Su Zu took out his mobile phone from his pocket, walked out of the auditorium, and slipped to the side.