When I was in elementary school, I threw a softball and threw it to the head of a classmate who was keeping score. The physical education teacher broke out in a cold sweat, thankful that it was a softball and not a shot put, and hastily gave me a passing grade and let me be exempted from the test later. In middle school, every long-distance run was basically a big test that could kill me. When I 1000 meters long-distance running desperately to 6 minutes and 15 seconds to reach the finish line, the physical education teacher has been waiting for a long time, with great impatience, but also very indignant tone of voice said: slower than the girls! And this gym teacher, later changed his profession to do soccer referee, in more than twenty years later can still from the pile of people a glance out of my ......
On my such a sports poor student, in decades ago is very difficult to predict that they will run a marathon on a certain day. Even six months ago, I never had any thoughts of running a marathon. In my mind, the marathon was a game for the very few brave or crazy people with strong wills and strong bodies, and it had nothing to do with me at all.
? I started running because of a scale - a body fat scale.
? My colleague Xiao Zhou bought a body fat scale, and then to many "middle-aged greasy men" genealogy: not only to reduce weight, but also to improve the quality of the body. I spent several months patiently researching the relationship between body fat, muscle mass, skeletal muscle rate and other indicators, comparing them to simple weight loss. With the argument of multiple sources on the internet, it was concluded that running is the best way to lose fat.
In October 2017, I started a planned running fat loss career. Previously, I have tried fitness, swimming, fast walking and other exercise methods, and also insisted on a period of time, but the planning is not strong, intermittent, the effect is not very obvious.
In order to sustain and quantify the movement, I purchased a bracelet on Taobao, and, synthesizing my physical qualities, decided to run 5 to 8 kilometers a day. As a beginner, this amount seems amazing, but in fact it is very easy to achieve. Running to and from work every day, there have been 7-8 kilometers, plus the usual dog walking, it is easy to reach the plan. After a month, with no major health problems or any discomfort, I adjusted my daily goal to 10 kilometers. In this way, I run to and from work every day, run and sneak my dog, even if it is drizzling, with an umbrella, I can run for a while. Running in the sunshine, running in the rain, running in the scorching sun, running in the gusty wind, gradually becoming a habit. When it really rains too much, I simulate running at home by jumping rope without a rope. Ten kilometers, about 10,000 jumps.
? How to avoid knee injuries as well as cartilage tissue contusions, which is a problem for long-term runners. I began to study the running posture and training methods. I have read books such as "Tai Chi Running", "Exercise and the Brain", "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" and "The Running Bible". The most profound feeling is "Tai Chi Running", using straight body inclination as well as waist and abdominal strength to minimize lower body cushioning, less body damage and easier running. Exercise and the Brain" taught me to use heart rate to control the speed of the method, that is, let yourself want to fast as fast as slow as slow, so that the speed is more suitable for themselves, running more fun.
When I run, listening to the "One Seat" speech, Ye Man's "Tao Te Ching", or listen to Gao Xiaosong bragging about the day, but also around the music of Tchaikovsky, Mozart, or not to come with a strong point of rock, so that the body accompanied by the rhythm of the music, running higher? When I familiarize myself with the body's function, I can start Auto automatic gear, as if the limbs have become an autopilot machine, while the owner is soaring in another beautiful spiritual world. This is not the case for the first time in the history of the world.
Last November, I went to the gym for the first time to try to run 5,000 meters, which is the first time I took the initiative to their own running time, before the teacher yelled at me to tell the results. The result was not so bad, with a time of 31 minutes. In April this year, the same 5000 meters, as long as 23 minutes and 37 seconds, which is faster than the junior high school 6 minutes and 15 seconds, I was really happy for a while. Subsequently, and calm down: performance improvement is also a little too fast, is not a problem with the bracelet?
? In August, Yichang is scheduled to hold another international marathon in November, running the route just across a new old two cross-river bridges, passing through the door, all the way to the pleasant scenery. My wife said, "You run every day, why don't you try to run? Colleagues also encouraged me to run every day will not have any problem, the big deal is to walk down ah! In the process of institutional reform, I also want to run this way to commemorate this special moment of the old and welcome the new, and then enrolled in one of the half-marathon.
On November 4, I got up before dawn, had a simple breakfast, and tied on my backpack. Because I've never run a marathon before, I have zero experience, and I've listened to the experience of all parties: I even brought along my "fast-acting pills". When I got close to the entrance to the check-in area, it was already crowded with 22,000 runners, about 11,000 locals and half of the foreigners. There are also hundreds of foreigners and overseas runners, otherwise it would not be called the "International Marathon".
I stood at the very back of the line. Later, I realized that the front of the championship or senior runners, behind the majority of the "soy sauce" to join in the fun. I'm obviously the most talented "rookie" among the masses at the end of the line.
At 7:30, the line started to move, and the start was nothing like I had envisioned. This is the real marathon, it feels more like a square dance, the big moms show their skills, the scene is chaotic. The first 3 kilometers, is the front foot step on the back foot, left arm rub right arm, I use the street running half a year to learn the "Ling Wei broken wave step", overtake a lot of "soy sauce", but also feel that the physical exhaustion of a lot of. 5 kilometers later, it seems to have already run to the "" the front of the general public "". The first thing you need to do is to get to the front of the crowd, and the crowd will be sparse.
7 kilometers, we began to climb the slope up the "Yiling Yangtze River Bridge". Most of us, who rarely do weights or hill training, were left behind. Fortunately, my home is squatting at the highest point of the city, I have to climb several times a day, for me is basically running several times a day climbing training, this little slope naturally does not matter. I conservatively estimated that the bridge climb and bridge acceleration run basically to get rid of the black piles of people.
? The hard part was running up to about 12 kilometers and starting to enter a section of several kilometers of gentle slopes. If I remember correctly, at the bridge I met the most athletic girl I've ever seen running in a stadium, with such grace and speed that I could only salute and worship her. But when I overtook her, I didn't feel any pity for her, but rather a sense of pleasure. On the 12 to 14 kilometers of long, slow slopes, I met the "man of the race" that I run with every day, and I couldn't express in words the sense of superiority that he had, but I decided to overtake him, out of breath and out of breath. Despite the fact that I had to use about 3 minutes to adjust my breathing, I couldn't hide the acidity of that victory!
? The real challenge was the last big hill. When everyone's energy has been exhausted in the first two slopes, climbing up to the Yangtze River Bridge is really called torture. Climbing up may not be a bright light, but "another hill"! That slope is like squeezing the last drop of energy out of a runner! I gathered my strength and finally climbed up to the highest point on the bridge, just 0.5 kilometers seemed to run 5 kilometers. I looked for someone I knew on the bridge to take a picture of me in action. I eventually found one, but it was a run. Because, my previous estimate was that it would take me about 2 hours to run to the 17.5km mark, I ended up arriving in 1 hour and 20 minutes, 1 class time early. My acquaintances didn't react at all and forgot to take my picture.
Eventually, a few exhausted runners made it to the finish line with the crowd cheering them on. I vaguely remember that everyone was very tired, but I still overtook 7-8 runners in the last kilometer. I was so tired that I forgot to pose at the finish line. I already knew the half-marathon result from my bracelet. I told my friends and coworkers about the result, and they were more surprised than anything else, and some of them commented, "That's incredible, unless you're a running genius! Finally announced the results of 1 hour 47 minutes, basically reached the national standard of 4 athletes, in Yichang nationality players are also close to the 10th place results.
In the crowd, how I wanted to see the PE teacher who was thinking of me. How much I hope that he is also in the cheering crowd, can be recognized at once B22110, once that kilometer run 6 minutes and 15 seconds of the boy. If there is a time machine, how I would like to go back to that moment of running 6 minutes and 15 seconds, to tell that child with low self-esteem, the trick of long-distance running, and encourage him: "Straighten up and work hard, and one day, you can run a marathon!"