cut the waves

"Teacher, didn't you say that the first stage of EN1 training is 12 to 16 weeks?" Yu Yu lay his hands on the wall of the pool, raised his head, his eyes were shining, "I think the time is almost the same, the first stage of training Has the effect been saturated? When will we start the second stage, what about the SP?"

Yan Zheng patted his head lightly with the floating board: "Are you the coach, or am I the coach?"

Yu Yu felt like a dolphin poking out of the water in the aquarium, waiting to be fed: "Of course you are the coach, so you have to tell me when to enter the second stage—"

Yan Zheng ignored him, and left after assigning today's swimming task: "Remember to chat with your senior brother."

Yu Yu: "..." What?

At 05:30 in the afternoon, as soon as the bell rang, the last batch of athletes also entered the water in twos and threes. The huge swimming pool suddenly became quiet, except for Yu Yu.Marathon swimmers spend more time underwater than ordinary long-distance swimmers. Yu Yu has gotten used to it. He is the first to jump into the water and the last to climb up from the pool.

He wasn't the last one that day, though.

Tao Zebo is also there, in the swimming lane next to him.

After being out of the water for a while, the man sat on the edge of the pool with his legs hanging down into the water.His skin color is a body-building brown that has been exposed to the outdoors all year round, which makes the kinesiology patches wrapped around his ankles particularly conspicuous.Just now Yu Yu peeked at him swimming and felt that his ankle injury might not be healed yet.

Tao Zebo rested his hands and elbows on his thighs, staring at the water in a daze, looking a little lonely.

Yu Yu held back his stomach with questions and couldn't find a chance to speak.After a lot of difficulty, he waited for Tao Zebo to come ashore, and he also walked out of the pool in two steps in three steps, chasing all the way into the locker room.

The other party obviously noticed him too, turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

Yu Yu scratched his head in embarrassment: "Brother, I am—"

Before he could finish speaking, Tao Zebo smiled lightly: "I know you, Director Yan told me, the kid who focuses on swimming marathon, right?"

Yu Yu nodded hurriedly.

"How to say?"

"Teacher Yan asked me to ask you for advice."

"You said."

Yu Yu has too many doubts about the recent training, he couldn't stop opening his mouth, and turned into a problem baby like a machine|gun: "Brother, I am now about 1500 and a half minutes for 15m, and the best time for 1m is 57 hour and 16 minutes , I will be 1500 this year, do you think I can still be saved? If I am currently training, how can I increase my speed? If I am focusing on marathon, is the [-]m speed reference meaningful? Oh, by the way, I am still training. Training hours for school and marathon? When you were training—”

"Stop—stop for a moment," Tao Zebo raised his palm, "You have too many questions."

The corner of Tao Zebo's mouth hooked slightly, and his upright palm changed back to an index finger: "I will only answer your question."

Yu Yu twitched the corner of his mouth: "Huh? Only one?"

Tao Zebo nodded, and put his hand on his shoulder: "Yes. So I suggest you think about it, what is the question you want to ask the most?"

Yu Yu opened his mouth and swallowed another sentence: "..."

Tao Zebo smiled deeper: "Don't worry, think slowly."

Yu Yu's mother never came back. During the few days of winter vacation, Yu Yu became a frequent visitor to Su Liao's house, coming to have breakfast at seven o'clock every day.The first time he was born, the second time he was acquainted, he had long since lost the original restraint, and he was so careless that he almost regarded him as his own home: "Hey, why don't you come back to train?"

"I'm going to give myself a [-]-day holiday." Su Liao carefully scooped out a soft-boiled poached egg from the frying pan and put it on the baked whole wheat toast. , do anything, I will never swim."

Su Liao threw a slice of cheese on the poached egg, and the milky white cheese melted quickly when heated, giving off an aroma.He spread another layer of lettuce and tomato, and quickly made a simple sandwich.

"Why," he held the plate and handed it in front of Yu Yu, the corners of his mouth curled up, "It's only been a few days, and you miss me?"

Yu Yu rolled his big eyes.

"Yan Zheng doesn't know why he's going crazy lately, he's just letting me go. No matter what I ask him, he won't answer, so he tells me to go to Tao Zebo." Yu Yu has been holding back for several days, and he really can't vomit. , "This Tao Zebo, like a psychopath, said he could only answer one question for me, and asked me to think it over before asking. You said that these two people sang together, are you playing me?"

Su Liao raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Tao Zebo is back?"

"Well, I came back on the third day of the new year."

"There are a lot of rumors in the team." Yu Yu paused for a moment, scratching his head in embarrassment. He doesn't like to speak ill of people behind his back. "Some people say that he was 'returned' by the national team. I had a quarrel with the coach, and some people said that he might be retiring—I don’t know what’s going on, so I can’t ask this, right? Do you know Brother Tao?”

"How could I know him? He's a round older than us. However, I know him. He specializes in swimming and marathons. Yan Touer is quite optimistic about an athlete. It's been quite a few years, and he doesn't seem to have won a medal in any competition."

Yu Yu couldn't help muttering: "There are still courtesans who haven't said hello."

"I'm not familiar with the professional team, so I only know a few of the same age!" Su Liao glared at him.

Yu Yu curled his lips: "I feel that Brother Tao is a person with a story, but no one in the team tells it, and I dare not ask."

Su Liao sighed, and said earnestly: "Student Yu Yu, open the browser, enter Baidu, and enter the three words 'Tao Zebo' in the search bar. Why is it so difficult? Can you type?"

Yu Yu: "..."

Su Liao rested his chin and asked again: "How does this sandwich taste?"

Yu Yu chewed, shook his head and said it was not as delicious as yesterday.

Su Liao nodded approvingly, turned around and made something else for himself: "I also think this may not be very tasty, so I won't make it in the future."

Yu Yu was almost choked: "How dare you treat me as a guinea pig?"

Su Liao grinned: "It's good to have free food, you still think this or that."

Yu Yu: "..." He knew that this person was not that kind.

"Speaking of which—" Su Liao thought for a while and said, "I don't think the point is what Tao Zebo will answer you. Yu Yu, the point is, among your many questions, which one is the one you want to ask the most. "

"Buffett once said—list the [-] things you want to do in life, circle the five you want to do the most, and stay as far away from the rest as possible—I think Tao Ge means the same thing, to make you think Clearly, what is the most important issue for you right now?"

Yu Yu glared at Su Liao: "Do you schoolmasters like to focus so much?"

"It's the god of learning, thank you."

After the training that day, Yu Yu climbed onto his bed tiredly.

He listened to Su Liao's words, and searched for Tao Zebo on the Internet. Soon, overwhelming sports news popped up, and the other party also had his own Baidu Encyclopedia.

Tao Zebo is a native of Xinshui City. He learned swimming at the age of 5. He went to a sports school in junior high school and later joined the Yanzhou provincial team.When Tao Zebo was 16 years old, he won the 1500m freestyle at the National Swimming Championships in 15 minutes and 02 seconds, and won the next year's World Championships.Because of his young age, Tao Zebo attracted much attention back then.After returning from the World Championships, Tao Zebo, who was in the limelight in the long-distance freestyle, suddenly decided to switch to swimming marathon.At that time, he also had an interview. The 17-year-old boy was in high spirits, and he said that he hoped that he could achieve a breakthrough in the men's swimming marathon event and the Chinese team's zero medals in international competitions.

In the next few years, Tao Zebo basically won the top three in the domestic swimming marathon men's group, but his rankings in international competitions were in the dozen or so, until he was 21 years old. Winning fourth place will lock in the next year's Olympic quota.It is a pity that at the age of 1, Tao Zebo, as the only competitor in the Chinese men's swimming marathon, swam No.49.

Three years later, Tao Zebo set off again, but in the World Championships in June last year, he made a major mistake for unknown reasons and did not get a ticket to the Olympics.

For the Olympic Swimming Marathon event, 25 competitors are selected for the single-sex group.Among them, the top ten in the World Championships are automatically promoted, one representative from the five continents, one quota for the sponsor, and the top nine in the Olympic Games.The Olympic regulations stipulate that if a country has athletes who have already obtained tickets for the event, then this country can no longer send athletes to participate in the losing competition.As a young Chinese player has successfully advanced this year, the defeat of the World Championships has become the last stop of Tao Zebo's Olympic journey.

Tao Zebo is a very low-key person, and then Yu Yu found out about it in the team. After the World Championships, he went back to Beijing for surgery. There are still two titanium alloy rivets in his ankle. After half a year, he returned to the provincial team from the national team and recently started to recover.

And this year, he is 26 years old.

Yu Yu looked at the files in Baidu Encyclopedia.A few lines of small words - time, game name, competition items, results and rankings - condensed an athlete's entire ten-year sports career.

The training volume of the national team is about fifteen kilometers a day, and Yu Yu finally caught up with this training volume during the winter vacation.What is the concept of ten years?It is now, the training that makes him feel exhausted every day, day after day, 360 five days, multiplied by ten years.

Yu Yu looked at the screen and felt a chill behind his back.

Brother Tao seems to have no plans to retire, and started rehabilitation training with rivets.Yu Yu suddenly understood why this matter could not be mentioned or asked in the team.Because the cruel reality is that if Tao Zebo wants to compete in the Olympics again, he will have to wait another four years.

In another four years, he will be 30.

Yu Yu looked blankly at his competition results over the years, and found that Tao Zebo's best performance was the World Championships when he was 21 years old.It is also the first time for a Chinese player to break through the threshold of one hour, five and 10 minutes in this event.However, 21-year-old Tao Zebo, would he know that it was the best result of his life?At that time, he was full of hope and represented the highest level of swimming marathon in China. He must be thinking in his heart-can he improve?

What Yu Yu thinks is the most cruel is that when an athlete's best results appear, he often does not know that this is the pinnacle of his life.Suddenly, the back of his father before he left home appeared in front of his eyes—it was such an ordinary turn around, his father said goodbye to him with a smile—at that moment, how would Yu Yu know that it was What about the last side of myself and my father?

In fact, all his recent problems boiled down to how to improve his grades.He didn't seem to make any progress during this period of training, so he was panicked and anxious. Maybe he had unknowingly missed the best result of his life?

Thinking of this, Yu Yu felt his hands and feet were cold.

He lay on the narrow plank bed, covered himself with a down jacket over the quilt, closed the gap between the windows and doors, and retracted into the quilt again.Yu Yu turned over in pain, and found that he missed the warm floor of Su Liao's house, the spacious bed, and the soft bedding with the fragrance of the sun.

He really wants to send Su Liao a WeChat message right now, saying that he misses his bed very much.

The words have already been entered into the dialog box, and Yu Yu deleted them word by word.This sentence is easy to be ambiguous, and, without even thinking about it, Su Liao will send out some "come and sleep together" emoji.

Heck.

Yu Yu locked the phone screen, curled up his legs and huddled up on the small board bed, slandering the ancients, sincerity does not deceive me, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal...

At noon the next day, Yu Yu sat directly opposite Tao Zebo with a dinner plate in his hand.

"Brother, I've thought about the problem."

Tao Zebo raised his eyes: "Say."

"Suppose—I mean suppose—" Yu Yu took a deep breath, "Now you can travel back to the time when you were 21 years old, what would you say to yourself who set a personal record at the Budapest Swimming World Championships?"

Tao Zebo was taken aback: "You don't ask yourself?"

The boy who was about to turn 16 looked at him seriously, and replied softly, "It's the same."

Tao Zebo frowned and his eyes softened. He looked at Yu Yu as if he was looking at the past ten years.

"I'll tell him," Tao Zebo said slowly, "to enjoy the process."

"To feel the touch of the body and the water, to listen to the sound of the splashing water, to enjoy the sun and the waves." Tao Zebo slightly hooked the corner of his mouth, "I chose the sea instead of the swimming pool. You must have your reasons. Isn't it?"

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