[Short track speed skating] From academic master to Winter Olympic champion

The suffering of high-intensity physical training is really not something ordinary people can bear. Gu Ran felt that if it was her two years earlier, she would not be able to bear this hardship even if she was appointed.

Compared with 5000-meter running every day plus a bunch of strength training, special training, and technical training, sitting in the classroom listening to lectures and doing homework is like a vacation.

He is as tired as a dog every day... the dog is not as tired as him.The few high school textbooks I brought over are still in my bag, so I haven't taken them out.

Every day when I go back to the dormitory, I can fall asleep on the bed until I don't know anything about personnel. In the morning of the next day, Gao Ziyi has to wake him up for morning exercises.

Gu Ran walked to the bathroom in a daze, poured a handful of cold water on her face, and suddenly felt a lot more awake.

He asked Zheng Wenkang: "Did you run 5000 meters before?"

Zheng Wenkang was brushing his teeth and spat out some toothpaste: "Of course not, we'll be done after running 3000 meters. This is a personal customization made by Manager Xu. Enjoy it."

Gu Ran said: "Mr. Xu is really a tormenting little goblin, he feels like his body has been hollowed out."

"Hahahahahaha!" Zheng Wenkang almost died of laughter, "I didn't expect Mr. Xu to be so charming."

"Of course!" Gu Ran wiped her face with a towel, "Why don't all the seniors call him a male god."

"Bang bang bang."

The two of them were having fun with Xu Qing by saying one sentence to another, when there were two knocks on the door unexpectedly.

They looked nervously at the door as if they had been caught doing something bad.

"What are you two doing in there? You haven't come out for so long."

Hearing Wu Kaize's voice, Zheng Wenkang heaved a sigh of relief and continued to brush his teeth.

Gu Ran had just washed her face, and turned her head to take a look.Seeing this, the soul almost frightened away.

With a toothbrush in his hand, Xu Qing was standing at the bathroom door of their dormitory, looking at him with a half-smile.

That look was terrifying.

I don't know if he heard what the two of them said just now, and how much he heard.

Xu Qing said: "The duty room ran out of toothpaste, I'll come here to borrow some."

Gu Ran quickly took out her own toothpaste and handed it over with both hands: "Squeeze whatever you want."

Xu Qing said lightly: "Don't worry, I won't empty it out."

"Cough cough cough cough cough..." Hearing Xu Qing's words, Zheng Wenkang, who was brushing his teeth, almost choked himself to death.

Gu Ran quickly patted him on the back to comfort him: "Senior brother Zheng, recently... I have a little cold."

Zheng Wenkang fell into deep self-doubt: "Have I caught a cold, why don't I know?"

Xu Qing just smiled meaningfully, squeezed the toothpaste, turned around and left: "The seasons have changed recently, and the weather has changed rapidly. You should also increase your resistance. How about this, the four of you in the dormitory will each do two and one squats. , split legs and coordination."

Gao Ziyi who did nothing but was implicated innocently: "..."

Wu Kaize gasped: "!!!"

Zheng Wenkang spat out the toothpaste froth in his mouth: "Mr. Xu looks approachable on the surface, but in fact he is very dark in his heart and cannot be messed with."

Xu Qing poked his head in again: "I thought about it, and added a set of push-ups and a set of back muscles."

Zheng Wenkang wanted to say something more, but Wu Kaize covered his mouth: "Don't talk!"

Gu Ran is the calmest, anyway, he has countless physical training every day, so he doesn't worry about debts, and doesn't itch when there are too many lice.

That is to say, Gu Ran still completes the tasks that Xu Qing assigns every day with quality and quantity as much as possible.

In the morning physical training, he was still guided by Li, an intern from the Sports Academy.

Help him time and count every day, and give him some reasonable advice, which is much more professional than a personal trainer in the gym.

As soon as the morning training was over, Gu Ran stood aside to wipe off his sweat.Director Li looked at him for a while, and asked, "Your progress is much better than last month."

"Really?" Gu Ran shrugged, "Why don't I feel it myself?"

"Of course, when you ran 5000 meters on the first day, you didn't know how ugly your face was at that time. I was so scared that I almost hit 120."

Calling 120 is a little exaggerated, but Gu Ran knew that his state at that time was indeed a bit scary.

Director Li went on to say: "Look at you now, you can run the best 5000 meters in 21 minutes. After running, you can do a few more sets of strength training. Before, you had to lie on the ground for a while, and wait for me to pull you up. Now I'm done without panting."

When he said this, Gu Ran felt that this was the case.

Two weeks later, Gu Ran still failed to complete the 20 meters in 5000 minutes.Xu Qing was very considerate of him: "It's okay, I didn't rush you."

Gu Ran was a little surprised, how could Mr. Xu be so considerate?

Immediately afterwards, Xu Qing said: "Come back from the third race and run again."

"..."

After starting the pre-match training camp, Gu Ran really felt the changes in her physical fitness.

He used to skate 1000 meters, the first half was too fast, and he obviously felt exhausted in the second half, unable to rush.Now I feel that there is no difference between 1000 meters and 500 meters.

When I sprinted for 500 meters with all my strength, I didn't feel much. Looking back, I saw that several teammates had been thrown away by him for a long distance.

Director Wang pinched the stopwatch and looked at him in disbelief: "Your grades..."

He was halfway through, but Gu Ran didn't react: "What's wrong?"

"Maybe we can break the record again in the next race."

Gu Ran walked over to take a look, good guy, his 500 meters slipped a personal best of 42 seconds.

You know, last year's National Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships, the men's 500-meter champion was 41 seconds, and he was just over a second slower.

That is the highest level of domestic short track speed skating, and the championship almost represents the highest level of domestic short track speed skating.

When he said this, Gu Ran couldn't help feeling a little flustered: "In other words, I'm only one second away from the highest level in the country."

Before Director Wang could speak, a cool voice came from beside him, it was Xu Qing: "According to the average speed of high-level short track speed skating athletes, do you know how many meters is equal to one second?"

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Gu Ran said, "It's about 45 kilometers per hour, which is about 12.5 meters per second."

With this reaction speed and mental arithmetic ability, he once said that he ranked in the top ten in the city in cultural subjects, and Xu Qing believed it.

He poured cold water on Gu Ran's head: "It is the gap of 1 meters in 12.5 second that most people may not be able to achieve even if they practice for a lifetime."

Gu Ran looked at him, revealing two small dimples: "Then let's make a bet and see how much time I need to shorten the gap by one second."

Xu Qing still looked at him calmly: "Two years, what do you think?"

Gu Ran showed a sly smile: "You see, you also think that shortening this second is achievable for me."

"..."

Xu Qing was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that he had unknowingly stepped into this brat's language trap.

He just said that the difference of one second is enough for ordinary people to practice for a lifetime, and then he said that Gu Ran can narrow this gap within two years, which is not to imply that Gu Ran is not an ordinary person.

Xu Qing nodded: "Okay, I'll give you one year. If you can slide within 41.2 seconds within one year, you will win."

Gu Ran asked, "What good does it do for me to win?"

Xu Qing sneered: "If you can achieve this result, you will have a place in the national team. You can also get a good ranking in international competitions. What more benefits do you want?"

Gu Ran was not surprised, as if the rankings of the national team and international competitions were not very attractive to him: "This is a bet between you and me, and it has nothing to do with what I can achieve. Well, you win I will promise you one request, and if I win, you have to promise me one request too."

Xu Qing was taken aback: "What request?"

Gu Ran shrugged: "I didn't think of it for now, let's talk about it later."

Xu Qing smiled and nodded: "Okay! But you still have to complete today's training plan first, and then add a 1500-meter technical skating. If I find any technical problems that I have corrected during the process, but you have not done it , just add another 1000 meters."

"Can I say no?"

"No."

Gu Ran gritted her teeth: "Okay!"

It wasn't until Gu Ran went for additional training that Director Wang still hadn't realized whether the speed of 45 kilometers per hour was converted to 12.5 meters per second.

Also, how exactly did Gu Ran shorten "it may not be achieved in a lifetime" to "a one-year deadline".

He whispered to Xu Qing who was on the side: "Guide Xu, 41.2 seconds, not many people in our team have skied out this score. This kid, in a year, can he really do it?"

Xu Qing almost didn't think about it, and blurted out: "It must be possible!"

Director Wang couldn't figure it out even more: "Then you still bet with him..."

"For a child of this age, they may not listen to you if you earnestly say it. If you make a bet with him, he will practice desperately."

Regardless of Xu Qing or Wang's guidance, even Gu Ran himself understands that every racing sport is the same, the closer to the limit speed, the harder it is to improve the performance.

Not to mention a second, even if it is a tenth of a second, the painstaking efforts and time it takes are inestimable.

Furthermore, being able to slide out the score of 41.2 seconds does not mean that you can slide out this score stably.

The challenges never end.

In April, the National Youth Short Track Speed ​​Skating U Series ushered in the third race, which was held in the provincial capital of R Province.

In the second round of the competition last month, Province R lost the gold medal in the well-designed relay race, and even the second place in the team's total score was handed over to Province J.This time, as the host, he was also determined to win back.

In fact, they have the strength to hit gold medals in various events of all age groups.But the most important must be the 14-16 age group.

All provinces are the same, because the personal skills of athletes in this age group have basically taken shape, and within two years they will gradually embark on the career path, which must be the focus of each team's training.

This time, Gu Ran also set a goal for himself. He must win the 500-meter gold medal.

Then, in the 1000-meter event, he was somewhat unconvinced when he lost to Chi Lang last time.

After a month of training, he felt that he had made rapid progress, and he already had the strength to compete with Chi Lang for the championship.

In order to compete with Chi Lang for the gold medal, he even practiced the 1000m as the main event in the last few days of the training camp.

There is also the relay race. I have to admit that the last time I did take advantage of the fact that everyone misremembered the number of laps.

But it is not every time you can encounter such a thing. In the end, apart from tactics, it still depends on the athletes' own strength to speak.

He dare not say whether he will be the defending champion, but at least he must get the top three.

Before starting, he planned everything perfectly, but the game did not develop according to his expectations.