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Chapter 187: The runner-up of super level performance

The day of the competition is fast approaching. Due to the cold weather in winter, the game was scheduled to start at 11 a.m., which was relatively warm. After warming up in advance, Tagawa came to the competition site at 10:40.

There were a lot of people who participated in the race, and Tagawa, along with a group of professional athletes, was placed at the front of the starting line to minimize the impact of non-professional competitors on their results. Looking at the crowds and scenes, Tian Chuan couldn't help but sigh that this marathon of the nature of national sports is a completely different experience from the race on the field.

It is the coldest season of the year, and the forecast maximum temperature is minus 3 degrees Celsius, and although the sun hangs in the sky, it is as if it is not emitting heat at all. After just warming up, Tagawa's body was already warmed up, and he was wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt and pants, so he didn't feel too cold. Looking at the people around them, most of them are wearing long-sleeved clothes, and only a few athletes are still wearing shorts and vests for long-distance running, showing the demeanor of professional athletes.

With a minute or two left before the start of the match, Tagawa took off his trousers, revealing his athletic shorts underneath. I can't help it when it's cold, running in long/legged pants will have too much air resistance, and if it's tight stretch pants, it will increase the burden on my muscles. Fortunately, his physique can already withstand such low temperatures. The marathon uses electronic identification tags to calculate the race results, rather than relying entirely on the number paper pasted on the clothes, so that during the beating process, the clothes on the body can be appropriately increased or decreased without being affected by the number paper.

Like Tian Chuan, many of the athletes around him have taken off their thick clothes to prepare for the competition. Everyone is similar to Tagawa, basically wearing long-sleeved clothes and starting to run, and then choosing whether to take off the long coat on his body depending on the situation after his body warms up. Although the electronic identity card is used, there is still a number paper to send to everyone, the organizing committee is very humane, the number paper is double, you can paste the number on the long coat and the sports vest inside.

When the race starts, more professional athletes like Tagawa and others start first and run at the front as a matter of course, so as to minimize the impact of non-professional athletes on their performance. There are about 20 of these more professional players, most of them are domestic players, and there are seven or eight foreign players, among which two black players are said to be the top in the world, and they are basically coming for the high money of the competition.

Tagawa and several other competitors and two black masters ran at the front, forming the first group. There were nine people in the group, two whites in addition to two blacks, and four other yellows. Tian Chuan has not been in this circle for a long time, and he has not had much effort to understand the characters in the circle, and he does not know other people at all. However, judging from the color of the clothes, among the other four yellow people, there should be a Japanese and a Korean, both of whom have their country's unique national flag pattern printed on their sportswear, which is clear at a glance. The remaining two players, estimated to be Chinese, have the same style of sportswear.

The first group has been led by two black men in front, with Tagawa running in the middle of the line. The speed of these two black men was a little faster than his usual running speed, but it was still within the range of adaptation, and with the convenience of someone in front of him to lead the run and the resistance was relatively small, Tagawa ran quite easily.

There was a northerly wind of about three levels that day, and after about seven or eight kilometers of running, the route turned north, and the resistance to running became greater, and everyone involuntarily slowed down a little. Seeing this opportunity, he maintained his original pace, overtook a few people in front of him, ran to the front of the team, and began to accelerate, hoping to take advantage of this to gain some lead. At this time, everyone had completely warmed up, took off their long-sleeved sportswear, and followed Tian Chuan to accelerate, Tian Chuan did not succeed in throwing off the others, but started to lead the road with the greatest wind resistance.

However, Tagawa is not so easy to be taken advantage of by others. He gives full play to his ability to run at different speeds, controlling his speed to be fast and slow, which is much larger than the speed change that is usually done in order to disrupt the rhythm of others. When he accelerates, sometimes he is close to the speed of a sprint. Under such a strong impact of shifting gear, everyone gave up their efforts to keep up with Tagawa, and the two blacks still took the lead, running forward at a steady pace, allowing Tagawa to take the lead and throw them farther and farther away.

This section of the road is about eight kilometers long, and Tagawa took the opportunity to extend the lead to more than 200 meters. The first group at the back has also been divided into three parts at this time, with a white man and a Chinese player, as well as two black people who can't keep up with the Korean player, who are struggling to move forward, and break away from this group to form a separate group. The two blacks became more and more courageous, gradually throwing the others apart and forming a second group. In this way, after Tagawa rode the dust, the ranks of the first group seemed to be stretched.

Then, the team turned to the east, and the headwind changed to a crosswind, and Tagawa, who was sweating, felt that the left side of his body was a little cold by the crosswind, which made him a little uncomfortable, and he was slowly chased by the two blacks behind him.

Fortunately, this crosswind road is not too long, only three kilometers, and then it continues to turn north, turning into a headwind again. But because of the influence of the crosswind just now, he could no longer play as well as the top wind section at the beginning, and instead of pulling away from the two blacks behind, he was chased closer, and the lead was about 150 meters.

It was maintained like this, and it came to a turning point. After the turn, he returned the same way, changed from a headwind state to a tailwind, and the running was much easier, and Tagawa involuntarily increased his speed. The two blacks in the back were more like they had taken a strong pill, desperately catching up from behind, getting closer and closer. And the players behind have been tossed out of energy by Tagawa's spoof change of speed when the wind is headwind, and they are pulled farther and farther away.

After passing through the crosswind section, Tagawa felt that his body temperature had returned to normal after being blown cold and hot at the same time, and then it was the long downwind section.

After this period of time, Tian Chuan figured out that his starting headwind section consumed too much physical strength, which caused physical discomfort during the crosswind section, but at this time it seemed that it was a little late to wake up, and the big man who led in the first half of the two blacks also had a lot of physical exertion, and let the one who was only about 1.7 meters tall run in front. It seems that the two have a tactical coordination, with the big man leading the way for the small man in the first half of the headwind, and the smaller man with plenty of energy to compete for the championship in the second half of the tailwind. At this time, the disadvantage of Tagawa, who was fighting alone, was revealed.

Tagawa didn't relent, he deliberately slowed down his pace before being caught up by the two blacks, and gathered his strength so that he could follow the little black man after being caught up by him and not be left behind, in order to fight hard in the final stage.

Sure enough, with about 3 kilometers to go downwind, the little black man caught up with Tagawa and took the opportunity to accelerate in order to shake Tagawa away. Tagawa had also recovered some of his strength after reducing his speed at this time, and he tried hard to catch up with the pace of the little black man without being pulled away. The tall black man, however, could no longer be faster, and slowly fell back into the ranks behind.

After the last turn, it was supposed to be another crosswind section. But on the north side of this long stretch of road, there are a series of tall buildings, blocking the howling north wind, and it seems that there is no wind.

At this time, Tagawa's physical strength was a little lacking, but the little black man seemed to be tireless, and he ran more and more vigorously. Tagawa deliberately adjusted his breathing and running posture to achieve the most effortless state, but he still struggled to keep up with the speed of the little black man, and when he was less than 4 kilometers away from the finish line, he was gradually pulled away.

Tagawa no longer forced himself, ran at his own pace, and ran towards the finish line. If nothing else, he should be able to finish runner-up.

But in this kind of competition, there are always surprises. After two more kilometers, the Japanese runner and a white runner in the second group, who were originally behind Tagawa, actually started to sprint early, closing the distance between Tagawa and Tagawa from nearly 500 meters to less than 200 meters, and still getting closer. The Japanese rider, in particular, approached a little faster.

Seeing that there were still about 1,500 meters to the finish line, Tagawa should be able to start sprinting, so he gradually increased his speed and began to sprint. In his preface, the little black man, who was about 50 meters ahead, seemed to hear his sprinting footsteps, and began to accelerate his sprint.

Among these long-distance runners, Tagawa's absolute speed is the fastest, and the only thing that affects his sprint speed is the final physical distribution technique, and in this regard, he is the worst of these professional long-distance runners. However, the Japanese and the white player who caught up behind him were too much of a threat due to the premature acceleration and too much physical exertion.

At the beginning of the acceleration sprint, Tagawa kept getting closer to the black riders in front of him. However, when there were 300 meters left in the race, his physical strength was a little short, and he had to watch as the small black runner who was chased by him to less than 10 meters stretched the distance again, until he finally crossed the line, he was pulled away by more than 20 meters and finished second.

Tagawa's final time was 2:09:06, while the winner's time was 2:09:03, just 3 seconds faster than him. The results of the next runners were much worse, and the third place was actually the tall black man with 2:10:02, while the Japanese and the white runner who had gone crazy in the final stages fell to fifth and seventh respectively.

Tagawa's time was not very good, and he was still nearly a minute away from the Chinese record, but considering the cold winter race and the windy conditions, it was quite a good result. He could have done better if he had better tactics or, like the black man who won the championship, with his teammates. But in fact, this result has surpassed his best result, and it seems that in the actual competition, it is still more able to stimulate people's potential.