Shortly after the debate competition came to an end, the school's annual winter cross-country competition was approaching. This is the third consecutive year that Zhao Hongyi has participated in the event, although the first two editions only won the commemorative award, but for a student like him who is not very good in sports, it is a very meaningful thing to be able to sign up and run the whole course, and the essence of the Olympic spirit is to focus on participation.

Cross-country racing can not only enhance physical fitness, but also hone the quality of will and enhance one's courage to overcome oneself. Although the competition is only a few hours long, in order to prepare for this competition, students often start exercising a month ago.

So an hour before the wake-up bell rang every day, the students got up in the dark, put on sportswear and sneakers, and went for a run! The place of running is not limited to the school playground, but also to the more distant roads outside the school. The school gatehouse has already received a notice from the school that everyone can go outside the school to exercise during this time.

This road is the long-abandoned secondary road in Jiuliwan. A long time ago, this was a trunk road leading to the urban area of Liangzhou, and later the provincial highway was rerouted, and the road was gradually sparse, and the road surface has not been maintained for many years, and the asphalt road that used to be clean and beautiful has long been dilapidated. Because of this, this road is an ideal place for the school to host winter cross-country races.

The reason why everyone is allowed to exercise in advance before the morning exercise is mainly to familiarize everyone with the venue and route of the competition in advance, and to avoid the school playground being too small and crowded to improve the speed. Another advantage is that you can gradually establish a far-reaching goal for yourself according to your actual situation, so that everyone can experience the joy of sports and success.

Zhao Hongyi: Most of the boys in their class participated in the morning run every morning. At the beginning, it is necessary to make a certain determination to leave your hot bed. For the daily morning run, the class is not mandatory to participate, the class teacher just made a mobilization speech, which is completely voluntary action. Everyone compares this kind of long-distance running to a moral long-distance run, it doesn't matter how far and how long you run every day, the important thing is to persevere, and you can't give up halfway. Everyone doesn't want to be a person who has no beginning and no end, this kind of consciousness is not only afraid of being ridiculed and losing face, but also the inner need of everyone to overcome all difficulties and hone their will.

The teacher told everyone that miracles will occur if you persist in anything, and any behavior can become a habit after 21 days. Everyone wants to develop a good habit of being early and always early through this morning run.

It was a cold winter, with long nights and short days. At 5 o'clock in the morning, the whole campus was boiling, and the playground, campus roads, and off-campus roads were full of runners. The sound of neat or noisy footsteps has become the most moving symphony on the campus in winter. Zhao Hongyi and the others either took the dormitory as a unit, or the guys who had been obtained by three or five people met and walked farther towards the Jiuliwan Highway. In fact, how much exercise the body has got, it seems that I can't feel it at all in a short time, and what I remember is the strings of cheerful laughter left on the morning run, and endless interesting stories inside and outside the school.

The school's winter cross-country race finally started with the call of the students. Cross-country competition is not like the school track and field games, there is a limit on the number of participants, its concept is "I participate, I exercise, I am healthy, I am happy", there is no limit to the number of participants, everyone is welcome to participate, the so-called Han Xin point soldiers, the more the merrier.

Before running, Zhao Hongyi and the others also carried out a simple warm-up activity before the race: first jogged a little sweat, and then did activities such as leg presses, waist presses, turns, shoulder stretches, etc., to move the relevant joints, ligaments, and muscles, and then did a few 30-meter acceleration runs.

The team members did not need to put on the number bib, but only stamped a starting point stamp on their arms, and when the order sounded, everyone rushed out of the campus and ran towards the Jiuliwan Highway.

In fact, the 10km cross-country race is different from both sprinting and middle-distance running, and there is a certain skill. Don't rush to the lead at the beginning, run at your own pace, don't think about your position, and if you're faster than you, you may drop out of the race after a while.

The "pole" phenomenon is a normal physiological phenomenon, the symptoms are weakness, shortness of breath, uncomfortable, and the idea of giving up the race. After the "pole" phenomenon passes, let go of the speed appropriately and overtake the opponent in front of you when the opportunity is appropriate, don't be in a hurry, you have to chase step by step, one by one, you are tired and he is tired, as long as you surpass him half a step, he will be discouraged, and the final stage will use your perseverance and confidence to persist to the end.

As the saying goes, there is no best, only better, of course, these skills are also explained by the teacher in physical education class, and I slowly realized it in the usual exercise.

The athletes who run to the front are still the athletes in the sports class, they are congenitally energetic, and the training of the day after tomorrow is the norm, and the 10-kilometer cross-country race, in their eyes, is Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts - a plate of cake. The student who ran to the front also had a treatment that no one else could enjoy, and a teacher on a motorcycle supervised the Dharma protection step by step, just like the treatment enjoyed by the head of state.

In order to prevent everyone from cheating, the organizers of the competition are also painstaking, every other corner, at the crossing, there will be people holding small flags on duty to supervise, to prevent the contestants from opportunistic, shortcuts, in a few key points, but also continue to give you a stamp on the arm, after running to the finish line, the stamp is stamped on the left arm, when you return, you have to look at the results of your race, but also to see whether the seal on your arm is complete, one less stamp, it means that you have cheated, Results and rankings will be forfeited.

The road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high. People who want to cheat will always find shortcomings in the organization of the competition and take the opportunity to play tricks. Of course, for the top 20, they definitely dare not covet it, and they want to compete for the middle part of the ranking.

The method is also very simple, and that is gang cheating. In several race zones, they set up their cyclists in advance, and as soon as they avoided the eyes of the supervisors, they got on their bikes and ran for their lives. The bicycle runs downhill, almost without pinching the brakes, and the wind is galloping, and when it encounters the stamp, it comes down in advance, pretending to run out of breath, and people who don't know these doorways can't see it at all. This is considered a relatively advanced cheat, the cost is relatively large, in fact, the prize is not very rich, but they play this heartbeat, and they feel excited.

Zhao Hongyi and his group of four people were also quite hard at the beginning, but as they ran, a few of their peers said that they had missed the ranking award anyway, so they simply regarded it as a winter trip, running, walking, and resting. Zhao Hongyi resolutely drew a line with them, he thought that his participation in the cross-country race was a tempering of his will, and he didn't win the award, so what does it matter if he has a ranking or not? The key is not to give up halfway and spoil your own character. He gritted his teeth and quickly overcame the "pole" phenomenon and ran with ease.

When Zhao Hongyi and a classmate in the class finished the course and returned to campus, the wonderful sprint shot was no longer with them, but the badges on their arms were complete, indicating that they were not lazy, but ran the whole course step by step, and the classmates still gave them warm applause.

In the second week after the end of the cross-country race, the school will organize the graduating students to go to Liangzhou urban school for educational internship again according to the usual practice, so as to lay the foundation for the educational internship that will start in the next semester. The students of the school's five general teacher classes and one physical education class were divided into several groups, divided into batches, and branch schools went to urban primary schools to participate in probationary activities.

In order to rush to the probationary class before the primary school students start self-study, the school requires the probationary students in each class to get up early to ensure that there is enough time to queue up for the transition boat. The season has arrived in the cold winter, the night is long and the day is short, when the trainee team arrived at the Xijin ferry, the day has not yet opened two mouths, the boat boss has prepared two big gas lights, seize the time to cross at night.

In accordance with the requirements of safe transition, there is a limit to the number of ferry crews, and overloading is strictly prohibited. The boat boss roared, and the teacher was nervously directing everyone to make an orderly transition. Zhao Hongyi and the others were fortunate to get on the first shift and sat in the cabin. Continuing on the Venerable Master, it seems to have been overloaded.

"It's dangerous, I'm afraid I won't dare to go up again."

Everyone shouted, the boat boss said it didn't matter, he asked the deputy to anchor the penny, start the diesel engine, and prepare to cross the river. At the moment when the boat swung its tail, an accident happened! Because of overloading, the students stood unevenly on both sides of the bow and the hull tilted! The four students fell into the ferry like dumplings! Among them was a girl from Class 5. Everyone's hearts are nervously rising to their throats, what should I do?

The penny bearer hurriedly used the penny to prop it up in the direction of the falling water, hoping that the man who fell into the water would grab the penny and save him. The boat boss, a teacher and a few boys with good water skills, regardless of the biting river water, jumped into the water of the ferry one after another to save people!

Fortunately, the water in the ferry is not too deep, and after several righteous and brave people desperately rescued, several students who fell into the water were saved! The school immediately sent a bus to take the students who fell into the water to the hospital. Several righteous and brave people also became chickens in the soup, shivering from the cold, and immediately ran back to school to change clothes.

Everyone's hanging heart finally let go, fortunately the boat did not set off, if it tilted in the center of the river, the consequences would be unimaginable! This also gave a vivid safety lesson and life education lesson to the normal students who were about to go to work. If life is not guaranteed, how can we talk about education?

What was the content of the educational internship that year, most of everyone's impressions have been blurred, but this ferry adventure, how many years later, everyone recalled, and their hearts were still trembling.