Gao Yi and the others finished their training at half past seven, first to fill their hunger with some simple breakfast, and then to take a shower in the newly built shower room next to the stadium - the shower room was completely an enlarged version of Gao Yiya's Xianju set. After washing, a newly hired blind masseur will relax their muscles.

Since the game starts at half past one, they eat their pre-game meal four hours early, that is, at half past nine. The meal is very simple, a batter soup made of cereal and milk, served with waffles drizzled with a thick sugar sauce, and finally honey and some sliced bananas. There are no big fish, no meat, no vegetables and grains, just to consume the most basic thing - carbohydrates, that is, sugar.

Sugar is the main fuel of the human body, the first thing the body burns is glucose in the blood, then the fuel stored in the liver in the form of liver sugar, and next, it will turn to the fuel stored in the muscles, muscle sugar; When these reserves are depleted, it will oxidize and decompose fats to provide energy; As for proteins, they are converted into sugars and fats only in cases of severe insufficiency of the body's energy supply or in the case of lesions.

If the human body is regarded as a fuel locomotive, then the blood sugar is like the fuel that is already in the carburetor, and can be accessed at any time as long as the cylinder intake is opened; Liver sugar and glycogen stored in the muscles can be regarded as the main and auxiliary fuel tanks of this car; Fat is like a gas station, although the reserves are large, but the oil can only be supplied through a thin oil pipe, it takes a certain amount of time to fill the fuel tank with it, so it is a chicken rib that is not slow for intense exercise, how can it be possible to extinguish a raging fire with a small water pipe, only long-distance running and other fine water and long-term flow, stable output of sports can use it; The last protein left, then it can only be seen as an oil refinery, and when it refines the oil, the daylily is cold.

The purpose of the pre-race meal is to ensure that the main and auxiliary fuel tanks of the human body are full at the beginning of the game.

After all, the human body is not really a fuel tank, and it is impossible to wait until the last minute before the game to deliver a large amount of carbohydrates directly to the body. In fact, it was too late to ingest food an hour and a half before the game, and digestion also requires energy, and most of the food eaten at this time remains in the stomach and is not emptied, and the energy produced is not as high as consumed. And when the game starts, the body is likely to choose to automatically "shut down" digestion during the intense competition, and the food that accumulates in the stomach pouch is almost impossible to produce any return other than causing gastrointestinal discomfort.

As for the direct intake of sugars that are easier to digest, absorb faster, and have a faster effect as a substitute for the main meal when the competition is approaching, it is even more advisable, because a large amount of sugar in a short period of time may cause hypoglycemia. A sharp rise in the concentration of sugar in the blood leads to a large release of insulin, but the two are not completely synchronized, and the peak of blood glucose concentration may have passed relative to the peak of insulin release; In addition, the sugar ingested is not just glucose, when the invertase enzyme does not have time to convert these sugars into glucose, the sugar concentration in the blood will far exceed the actual blood glucose concentration, thus stimulating insulin overproduction. Both of these causes have the potential to trigger hypoglycemia and even hypoglycemic syndrome.

Therefore, there must be a sufficient time gap between the pre-race meal and the game to allow the digestive system to stabilize the transition from food to energy at a peak output.

For the choice of food, it should be easy to digest and provide high calories, such as white flour-based foods with limited sugar, which is a very good choice. Fats and proteins are neither directly converted to glycogen nor easily digested, so they are not desirable. Vegetables and grains, high in fiber and low in energy, can also only increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, and are not beneficial to the fierce competition.

For this pre-match meal, Gao Yi and the others ate for half an hour, and did not drink anything other than thick milk paste, because the liquid would take away the hunger pangs and fill the stomach with low-value volume. They had to make every bit of space in their stomach pouch as much as possible carry starch and sugar that could be converted into "fuel", and for the next three and a half hours, they relied on these newly converted "fuels" to maintain the liquid level of the "fuel tank" in their bodies.

After the meal, there is a half-hour meditation time, but it is still forbidden to drink water. Meditation allows sufficient blood to enter the digestive system to aid digestion. At this time, drinking water will only make the stomach pouch full of food bulge, dilute stomach acid, and hinder gastrointestinal peristalsis.

At half past ten, the Scottish Club's carriage departed, a car of four, a full seventeen carriages, and the convoy was followed by a team of Indian mounted police who were responsible for clearing traffic.

When the convoy reached the north side of the racecourse, there were already walls on both sides of the road, and there were no less than 10,000 people on top of each other. Gao Yi opened the window of the car and instructed the driver to slow down, and then communicated with the Indian police officer who led the team, and asked him to be as gentle as possible when guiding the road ahead.

"What the hell do you think they're coming to see?" Gao Yi asked after sitting back in his seat.

Keswick shrugged his shoulders and said he couldn't help his problem, and Landale looked even more sluggish. Both guys were on the bench list, but except for one cold bench in the first game, the rest of the games were watched from the stands. Today is actually their first time participating in training, so they are naturally tired, not to mention that they have just pressed a belly of flour into it, and it is inevitable that they will not be adaptable. However, this is the price that must be paid, because as long as there is a suitable opportunity today, Gao Yi will replace them to play and have fun.

"I thought they wouldn't come again after a few visits, but they didn't expect to get more and more people. If it's a race, they can still see the horses running by, but our race field is in the middle of the racecourse, so what can they see from this distance? Moreover, there are trees around to shelter it. It's just puzzling. It was McPherson who answered, but he couldn't give any useful answers.

Although Chinese are not allowed to enter the racecourse, it does not prevent local residents from wrapping the entire racecourse in three layers and standing outside the railing to watch. And not only Shanghai locals, but also tourists from the suburbs, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, and Jiaxing also came in droves to watch the game. During the racing season, hotels in Shanghai are even full, and the rent of hotels near the racecourse is many times higher than usual, and it is still difficult to find a room.

In the past, Gao Yi was quite unimpressed with this, as if someone else hung a sign saying "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter", not only did you not smash this sign, but tried to get into it to see what was inside.

However, according to Gao Yi's close observation of these onlookers, he found that he could not seem to look at the people of this era with this kind of established thinking brought by later generations, because what he saw in the eyes of these people was not the worship of Western things, but-

It's like going to a zoo and watching orangutans fight monkeys.

In fact, in this era, the concession was still called Yichang, and Western food was still called Fancai, and although foreigners had gotten rid of the names of Xiyi and Fanlao and upgraded to foreigners, they had not yet been upgraded to the level of foreigners. At this time, the general public did not seem to realize that the concession was a shame, and they just regarded it purely as an entertainment venue, a place to look at dioramas and increase their knowledge. They don't feel that they are really inferior, maybe they will feel fear when facing foreigners, but that is only the fear of the red gorilla, but will a person become respectful and worship the orangutan because of the fear of the orangutan?

The Chinese people really kneel spiritually, and it will probably not happen until the group of people who stayed abroad come back and have the right to speak, and only then will the foreign sky become bluer and the moon will become rounder.

Outside the car window, as if to answer Gao Yi's question, several wheelbarrows were pushed over, and the cars were filled with benches and high chairs, and someone shouted: "Stand high and see far, high stools are going to be cut?" It doesn't matter if you stand unsteadily, rent a high chair and go back, you can sit if you are tired, stand on it, grasp the handrails, and hand over steadily. ”

Almost instantly, the crowd gathered around the wooden fence grew taller.

Gao Yi smiled and retracted his gaze, forgetting that this is a nation that can always come up with a solution no matter how many hardships and hardships it goes through, and what can this small difficulty in front of him be worth. It's superfluous to worry about such a nation, so he should find a way to live his own life.

At about eleven o'clock, the convoy finally advanced to the straight at the entrance to the racecourse, when a slightly smaller convoy came from the opposite side. Gao Yi recognized that this was the convoy of the Chinese and Western Girls' School, so he ordered the car to stop and let the other party go first, and at the same time let the Indian Mounted Police help clear the way. After all the girls' cars turned into the straight, he let his motorcade follow.

The two teams parted ways at the gate, with the girls' school team heading in the direction of the Jockey Club building, and Gao Yi and their heads straight to the football field. There is a row of sheds at each end of the goal of the football field, which is a temporary resting place for the players. Gao Yi and they occupied a row on the south side according to the old rules.

The two buckets were the first to be unloaded from the four-wheeled wagon carrying the sundries, and it was time to drink water. Drinking water now, in addition to replenishing body hydration, is also conducive to the emptying of food in the stomach and prevents stomach discomfort caused by food accumulation during strenuous exercise in the future.

After drinking a glass of water, under the leadership of Gao Yi, everyone scattered around the court. The shed on the opposite side was still empty, and in fact the players from the other teams would not eat together, they would eat at the normal meal, and then a few minutes before the game Shi Shiran would come over as if nothing was going on, change his clothes and go on the field, and most of them didn't even do the preparation activities.

Playing such a team, Gao Yi has no pressure now. He is only worried about whether the event will be entertaining, and his positioning of the game has always been more entertaining than competitive, and making the public happy is the last word. Just like in Roman times, what did the senators use to please their electorate and gain popular support? It's nothing more than free bread and bloody gladiatorial fights, which is what so-called Western democracy is all about.