Magic City, Pudong Yuanshen Gymnasium.

The venue, which is quite cold on weekdays, is lively today.

The 2003 National Track and Field Championships was held in Yuanshen Gymnasium from September 11 to September 14, and the National Track and Field Championships as the largest event in a single track and field event, this time attracted nearly 1,300 athletes from 39 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and special administrative regions, and nearly 1,300 athletes will compete here for the champions, runners-up and third places in 21 men's and women's events.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Su Zu wore the uniform of the Ronghai Provincial Team and appeared in the men's 100m preliminaries.

The National Championships are the same as the National Games, the City Games and other large-scale games, athletes are generally divided according to provinces, cities and regions, and the national team for many players is generally called through intensive training when there are major events, and some athletes are trained in their respective provincial teams on weekdays. For example, the early convening of the national team for the Asian Games may only take three months, but the Olympic Games may be six months to a year in advance.

Although there were a large number of participants in this competition, because there were 21 events for men and women in four days, the total schedule was much more ample than the previous competition.

This morning's track race starts at 9 a.m., starting with the 100m hurdles, one of the women's heptathlon, followed by the women's 100m heats and the men's 100m heats, followed by the women's 3,000m steeplechase and the men's 3,000m steeplechase.

In the field competition, there are men's hammer throw, men's shot put, women's heptathlon two high jump, and seven individual competitions in one morning.

In the afternoon, the competition time is left empty, allowing the athletes to adjust and rest, maintain their best competitive condition, and continue to play directly until 18:30 in the evening. The men's and women's 400m heats, men's and women's 100m finals, and women's 10,000m finals were all held in the evening.

Such a competition arrangement is still more suitable for Su Zu, and if nothing else, he will definitely be able to enter the finals. If you have two races a day, it is better to adjust and rest at a certain interval of time.

"Coach Shen, long time no see."

On the sidelines, Li Zhizhong greeted Shen Guoying, the coach of the Ronghai Provincial Provincial Team, they met when they were studying abroad, and their friendship was average, but they were also familiar, otherwise Shen Guoying would not have recommended Su Zu to him at the beginning.

"Li Zhizhong, now he is a sleepy dragon ascending to heaven, from an unknown city team, he has finally jumped to the national team." Shen Guoying nodded lightly, still with the same cold expression

"Thanks to your care." Li Zhizhong smiled and pointed to Su Zu, who was about to walk on the track in the preliminaries, "If you hadn't recommended such a good athlete to me, where would I have a chance." ”

Although he didn't know whether Li Zhizhong's words were intentional or unintentional, Shen Guoying still frowned, holding his glasses, and his already salty expression suddenly sank a little. Both of them have similar educational backgrounds, and they had a competition when they were young, but their encounters are different, and it is difficult to say what is good or bad.

"Huh!" Zhuang Tao, who was more than half a head taller than ordinary people next to him, chuckled lightly after hearing Li Zhizhong's words, his face was full of playful smiles, "Coach Li, you are right, this selection of materials is still very important, and it may become someone else's maxima when you leave." ”

"Yes, to put it mildly, everyone is a coach, and the level is high, but the key is to have Puyu polishing, being able to become a tool, and being able to become a material. Speaking of which, Coach Zhuang, you are also very discerning. ”

"Ahem!" Shen Guoying coughed lightly, listening to the words of the two of them, his face was a little unbearable, "You guys talk first, I'll go and see Tian Sai." ”

Li Zhizhong and Zhuang Tao glanced at each other, the two had a few encounters before, but because of the relationship between Su Zu, they got a little closer.

After watching Shen Guoying leave, Li Zhizhong asked in a low voice: "What do you mean by Su Zu running 200 meters?" ”

Zhuang Tao shook his head, "It's Lao Shen, the pressure of the provincial team is high, and on the report you gave, Su Zu's results in the 200 meters are also good, so I hung it up for him when I signed up." Originally, I wanted to go to the relay, but in the end, considering the following opinions, Su Zu had not trained with the provincial team after all, and finally canceled it. ”

In this National Championships, Su Zu was originally scheduled to only sign up for a men's 100-meter individual event, but after Li Zhizhong communicated with the provincial team, the provincial team saw that Su Zu's 200-meter result had the possibility of winning a medal, and added 200 meters to him.

This kind of cross-bar thing, to be honest, is very disgusting, like Chen Jian is from the Guangdong provincial team, he only focused on a 100-meter individual event in this competition, and did not participate in the 200-meter and relay races.

Because people's energy is limited, technical characteristics and adaptability all need to be trained. In the case that the 100-meter single event has not been particularly outstanding, and rashly start running 200 meters, the focus of training must have changed, and the cornering technique and speed endurance need to be strengthened to a certain extent.

Li Zhizhong naturally understands that some things are always indispensable, but fortunately, these people can't control him, and if he runs two hundred more, he will run two hundred more, after all, the two events are separated for one day, and there will be two preliminaries and finals in one day, so as not to make the athletes consume too much.

In the men's 100-meter preliminaries, there are a total of 31 players in the men's 100-meter preliminaries. Although the number of participants was large, it was distributed among 21 men and women, and the number of participants in each event was 30 or 40.

The men's preliminaries were divided into four groups, and the top eight directly entered the final. Su Zu was in the seventh lane of the third group in the preliminaries, and there was also an old acquaintance Shen Yunbao in the same group.

Chen Jian is in the fourth group of the preliminaries, Yang Guangzong is in the second group of the preliminaries, in addition to He Jun, Yin Hangchao, Liu Dapeng, Wang Peng and other current men's 100-meter strong athletes. Among these people, some of them are teammates of the relay team that Su Zu is familiar with, and some of them are not familiar with each other, but they have also competed together and met a few times.

To a certain extent, the domestic track and field circle has naturally become smaller, and there are old faces coming and going, and occasionally a newcomer like Su Zu will soon be well-known.

The preliminaries of the first group will begin immediately.

Among the preliminaries in the first group, there are a few who have participated in the National Track and Field Grand Prix with Su Zu, and he doesn't know anyone, so he probably has the impression that there are such people. The results of this group were very average, and none of them ran 10.40 seconds.

The second group of preliminaries had a slightly better result, but it was not outstanding. Yang Guangzong ran 10.39 seconds and won the first place in his group.

This is actually the current situation of domestic sprinters at this stage, most of the sprinters are hovering in 10.40-10.50 seconds, like Yang Guangzong's last Grand Prix was able to run into 10.30 seconds, it was really an explosion of personal state at that time, and the level of the players in the same group was extremely high, so he ran his best result. This is also something that can be met but not sought.

The gunshots of the third group of the preliminaries rang out, and Su Zu started from the seventh lane, this time he had an average starting reaction, although there was no immediate starting reaction time for each runner on the field, but he estimated that it must have exceeded 0.15 seconds.

This is the first race since the last National Grand Prix in April, and it has been five months since then. Although I have been training, when I arrived at the big competition, I was inevitably a little rusty.

However, although the start was a little slower, Su Zu still ran very steadily, because it was the group stage, with the results of the first two groups he had just seen, he was sure that as long as he played steadily, he should be able to enter the final in the evening.

After falling behind Shen Yunbao from the acceleration stage of the start, he quickly overtook Shen Yunbao at a distance of 50 meters, and extended this advantage to the end.

When this group of runners finished running, the reference results were broadcast on the radio, and Su Zu was surprised to see his group results.

10.21 seconds, has reached the Olympic A standard.

I always wanted to run hard, but five months later, in a preliminaries, I suddenly ran there.

Both on the sidelines and in the groups that had just finished the competition were a little surprised, no one expected that Su Zu would run 10.21 seconds in the preliminaries of the National Championships and the A standard of next year's Olympic Games.

Su Zu was surprised, but he was more relieved in his heart, and at the same time felt that Lao Li's training was right.

The speed at which he improved under Lu Jianming was far less than that of Li Zhizhong. He is not the running style of other runners in China at present, he is good at walking lightly and smallly, but prefers the strength type of some European and American athletes, and the improvement of his core strength is very effective for his running speed.

"I should win the championship this time." Su Zu walked outside the arena and thought silently in his heart, his current results are already very good, but he lacks the pressure of heavy awards.

A small athlete, it doesn't mean that if you win a few Olympic championships and national championships in some small competitions, you will really be looked up to. In the eyes of most people, it will only be that the champion may not play well, and you, a little athlete, may not play well or even take medicine! You're in luck! You say you're good, you can win this championship and that runner-up, why aren't you? You're going to get one too?!

"Chen Jian, Chen Jian......"

After running the preliminaries, the results of this trip were better than he expected, and his mood can be said to be much more relaxed. I just walked back to the rest area next to the arena. At that moment, I suddenly heard someone screaming.

"Chen Jian, Chen Jian just ran 10.19 seconds, creating the best time of his career."