Imperial capital.

Athletics team training base.

"Ready—"

"Smack!" The starting gun rang out.

On the starting line, Su Zu quickly swung his arms with both hands, and the friction sound of spikes and rubber tracks, as well as the friction of long-sleeved sportswear, sounded rhythmically.

Train after set continues, from the start reaction, to the acceleration of the start, to the mid-run, to the final sprint.

Boring, repetitive, continuous.

"Alright, let's rest." Lu Jianming looked at Su Zu's sweat on his forehead, and stopped Su Zu's training that he was going to continue.

Ordinary coaches are urging athletes to carry out group after group of repeated training, but Su Zu does not need it, he never formulates a training plan, and after throwing it to him, he can complete the training with quality and quantity.

Occasionally, the coach is afraid that he will practice too hard, and he will come over from time to time to stare at it and stop the training that will continue later.

"I just took a look, and it seems that your strength has increased recently, so you have to pay attention to your rhythm when you run. Rhythm is a life-giving element in sprint training, speed is generated from rhythm, and improved technique is reflected in rhythm, which in turn promotes the development of rhythm. ”

Lu Jianming called Su Zu aside, he had been carefully observing several sets of Su Zu's training just now, and pointed out some of the problems.

"Your running rhythm must not be chaotic, the sprinting time is too fast, your state ups and downs greatly affect your running rhythm, this state is not only caused by physical fatigue and injury, to a large extent, it may also be depressed, nervous and other psychological effects."

"Coach, I don't think I'm in shape."

Su Zu held his knees and gasped for breath, for some of the technical rankings that Lu Jianming said, he probably also understood that there were some detailed experiences combined with this daily training, and some experiences. The rhythm of running and the change in the rate of movement produced by running consciousness are very academic words, but in fact, it is a very subtle experience that really falls into the changes in the body.

"Well, it's strange to say this, your state is really amazingly stable, I haven't seen you have many ups and downs, they are all rising steadily."

This is also what Lu Jianming and several other members of the coaching staff are particularly incomprehensible about, Su Zu can adjust his body to the best state at any time and will not fluctuate too much. For athletes, it is normal for them to have ups and downs, the first time they almost ran 10.50 seconds, and the second time they ran well, they ran 10.30 seconds.

But this does not apply to Su Zu, except that training will vary according to the decline in physical fitness, Su Zu can almost stabilize the results of each competition within 0.01-0.03 seconds, and it is still on an upward trend.

Su Zu straightened up and smiled, and he couldn't explain to Lu Jianming, this is one of the benefits of the system to the digitization of body attributes, as long as there is no negative abnormal state of influence on various attributes, he can maintain a very stable performance, coupled with a lot of training, the improvement of attributes, and the polishing of sprinting skills, so that the overall performance is in a steady upward trend. Occasionally, when it is in perfect condition, it can also make the results rise to a certain span, but on the whole, it is particularly stable, and there will be no slippage.

"You've improved a lot in the 60 meters, too." Lu Jian pondered, "In February, Chen Jian ran a time of 6.60 seconds in the National Indoor Championship, setting a national record. Last time in Vienna, he set a new record of 6.59 seconds, which is a bit of an incredible steady progress. ”

In the men's 60m event at the International Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna a week ago, Suzu finally won a gold medal, although the gold medal content is not high, and there are almost no famous athletes who come to participate. But the track and field team is still very happy about his breakthrough, and now with his steady and progressive results, he has begun to tilt resources and receive attention from the team, and Chen Jian is gradually at the same level. It is much higher than the attention received by some veterans such as Shen Yunbao and Yang Guangzong.

In the international indoor competition in Vienna on March 9, the domestic track and field players played quite well, in addition to Su Zu won the men's 60-meter championship, Liu Yangyu won the 60-meter hurdles championship with a time of 7.51 seconds and set a new Asian record, Shen Yunbao, the veteran, has not reversed the time difference, with a thousandth of a second advantage, unexpectedly won the bronze medal. And the women's event has also blossomed a lot, and they have achieved good results.

In the 12 indoor events in which the Chinese track and field team participated, they won 6 gold medals and 5 silver and bronze medals.

"It's a pity that I didn't run earlier, otherwise I would have been able to participate in the World Indoor Athletics Championships."

Su Zu also regretted that he was only competing in a relatively low-level event in a hurry to go abroad this time. There are not many good sprinters participating in the international indoor races in Vienna, and they are not as good as the two good sprinters from Linz.

Not to mention Morris Green, the 60-meter world record holder, who ran 6.39 seconds, and Tim Montgomery, who is currently the most competitive in the world's 100 meters.

"By the way, coach, how is our team doing in Birmingham?"

The last time I participated in the International Indoor Track and Field Championships in Vienna, there were still some domestic media and a few news reports, in addition to Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, especially several women, who won the first place in the pole vault, triple jump, 60-meter hurdles and shot put.

It's March 17 now, and the national track and field team should have completed a lot of events at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, but Su Zu is busy training these days and hasn't heard any news yet, which is really a bit of a surprise.

Lu Jianming shook his head invisibly, and his voice was lowered, "The team already knows, but the results are not good, if Liu Yangyu hadn't won the third place in the 60-meter hurdles, he would have almost been wiped out, and it would not have been spread with great fanfare." ”

"Huh? No way. Su Zu was frightened by the news. In his previous life, he was still a high school student in a small mountain town at this age, and he didn't know the results of the track and field team at this time.

But this time, he clearly knew that the athletes who went to participate in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, were basically the best track and field athletes in China, many of whom were champions, runners-up and runners-up in the Asian Games last year, and had just shown good strength in Vienna.

I never expected that in this big arena with world-class top players, I immediately suffered such a serious setback. When he first came back a week ago, Su Zu read several news reports that were still advocated, but now, he fell to the bottom all of a sudden.

It's almost wiped out, the men's event is poor, but the women's event has never been like this. In a big international event, only one person broke into the finals.

"If only you had qualified earlier, at least not just one person would have made it to the final." Lu Jianming also sighed, if Su Zu can participate in this indoor competition, with his stable performance, facing players like Morris Green Montgomery, the top three may not have a chance, but from the feedback news, it is still very promising to enter the finals.

At this time, as long as the yellow runners can stand on the stage of the finals in the men's short track event, there is such a figure among the dark-skinned sprinters, which is a breakthrough and a victory.

"Coach, what is the qualification score for the World Championships in Athletics?"

After being silent for a long time, Su Zu suddenly raised his head and asked Lu Jianming.

"Huh?" Lu Jianming was slightly surprised, the news in Birmingham this time was not spread on a large scale in the team for fear of affecting the morale of the entire track and field team. It's not that I'm afraid of losing, but I'm afraid that after losing, I won't even have the courage to compete again. To be honest, don't say that ordinary athletes are shocked when they hear this kind of news, especially when they have just achieved a little bit in the Asian Games and the Vienna International Indoor Championships, and suddenly encounter such a heavy blow, even many coaches with mature mentality will feel powerless.

"You want to go to the World Athletics Championships?" After Lu Jianming was stunned for a moment, he came back to his senses and looked at Su Zu, "Do you know that your current results can only participate in this year's Asian Championships at most?" ”

"I've missed the indoor competition once, coach, I must go to this World Championships in Athletics no matter what." Su Zu's eyes were scorching, and he said extremely firmly.

The 2003 World Athletics Championships were held in Paris, France, on August 23, and the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships were held in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on September 20.

In this year's event plan arranged by the coaching staff for Su Zu, there are national Grand Prix, Asian track and field championships, and city games, but the World Athletics Championships are not considered.

In track and field, the World Athletics Championships are at the same level as the Olympic Games, and according to the IAAF's competition level, it is the first level of track and field competition. The international influence and the level of the participating athletes are far from being comparable to ordinary competitions, and the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, are also heaven and earth compared to it.

At present, in the men's short track event in China, except for Liu Yangyu's 110-meter hurdles, almost no one else can meet the participation standard.

According to the 2002 total track and field score rankings of various countries calculated by the American "Track and Field News", China at this time only scored 2 points in the men's track and field event, ranking 42nd, tied with Croatia, Kazakhstan and Kuwait. In 41st place ahead of China is Tanzania, a country that most people have never even heard of.

"Then go training, you have five months left."