Early morning.

In front of a dormitory in the dormitory building of the competition management center, a slamming sound suddenly sounded.

Su Zu was awakened by this violent knock on the door, his mind was slightly dizzy for a while, he was silent on the bed for a few seconds, looked out of the gray window, and then got out of bed and opened the door sleepily.

"Don't knock, it's coming."

I opened the dormitory door in a daze, and saw a figure waiting outside the door.

"Coach? Are you so early? Rubbing his eyes and seeing the person outside the door clearly, Su Zu asked with a little confusion.

Li Zhizhong raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, then glanced at Su Zu, and said lightly: "It's 4:53 in the morning, I'll give you 7 minutes, 5 o'clock on time, wait for you downstairs." ”

"Uh...... What the? ”

Before Su Zu could react, he saw that Li Zhizhong had already walked out of the corridor with his hands behind his back.

When I returned to the room, I washed my face with cold water in the bathroom, and I gradually came to my senses.

Su Zu himself has the habit of getting up early and exercising in the morning, but he usually gets up at 5 o'clock and starts at 5:30, but he didn't expect that the coach would knock on the door early in the morning on the second day of the report of the professional team in Hedao City.

"This is the Pro Team." Su Zu shrugged his shoulders at the figure in the mirror and pursed his lips.

I remembered a comedy movie made in this city a few years ago, and the classic line in it, "This is called professionalism." Do a line of love. ”

Su Zu didn't bother to investigate what Coach Li, who met for the first time yesterday, thought, quickly washed up, and hurriedly went downstairs.

Downstairs, Li Zhizhong was sitting on a women's motorcycle, and after seeing Su Zu coming down, he raised his wrist and looked at the time, it seemed that there should be no timeout, and greeted Su Zu, "Go, I'm in a hurry." ”

As he spoke, he started the motorcycle directly, stepped on the accelerator, and walked in front.

Just after walking a few steps, the car stopped and saw Su Zu stunned on the side, Li Zhizhong waved his hand, "Follow me, go." ”

Su Zu was slightly stunned, came back to his senses, and hurriedly trotted all the way behind Li Zhizhong.

"Coach, where are we going?"

Coming out of the competition management center, Li Zhizhong's lady's motorcycle led the way in front slowly, and the sky was still bright at this time, and the neon street lights were not extinguished. Su Zu looked at the streets on both sides, except for one or two breakfast shops, most of the storefronts had not yet opened. It's cold and cold.

"Good thing, the first day you come to Hedao, I have to show you around." Li Zhizhong slowed down the car and said to Su Zu with a smile, "Follow me, I have to accelerate." ”

After saying that, the motorcycle accelerated slightly. The speed is not too fast, about 15 yards and 20 yards, but Su Zu still has some difficulty running behind.

After running for about twenty or thirty minutes, I passed through the silent streets, the buildings of different heights in front of me gradually disappeared, the salty smell in the air became heavier, and the surging sound of the tide could be vaguely heard in the distance.

"It's to the beach."

At this time, the infrastructure of Hedao City is not like later, some streets Su Zu knows, and some are very unfamiliar, until the seaside Huandao Road is a little familiar.

The morning dawn was also fast, and when I went out, the road was still gray, but at this time it was gradually brightened, and there were more figures walking around.

Li Zhizhong stopped on the sidewalk next to Huandao Road, looked back at Su Zu, who was panting, and smiled, "It's okay, my physical training is better than I thought." ”

Su Zu held his knees, panting, his forehead and back were already sweating like rain, this running time was not long, and the distance was not too far, but Li Zhizhong's motorcycle accelerated and slowed down from time to time, urging him on the side, it was still quite tiring.

"Coach, what are we doing here?" Su Zu took a deep breath and asked Li Zhizhong.

"You've never seen the sea before, I'll take you to see a sunrise over the sea." Li Zhizhong locked his motorcycle to the side of the road and walked to the beach by the sea.

"Huh?!" Su Zu was a little blindsided for a while, and ran so far early in the morning, just to watch the sunrise?

However, looking at Li Zhizhong's energetic appearance, Su Zu held his waist and exhaled twice, and followed with slightly heavy steps.

At this time, above the sea in the east, the fire burned the clouds, and it was red, but after a long time, a red sun gradually emerged from the sea level.

"Coach, won't you just let me watch the sunrise?"

Su Zu stood beside Li Zhizhong, looking at the other party and secretly guessing whether he had met a middle-aged man of literature and art, he had spent a lot of time in this city in his previous life, and there were really a lot of such people.

"Of course it's to watch the sunrise, don't you come out of the countryside and township, have you seen the sunrise on the sea before?" Li Zhizhong asked rhetorically.

"Nope." Su Zu shook his head, whether it was himself in the past or now, he has never been able to have this leisure, at that time, he was forced by life, and he was in a hurry every day, and now he has never had this thought.

"Let's go, let's go back."

When the red sun rose from behind, Li Zhizhong was ready to leave.

"This is going back?" ran all the way to the beach, didn't stay for a few minutes, really watched the sunrise and went back, Su Zu couldn't figure out what the coach was thinking for a while.

"Of course I went back. By the way, do you know how far you just ran? ”

"Maybe six or seven kilometers." Su Zu roughly estimated it.

"7.4 km to be exact. The last one I took to see the sunrise was Ji Xingpeng, have you heard of it? ”

"Yes." Su Zu nodded and said, this is really not a lie. Benefiting from the development of the network in later generations, several star-level athletes have appeared in the field of badminton, and he happened to know this information. Ji Xingpeng, the first Chinese badminton Olympic singles champion, once beat the Indonesian star on the field to cry.

"Coach, you wouldn't say he was once your player, would you?" Su Zu reacted, his eyes widened in disbelief, one was that he would meet the coach of the Olympic champion, which was a bit of a sense of luck. Then you are not a track and field coach, how can you get involved with badminton.

"Half of it." Li Zhizhong said calmly, "At the beginning, he was not physically fit, and I took him for a while. The national team called him up three times, but he was pressed down by the team. It was not until the final completion of the system training that the people were released. For three years in a row, as long as it wasn't windy or rainy, he would run here to watch the sunrise. Do you understand what I mean? ”

A trip is 7.4 kilometers, and the round trip is almost 15 kilometers. This distance is nothing for a professional athlete, but it is only the most basic morning run, and the hardest thing is not to let up day after day.

Later generations of Black Mamba's classic "Do you know what Los Angeles looks like at four o'clock in the morning?" "It's not there yet, but it's all true.

Su Zu already understood that the new coach was setting an example for him and taking ideological education classes. Although he has not experienced a few coaches, he has heard that each coach has a different coaching style.

This Coach Li seems to be coaching, at least not blindly oppressive, fifteen or sixteen-year-old young people, sometimes what they need is the correct value guidance and competitive spirit.

"I wanted to tell you before I started training. Competitive sports are about talent, and I have seen many talented athletes, but in the end, the one who can really produce results is always the one who is talented and works hardest. Success requires hard work. ”

"Alright, let's go back. In the morning we will do the test, and in the afternoon I will make a systematic training plan according to your situation. ”