The 2004 National Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Lin'an City and Modu on February 10 and February 14. The third stop is in the imperial capital in March.

Due to the close proximity between Lin'an City and Modu, the time of the two stations is also relatively tight.

On February 8, Su Zu arrived in Lin'an with a group of national team athletes who participated in the indoor competition.

The weather in the early spring in the south is still relatively wet and cold, and the group is wrapped thickly, although the temperature in the north and south is relatively low in winter, but suddenly change the environment, it is still very important to keep warm.

Especially Su Zu, Li Zhizhong has to check almost every time before going out, for fear that he won't notice the cold.

Although a cold is a minor illness, it can still have a great impact on athletes, especially when they are about to face a major event.

From February to the following March, Suzu's schedule is relatively tight.

The National Indoor Athletics Championships on February 10 and 14 will be followed by the IAAF Indoor Invitational in Levin, France, on February 28. The tournament was the same as last year's tournament in Vienna, Austria, except that the organizers were changed.

Then on March 6, the highlight of this year's indoor competition is the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. As for the third stop of the National Indoor Championships in the imperial capital, the conflict in time will definitely not be able to participate.

At this year's World Indoor Athletics Championships, Su Zu and Chen Jian both met the competition standards last year, but Chen Jian is now in full recovery due to injury, and his focus is on the Olympic Games in August.

Among the contestants sent by the team this time, there were several athletes such as Su Zu, Shen Yunbao, and Liu Yangyu in Levin, France, the first stop, but at the Indoor World Championships in the second stop, there were only Su Zu and Liu Yangyu who competed in the sprint.

On February 10, the National Track and Field Indoor Championships kicked off in the indoor hall of Lin'an Gymnasium.

This time, Su Zu did not compete in the name of the Sports Technology Academy as he did last year, but wore the uniform of the Ronghai Provincial Team.

Athlete registration units are generally the provincial and municipal sports authorities, after being selected for the national team, they will participate in the regular training organized by the national team, and international events will also be called, while the athletes usually stay in their respective provincial teams for training, and only a very small number of athletes can always enjoy the treatment of national team training.

Su Zu belonged to Yu Liwei's special recruitment at the beginning, and his results were relatively fast later, and he was valued by the team, so he has always been training for the national team. When he participated in the indoor competition for the first time, Lu Jianming used the name of the Sports Technology Institute when he signed up because he was a direct member of the municipal team and the provincial team, and now of course he doesn't, he is already one of the important athletes from Ronghai Province.

According to Su Zu's own understanding, Hedao City has passed his plan for the introduction of special talents, and has given support in terms of household registration and housing.

"Su Zu, I heard that you are going to go abroad to compete after the domestic indoor competition?"

Coming out of the lounge, Su Zu walked directly to the competition venue. Beside him, Zhang Quanshan was also among the 400-meter indoor competitors of the Ronghai Provincial Team this time.

Zhuang Tao, the team leader at the time in Jinmen at this time last year, also said that Zhang Quanshan's level was not enough to qualify. A year has passed, and his former friends in the sports school have also stood on the same field with him.

"There's an invitational tournament, and there's an indoor World Championships." Su Zu nodded and replied, and looked at Zhang Quanshan again, looking a little darker than the sports school, but a little stronger. "How are you running the 400 meters now?"

"That's it, I'm here to gain experience in the competition." Zhang Quanshan smiled, "Before the winter training, I ran 47.3 seconds, otherwise the coach wouldn't let me compete." ”

"Take your time, 400 meters is not easy to run than 1200 meters."

Su Zu has a deep understanding of the three events of sprinting, and has seen all kinds of data and data. In the current country, even before the appearance of the 1200 meters, there are competitive athletes in Asia such as Chen Jian and Yang Guangzong. However, in the 400 meters, there are only two or three athletes in the country who can run in 46 seconds, and most of them are at the level of 46 or 47 seconds.

The national 400m record was set by Xu Zizhou at the 3rd East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan on May 24, 2001, and no one has been able to run this record for more than ten years.

This is also the fact that Asian athletes are generally at a relatively low level in the 400m performance, and it is even more difficult to choose a good runner to run the 400m.

Su Zu and Zhang Quanshan have trained together, and they have a certain understanding of his physical fitness and speed, and Zhang Quanshan undoubtedly has an advantage in running 400 meters compared to running one or two hundred meters.

In the 100-meter event, if you run less than 10.40 seconds and the 200-meter run in less than 21 seconds, it is difficult to stand out and establish your position. However, in the current stage of the 400 meters, he can run for about 47 seconds, and he is ranked in the country.

When Su Zu was in the training center, he also tested the 400-meter result several times, and the best time was around 46.5 seconds. In terms of special technology, 400 meters and 200 meters are technically universal, but 400 meters have one more curve and a straight, which is destined to be different in technical details. At the same time, due to the relatively long distance, the allocation of physical strength and the adjustment of rhythm have become the key.

His result is still good in the current 400m in China, but it is far from allowing him to do a concurrent event to the point of 400m, and the advice given by the coaching staff is at most to improve the cornering technique, and try to do the 200m if you have the opportunity.

There are not many events in the indoor championships, but the schedule is small, relatively tight, and the pace of each competition is also very fast.

The men's 60m race is still two races a day, with the preliminaries around 2 p.m. and the final at around 5 p.m.

In the indoor competition, there are more competitors due to the requirements for results, and there are 13 groups of people in the men's 60m preliminaries.

Su Zu was placed in the eleventh group, and most of the games in the same group as him were fresh-faced, athletes ranging from fifteen or sixteen to about thirty years old.

In the preliminaries, Su Zu played very steadily, running a time of 6.61 seconds directly, directly locking the first place in the preliminaries. Shen Yunbao, who also participated in the indoor competition, ran 6.63 seconds, second in the group.

There is no suspense in the final at 5 p.m., and in the case of Chen Jian not participating in the competition, the main competitor is Shen Yunbao. Both of them excelled in the first half of the race and still had a big advantage in the 60 meters.

In the final final, Su Zu led Shen Yunbao by 6.60 seconds and won the men's 60-meter championship at the National Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lin'an Station.

"You didn't have reservations, did you?" Before the 60-meter finish line after the race, Shen Yunbao ran to Su Zu and asked with some doubts.

With the increase of time together, Shen Yunbao has learned about the 60-meter results of Su Zu's several tests, which are basically within 6.60 seconds. And the results of this indoor competition are not outstanding. And the national 60-meter record is also 6.60 seconds run by Su Zu in the duel with Chen Jian last year, with Shen Yunbao's observation, Su Zu has improved by leaps and bounds in the 100-meter performance, and the 60-meter speed should also be improved.

"Tried a different way of running." Su Zu spat out a turbid breath and didn't hide it, "There is a change in the stride length of my 60-meter and 100-meter starts, I'll try to see which one will run more smoothly." ”

During the winter training period, Su Zu and Li Zhizhong have been studying how to control the rhythm and optimize the difference between the stride length of the 60m and 100m at the beginning to ensure maximum performance.

"I'll just say it. You ran this last year, there's no reason for that. French Levin I will go with you, as for Budapest in Hungary, I can only cheer you on. Well, next year, next year there will be a chance to be together. ”

Speaking of the back, Shen Yunbao also showed a smile on his face, although he lost to Su Zu, his mentality is much calmer now. And from the winter training to the training after the beginning of the year, he has been in good shape, and it seems that after putting down his mental baggage at last year's Asian Championships, he has the idea of how long he can run, and his performance has increased. In the 100-meter test several times, he ran into 10.30 seconds, and gradually stabilized.

Yuan Guohua, the head coach of the relay team, in addition to having some headaches about Chen Jian's injury, was quite excited about the state of other athletes.

The men's 4×100m relay at the Athens Olympics has become one of the team's main events. The record-breaking result in the Asian Championships last time has already had a certain strength to compete for medals. This is also the best lineup of the men's team in the Chinese relay race over the years.

After the indoor competition in Lin'an, on February 12, Su Zu moved to the magic capital with Li Zhizhong and the athletes of the Ronghai Provincial Team.

This time, the venue of the second leg of the National Indoor Championships is no longer the Yuanshen Gymnasium of last year's Asian Championships, but is held at the training base in Xinzhuang, which is also one of the bases for Su Zu and many national team players to train for a long time.

Since the competition was held at its own training base, the head and assistant coaches of the track and field team, Feng Shuyong, Yu Liwei, and some other leaders and coaches appeared at the competition site. One is to observe the performance of the players he leads, and the other is to look for new good seedlings worth cultivating.

The echelon construction of the national team's reserve players, in addition to the recommendation of their respective provincial and municipal teams, the main source is a variety of large, medium and small events, some outstanding or potential athletes, will be favored by the coach of the national team, called to youth training or directly into the second team of the first team.

In this indoor competition at the Demon Capital Station, Su Zu did not try to change the posture of the starting foot, but used the original starting position. In the end, he successfully broke the 60-meter national indoor record with a time of 6.54 seconds.

This achievement has reached the international first-class level, and it can be said that since Su Zu broke the national 100-meter record twice, and the relay team broke the Asian record, the track and field team's attention to him has risen in steps.

"Su Zu has made great progress this year, Liu Yangyu won the third place in the 60-meter hurdles at the World Indoor Championships last year, and it seems that Su Zu is also very promising this year." On the sidelines, after watching Su Zu's 60-meter final, Feng Shuyong sighed with emotion that Su Zu's sprinting level now has a certain dominance in China.

As the head coach of the track and field team and the deputy director of the track and field management center, Feng Shuyong's original focus has always been on Liu Yangyu, after all, Liu Yangyu's strength in the short span is obvious to all, and Su Zu's sudden rise can be said to have surprised him and the entire track and field center.

"It still depends on the results of the competition, and there are not many opponents who can compete in China now." Li Zhizhong echoed on the side, and he was also quite satisfied with Su Zu's final results.

"By the way, you didn't register Su Zu for 200 meters?" Feng Shuyong looked at Su Zu's entry form and found that in the National Indoor Track and Field Championships, Su Zu only signed up for a single event of 60 meters.

Li Zhizhong shook his head, "At this stage, the focus of training is still 100 meters, and this time I participated in the national indoor competition mainly to warm up for the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in the future, and Su Zu's 200 meters did not meet the participation standards of the Indoor World Championships, so the national indoor competition did not register for 200 meters, and I did more physical reserves." ”

"That's a good idea." Feng Shuyong frowned slightly, and said slowly with his hands behind his back, "But I still try to combine the 200 meters in the event when I go back, the Olympics are coming, and our current players are more difficult to win medals in the men's individual 1200-meter sprint, but it is also a great progress to try to have one more person to break into the semi-finals." The A standard of 100 meters is now Su Zu and Chen Jian, and the A standard of 200 meters is only Yang Guangzong, so it is best to have one more person and one more guarantee. ”

"I have been practicing, and the main improvement is the cornering technique, and during the winter training, I also focused on training in this area." Li Zhizhong also knew that the team would definitely ask Su Zu to do 200 meters, after all, Su Zu's strength was not weak, and he had outperformed Yang Guangzong. Once the athletes have made achievements and entered the eyes of the leaders, various requirements implicit and implicit are indispensable.

Feng Shuyong saw that Li Zhizhong agreed, and he didn't dwell on this topic too much, and then said: "Okay, Coach Li, hurry up." To get the athletes moving, this year's task is not light. At the end of the indoor competition, we need to prepare the athletes who will be competing in Levin and Budapest, France, as we will be training on the international stage before the Olympics. We set off two days earlier this year, but we have a good jet lag and strive to have a new breakthrough. ”

Li Zhizhong nodded solemnly, he had not yet entered the team at this time last year, but he also knew that Su Zu was unable to participate in the World Indoor Track and Field Championships because he ran too late to meet the standards. But this year there is enough preparation, and it is time to really go abroad and compete with the world's top sprinters.

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