Chapter 331: Su Zu's Diary (First Person of this Chapter)
“…… Well, you ask me what is my impression of Doha? Doha is a blessed place for me, and it was here that I broke my first world record. The stadium is fantastic and the sports facilities here are world-class. Can you break the world record? It's not easy to say, I'm going to play as well as I can......"
I sat in the press conference booth and smiled as I faced the questions posed by Al Jazeera's reporters.
Every time I answered, I was able to elicit bursts of applause from the audience.
It's 5 December, the day after I arrived in Doha, to attend a pre-match press conference that the organisers had prepared for me.
Seven months ago, I broke the world record in front of tens of thousands of spectators at the Khalifa International Stadium, and judging by the two days since I arrived in Doha, my popularity is very great, even in the Middle East, and probably even more than in Europe.
Listening to the coach and Zhang Pingqiu, Al Jazeera once rebroadcast the matches between me and Justin Gatlin in the Doha Grand Prix one after another, especially during the Golden League in Europe, and the video of my Doha game was praised by many people on TV and the Internet, and even heard that the local tycoons in Qatar were willing to spend a lot of money to invite me to naturalize.
Speaking of Justin Gatlin, I don't think a lot of people actually know that this guy felt like a boxer when he first started fighting him, full of aggression. Before the game, he will stare at the opponent with his eyes and affect the state of others.
Morris Green is the same, he stared at me very coldly in the check-in area during the Athens Olympics in '04, and used these actions to influence people's mentality to gain the upper hand.
As for spitting on other people's runways, Justin Gatlin and Morris Green have done it.
This is also a common problem of black American athletes, if you are not familiar with you, you are very arrogant, make some small movements, and make people want to laugh.
But now, Maurice Green feels like he's completely out of shape, and Gatlin, we'll have to wait for '08, and I'm looking forward to seeing how he performs.
I broke the world record in Doha this year, which can be said to be a very good warm-up for the Doha Asian Games, and it can be said that I helped people promote it in advance.
After the Magic Grand Prix on September 23rd, I didn't go on to the Celebrity Invitational on September 28th in Daegu, South Korea.
Liu Yangyu went to the competition, and I reminded him before that if you are tired, it is best to give up, athletes are not machines, if you are tired, you still need to rest when you should rest.
However, he told me that this competition had been arranged before, and it was a sure thing, so I didn't say much more.
To be honest, I really don't want to see Liu Yangyu retire from the '08 Olympics again, he is in very good form this year, he should be at the peak of his career, I have asked him about injuries, but he answered a little heavily.
Judging by the results of the Daegu Stars Race, fatigue is a certainty, but he shouldn't have too many problems now. In 2007, I thought more attention should be paid to this aspect.
However, in this life, having me in front of him may have made him gain a lot less aura, but it should be able to leave him more space.
The system panel shows that I have a lot of abnormal statuses, mainly fatigue, which I have been able to control very well.
Lao Li has always been very concerned about my condition, and asked me about my physical condition from time to time, and one of the fortunate things about becoming an athlete is to meet Lao Li.
There are so many things about him that don't need to be detailed.
We met in the micro and achieved each other.
After the Grand Prix, I went back to Hedao to stay with my parents for a week, and my parents did not come to watch me race at this year's Grand Prix.
My dad called me and told me that my mom didn't want to go to the game anymore, and one reason was that watching me play in person was too impactful, and it was more scary than watching it on TV. My mom was always worried that I would get hurt and fall if I ran so fast, and she couldn't bear to see it.
Another reason is that my mother will get motion sickness, and she vomited a mess last time she went from Hedao to Modu, but she just held on before getting out of the car.
And I immediately went back to the training base after picking them up, and I never knew about it.
I'm actually a little weird, my mom gets motion sickness in the car, I grew up knowing. But it's the first time I've known about motion sickness on the train.
I may always think that I know enough about my parents, but there may always be something that I don't know.
In another time and space, or in my last life, I would have been sick too. When I was in high school, I took a minibus from Yangxin Town to the county seat, and I often threw up, and I was teased many times for this.
But I can't take the train, it's about this point in time, well, in 2006, I didn't go well in the college entrance examination in my first year, and I tutored for a year.
At that time, I couldn't get a ticket to go to college in the north for the Spring Festival, Wuxing County was not connected to the train, so I had to go to Jianping City to take it, and sometimes I didn't even have a station ticket at the halfway station.
Zeng Younian and a companion didn't buy a ticket, so they slipped directly past the ticket gate, squeezed into the car to make up the ticket, and stood all the way like canned food for more than 20 hours.
It was a hellish experience.
As for how good the motion sickness is in the back, I think it's a habit and a necessity of life.
At that time, I had just graduated from college and was looking for a job, and I squeezed the bus every morning and evening, and before I knew it, I was immune.
Life is always like that, isn't it?
I also occasionally wonder if my parents' circumstances in this life are completely different from what they used to be, and it is not appropriate for them to break away from their original life circle.
But in this week, in fact, I also found that the environment will change a person, although my mother is still a little inseparable from the careful calculation in daily life, but more than a year or almost two years, more or less into it, at least in the vegetable market near the community can always find some people who go to the city to work to chat and relieve boredom. Occasionally, I come back and talk to me about some parents' shortcomings, although I feel a little strange and boring, but I actually listen to it with relish.
I hope they will continue to be so peaceful and joyful......
Maybe after being reborn, I have been focusing on training and playing in this life, and sometimes I don't remember the memory of that life.
Those memories that may seem like only seven or eight years or ten years now, for me, have been separated by twenty or thirty years.
I occasionally see some scenes, and there is always a sense of déjà vu that I can't remember the details.
When I was a child, I played Xiaobawang for the first time at a friend's house, but I couldn't own one.
The bicycle I rode was an old Phoenix brand 28 bar, and I went to the fields with people to steal sugar cane, fish for frogs, and something.
When I went home, my parents occasionally talked about some interesting things and interesting people in my hometown, and I couldn't remember many of them when I searched for dry intestines, so I had to do a perfunctory look.
But anyway, I'm thankful that God gave me a chance to do it all over again.
It allowed me to stand up again, to support my parents again, and to give me a brighter future than ever before.
After a short break at home, I went to see my "Athletes' House" and "Runners' Club".
The operation is not as good as I expected, not as smooth as I thought, after all, many of the people who are recruited now are athletes, and they may have performed well in the sports field, but in the business field, it still seems jerky.
I thought about whether to do it myself, after all, it was something I wanted to do with great expectations, and even if I tried, I didn't want to fail.
But in the current situation, I am far from having time and experience.
Hopefully I'll have enough time to do it after '08, it's a career I can do with my whole life. But until then, I need to go far enough in sports, in athletics.
Returning to the training base to have a dedicated physiotherapist can help me recover better, and the human body, how to say, is a very sophisticated machine.
It is necessary to constantly run in and adjust, to give rest, but also to find out where the problem is.
The coach told me that even at this point, I can't slack off.
I never wanted to slack off, and with the memory of two lifetimes, I actually know very well that I should put in more effort in the best years.
The golden time of sprinting competition is too short, and although I don't know if my body will face the same debilitating situation as most athletes, I think it will, and it can't be separated from the natural physiological category of human beings after all.
The coach has teamed up with several research groups to come up with a detailed plan for how I can continue to be at my peak and that I still have room for improvement in sprinting, training my knees, building muscles, speed and endurance in the second half of the race, reflexes at the start, a more suitable starting rhythm, etc.
In just one run, as long as the research continues, it seems that there is no end to the project.
So, as long as I'm not retiring, training and training, it's going to be the most important part of my life.
The significance of breaking the world record was in time and space, when I was not an athlete, I was just a spectator, a person who sat in front of the TV and marveled, or typed on the keyboard on the computer, clockwork Weibo, posted a circle of friends, and said who was really awesome.
And when I really became an athlete and got to where I am today, I found that many things were much different from what I thought.
First of all, there should be a great deal of responsibility.
In fact, I already have some small games with the field management center, some business activities, or unnecessary occasions, I will go back and forth through coaches and Yu Gui.
It's really not good, I'm still young at the age of my body, and I can play tricks. However, this must be controlled within a reasonable degree.
System is a very broad concept, down to the smallest detail, in fact, it is an individual's ideas and practices in a specific position.
Well, I've become a business card now. But I don't need to coerce anything, I can fight for some appropriate space.
The economy is no longer a problem now, and the next step is to face more challenges.
I'm at the peak of my career now, and I didn't expect to get to where I am today with the help of the system.
I became a world-famous sprinter, no longer the office worker who had to work bare-handed, no longer a member of the obscure crowd.
I became an idol to many people, which I couldn't have imagined before, and maybe the term public figure is not widely used now, but I am undoubtedly one of them now.
So, I have to be worthy of my reputation.
People always have more pursuits, and I have to understand that everything today was achieved in the arena.
Just like now, every time I see reporters or fans, they always say, "How many seconds will Su Zu run in this game?" "When will Su Zu be able to break the world record again?"
Everywhere I go, people look forward to me.
I enjoyed this.
It gives a sense of anticipation and fulfillment, which is an amazing feeling.
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Before I left for Doha for the Asian Games, the abnormal form that I had accumulated from the intensive schedule in Europe had not been completely eliminated, but most of the [altitude] fatigue had been reduced to [mild] and it was not very affected in the competition.
In fact, I found out about this after participating in the IAAF finals.
The match against Powell was actually very suspenseful, and I saw that the fatigue of the tendons was quite high, and I was worried that I might not be able to perform at my best.
But the results were good, and I didn't expect it. 9.72 seconds, this time made me think that I actually ran out, and I was a little unbelievable.
Maybe the first five months of sub-altitude training have been even better than I thought, and I want to think that I should train for another period of time before the '08 Olympics.
The Jamaican Lightning's height and stride, as well as his ability to maintain his pace in the second half of the race, were undoubtedly far superior to me at this stage.
If I don't want to lose too ugly in the 200m, I definitely have to work harder.
What was the 200m in his prime, 19.11 seconds or 19.12 seconds? I can't remember a little, but it's a terrifying number all in all.
Looking back at the iconic action of looking at the moon, I don't want to be a backdrop.
In fact, I didn't pay much attention to the Doha Asian Games, and the coach and the athletics management center also locked these two gold medals in advance, and at my current level in the men's 100m and 200m events, there should be no athlete in Asia who can threaten me.
This is similar to Liu Yangyu in the men's 110m hurdles, where he beat Alan Johnson in Daegu, and there are few Asian players who can pose a threat to him.
The men's 100m and 200m races at the Asian Games started on December 10, and the audience was crazy for me. I think what I'm doing now is actually what the Jamaican Lightning has been doing since 2008, becoming an important part of the IAAF's promotion of running.
Especially in Asia, where men's sprinting has never been done before, people all over Asia want to see how I do in the arena.
Almost all the arenas became my home stadium, and whenever my name appeared on the athlete list, whether it was the preliminaries or the semi-finals, the tickets for that game would be sold out.
It's proud, but I have to be honest and not complacent.
Let's think about the Jamaican lightning again, I can't do that black buddy's results now, and the time is running out of time.
I've seen him run the 200m in a few races in Europe before, and his results are already very good, often breaking the 20-second mark, and it seems that he is not far from entering his peak.
This time, in the Doha Asian Games, I participated in the men's 100m final, and in addition to me, Zhang Peimeng and Wen Yongyi also successfully qualified.
Wen Yongyi's starting reaction and cadence acceleration in the first half of the race are good, but like Shen Yunbao before, the ability to maintain speed in the second half is far from enough, and he needs to strengthen this.
Zhang Peimeng has been training very hard this year, according to Lao Li and me, Zhang Peimeng has run within 10.30 seconds in 100 meters several times, and can basically enter 21 seconds in 200 meters.
It's a good thing, and hopefully this time he'll be able to reach the top sooner. Otherwise, the relay race in the future and the group of perverts in Jamaica will not be able to run at all.
Speaking of this, I thought of another Su Bingtian, and I don't know if he has entered the provincial team now, it seems that I have to find out when I go back. If the two of them had partnered with me and had another runner who could run under 10.30 seconds, maybe in London in '08 or '12 we would be able to compete for a bronze medal.
In addition to our three Chinese athletes, there were two Japanese athletes, two Saudi Arabian athletes, one Thai athlete, and one Qatari athlete in the 100m final.
The Japanese players are old acquaintances Shingo Suexu and Nobuharu Asahara, and I am somewhat familiar with the other players, but the name is really too awkward for me to remember.
I ran 9.80 seconds in the 100m final, and I don't think I have much water in this game, but I may not have a strong enough opponent, I am not excited enough, and maybe the state that has not yet recovered will also have an impact? I didn't think much of it.
However, I broke the 10-second record set by Koji Ito in Bangkok, Thailand in 1998, and I left my name on the Asian Games record, and I don't know when it will be broken.
If memory is correct, Qatar later naturalized a Nigerian sprinter, and I don't know if he broke the record or not.
I played better in the men's 200m than in the 100m, running 19.60 seconds, which is a little worse than the 19.55 seconds at the London Grand Prix.
I was 50 meters before the finish line, which is a full 150 meters, and because no one was coming up, I tried the Jamaican lightning look back at the moon and breathed a sigh of relief. I don't know what kind of footage the cameraman took at that time, maybe "Looking Back at the Moon" will be used on me first. That's interesting.
However, after the run, Lao Li was a little dissatisfied with me, saying that I obviously had the opportunity to raise my results again and refresh my best results.
I regret it later, after all, I don't want to talk about the 200m time of the Jamaican Lightning, even Michael Johnson's 200m record, I didn't run it.
Anyway, my first trip to the Asian Games was over. By the way, I didn't participate in the relay race, Lao Li communicated with Coach Yuan, or train the newcomers, let me slow down. As a result, I won't talk about it.
Anyway, 2006 is coming to an end, it's winter training right away, I still have to keep training and training again, the Jamaican lightning is terrible, I need better results, more confidence. This may also be one of the troubles of the seer.
As I finished writing this, I suddenly realized that what rebirth meant to me had already been realized the day I stepped onto the runway.
I let go of the past and ran for a new future!
Come on!