On the afternoon of February 17, the highest outdoor temperature in Jinmen was only five or six degrees, and at this time in the indoor track and field gymnasium of Jinmen Sports Center, the atmosphere was in full swing, and the rolling heat wave hit.

The National Indoor Track and Field Championships combined for men and women had a total of 22 events, all of which were completed in two days, and the schedule was a few points more tense than the previous National Track and Field Grand Prix.

In addition, there are many athletes who participated, and in the morning track race, they completed the men's and women's 400-meter and men's and women's 800-meter preliminaries, and in the field competition, the men's and women's high jump and long jump competitions were held.

In the afternoon, the men's and women's 60m heats began, followed by the men's and women's 400m finals, the men's and women's 1500m heats, and finally the men's and women's 60m finals.

The women's 60m heats started at 14 o'clock, and at 14:50, the men's 60m heats began.

"That's a lot of people."

Su Zu got his schedule for the preliminaries and found that he had been ranked in the seventh lane of the fifteenth group, and there were seventeen groups in the overall preliminaries group.

"For the indoor competition, the registration requirements are relatively low, so naturally there are many people." Lu Jianming has experienced various large and small competitions at home and abroad, and has also been a referee in indoor competitions, so he is no stranger to this competition.

The Indoor Athletics Championships are relatively broad for athletes, and the three individual events with the largest number of applicants are the men's 60m, men's 200m and men's 400m.

Provincial teams and municipal teams at all levels, as well as sports academies, are willing to send players to participate, and some athletes who are not sprinting events will also sign up for cross-event competitions to test their sprinting strength level. Each individual item has more than 120 people, and many even reach 150 or even 200 people.

"Based on your previous training tests, you should have no problem getting to the finals, but don't take it lightly and keep a cool head before the competition." Approaching Su Zu's play, Lu Jianming said in his ear beside him.

The men's 60-meter race at the National Indoor Track and Field Championships is somewhat similar to the sprint event of the Track and Field Grand Prix, with only preliminaries and finals, and the top eight in the more than ten or twenty group preliminaries will participate in the finals.

In real comparison, a group only takes a minute or two, which is very fast, but the process is very intense. Even for a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, it is not an easy task to run the top eight in one or two hundred players, and if he does not perform well in the preliminaries, he may fail and not enter the finals.

"Don't worry, Coach."

Su Zu also understands this, this kind of game where a preliminaries have to go directly to the finals, you must play your best.

"Su Zu, what are your first groups, are you about to play?"

Next to the 60-meter track, Zhuang Tao didn't know when he saw the two of them, squeezed over, walked to the side and asked.

Due to the limited space of the indoor competition, the athletes and coaches basically stood next to the track to watch, except for the eight empty tracks, which were basically full of people on both sides.

Zhuang Tao was also on the side of the track, watching the performance of the players in his team who participated in the group preliminaries. As soon as the competition was over, I saw Su Zu and Lu Jianming, and came over to say hello.

"Group fifteen, it's almost me." Su Zu glanced at the field, the preliminaries had already been lined up to thirteen groups, and asked Zhuang Tao again, "Coach Zhuang, the newcomer you said has finished running?" ”

"It's over." Zhuang Tao shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm too nervous, so many people are watching in the arena, and I can't show my strength at all." I ran 6.84 seconds, and I don't think I can make it to the final. ”

"This is also normal, new athletes just need to keep training on the field, 6.84 seconds, it's actually okay. But it's a bit difficult to get to the finals. It's in the upper middle level. Lu Jianming answered on the side.

The current sprinting strength of domestic athletes is generally average, but if you want to enter the final of the 60-meter indoor competition, you have to have a chance of about 6.75 seconds. Because the distance of 60 meters is short, the main focus is on the first half, and the speed is not fully stretched, and the difference between each other will not be as big as 100 meters.

After Lu Jianming finished speaking, he looked at the time, and said to Su Zu: "Go, it's about to play." ”

Su Zu also heard the radio notice at the scene, greeted Lu Jianming and Zhuang Tao, took off his long sleeves and trousers, simply moved his wrists and ankles, and walked towards the starting line.

Watching Su Zu walk to the starting line, Zhuang Tao's eyes stared at him a little distracted, "I really didn't expect him to walk on the national stage so quickly." ”

"This is also a good seedling that you have dug up, you are his enlightenment coach." Lu Jianming laughed.

"It's just a hit. His time in the sports school was too short, and I didn't actually teach anything, after all, unlike the professional team, I can teach by hand. In more than a year, he has been able to get to this point mainly because he is talented and serious enough. In front of an old coach like Lu Jianming, Zhuang Tao didn't think about putting gold on his face, in his opinion, athletes have a talent like Su Zu, in fact, no matter who teaches him, he can run.

Lu Jianming nodded and agreed: "It's quite worry-free, and no one needs to pay attention to the planned training arrangements." I've been a coach for so many years, and I've rarely met an athlete with this kind of discipline. By the way, you didn't run 400 meters in the first place, 400 meters is your specialty, why didn't you let him give it a try? ”

"I also want to come, when Su Zu first came to the sports school, he was not physically fit enough, and his speed and endurance were too poor, let alone running 400 meters, running 200 meters was enough to choke. I personally suggest that you can also pay more attention to this aspect, Coach Lu. But the growth rate is really beyond my imagination, but fortunately it didn't delay me too long, and he met a good coach like you. ”

"Hey, don't wear a top hat, the good coach he met is not me, I just took over winter training. Or you gave him a good foundation, much better than the ones I've seen before who have been injured by nonsense. Lu Jianming smiled and looked at the starting line not far away, "To tell you the truth, if this person hadn't been recommended by me to the national team, I would definitely not have brought it." The more talented the seedlings, the more afraid they are of smashing their own hands. This is enough for athletes to be fathers and mothers, and I have had enough. I'll be 50 next year, I can't keep up with the times, I still learn the same old ways, and now I have to rely on your young coaches to talk about international standards and scientific training. ”

"Coach Lu, you are right, you are old and strong, and you have experience and connections, and you know everything clearly. Athletes who follow you are blessed. ”

"Hey, let's have an enlightenment coach and a current coach, so stop touting each other. Let's watch the game. ”

The two laughed and teased a few words, although there is a difference in age, but because they have brought an athlete, they are still somewhat close. Young coaches like Zhuang Tao are also happy to make friends with the long-established coaches of the national team.

The men's 60m heats started at 14:50, but by the time Suzu came on the court in the fifteenth group, it was almost 16 o'clock, and there were two preliminaries groups behind him.

Following the command of the on-site starter, the eight preliminaries of the 15th group were in place one after another.

In the stadium, there was an instant silence, and the eyes on both sides of the track were fixed on the eight runners in front of the starting line.

As the starting gun sounded, the runners on each track in front of the starting line kicked the ground at the same time, swung their arms, and started.

This kind of starting speed is too fast, and it is difficult to see the starting reaction of the runners clearly with the naked eye, and only the slow motion of the video, frame by frame, can be fed back in detail.

With a large number of repetitive starting training, Su Zu will not be too deficient in the start, and the starting reaction is not the best, but the overall is also at the midstream level, and it can be stably controlled at about 0.15-0.17 seconds.

After completing the start, Su Zu lowered his head and quickly completed the acceleration, there were many contestants, and the level of the same group was uneven, and there was no way to refer to the level of the runners around him in this preliminary race, so he could only ignore it and rush directly towards the finish line.

The sound of spikes and the rubber track rubbing against each other sounded, and everyone on the track only felt a gust of wind blowing in front of them, and in the blink of an eye, the eight runners had already crossed the finish line.

Because of the limited space, 60 meters is the highest stage of acceleration on the way, and after the sprinters crossed the finish line, they did not have time to completely reduce their speed, and one by one they collided with the tall cotton pads arranged by the organizers at the end of the track eighty or ninety meters away.

There were two players who were almost stacked together because they were too close, but with a buffer of dozens of meters, everyone's speed was slowed down, and there was no real push and fall.

"Oh, it's a pity, it's still a little worse." Lu Jianming slapped his thigh and sighed loudly. As soon as Su Zu finished running, he went to see the preliminaries of this group.

may be due to the relatively weak level of this group of preliminaries, except for Su Zu, who ran 6.64 seconds first, the other fastest second runners also ran 6.78 seconds, and the gap is obvious.

"Coach Lu, what are you...... It's definitely no problem for this result to enter the finals, and I guess it should be the top one or two in the preliminaries. Zhuang Tao looked at Lu Jianming's performance and asked with some puzzlement.

"It's still a little bit worse, the standard of the 2003 World Indoor Athletics Championships announced by the IAAF last year, the men's 60m is 6.63 seconds." Lu Jianming's tone was not without regret.

"There will be a final later, Coach Lu, there is still a chance." The men's 60-meter final was held at 18 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhuang Tao didn't expect that Lu Jianming was already staring at the international track and field competition, and the coach of the national team and the coach of his provincial team had a different pattern in their field of vision.

"If you don't make it to this group of preliminaries, the next group of finals may not be." Lu Jianming shook his head, he knew that this achievement was almost Su Zu's current best result in the 60-meter run, and it was difficult to say that he would be able to run such a result in the next trip.

If you can be 0.01 seconds faster, it will be enough to participate in the World Indoor Athletics Championships, which is an international competition, for novice athletes, not to compete for medals, to have the opportunity to be on the same stage with the world's top athletes to achieve the purpose of training.

"In the current men's short track event in China, there should be no athletes who can meet the participation standards of the World Indoor Track and Field Championships, right?" Zhuang Tao was very surprised that Su Zu was able to run such a result, he told Su Zu yesterday that there was a newcomer in his team who ran fast, that was the scene, and the actual level was similar to his in the competition. He is also a professional coach, and he still has a certain understanding of the overall level of track and field in China, especially the men's short track event.

If you want to talk about the 100-meter and 200-meter Olympic AB standards, China may be able to find one or two that are qualified to participate, but if you want to change to the World Indoor Track and Field Championships participation standards, it is really difficult to find at present.

"There should be someone who can run the 60m hurdles to the competition standard, and the other events are a bit more difficult." Lu Jianming replied casually, feeling sorry for Su Zu's achievements this time.