March 7, morning.

Ye Qin followed everyone from the Nanxiu City team to the Zuohai City Sports Center, ready to wait for this morning's game.

The overall number of participants in the provincial youth track and field championships is only six or seven hundred, and the three-day competition schedule is still relatively relaxed. The competition competition group and the middle school student group are held together according to the event.

There are 20 events in the secondary school category: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 400m hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put, as well as men's 110m hurdles and women's 100m hurdles.

Compared with the competitive group, the competition of the middle school group is not too important in the whole youth track and field championships, after all, compared with the competitive group, especially the athletes in the two age groups of 15-16 and 17-18 years old, the competition of the middle school group is far inferior in terms of ornamentation and performance. Many of them are sports students, and some of them are talented and talented, but there is still a big gap between them and professional athletes who have undergone many years of professional training in the competition group or professional athletes above the city team.

Ye Qin competed in the men's 400m and men's 200m events in the middle school category, on March 7 and March 8 respectively. The number of players participating in the middle school group is generally relatively small compared to the competitive group, and they are all two shots. The first day is the men's 400m, the morning is the preliminaries, the afternoon is the final, and the second day is the men's 200m, the same morning preliminaries and the afternoon is the final.

In the check-in area, Nie Fangping looked at the time on his watch, it was already 10:30 in the morning, and he immediately stood up and clapped his hands at Ye Qin and Li Yongliang on the side, "You two, get ready to warm up." ”

In the men's 400m race, there are two groups of preliminaries in the student category, the first group of the preliminaries starts at 11 a.m., and the second group of the preliminaries starts at 11:05. Li Yongliang is the first group of the preliminaries, and Ye Qin is the second group of the preliminaries, and the warm-up time is just right at this time.

"Got it, Coach Nie. Hurry up, Yechin! Li Yongliang excitedly stood up from his position and jumped directly onto the runway.

Ye Qin nodded, took a gentle breath, stood up from the bench in the check-in area, and slowly walked to the indoor warm-up track to start warming up.

The purpose of warm-up is mainly to move the skeletal muscles of the body, so as not to get injured during the intense competition, and the other is to let the body gradually warm up, so that the competitive state can come out.

After running an acceleration run on the indoor track and doing a set of simple starting exercises, Ye Qin's movements stopped, and he continued to calm his breathing, thinking of the tens of thousands of spectator seats outside the stadium, as well as the sound of the radio outside the stadium from time to time, he felt that his cheeks were slightly hot.

It was nothing when he was training in Nanxiu City, but as the team arrived in Zuohai City, the provincial capital, the unfamiliar environment of a big city was the first time he walked into a large comprehensive stadium to participate in the game, which made Ye Qin a little nervous.

"I don't know if Mr. Yan and they're here?"

Ye Qin muttered in a low voice, the person was standing on the runway, but his mind had already drifted to the audience outside the venue, and at this moment he wanted to know if Yan Ning had come to Zuohai City, the provincial capital. This pressure close to the pre-match made him can't help but want to see a few familiar faces.

"Ye Qin, what are you thinking, why don't you warm up yet?" Nie Fangping's voice came, and he frowned slightly, as if he could see that Ye Qin was a little distracted.

"Oh, okay."

Ye Qin noticed Nie Fangping's eyes falling on him, and immediately shrank his neck slightly, lowered his head and didn't dare to think nonsense anymore, and continued to warm up seriously.

This week, Ye Qin and Nie Fangping have become very familiar with each other, and he himself doesn't know why, in the occasional conversation with Nie Fangping, many thoughts and experiences are unconsciously told to him.

Although this old coach sometimes speaks with thorns and cynicism, which is particularly uncomfortable, in this week, Ye Qin can feel Nie Fangping's care for him even if he is wood. Although it is difficult to swallow every nutritious meal, he is the only one in the team of dozens of people who has this special treatment.

And Nie Fangping's verbal strictness and strict training, but he really cares about life, makes Ye Qin not only afraid of Nie Fangping, but also respectful from the bottom of his heart.

More than ten minutes later, after Ye Qin completed the pre-game warm-up activities, with the help of Yu Hongwu, who did not play today, he brought the number plate assigned to him, Nie Fangming walked in front of him again with his hands behind his back and his stomach.

"Remember what I told you earlier?" Nie Fangping asked with a faint expression.

"Yes." Ye Qin took a light breath, "Pay attention to adjusting the starting gear position, the speed distribution should be reasonable, and finally enter the straight stage before starting the sprint." Once you're on the pitch, don't think about anything and focus on the game. ”

"Alright, let's get ready to play."

Nie Fangping bowed slightly, did not say any words of encouragement, and seemed to be indifferent to Ye Qin's participation in this group of 400-meter preliminaries.

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Although it is a junior track and field championship, this time the province is in accordance with strict competition procedures in all aspects. Check-in, roll call, identity check, admission.

In addition to tournament officials, referees, some media and venue staff, only athletes who are competing in a sport are allowed in the stadium. The rest of the team leaders and coaches can only watch the game from the stands or in the aisle.

For example, during the Nanxiu City Middle School Student Games, it is naturally impossible to have a situation where both sides of the track are full of spectators.

When Ye Qin followed the other players in the same group and walked out of the stadium through the corridor under the leadership of the venue staff, he felt that the vision in front of him suddenly opened up, and everything lit up.

Ye Qin raised his head and glanced around the stadium, several flags were flying high on both sides of the stadium, there were far fewer people watching the game in the audience than he thought, and there were only a few spectators in the seats of tens of thousands of people, scattered in all corners. It doesn't feel like a spectator who has bought tickets to watch the game, but rather like a lot of parents who come with athletes to watch their children's games.

Ye Qin looked at the empty auditorium and breathed a sigh of relief, and was slightly disappointed.

There were not many spectators in the audience, and the atmosphere in the whole arena was not enthusiastic, which made him feel a little relieved all the time. The disappointment was that he glanced at it and didn't see Yan Ning's figure, far away in Zuohai City, he really hoped to see a familiar face to reduce the unfamiliar sense of alienation.

But at this time, he didn't have time to think about it so much.

The preliminaries of the first group of the men's 400m in the middle school group have ended, and Ye Qin doesn't know what Li Yongliang's results are in front of him, but on the track, the race is about to start, and he must remove other distractions from his mind at this time.

The first step is still to adjust the starting gear, Yan Ning emphasized this in Xiushui No. 2, but the inside was not detailed enough, and Nie Fangping talked about it again during the training camp.

The position adjustment of the starting gear for 400 meters and 200 meters is slightly different from that of 100 meters, because 400 meters and 200 meters are curves, in order to facilitate the acceleration of the running distance in a straight line as much as possible after the start, the installation position of the starting point of the curve starting point should be close to the outer lane line and facing the tangent direction of the inside lane line. At the start, hold your right hand behind the starting line and your left hand about 5-10 cm behind the starting line.

From this detailed explanation, Ye Qin also discovered the extraordinary quality of Nie Fangping, a professional coach who has been up and down in the sports system for decades, many seemingly ordinary actions, Nie Fangping can often see the key to the essentials of the action at a glance, and make people understand it in a simple way.

After adjusting the starting gear, Ye Qin stood on the track, silently recalling all the essentials from the start to the middle to the final sprint, and the original nervous mood had gradually calmed down at this moment.

"Ready to ......"

The voice of the starter on the sidelines rang out.