Two days passed in a flash.

The starting point of the marathon is at the Xianmen Bridge in Shanghai Port City, about ten kilometers away from Jiangdong Sports School, Qidong has checked the route on the Baidu map in advance, and only needs to take the 78 bus for half an hour to arrive.

After getting on the bus, the two of them ate steamed buns while familiarizing themselves with the track route on the official website.

In the cafeteria just now, Xu Xiao boldly bought fifty meat buns and twenty vegetable buns, which almost moved Qi Dong to tears.

Xu Xiao couldn't eat five meat buns, and the rest was handed over to Qi Dong.

The passengers in the car saw a big bag of steaming buns on Qi Dong's thigh, gobbling them up one by one, their eyes were straight, and of course a few good deeds took out their mobile phones and took pictures.

Qi Dong has long been accustomed to such a gaze, and he doesn't take it seriously at all, just caring about eating his own buns.

Fortunately, today is Sunday, there are not many people going to work, the bus is running smoothly, there is no traffic jam, and I arrived at the Xianmen Bridge station half an hour later.

"Qi Dong, I didn't believe it before, but now I believe it! You can really eat it!" After getting out of the car, Qi Dong stuffed the last bun into his mouth, and Xu Xiao on the side looked at him stunned and said.

"Alas, I can't help myself, I can't starve myself to death. Qi Dong replied with a wry smile.

After walking a few steps, Qi Dong could see a temporary big red arch standing at the entrance of the Xianmen Bridge in the distance, with a few big characters written on it: "2020 Shanghai Port International Marathon Amateur Race".

Under the archway, a dense crowd of people, all wearing various colors of T-shirts, noisy.

Qi Dong and Xu Xiao quickened their pace and walked towards the starting point, and after arriving, they received the T-shirt number bib and timing chip from the staff, and put them on their bodies neatly.

At eight o'clock, with the sound of a gunshot, thousands of contestants rushed out of the starting point, and this scene was really like a galloping horse.

"Qi Dong, let's run slowly, anyway, we don't want to compete for any rankings. As soon as the two ran out side by side, Xu Xiao proposed.

Qi Dong nodded in agreement, he had just eaten so many buns, it was indeed not appropriate to exercise vigorously immediately.

The 2.3-kilometer-long Xianmen Bridge is the first leg of the marathon.

The two ran unhurriedly on the bridge, occasionally looking at the river view below the bridge, but the crowd of onlookers on the side of the track seemed to be dissatisfied with their turtle speed and let out a burst of boos.

It didn't take long for the two to be thrown away by the large army.

Rao is like this, as soon as he ran under the bridge, Xu Xiao was already so tired that he was out of breath, and he sat down on the ground all of a sudden.

"Hey, why are these two boys running so slowly? Wow! That one is so fat on the ground, no wonder he is running so slow!"

"Haha, my son is younger than them, and now he has run away...."

There were a few middle-aged aunts on the side of the road watching and discussing.

Xu Xiao's face turned red when he heard this, and he stood up from the ground unconvinced and continued to run forward.

After running slowly for a few kilometers, seeing that there were no onlookers on both sides of the road, Xu Xiao collapsed on the ground again, this time simply lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, Qi Dong kicked him a few times in the ass and did not move.

Qi Dong didn't stop there, but squatted down and tickled him.

"Hahaha----" Xu Xiao couldn't help laughing.

"Qi Dong, you spare me, I really can't run..... I really ......" Xu Xiao's tone was very serious, and he almost cried when he said it.

"Then didn't your money go for nothing?" Qi Dong also asked with a serious face.

"No, no, no, at least I've experienced the brutality of a marathon, and it's not something I can do at this stage. Xu Xiao replied solemnly, "But I won't give up losing weight, but I can only take it step by step, and it can't be done overnight, otherwise it will really kill people." ”

"What should I do then? Shall we go back to school now?" Qi Dong also felt some truth after hearing this, so he no longer embarrassed Xu Xiao.

"No, I can't, but you can, don't worry, I'll wait for you at the end of the car. Xu Xiao showed his true face again, and said with a hippie smile.

"Okay, then you can do whatever you want, I'll run down first. Seeing Xu Xiao's appearance, Qi Dong sighed helplessly, and then continued to run out along the track.

Ten minutes later, Qi Dong ran the first timing carpet, that is, from the start to now, he has run five kilometers, which is equivalent to one-eighth of the whole journey (42.2 kilometers), and so far, he is still in the penultimate position.

"I'm going to have to pick up the pace and catch up as much as I can. Qi Dong thought so in his heart, and his pace suddenly increased a lot.

At this moment, the more than sixty buns that Qi Dong ate in his stomach had almost been digested, and the energy in his body was surging and majestic, so that he didn't feel the slightest tiredness at all.

Fifteen minutes later, Qi Dong passed the second timing carpet, looked up, and saw a figure wearing a blue race T-shirt less than 100 meters ahead.

"Haha, I've finally caught up with someone. Qi Dong was secretly happy in his heart, and immediately rushed up with his feet.

The contestant in the blue T-shirt was a thirty-five or sixteen-year-old woman with short hair, and the expression on her face was a little surprised when she saw Qi Dong coming up.

"I thought I was always the last. The short-haired woman turned her head and gasped and said to Qi Dong, squeezing out a smile on her face.

Qi Dong didn't reply, just scratched his head with an embarrassed smile, and left the short-haired woman behind him after a few steps.

In the next part of the journey, Qi Dong could see more and more contestants, and they were getting younger and younger, and a few of them were quite familiar, as if they had seen them in school.

Qi Dong passed them mercilessly, feeling quite complacent, it seems that eating more can lead to the strength to run fast.

Half an hour later, Qi Dong ran past the fourth timing carpet, and he had run nearly half the way.

At this time, the runners on the track began to sparse again, because Qi Dong had surpassed most of the contestants, and now the people who could run ahead of him were probably some masters.

It was close to ten o'clock, the sun was getting stronger, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter.

A few minutes later, Qi Dong ran into a section of the road with a distinctly different style, with a neat row of maple trees on each side of the road, and the golden leaves rustled non-stop when the wind blew.

Qi Dong tried to run in the shade of a tree as much as possible, so that he could cool down a little.

Suddenly, he vaguely saw a girl lying down under a maple tree not far ahead.

When he got closer, he saw that the girl was wearing a green race T-shirt, a ponytail, and her slender and fair thighs were exposed, which looked a little familiar.

She couldn't have fainted, Qi Dong guessed in his heart, and hurriedly ran up.

Running to the girl's side, Qi Dong squatted down and turned her body over, and then he almost smiled bitterly.

The girl who fainted on the ground in front of him was none other than Fang Qiwen, who had been defeated by him.