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Marathons and Me
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On October 28, 2018, the
Suzhou International Women's Half Marathon (Queen Run Run in Suzhou
Station) was successfully completed with the result of 2:01:07.
On November
25, 2018, the Shaoxing International Marathon (half-way) was
successfully completed with the result of 1:54:56.
Running two "
Marathon ", personal experience is before running, you must let the
taste bud comfortable ,let the visual enjoyment and let the ears full.
So, let's start with some tidbits.
Suzhou is a soft and waxy city. "
the crab roe is fat when Autumn wind rises", the mind of the hairy crab
has long been coveted, how can we miss Yangcheng Lake hairy crab as a
national geographical indication product when come to Suzhou? Watching
hairy crabs with fat body and white stomach, other delicacies faded.
Let's feasted on the crab and also "run rampant" on the track.
Suzhou Pintan is comparable to
the hairy crabs, Coming Out of Shantang Old Street, soft voice
accompanied by three-stringed Pipa came into my ears, followed the sound
of melodious silk string and the beautiful euphemistic singing tone
upstairs, coincided with a group of over 70 years old "old commentator"
self-entertainment weekly meeting, they learned that we came to Suzhou
to run Marathon, "old commentator" played and sang for entertainment,
although we had different hobbies, ages, but we chat very happily.
与苏州不同，绍兴号称没有围墙的博物馆，是一本漂在水上的书，素有“东方威尼斯”之称。因水有桥、因桥有景，沿着石桥拾级而上，看着乌篷船由远及近悠然驶来，水面漾起浅浅波纹，俨然一幅江南水乡的水墨画卷。但如此美景，跑马时的感受却是“想说爱你不容易”，容后道来。
言归正传，切入跑马模式。
Unlike Suzhou, Shaoxing is known
as a museum without walls. It is a Book floating on the water, known as
"Oriental Venice". Because the water has bridge, the bridge has view,
along the Stone bridge, watching the Wupeng boat from far and near
leisurely driving, shallow ripples ripple on the surface of the water,
like a painting scroll of water and ink in the south of the Yangtze
River. But in this beautiful scenery, the feeling of marathon is "it's
not easy to say love you." Let's talk about it later.
Lets cut into the marathon mode.
"Every healthy, sunny, positive
woman is the unique queen" - this is the beautiful declaration of Queen
Run. Since signing up for the Queen Run, October 28, 2018 has become a
promising day. After all, it's my first half marathon. Although I have
been running intermittently for more than two years, although I have
been guided by running gods during this period, I can't help feeling
nervous because I don't have any experience in the race. Come and run!
Marathon, in addition to the
indispensable accumulation of running volume, is equipment. Preparing a
set of comfortable and sufficiently "beautiful" clothes is a must-do
homework before the race. I wonder if the full sense of ritual can be
regarded as a way to express the awe of marathon.
I remember one night when I went
for a walk on a "temporary idea", I met my runner in the gymnasium with
itchy feet and ran 5 kilometers in a hip-wrapped skirt. After that, I
got many bad reviews. According to the runners, the sense of ritual is
one aspect, the important thing is that the body is easily bound to
cause sports injury. Okay, just this once.
Everything is ready for the
shooting. The nine "queens" were then dispersed by the bustling crowd
and ran at their own pace. Running has enabled us to develop a way of
communicating with ourselves, running alone on the road, but our hearts
are rich. We can listen to music, listen to novels, let our thoughts fly
freely, listen to our hearts and breaths quietly, and even draw up a
draft of legal documents while running.
At this moment, after catching
up with 230 rabbits (rabbits, official marathon speeders, a group of
people who provide stable pace for competitors and help them achieve
their goals within the scheduled time), 230 rabbits, the speeders who
complete the half marathon in 2 hours and 30 minutes), no more 200
rabbits can be seen. It's time to finish running. Because the weather
was too hot and sunny, there was a temporary feeling of dizziness 13
kilometers away. One voice seemed to say, "Don't hold up, stop walking."
The other voice was a strong counterattack, "Never stop, you must go."
Adjust breathing and heart rate and move on. But at 19 kilometers, the
fatigue of the body comes again, giving up and persistence is like a
game between the devil and the angel in the brain: "Why do you really
follow yourself? Good or bad results do not mean anything, you can
finish the race smoothly when you get there", "Can't give up, you are a
runner, 21.0975 kilometers ahead"... Repeated battles, when the end arch
appeared in front of my eyes, my angel burst into a sweet smile in my
heart, the first half marathon of my life, completed smoothly at
2:01:07.
In the envy and jealousy of
runners who have no marathon to run and their hearts are empty, on
December 25, 2018, we embarked on the journey of measuring the ancient
city of Shaoxing with footsteps and sweat. Although had no ambition to
surpass herself at one time after came back from the Queen race, but a
red heart made two preparations with the encouragement of everyone:
finish the race smoothly if not in good condition; to brush a PB
(Personal Best)if in good condition , our head -the old fish, will bend
as my private rabbit (relative to the official rabbit's personal speed
coordinator).
Maybe it's sunny weather that
makes the body feel comfortable, maybe it's the queen running before
that makes the body have memory, maybe it's the core strength training
of recent period that has shown initial effect, maybe it's the spiritual
hint of the private rabbit that it feels good from the beginning, and
with the experience of competing, it can shuttle freely among many
runners, and the pace is far beyond the intended target, and catch up
with 200 rabbits at 3.8 kilometers. So, as long as it is not overtaken,
break 2 is appropriate. It is said that as many as 88 bridges, big and
small, pass through the track, which may not be undulating, but there is
no noticeable climb - up to 16 kilometers. It's a bridge that makes my
heart rate soar, because the slope rises sharply, the balance is broken,
even after the downhill, it's hard to reach the first half of the
state. Old Fish encouraged me on the side, because his drive, the next
few kilometers can basically stabilize the predetermined pace. Crossing
the finish line, the official score was 1:54:56, exceeding the standard
to complete the race.
At the end of the race, the
souvenirs waiting for us were Shaoxing rice wine and fennel beans with
strong local characteristics (I can't help recalling that Kong Yiji said
in the book that the word "fennel beans" has several lines of writing),
while Shengzhou snacks and hot musty dried vegetable soup are enough to
wipe out our fatigue.
Conquered the thousand-year-old City and laughs at the sky and never regrets the abuse of small bridges and streams!
From admiring other people's
marathon racing, to two marathons I have to thank our runner
group“I run runner group”. Because of the same hobbies and three
concepts of harmony, we are bound to get together. The original
intention of our running is no matter the length, speed, but the
attitude! But because of the mutual encouragement, we have made great
achievements. Many runners have even completed half-marathon and
all-marathon races from poor runners in their school days. The strength
of perseverance is so amazing. Cultivating positive energy exercise into
a habit and promoting it into a hobby will surely make you a tough and
self-disciplined person. I believe that in a few years, your body will
thank you for every drop of sweat you shed during your running.
As a senior runner, Japanese
writer Haruki Murakami said, "No matter how old you are, as long as you
are alive, you will have new discoveries about yourself." No wonder some
people say that the biggest challenge of Marathon comes from the brain,
not the body.
Because persistence, so beautiful; because persistence, so respectable.
Next goal, complete a all-marathon. Come on.
