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Hello, I'm Xiao Yin.
"Come on! Come on! Come on" The shouts at the student days sports meeting seemed to linger in the ears.
It was the last lap of five kilometers, but the calves were as heavy as a thousand pounds, and I couldn't breathe. One by one, my opponents rushed past, and I could only watch myself fall behind.
The Second Year Games was the first time in my life that I had participated in a longer run, and now I feel vividly in my mind – the rough cinder track, the deafening cheering shouts, the struggling sprints.
Recently, I have resumed long-distance running, and I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about my running story, hoping to work with you and make you enjoy the wonderful sport of running.
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To get started running, you don't need any talent
I used to be a person who didn't like sports, and my only hobby was to sit motionless in a place, read a book all day, as if rooted, and only wanted to be an isolated "hermit", so my physical fitness was not outstanding.
But unexpectedly, after going to high school, he grew very fast, and by the second year of high school, he was close to one meter eight. Although it looks more prominent in the crowd, the level of sports is really average.
For me, the physical education test is an anxious thing, because based on the natural physical advantage, people generally think that my sports performance must be "extraordinary", but I know in my heart: this is just a "paper tiger" illusion.
After every exam, there are always some "melon-eating masses" who do not know the truth and always have to say a sentence with a heart: Look at your 180 big one, running is not as fast as that who has small short legs!
I'm so ashamed, I'm so sorry for this body. Shame turns to shame, but exercise is really too uncomfortable! So until my junior year, I chose to follow my true thoughts – "I don't move like a mountain."
Make a fool of yourself! I was elected as the sports committee member of the class in my sophomore year of high school, and when I encountered any test, I was named first by the teacher. I still can't forget the scene that was so embarrassing that it exploded:
Playing soccer was an important sport of that semester, and after a few lessons, the teacher wanted to examine how well everyone's skills of "opening big feet" (friends who don't know football can be simply understood as kicking football far away), and I was naturally "the first to bear the brunt".
As a sports commissioner, I didn't want to be too "pulled down", in order to show everyone the real technology, I threw myself into the football.
I was expecting the ball to fly high and far, but there was a lot of laughter! The football was still in place, but an object in the sky was flying high and far away—the right sneaker I kicked out. In the midst of a wild laugh, I limped back my shoes.
This incident gave me a deep psychological shadow over sports. look at! I am such a sports mediocre can gradually run farther and farther, and slowly reach the level of a passer-by level middle and high-end runners, you must be able to do it too! Therefore, the threshold for running can be said to be low to the sewer, and you will be on the road with your legs open!
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How did I get involved with long-distance running?
In 2015, I learned by chance that Nanjing Xuanwu Lake was about to hold a marathon event, and several friends in the dormitory immediately decided to put the name on the newspaper first.
At that time, it was said that people who were catching ducks on the shelves and could not even run a kilometer in the physical education test could run 10 kilometers? (At that time, the registration was for the 10 km race, and the whole Horse was still a fantasy)
The fact is that people sometimes need to be "forced", and once the situation is forced, the things they did not want to do are naturally hardened. So, after a few days of struggling to finish the registration, the psychological construction was almost over, and finally put on the sneakers to the playground and began to run.
It was torturous at first! The first time I ran a kilometer with all my might, I felt "half-hearted" for the next half of the week - there was pain everywhere on my body, and the squat pit on the toilet became a big problem for my confidants, except lying down, I didn't want to do anything else, and even my arms were numb.
Slowed for half a week, I only began to carry out the second exercise, sometimes I have to say that in the crowd can stimulate the competitive spirit, when the legs have not yet recovered full, when running on the playground, see someone rushing from the side, they want to compete with him, holding the soreness in the legs, hard to follow behind others, the result can be imagined, running a small circle by others far behind not to say, the next week the whole person monkey - baboon (waste).
This mentality should not be had, beginners can easily let themselves be hurt.
In the bumps and bumps, about 20 days to adapt to the 1 km of medium and fast running, slowly increased to 2 km, 4 km, 5 km, gradually into a better situation, the back distance increased more and more, but also more and more relaxed.
Don't be too anxious at first, take it slowly, gradually increase the distance, and in about two months you will be surprised to find that I can easily run 5 kilometers!
Later, after holding out for more than a month, I won 12 kilometers at once. This matter gave a lot of confidence, and later, when I encountered something difficult, I thought about the scene when I gritted my teeth from a small white in the cold wind, and I felt that nothing could overwhelm me, and I could grind it to the end!
More than 20 days later, the race arrived as scheduled, with the foreshadowing in front, this race was also very easy to win, and it was really indescribable to participate in the marathon for the first time in my life, especially the moment I crossed the finish line, the whole world seemed to be lit up in an instant!
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Running alone, double cultivation of body and mind
In 2016, I inherited the running habits I developed in college to work, and although I work late every day, I still find time to run a few laps.
At that time, the living place was a bit remote, many surrounding areas were still wasteland to be developed, and at night, a long road was dark and dark, and it could only be illuminated with the help of a flashlight. I usually run a little farther (usually 5 to 15 kilometers), and the surrounding runners are sparsely populated, so most of the time I run alone at night.
In order to explore the running route, I ran to the sparsely populated wild roads many times. Several times, I ran with a flashlight to the village of Guro Mountain, the nearest place to live, and was chased by someone else's unsynchronized dog, which was really thrilling and dangerous! Now that I think about it, at ten o'clock in the evening, a person ran in the dark into a ravine where even the street lights did not exist, and this road was really wild!
Despite running intermittently for more than a year, I am still a very amateur runner - without any deliberate training, running posture is as unscathed as it is not standard, but with my enthusiasm for running, no matter how long I have been silent, I can always find myself on the road in a relatively pleasant way.
I can't remember how many times I ran alone on a deserted street, there wasn't even a car on the road, I was the only one in the dim light, and there was only the sound of big gasps, the rebound of footsteps on the ground, the music accompanying the run, and nothing else.
There are also many times, their own state is not good, running to the middle of the breath is short, the calf is very heavy, feel that they can no longer run, even if it is a step can not take a step, looking at the situation that there is no shop in front of the village, smiling bitterly, then adjusting their breathing, gritting their teeth and continuing to step forward.
Sometimes even I feel a little confused, where am I now? Just like the ascetics of ancient India, through the continuous grinding of the outside, let their soul be practiced, accompanied by boring feet lifting, forward, and then lifting feet, the soreness on the legs erodes the body, while being in a silent environment, loneliness comes from time to time, and the feeling of moving forward alone can not be forgotten.
Nowadays, busy work life is full of the environment around us, whether it is work or life trivialities, leaving a little time for yourself alone has become a luxury, but sometimes, leaving yourself a little time and space for solitude, so that you can learn to face loneliness, is a compulsory course in a person's life.
Then later, for a few days without running, I felt that there were bugs scratching in my heart, and I was already "addicted", at this time, you have also entered a new realm, running is no longer your burden, but a different kind of enjoyment.
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A group of people running and "dancing" with their partners
Affected by the epidemic in 2020, the amount of running throughout the year was pitifully small, and I thought that the hobby of running might be silent.
Fast forward to this year, since I began to write the public account, sometimes I feel that I have no energy, so I have regained my running, hoping to find that vitality. Although he still insisted on the normal exercise on the treadmill 3 times a week, the enthusiasm for running was not as strong as before.
In the cooler winter, I was lucky enough to join the company's running group, and since last month, I have signed up for the running training of the running group almost every week. Here, everyone supervises each other, and the cold outdoors, while gaging jokes, re-meet new physical challenges.
In a group of people, their "lazy" instinct can be well controlled, several times, originally planned to steal a lazy, but think of the picture of runners running together, and consciously change into running shoes and long-sleeved pants, and spread their feet and legs with everyone.
In the communication of a group of people, they can find their own shortcomings in the past "wild running method", such as excessive running posture, wrong swing arm, etc., to a large extent, they can get better and more timely feedback, and then help them improve the running system and reduce the risk of injury.
Through the experience of running the group for more than a month, I also understand a truth more deeply: one person may run faster, but a group of people is more likely to run farther. Thanks for this encounter!
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Write at the end
From a young man who used to be anxious about sports and hated sports, to the first time I was exposed to the sport of long-distance running in 2015, it took me more than 5 years.
But it took less than a year from making up your mind to start running to falling in love with running. To this day, even though I am only a junior runner, I have been running this road for almost 7 years and have traveled nearly 2,000 kilometers. (Fortunately, the phone also left a record of the past nearly 1,000 kilometers.)
Since the 2015 Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Marathon, it seems that I am destined to form a deep relationship with the sport of running.
I've always felt that running is ultimately destined to be a lonely path of practice, a journey in which you will meet many very interesting partners, and you may join a variety of groups, who will impress you and help you get rid of the shackles of nature when you want to give up, so that you can continue to persevere.
But at the same time, this "ascetic" practice, accompanied by continuous lifting of feet, forwards, and feet, during which the soreness in the legs will erode the flesh, and a person running in an inaccessible environment will occasionally attack loneliness.
But all of this is precisely the charm of long-distance running: when you are on the road of loneliness, the various emotions that are usually suppressed will be vented at this moment, and many of the fogs encountered in life will disappear after crossing the past.
Especially when you are encountering the difficulties of life and facing key choices, this precious "loneliness" will make you want to understand many things, when boring, painful, lonely in the teeth to stick to the past, that joy and pride will fill your chest, which will be the most precious resource in the future when you face hardships and hardships.
The past 7 years of running have also opened up a new starting point for the long road ahead.
Give it to you who love running, and encourage you