Peninsula all-media reporter Zhu Jiaxin
The Qingdao Marathon, which will start on April 21, has attracted the attention of many "runners" and has also attracted more attention to the sport of running. There is a special runner in Qingdao who has become popular on the Internet with his strength, and he is the "hardcore uncle" Jin Hui.
If you are 71 years old, how many seconds can you run in the 100 meters? Uncle Jin's statistic is 15.26 seconds! He also won four silver medals in a row at the Chinese Track and Field Masters! His 100-meter run video has received more than 10 million views and more than 300,000 likes on the Internet.
On the afternoon of April 13, at the Zoomlion Sports Park, Peninsula all-media reporters interviewed 71-year-old Jin Hui this year.
At the Chinese Track and Field Masters, septuagenarian Jin Hui won the silver medal in the 100-meter run.
Won four consecutive silver medals at the MastersAfter chatting with Uncle Jin, I learned that after he retired from the Inner Mongolia Ulanhot Iron and Steel Plant in 2008, his children took him to Qingdao to support the elderly. After coming to Qingdao, he found that football was quite suitable for him, because he was competitive and liked fierce confrontational sports since he was a child. Since joining the football team in 2009, he has been playing until now, he said that he has become famous in the senior football world in Qingdao, and everyone praises him for his good physical fitness.
Jin Hui
As for why he participated in the Chinese Track and Field Masters, it was because his partners in the football team mentioned it, and Jin Hui thought he could try it. At the 2023 Chinese Athletics Masters, Jin Hui was like a dark horse, finishing second in the 100-meter run in 15.26 seconds. And also won the second place in the long jump competition, the 4× 400-meter relay, the 4×100-meter relay both won the second place, and won four silver medals in a row. Uncle Jin said that when he participated in the 100-meter run close to 90 meters, the first place surpassed him, and he was only 0.17 seconds behind the first place, which was really a little unwilling.
What's even more surprising is that Jin Hui said that before he won the second place in the Chinese Athletics Masters in October 2023, he had not worn professional running spikes or boarded the starting block. Before the race, he ran two 100-meter tests, the first time was 15.8 seconds, the second time was 15.5 seconds, and the third time he went directly to the official race track, running a good time of 15.26 seconds.
This year's competition wants to put "Golden Glow"In order to achieve better results, he finds time for track and field training every Tuesday , Thursday , Saturday and Sunday throughout the winter. Some citizens who were particularly good at sprinting when they were young were very enthusiastic to talk to Jin Hui about how to standardize the movements and how to improve their physical fitness. Jin Hui said with emotion: "My master must have at least 100!" Their "running friends" all said that there are many old people who are good at sprinting in Qingdao. It is also the pursuit of sportsmanship that everyone hopes that Jin Hui will win gold in this year's Chinese Track and Field Masters.
71-year-old uncle Jin Hui Beach 100-meter run
Jin Hui feels that his time in Qingdao is the happiest stage of his life, and although he is 71 years old, he does not feel old at all. He said that when he was young, he was involved in martial arts, wrestling, boxing, sanda, weightlifting, high diving, etc., and also loved table tennis and badminton. In Qingdao, he made a lot of friends through playing football and other physical exercises, and his life was colorful. The most important thing is that Qingdao's infrastructure is good, and every community has fitness equipment, especially the sports street where his family lives, where there is a running track, and some other large squares, one, two, three, and other places can be exercised. He said that with good infrastructure, a large number of people can be driven to sports, and there are many coaches of the older generation in Qingdao who have a high level of long-distance running and sprinting, and he also hopes to bring more young people to participate in exercise.
Jin Hui one-handed push-ups
Jin Hui is ready to start
Jin Hui is ready to exercise
After Jin Hui became popular on the Internet, he also attracted a large number of fans. On April 13, a female student who loves sports saw a video of Jin Hui running on the Internet, and came to him to compete accompanied by her father. After running 100 meters and 60 meters at the event venue, she said with emotion, "I almost can't catch up with Grandpa Jin!"
Jin Hui's daughter Jin Lianhua said that now everyone around her knows that she has a "hardcore father", and colleagues in the office have also begun to take the initiative to do physical exercise, which has indeed led many people. In order to make the old man better trained, she now helps her father shoot and cut videos, and her brother also helped buy photography equipment. She said that she certainly has good expectations for her father to participate in the Chinese Track and Field Masters this year, but she is more concerned about her father's happiness from it.
Young people can't catch up with the heart The friends around him saw that Jin Hui was participating in such strenuous sports at his age, and many people kindly advised him to pay attention to his body. Jin Hui said that last month he went to the hospital for a series of related tests, and the two doctors who examined his heart looked at his heart examination report and said that he was very excited.
Jin Hui said: "I was in tears at that time, guess what the doctor said, the doctor said that many young people can't catch up with your heart! You said that I have reached the age of 71, what kind of mood do you feel after listening to the doctor's words! It also encouraged my fighting spirit to persist in exercising and run towards a new goal!" Therefore, for the concerns of some netizens, he replied: "Thank you for your concern." But Jin Hui also said that everyone's physical condition is different, and the vast majority of the elderly are indeed not suitable for strenuous exercise, and should do what they can, but he belongs to the individual, and some people say that he is "talented".
Jin Hui's daughter commented on him: "My dad used to talk about football without leaving his mouth, but now he is running. Jin Hui also smiled and said: "I have been rolled into the running circle!" He sighed: "The indomitable spirit of people can be seen in the sprint, although the 100-meter run does not seem to be long, but when the actual run reaches 60 meters, the throat and eyes will be dry, and the breath will not come up, and even some people will fall when they run to 60 or 70 meters, the 100-meter run is a double test of will and body, and it is really impossible to run without good physical conditions!"
In the impression of ordinary people, the age of seventy is already the age of old and frail, but Jin Hui feels that his physical strength is very good. One of his neighbors, an old lady, had just been discharged from the hospital and weighed 180 pounds, and her daughter and son-in-law couldn't carry the old man upstairs at all. Jin Hui said that when he usually does leg strength training, he uses the way of jumping steps, and can easily jump up the steps of the seven-story stands, and the biggest disadvantage of the average elderly is that the legs are weak, but he is "okay" in this regard.
Life is a long run, and Jin Hui hopes that he will always be that indomitable runner. As Samuel Ullman said, "Youth is not a year, but a state of mind"!