63 min 58 sec! In the first game after the National Games, Wu Xiangdong won the 2021 West Taihu Half Horse and created a PB. In one fell swoop, he broke his personal best of 64 minutes and 26 seconds in the 2019 Sihong half horse, broke 64 points in the half horse, and broke the record of the race, winning 7500 US dollars.
In the past two years, "new daddy" Wu Xiangdong has made obvious progress, whether it is appearance or achievements, it is more and more handsome, faster and faster.
After running into the 220 mark from the Xiamen Marathon in 2020 and successfully reaching the national athlete, Wu Xiangdong was out of control.
The Taiyuan Marathon and Nanjing Mara successively raised their personal bests to 2 hours, 12 minutes and 50 seconds.
In this year's Xuzhou Marathon, Wu Xiangdong went one step further and raised his personal all-horse PB to 2 hours, 11 minutes and 36 seconds. Although missing the Olympic quota, Wu Xiangdong, who is 211, ranked fifth in the first half of the year.
At the National Games at the end of September, Wu Xiangdong represented the Anhui team in the 10,000 meters and marathon events, and finally won the fifth place in the marathon at his third National Games.
Although he has always laughed at himself as a "non-high-level far-reaching mobilization", it turns out that Wu Xiangdong now has obviously few opponents in the domestic road running project!
Looking back at Wu Xiangdong's competition in the past two years, he mostly played steadily in the first half, not blindly following the first group, but constantly adjusting according to his own state, starting from the back, which can be described as very experienced.
However, this year's West Taihu Lake Half Horse, which has always been stable, ran a real-time performance of 30 minutes and 08 seconds with Jia Eringa in the first ten kilometers, which was only 3 seconds slower than the first ten kilometers of Dong Guojian and Peng Jianhua's plan to break the half horse record in the East Half Horse last year.
Wu Xiangdong, who has been in the field for a long time, has also had an absolute improvement in strength, and it is obvious that it is no longer yesterday's mentality and tactics.
After the end of the National Games in Xi'an, Wu Xiangdong told us: In recent years, we are very happy to usher in progress, I am still far from the "very high-level athletes", and I will try to narrow the gap in the future, hoping to go further and longer.
Nowadays, it seems that Wu Xiangdong, who is 211 in Malaysia and 63 points in half horses, is no longer far away from what he calls "very high-level athletes", and the two races of Nanjing 212 and Xuzhou 211, including today's West Taihu Half Horse, he is accelerating in the final stage, and while the new and powerful strength is also very impressive to the audience.
As one of the few top players in China who can run at a basically uniform or even negative pace throughout the whole process, his accurate grasp of his own state and his deep understanding of the race can be called the top intelligent racer in China.
As for the breakthrough of 210, it seems that Wu Xiangdong is no longer far away here.
Wu Xiangdong said: I feel that I haven't taken the first place for a long time!
Indeed, the last time he won the title was on December 6, 2020, 315 days later, when he won the Xiamen Haicang Half Marathon a week after the Nanjing Marathon.
But another coincidence is that week later, he won the second place and the championship with today's opponent Jia Oren, and today he defeated Jia Oeringa, who also improved the PB of the half horse by more than 20 seconds with the final sprint.
On October 24, Wu Xiangdong will play in the Wuhan Marathon after the restart.
A week later, in this heroic city, can Wu Xiangdong, the "first brother of Anhui", win the first marathon of his career? Who can stop him from winning the championship?
The vitality never dies, look forward to a new beginning!