Sun Yingjie Photo / Southern People Weekly reporter Liang Chen
"Did you grow up after you retired?"
"You really haven't had a facelift?"
Sun Yingjie laughed out loud, "No, no, really not, not long, everywhere on the face is the original." ”
She said that such questions were always asked to her, "There are even more exaggerated, the leaders I have contacted when I was an athlete in the past have met me, and some of them are completely incredulous and ask me repeatedly, 'Are you really Sun Yingjie?'" How can you say this, I didn't say a word before. ’”
Her WeChat avatar is the moment she ran with the flag after winning the 2002 Asian Games in Busan — super short hair, tank top shorts, skinny like a little boy — and that's what most people think of her.
Running from the age of nine, "living a completely closed life in the sports team, not to mention society, is not much contact with my family," all the goals are only one, "when sprinting, don't let anyone catch up with me!" ”
At the 2002 Busan Asian Games, Sun Yingjie won two gold medals in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, ranking second and fourth in the world that year. At the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, she and Liu Xiang won the only two medals for the Chinese track and field team in the women's 10,000 meters and the men's 110 meters hurdles respectively.
Sun Won two gold medals at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan
Long before the rise of the marathon boom, she was the deserved king of the Chinese women's marathon, having won the Beijing International Marathon championship three times, and in 2003, she won the championship in "North Malaysia" and set a record of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 39 seconds in China. Amateur runners often talk about BQ (Boston Qualify Boston Marathon registration results) as a yardstick to measure personal best PB (Personal Best), Sun Yingjie participated in this elite classic event known for its high threshold in 2000 and won the eighth place, and in 2002, he fought in Boston and won the fourth place.
After retiring in 2009, in her words, "running has nothing to do with me." "When she was an athlete, she was less than 100 pounds, and after giving birth to a child for a year or two, she was nearly 150 pounds," I thought at that time that I would never go back to the track, I didn't expect to put on running shoes later, and I didn't expect to finally choose public health running training to start a business." ”
In 2013, she made an official comeback at the Beijing Marathon, and because she did not report to the full marathon, she had to choose the amateur group half marathon. "On May Day 2014, my husband and I pulled a banner at the entrance of the Olympic Forest Park where Beijing runners gathered, and the 'Sun Yingjie Long-distance Running Club' was opened, and many of the first batch of students who recruited that time have been running with me to the present."
On the day of the interview with Southern People Weekly, she just returned from the Nagoya Marathon, she finished the race in 3 hours, 38 minutes and 09 seconds while serving the group, which is also her best all-horse performance in more than a year, "This result is no way to compare with when I was an athlete, but at that time my goal was personal limit, it was a national honor, and now, I enjoy running, and through my professional knowledge to help more people get health in running and cultivate sports habits that benefit for life." ”
In March 2019, Sun Yingjie (left) accompanied runners during the Nagoya Marathon
<h3>Growing up at the age of 32</h3>
Walk with Sun Yingjie and she will naturally grab your hand, although we are only meeting for the first time. For runners, in the last ten kilometers of the marathon, this hand is put up, almost like when the battery of the mobile phone is about to run out, connected to the charging treasure.
In the last 500 meters of the Nagoya Marathon, she grabbed the left hand of her teammate Shi Chunjian, "Take all your strength and fight!" Shi Chunjian is one of Sun Yingjie's many students, has become one of the club coaches, this time Sun Yingjie specially accompanied her to impact the PB, "Teacher Sun brought me water all the way, the Japanese water station is on the left, she runs to the right side every time she takes it and hands it to me, because she knows that I am definitely used to drinking water with my right hand." After drinking sports drinks, she would also take white water to rinse my mouth; when sweating a lot, she would use a sponge to gently squeeze a little water on the back of my neck; seeing that my running posture was a little deformed, Teacher Sun was afraid of affecting my rhythm, and only lightly tapped my back with her fingers. Shi Chunjian ran with Sun Yingjie for more than three years, "zero damage, steady progress, 4 times to reach BQ." ”
"As long as you guarantee four trainings a week, and you don't need to run a long distance and a lot of intensity, even if it's a small white, you can also complete the full horse race through scientific training, plus professional functional sports equipment, and run into five hours." Sun Yingjie said that when she was an athlete herself, "this is unimaginable, I ran 70 or 80 kilometers a day at that time, and it was all high pace and high pace." "Many of her sparring partners have practiced to vomit blood," I am afraid of my own injury, I have been paying special attention to the correct running posture, but internal injuries are difficult to avoid, the stomach ah heart will call the police, the amount of exercise is too large, as if a car is driving too fast for too long, the engine can not stand. ”
Every time she competes, she has no distractions, "Especially when going abroad to compete, the pressure is greater, does the state spend money to let you come out and play?" If you don't run well, is it worthy of the country's training? She laughed and said that she only had "obedience, obedience, persistence!" You can't have any ideas of your own, and the words of the coach are the holy will."
As a professional, her badge number never exceeded double digits, "the professional group is running in front, never knowing who is running behind (the amateur group)." When she came back in 2013, she got the 37625 bib number in North Malaysia, where she had dominated three times, "It was too scary to see this number, the number is so long." For the first time, she observed ordinary runners at the end of the team, "Oh Mom, the most funny thing is to dress up, some dressed as a princess, and some dressed as pig eight precepts... Can you run even if you wear it like this? ”
"Running is most afraid of increasing resistance, when I was an athlete, I could wear as little as possible, and one or two less weights." Ordinary contestants turned the race into a carnival, making her feel a joy she had never felt before, "It turns out that running can be so happy!" If so, then I can keep running. ”
This realization was crucial to her, and even an important psychological cornerstone of her fate,At a time when the stress of her life was unprecedented.
"When I first retired, I was as helpless as a child, I didn't know anything, let alone communicate with people, I couldn't understand what other people said, except for running." She is fortunate that a year before she retired, she became a family, "as soon as I retired from retirement, I had children, I took the children wholeheartedly, and returned to the family first, rather than being immediately pushed into society." ”
Her husband, Wang Chengrong, is the coach of the Qinghai Sports Team, who led the team to achieve the best result in the history of 3 gold and 1 silver in the middle and long distance running at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Sun Yingjie originally wanted to live a smooth and comfortable life under the care of her husband, "I am particularly dependent, everything in the family is managed by him, with children, I have not managed, I have no ability to live, housework he does not let me do, even the children's clothes I have not washed." "The child is toddler, Sun Yingjie took him to the playground, "his father is leading the team training, I take the child to play next to it, Qinghai's home is also decorated with special care, I thought life will continue like this." ”
In 2011, Sun Yingjie was 32 years old. In October of that year, the China Disabled Persons' Federation remitted the bonuses of the coaches of the Chinese sports delegation at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games to Wang Chengrong's personal bank card account. The Qinghai Provincial Sports Team demanded that Wang Chengrong hand over the bonus and be redistributed by the organization. Wang Chengrong believed that the money was awarded to individuals when it reached his personal account, and asked the Qinghai Sports Team to show a red-headed document on the redistribution of the bonus. On December 28, 2011, he received the "Decision on the Handling of the Suspension of Comrade Wang Chengrong".
Before Sun Yingjie retired, the relevant parties had given promises to arrange work and solve the Beijing hukou, but when he retired, "I didn't go to find anyone, and it was good to settle down in Qinghai. ”
My husband was suspended, and the originally smooth life was fleeting, "I suddenly realized the burden on my body, people say that I grew up at the age of 18, I actually 'grew up' at the age of 32." ”
<h3>"I can't run today with stimulants."</h3>
In 2012, Sun Yingjie traveled from Qinghai to Beijing to find coach Tao Shaoming, who had taken him for two years before retiring.
Tao Shaoming is a very brainy coach, as early as 2011, he keenly felt the heating up of the marathon market, and then he opened a training camp in Africa, specializing in training black runners to participate in China's international marathon events, and has now become the most influential marathon agent in China.
In August 2006, after a series of dark and difficult situations such as "doping incident", "salary begging" and "accusing the coach of long-term beating", Sun Yingjie "ran out" when coach Wang Dexian led the team out to play, and the headline used by the media was, "Master and apprentice completely broke up".
In November of that year, coach Tao Shaoming began training with her, running to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Although she did not succeed in the end, for Sun Yingjie, who had been training in a closed and high-pressure environment before, it was as if God had opened a skylight for her, and the light could be transmitted in, and she was allowed for the first time to have a mobile phone, "You can contact your home, there is something at home, and Tao guidance will also let me go home to visit." ”
Sun Yingjie was very grateful to this person who brought her a ray of light in despair, and this time she thought of him again, "I didn't know what I could do at that time, Tao mentored very well, I especially trusted him." Tao Shaoming was shocked to see Sun Yingjie, "I was one hundred and forty or fifty pounds at that time, lazily watching TV and eating snacks at home every day, that is, taking children to play on the playground, and I didn't take a step to run." In retrospect, the state of the whole person is actually very bad. ”
"Tao guided me to introduce some marathon work, be a spokesperson, participate in some activities, interact with the participants, lead the 100 meters, etc., at that time I learned that the original market for mass runners was already so hot."
Although the pick-up activities can make some money, but Sun Yingjie always feels that this is not a long-term solution, Tao Shaoming also encouraged her to run her own club, "When I first heard about the club, I felt particularly tall, international, where do I have the capital to run a club, which professional master can practice with me?" Later, it was slowly made clear that what I want to serve is the mass runners, mid-range fees, professional support, I am a professional marathon runner, my husband is a national coach of middle and long-distance running, we use the vernacular to teach the professional concept to the public, in the professional pursuit of runners, accept our guidance, can run into 3 hours, challenge themselves while preventing injuries, this is our competitiveness. ”
The perseverance tempered by the athlete's life, after establishing the goal, quickly put into action, through exercise plus diet control, she lost thirty pounds in a month; from the very beginning to run a marathon are difficult, quickly recovered to a year can easily run a dozen full horses, "until now I am running every day, this morning ran 16 kilometers, generally about ten kilometers, a week or two days of rest, do not run to practice core strength." ”
Wang Chengrong said in an interview with other media that when they first started their business, the two people knew very little about various new communication media, "Others say that the APP does not know what it is, go home and check the Internet to find out." Now Sun Yingjie is very skilled, every morning in the "N groups" to reply to the runner's questions, at night his son writes homework, "I closed the door, told my son not to disturb, 'mother to the runner for half an hour online class'." ”
In addition to her own direct enrollment of offline and online training camps, she also authorized running groups across the country to use their own IP enrollment, "We will give technical support online, offline classes need, can also be arranged." ”
In the 2005 Nanjing Tenth National Games, there was a lot of noise about the mistaking of doping, and many runners were also a little curious, wanting to understand the truth behind this suspicious incident.
"I'm at ease everywhere I go, I haven't taken stimulants myself."
"At that time, I was a 'little white' of social knowledge, I didn't know how to deal with it at all, and my mind was not even mature as my son. If in my mind today, I have not taken stimulants is not, I will hold a press conference at the scene of the Tenth Games, re-provide urine samples under the supervision of the media, take stimulants need time metabolism, I asked for re-examination, is black or white, media testimony, at a glance! ”
She shook her head and sighed, saying that everything could not be turned back, "My coach was not convinced at that time, he wanted to settle this injustice, chose an explanation that he could not go through, won the lawsuit, and lost people's hearts." ”
On November 15, 2005, Sun Yingjie filed a lawsuit against his disciple Yu Haijiang at the Wudalianchi Court in Heilongjiang, a lawsuit in which there was only the plaintiff and the defendant and no third witness. Yu Haijiang claimed to be an admirer of Sun Yingjie, and in order to make the idol recover quickly, at noon on October 16, 2005, he privately added "vigorous supplements" to Sun Yingjie's drink bottle. What caused an uproar in the media was that Yu Haijiang said that he picked up the "vigorous supplement" in the public toilet of the Beijing Marathon.
"It was all arranged by the coach, and I'll say whatever he told me to say," she shook her head again, "no way, I was like that at the time, without my own ideas and judgments." ”
Although the court ruled that Sun Yingjie was "mistakenly satisfied", the Chinese Athletics Association still issued a severe punishment of Wang Dexian's lifetime ban and Sun Yingjie's two-year ban.
"Others might think it was going to crush me, but it didn't." I know I'm running out of strength, and I'm not afraid. People who take stimulants cannot hide, and after retiring from the army, they will also have throat knots, thick throats, and physical problems. She was a little excited, "You can check my results, I have maintained a high level for the longest time, some people come out once, and then they disappear." From my achievements to my retirement, which time I Sun Yingjie fell into the top three, I can't run today by doping! ”
Busy at work on weekdays, Sun Yingjie rarely comes to pick up his son from school Photo / Southern People Weekly reporter Liang Chen
<h3>"You can't lose your home because of entrepreneurship</h3>."
At 3 p.m., we went with Sun Yingjie to pick up her son from school. The school hours are similar for all elementary schools, with cars crammed around the school on three floors and three floors outside. Sun Yingjie specially bought an electric bicycle, which was convenient for docking with stitches and needles.
In order for her children to go to school, she rented a two-bedroom apartment near the school, renting seven thousand yuan per month, and also reported to the children various training classes such as English, programming, drawing, guitar, whole brain science, etc. "Each class has a group, and the children's homework at home is to be photographed and uploaded." She smiled at Mimi and showed us the paintings of her son in the mobile phone, the video of playing the guitar, and repeatedly told us, "Spring is the season of all things growing, this time to eat well for children is the most important, this time the little celery is rich in nutrients, whether children love to eat or not, let them eat." ”
I praised her as a hard-working mom, and she shook her head, "This year I changed, with family as the main and work as a supplement." ”
At the beginning of the business, she flew three hundred times a year, basically not home, "it is not easy to spend a weekend at home, there are many jobs that need to be handled on the mobile phone, the son came over 'mother, mother' a call, I forgot everything..." She said to herself at that time she was both impetuous and grumpy, yelling at her son annoyed her husband, "Like trapeze artists, the whole person can't be quiet for a moment, and the eyes are all fluttering." ”
The mother-son relationship is also very tense, and she misses the child on occasional business trips, "Call home, he ignores me, 'I don't want you!'" ’”
When his son went to school, Sun Yingjie handled the work in his study Photo / Southern People Weekly reporter Liang Chen
In September 2018, a sudden diagnosis put the fast-moving entrepreneur "on the operating table", "the day before I was out to participate in the event, the next day I was lying in the hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown, drip, preparing for surgery, I thought to myself, 'People think they can do everything, but they are too fragile'. ”
After the operation, she took a four-month break, "a thorough reflection on her life of running non-stop in recent years, is it precious money or precious life, is reputation important or family important?" ”
When training trainees, she often reminds them to "not pursue results too much" and "As a general enthusiast, you want health rather than PB, do you want to surpass professional athletes?" More than my Sun Yingjie? People's limits are often bought at the expense of health. ”
"Once exercise is overburdened, it can cause harm. The same is true of other pursuits, I myself am actually lost, I want to seize the opportunity too much, the utilitarian heart comes up, but I forget what I really want. ”
She swung her long ponytail over her waist to her chest, and this year she plans to go to the hair salon every week to make nutritional oil for her hair, "Last year my hair was particularly dry and I was gaunt. She especially loves to send beautiful photos of selfies in the circle of friends, "When I was an athlete, I was particularly eager for beauty, and the coach did not allow it, and there was not even a dressing mirror in the dormitory." "Once, she went to get a haircut and came back, the coach thought her bangs were too long, picked up scissors, clicked, cut so much that she couldn't see people.
"Although I can't accept him doing that to me, I don't hate him anymore, and if I want to get results, I can only do that." She shook her head, "The life I want to live now is what I want to live, and it is also something I should cherish." ”
(Source: Southern People Weekly)