Pay attention to the wisdom run, help you run as light as a feather, run without injury
With the postponement of the Hangzhou Marathon and the China Marathon Elite Ranking Tournament, which has attracted the attention of runners, the golden season in November has been completely cooled, and runners will face the embarrassment and loss of running without horses in this season that is most suitable for running.
This November "coldest running season" is clearly very much related to this round of the epidemic, due to sporadic and transmissible cases in many provinces, coupled with the cold weather the virus is more likely to spread, resulting in the government and all parties have to face the epidemic more cautiously.
Marathon as a cross-regional mobility activities and typical crowd gathering activities, under the current policy orientation of epidemic prevention and stability is greater than everything, naturally does not have a normal social environment, even if the epidemic prevention policy is strict, runners vaccination and nucleic acid testing are strict, it is difficult to pat their chests and say that they are not in trouble.
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Imagine this situation, even if the marathon participants have nucleic acid negative results, there is no 100% guarantee that there is no infection, in case there is an infected person in the participants, then all the participants may become close contact and be isolated, the city where the race is held may also become a high-risk area, and the travel of the people in the city will be affected;
If a large number of foreign participants return to their respective cities after the race, then the airports, stations, and cities they visit will also be upgraded, and the cost will be unimaginable, which is why the government is cautious about marathons.
It is in this situation that the Chinese Athletics Association also issued a red-headed document calling for "further strengthening the safety of road running events.".
For the business focal point department of the marathon, the Athletics Association must of course also follow the national policy, but without the race, it has a negative impact on both the industry and the industry.
The Athletics Association naturally hopes that after the epidemic is alleviated, the marathon can also be held under the premise of ensuring safety, so a careful look at the document does not clearly require that the race not be held for a certain period of time, but requires that if the race is held, the event party should prepare "safety risk prevention and control plan, emergency treatment plan, epidemic prevention and control plan, event organization plan", and "who approves, who is responsible" and "who hosts, who is responsible", there is only one event that explicitly requires the suspension of holding, that is, the mountain cross-country race.
The abrupt end of the race has made countless serious preparations and systematic training, that is, thinking that the PB runners in the second half of the race are quite disappointed, and the number of such runners may be quite large.
In the eyes of the public, the marathon is canceled, the postponement is postponed, what is the big deal, and it will not have any impact on life, but serious runners may not look good.
With the development of road running, the number of runners who are not satisfied with completing a race at the closing time, but hope that the marathon results are getting better and better is showing rapid growth.
Because from the spiritual pursuit and achievement experience of mass runners, from running fitness to scientific training, from completion to PB, from scientific training to systematic preparation, it must be a natural and gradual process.
If participating in the first marathon is more experienced and aimed at finishing the race safely, then when participating in the second and third marathons, most runners hope that they can run faster and achieve better results.
The goal is set, how to achieve the goal, you need to implement in every day's running training.
The marathon made us understand that even the greatest goal should be decomposed into bits and pieces of work, so that it can accumulate into more, and finally complete the process from quantitative change to qualitative change.
You need to be patient to train, you have to overcome your inertia, you have to use all the time you can use, even to squeeze out time for preparation, this process is a process of constant dialogue with the self, self-maturity.
As mentioned earlier, training for PB means first of all that you have set an important, clear goal for yourself, and then you will train for the goal, no matter how big the goal is, you have to accumulate it through every run, and then you can achieve it.
So once you reach the PB, you will reap a great sense of accomplishment from it, and this sense of accomplishment comes from a deep sense of "no pay, no gain".
From the full affirmation of their own hard work, from the deep pleasure after several hours of hard work to successfully achieve the goal, this sense of achievement gives people the feeling of being very "cool", this "cool" is not from the material level, but from the spiritual level, and such a sense of achievement at the spiritual level can last for a long time, and the material level of satisfaction often comes and goes quickly.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when people have fully realized their physiological and safety needs, people will inevitably pursue which higher levels of needs, through running to meet more like-minded people to meet people's social needs, become an admired serious runner also meet people's needs for respect.
Completing a difficult marathon fully reflects the runner's advanced spiritual needs for self-achievement and self-worth realization, and the runner is in the process of constantly challenging himself and realizing PB in this way to realize the sublimation of personal life value.
For mature runners, PB and achieving personal achievements are important motivators to participate in marathons.
For example, if one race takes you 3 and a half hours to complete, then the next game you can complete in 4 hours, but a slower and easier game seems to mean little to you.
Unless you are running with friends and need to encourage and guide your friends all the way, or you are acting as a rabbit, under normal circumstances, you will definitely want to run faster than 3 and a half hours, such a marathon is meaningful to you, maybe some people will say, run slowly, experience a marathon is not also good?
Indeed, running slowly is very good, but for many mature runners, such a slow running is not a life challenge, if you want to run slowly, usually running can be slow, the race is a race, serious preparation, go all out, come up with a fighting spirit, successful harvest great satisfaction, unsuccessful and no regrets, harvest experience, enrich life experience.
So for many runners, once you decide to participate in a marathon, you will be fully prepared, not to mention to let the marathon preparation replace normal work life, in fact, as an amateur runner, this replacement is impossible and unrealistic, but you are willing to pay time and energy for this matter, and preparing for the marathon has become an important and urgent thing in life.
You'll take as much time out of your training as possible, you'll prioritize running with less socializing, you'll make your own preparation plans, you'll set your weekly and monthly running, you'll take early breaks to get enough sleep, and you'll pay more attention to health and nutrition in terms of diet, which are all changes that your goals bring to you.
This kind of self-disciplined, simple and repetitive, and even somewhat hard life seems to outsiders to be self-inflicted, but you who prepare for the marathon enjoy it because you train hard for a clear goal and live actively.
Due to the postponement of the race, it may mean a loss of milestones for runners, which often means a decrease in motivation, but I believe that most runners will continue to train because running has been integrated into their way of life, and we also remind runners that the postponement of the race is not canceled.
In another month, when the epidemic eases, many matches may be announced in a short period of time, if you interrupt the system training due to the postponement of the game or the training level drops significantly, when the game is suddenly announced to resume, you may no longer have the ability to PB at that time.
That is to say, runners should pay attention to long-term systematic training in order to be good at the ability to participate in the race at any time in a few days, at least you also need enough training to maintain the ability you have gained by preparing for the race.
In the past two years, we have become accustomed to the normalization of life under the epidemic, and indeed life has changed a lot, but runners can recall the period when the epidemic in China was relatively serious in the first half of February and March of 2020, and outdoor running may not be allowed or considered to be something that is not recommended.
At that time, not only were many parks and running places closed, but also "whether to run outdoors", "whether to wear a mask when running", and "whether outdoor running is a high-risk behavior" also caused fierce debate, at that time, it was not too much to say that running was "stealing chickens and dogs" and "violating public morality".
At least for now, runners can still run normally, even in cities where sporadic outbreaks occur, you go to the road or open places without wearing a mask to run, no one throws a strange look at you or is stopped, and everyone realizes that insisting on exercising, maintaining a healthy and healthy lifestyle is also one of the most important self-protection measures in the face of the epidemic.
Runners are the least impatient, and the 42.195 km distance of the marathon track means daunting for anyone, but hold on, run, and you can beat it.
For the postponement of the race, it may break the runner's preparation rhythm, and may make your PB goal of your heart postpone backwards, so that the runner is confused and does not know how to practice next, but this does not mean that you have practiced in vain.
Every drop of sweat you pay is a precious life experience, but at this time, you need a peaceful attitude, more patience and tolerance, continue to maintain training, good things and more tribulations, wait for the next blossom!
In addition, whether the second half of the running horse season will be completely reimbursed is still difficult to judge, the epidemic is still developing, but China's epidemic prevention and control capabilities believe that it will be controlled in less than a month.
Some races have also said in postponement announcements that they may be postponed to December, believing that time can heal everything, and runners should not be too pessimistic and look forward to the resumption of the race in December.
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