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"I haven't changed much and have been training. Now there's a lot of time to train. When talking to the author about the recent situation, Li Zicheng laughed.
China's most famous system runner, the last race he participated in was this year's Xiamen Horse, but unfortunately he did not finish the run due to a foot injury.
The last race he completed was the East Pole (Black Blind Island) Ice Marathon held in Fuyuan, Heilongjiang (jiamusi) on New Year's Day.
"I was also invited to go. The game was very interesting: minus twenty or thirty degrees, the wind was very strong, and when the wind was particularly strong, I couldn't breathe, which was quite challenging. ”
On that day, Li Zicheng wore a fleece jacket on the inside, a hooded trench coat on the outside, and a hood on his face ("not blocking the wind"). Wear regular running shoes on your feet and crampons on your feet. Because of the reverse, he also broke a pair of crampons and was forced to replace it halfway.
In the end, he "seemed to run 76 points or 78 points" and won the first place in the half.
The last full marathon he completed was the Shenzhen Marathon on December 15, which crashed, two hours and twenty points, and there was no prize money (Shenzhen Horse does not have a Chinese runner award).
The reason why the last two games did not run well was because he had fought continuously before and "hollowed out his body." Originally, the state in the second half of the year was not good," Li Zicheng analyzed.
In the previous month, he had run five or six games in a row:
11/03 Hangzhou Marathon, 2:16:51, first in China, prize money of 20,000 yuan;
11/10 Jinhua Wucheng District Half Horse, 1:07:18, 3rd place, 4000 yuan;
11/17 Zhuji Xishi Marathon, 2:22:05, Champion, 10,000 yuan;
11/24 Huzhou Changxing Taihu Lake Tuying Marathon, 2:22:26, champion, 10,000 yuan (he took the last full horse of the prize money, the organizer "also gave a little car and horse fare");
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In fact, in the first half of last year, he had a very good record, three major competitions, three domestic first places:
Xiamen 2:15:04, the prize money is 25,000 yuan, which is his personal annual best, but unfortunately did not run into 2:15, otherwise he can get 50,000 full prizes;
Wuxi 2:15:08, bonus 50,000 yuan (if you enter 2:13 can get 100,000);
Dongying 2:16:39, bonus 4000 yuan (international tenth).
"Xiamen, Wuxi, and Dongying are all quite fierce, and they consume a lot of my body."
Looking back now, after those three games, the cost of plums should enter the adjustment period. But he continued to fight everywhere, always feeling that the gap between this one and those three games was not big, and he wanted to strengthen and expand his advantages.
"Actually, this idea is wrong, and I was already tired by then. This is called the authorities' obsession. He concluded.
In addition, in the first two or three years, he competed intensively, and the intensity was large, and his body accumulated fatigue, but he did not pay much attention to the warning signals issued by his body.
"When people go up the way, they always think they are okay, they keep tightening the screws, and when they are tight, their bodies will have problems." He sighed.
Altitude training, too late
In the second half of last year, Li Zicheng was in poor condition, and there was another important reason: "The plateau training time was not well grasped: the time spent too long, after coming down, the whole person was confused." A few of my players are too, and they are not good. ”
Li Zicheng leads his athletics club to the plateau every year. In the past, when they were in Shandong, they didn't go much, because the temperature in Shandong was acceptable. After settling in Ningbo, he felt that the local summer was too hot and unbearable.
Last year, the high temperature in Ningbo came early, and they traveled west to Guizhou on May 20, first practicing in Zunyi for two months, and then staying in Bijie for a month and a half, three and a half months.
"It's been too long. Normal, usually two months can be. ”
Zunyi is about 1,000 meters above sea level – although it is a sub-plateau, it is still difficult. The autonomous county under Bijie they went to reached an altitude of more than 2,200 meters (equivalent to Qinghai Doba).
Li Zicheng originally did not plan to stay in the plateau for so long, only because the two team members were injured after the University Games, they could not practice, and wanted to stay on the plateau for a longer time. In order to take care of them, he had to temporarily change his plans and extend his stay.
For the physical discomfort after returning to Ningbo, he has always thought that it is drunken oxygen. Later, I asked a doctor, and he said that drunk oxygen is simple, and it will be fine in a few days; you are not just drunk oxygen, but baffle oxygen.
He explained that the occult oxygen belongs to a kind of drunken oxygen; "I am a plains person, and I am not adaptable when I first arrived at the plateau. After living for a long time, after adapting, it is not suitable to return to the plains. A large amount of oxygen is inhaled, and the body cannot convert. ”
The Plum Athletics Club currently has six or seven players, half more than three or four before Last May.
They were all his Fellow Shandong fellows, and they were all college students or high school students. The latter falls into two categories:
A type of sports school student, who used to play the youth provincial competition. After the age is over, you can no longer compete for the school. After they heard that Li Zicheng was an athletics club, they wanted to follow them out to compete and earn money.
The other category is high school students who hope to enter college as sports students by improving their athletic skills.
These players are very strong. "The female Zhao Na marathon is 2 hours and 40 minutes, and there are several about 2 hours and 50 minutes; the male Lin Xin half horse is 66 minutes, and there are two or three 68 to 70 points, and the slowest is also 71 points."
"A boy who came last September, when he first arrived, he was half horse 76 points. I've been practicing for more than half a year, and now I estimate that running for 68 points is not a big problem. After running 30 km of training for the first two days, he ran down at an average pace of 3 and a half minutes. ”
At the peak of the epidemic, plum adults were in their hometown of Shandong, and training was not affected, because "early birds have insects to eat".
"We came out earlier in the morning and came out at 5.30. In winter, Shandong will light up at 7 o'clock, and by this time we have basically gone home. When we returned to the neighborhood, the security guard at the door was still sleeping. ”
In the early morning they can run boldly with confidence, because they can hardly touch people; in the afternoon they drive directly from the neighborhood to the mountain, where there are fewer people and it is safe.
Not being able to run the stadium also has its drawbacks: their training is all on the road, the muscle test is larger, and the recovery may be slower. Fortunately, after they returned to Ningbo on March 10, the local sports center was opened.
In the winter, their weekly running volume reached 200 kilometers, and now it has dropped to about 160 kilometers – the heat consumption is large and the recovery is slow.
Due to the heavy rain in Ningbo this spring and the weather was not too hot, he decided to go to the plateau later.
Economics and achievements, both stress-free
For Li Zicheng, there is no case where the competition for a good name has been cancelled or postponed due to the epidemic.
The reason is that he doesn't report for the competition – almost always by invitation.
Because the organizers usually invite late, when it comes to public registration, "we don't think about it at all." If you want to participate, contact me a month or how many days in advance, basically you can go to run, the problem is not big. It can be said that there is no shortage of competitions."
He said, who has no bonus income after New Year's Day: "I don't have much pressure on the economy. Because after the end of the Grand Slam, I don't think it's so important for the bonus. ”
In the "China Marathon Grand Slam" 2017-2018 season four stops and five races, Li Zicheng alone won the first place in 2017 North Malaysia, Guangma and 2018 Hanma and North Malaysia, and was elected as the best male athlete of the season in the competitive group.
On March 30, 2019, the award ceremony was held in Chongqing, and he and Li Dan, the best female athlete in the same group, each won a heavy award of 500,000 yuan.
In addition to the bonus income and accumulated savings, Li Zicheng also owns several houses in the cities where he stayed, Zaozhuang, Jinan, Ningbo, Zunyi and other places, with a monthly rent of more than 10,000 yuan, "enough for family expenses (laughs), because he has been running for many years."
As for the situation of other peers, he analyzed: "For us professional athletes, I think it is fine, the pressure is not very great.
"We didn't have much to spend. Because the average athlete has a sponsor, clothing, shoes do not need to buy, nutritional products generally as long as you have good results, there will be no sponsors will also have manufacturers to provide regularly, most people have.
"The rest of the normal living expenses, if you live at home, eating a month of one or two thousand yuan is enough, right?"
Even after the epidemic has passed and the competition has been fully liberalized, he who used to pay more attention to the number of participants will pay more attention to the quality of each game.
In fact, the number of his annual participations has gradually decreased from a maximum of 40 or 50 a few years ago to about 20 last year (of which the whole Malaysia is definitely more than 10), and may continue to shrink in the next few years.
"I came out early to play. After all, the sports career has not been a few years, and it is almost the same to run for another three or five years. ”
At present, Ningbo has begun to have some small-scale competitions with hundreds of people, but Li Zicheng did not participate because he felt that it did not mean much; "There were too many competitions before, there was no time to train, and it was good to calm down." ”
For the other two outside the system masters Guan Yousheng and Jia Errenjia broke through the 2:15 mark last year, Li Zicheng said that he was not worried:
"The progress of young people is also a boost for us. 2:14 is also ok. After all, their results are in Berlin, and that track is easier to run, because there are more people of similar levels, and everyone can take each other. ”
He himself had no plans to run a horse: "Now I don't have a very urgent mood for this particularly fast result. ”
Nevertheless, he created pb 2:11:49 and won the runner-up in 2010, and he is confident in his performance after the marathon is unsealed, because he has never been in retreat for such a long time.
"In March, I returned to Ningbo and practiced for six consecutive weeks. Now that I have a long rest time, I feel that my body is much better, and I have practiced more solidly, which should be counted as a stage of my sports career that has been practiced better.
"I've been busy racing all these years, there's no big breakout, it's always around 2:15. In the second half of the year, if the game is released, it will definitely be able to break through, but it is only a matter of how many breakthroughs. He laughed.
Source: Xinhua Marathon Run