Everyone is more or less surrounded by a group of inspirational "sportsmen", and all kinds of plans to flag and punch cards are particularly impressive. But you don't have to watch so much about this kind of thing, and you know that it often doesn't last for a few days. The poisonous oath of that year and the yearning for a beautiful figure will always become a dream that died in infancy. There are very few people around who can persist.
In order to encourage netizens to actively participate in sports activities and find a better life, as a runner, I want to share my eight-year running experience and mental journey with you, hoping to arouse everyone's * * * *, and get to the point without saying much.
It all started when I returned to the third grade eight years ago, 20 13 years ago. In the third grade, we are facing the senior high school entrance examination. Our senior high school entrance examination is about physical education, and one of the compulsory subjects is long-distance running, which is 65438 meters for boys and 800 meters for girls. My junior high school was famous in the city at that time. How can I put it? This is a strong sports school. Because the former brothers and sisters can get good grades in the physical education senior high school entrance examination, of course, it is inseparable from the hard training of physical education teachers. In fact, at that time, I knew what I was facing, and I also knew that I didn't actually do any exercise. I also stay at home and play computer or something, feeling that my darkness is coming. Before the third grade, a long-distance running was organized in the grade, and what impressed me the most was 1km. The playground of our school is relatively small, 200 meters. Run 1000, you have to run five laps. When I ran to the second lap, I began to lose my breath. I'm so tired. I calculated that there are still three laps to reach, and I feel that every breath of air is cutting my throat. I really think I can taste blood. It took me more than five minutes to run that kilometer. In my memory, it seems like a century.
Later, after a summer vacation, in the third grade, physical education class increased as planned, and the physical education senior high school entrance examination training became very tense. I have to run every day and train for three levels. If I want to say that my muscles are the most sour and refreshing in my life, I will definitely put the sour He Shuang of that time in the first place. I've used painkillers, too, otherwise I think it's hard for me to stick to it. Later, after continuous training, I gradually liked this feeling of muscle pain and enjoyed it. In fact, I found that my physical quality is ok. After all, I have always felt vulnerable, and I am not good at any sports, unlike a teenage boy. In the training of running, everyone followed the teacher's steps step by step at that time, but the level I could reach was far higher than theirs. It is the first time to know that I have a little physical advantage. In the later training, every kilometer I run, I can leave many people in the whole grade far behind. Well, to tell the truth, there is only one person in front, and I basically left everyone behind.
During the winter vacation (20 14), in order not to waste the previous training, I still insist on running every morning. At that time, I didn't pursue speed, just ran, either two or three kilometers or ten or twenty minutes. I do remember what the teacher said at that time. He said that if you want to run 1000 meters easily, you must have the physical strength to run 3000 meters. I went to this goal during the winter vacation. At that time, I was really out of breath when I ran 2km. After 3km, I feel that my body no longer belongs to me. After the end of the second semester of Grade Three, in April, I took part in the physical education senior high school entrance examination. I must remember that I ran 3 minutes 16 seconds, which was a good result. I have forgotten what the perfect score is, but I remember that the passing score is 3 minutes and 45 seconds. A classmate who has been running in front of me in training, he should have run less than 3 minutes 10 second. We held a physical education mid-term exam in a local high school playground. On that day, everyone was particularly United, cheering for the students on the runway, taking the test teacher and delivering water to the students. It was the first time in my life that I faced a large-scale exam. For the first time, I felt that half the people in the society participated in the work of the senior high school entrance examination more or less.
After the physical education entrance examination, it's time to review the tense culture class. Naturally, there is no physical education class in class, but I always feel something is missing when reading and brushing questions like this at ordinary times. I really miss the feeling of sweating like rain the week after the PE exam. Later, I also continued to run. I get to school early every morning. I go to the classroom to put down my bag and breakfast, and then I run directly down the playground. But I didn't run much, just to refresh myself.
The thought of the joint physical education exam in senior three really changed my mind. The entrance examination for physical education made me realize that I can have good running results without exercising before. After running, many things that I used to feel very tired suddenly relaxed a lot. I seem to have more spirit and confidence to face more suffering. Exercise makes me happy and brings me more happiness. Somehow, I told myself that physical exercise must be persisted.
I don't remember. I didn't insist on physical exercise after the exam. Let's start from high school.
September 20 14, I went to high school. High school is a little far from home, so I started boarding for the first time. I thought my high school could have a 400-meter playground, but there isn't.
Compared with junior high school curriculum, senior high school curriculum has become more complicated. Nevertheless, I don't forget to often go downstairs to the playground with my roommate to exercise. At that time, there were about two hours of free activities between recess and evening self-study every afternoon. At this time, students of our grade can be seen on the parallel bars on the playground. Some of us were brought down by friends, and some of us are sports lovers at ordinary times. They all get together to exercise or something. Looking back now, the parallel bars at that time became a gathering place for our after-school social activities. Of course, there are more men and fewer women.
It is in this atmosphere that I am exposed to other forms of sports besides running: push-ups, pull-ups and simple parallel bars. Let's talk mainly about running. Actually, I didn't run much at that time. After three years, I rarely run more than 2km, which is usually five laps 1km of jogging playground. Of course, I didn't run as fast as the PE exam. At that time, it took ten laps to run 2km. To tell the truth, it was a painful process for me at that time. I have to rest for a day or two every 2 kilometers.
Sophomore summer vacation, I remember it was 2065438+July 2006. I went to a park around the lake for a "long run", which is about 4 kilometers around the lake. Anyway, it was a long-distance relationship for me. It was four or five o'clock in the hot summer in Guangzhou, and I was walking in the heat wave. At first, I thought it was ok, but I still had room to easily avoid pedestrians in the park, and my clothes were not completely soaked by sweat. But after running more than 1km, the soles of the feet began to feel burning, and the chest was particularly hot. Finally, I ran to the location of 2 kilometers. I stopped and walked for a while as planned. At this time, it was the other side of the lake, and the sun was running behind me, continuing to bake my sweat-soaked clothes. After a short walk, I felt a little cold with a breeze, and the sun didn't seem as hot as before. But the second run is still a kind of torture. It's hard to detonate. My legs have not fully recovered from the previous consumption (this is impossible), and each leg feels a little soft when landing. I felt blisters on the soles of my feet, so I changed my landing posture slightly to avoid too much pain. In this way, I stumbled through the second paragraph. Don't ask me why I remember it so clearly, so I specially looked through my old diary, hahaha.
That summer vacation, I remember running like this once. After all, I am at home on holiday, and there is no park suitable for sports near my home. Don't ask, asking is laziness.
Later, I soon went to senior three. My senior three, like everyone else, started in August (2065438+2006). Despite the heavy academic work in senior three, there will always be people in the parallel bars, and many top students have joined the ranks of our straight men. The only difference is that they really come to exercise to relieve stress. My exercise hasn't changed much either. The longest run is only 2km, plus push-ups and so on. As early as the second year of high school, many students knew that I often ran, and students who played basketball on the playground often saw me running again. Unconsciously, running has become a label for others to know me.
165438+ 10, participated in the 800m school sports meeting. At first, I ran in the front line, and everyone sprinted behind me, so I couldn't. I failed to win the top three and got the fourth place. But being able to participate in the school sports meeting can be regarded as catching the tail and making up for the regret of not participating in the school sports meeting before.
Later, I took the college entrance examination. I am a science student, and my grades are not excellent. I don't think I did anything out of line in the college entrance examination and was disappointed in the examination room. I played normally and had no regrets in the admission process. In short, the college entrance examination is really the fairest for me. I was admitted to two colleges in the province and my favorite major.
I came to a school with a 400-meter-long playground, two playgrounds and, of course, the school road. The environment is beautiful and it is comfortable to run. Four years in college can also be regarded as four years of rapid progress in my running career.
20 17 At the end of September, the military training of freshmen ended, and an Eleventh Golden Week was directly placed in the first place. I didn't leave school in a hurry Two days later,1one afternoon in early October, I went directly to the playground to do a 10km. It is the school's second track and field, located at the foot of a big mountain, with green eyes on one side and broad blue sky on the other, and several mountains not far away. This is the environment in which I run. When you are tired, run 3 kilometers, usually 5 kilometers. Run 10km when you have time to practice endurance, and sometimes run 15km. After-school time is much more than that of high school, and running exercise begins to increase.
In fact, no one told me how to scientifically exercise my long-distance running ability. This is how I put on my headphones and started running. The uncomfortable process is definitely indispensable. Whenever I feel really uncomfortable, I won't force myself. I will slow down and let my body adapt. When you can't stop running at the beginning of 10km, you run in stages, at first it is 3-3-3- 1, 5-5, and then it is 7-3. Soon, I can run 10km in one breath.
One of my roommates, when he first reported to school, we chatted together and found that he liked long-distance running. Later I found out that he really likes long-distance running. When he first went to school, he could run longer distances easily than I did. During that time, he has been my role model. We also go running together from time to time. Later in the first semester, in June+February, 5438, he went home to participate in the local half horse and made a circle of friends. I really admire him. At that time, 22 kilometers was a bit far for me.
Half a horse has also become my goal to approach in the coming year. Throughout 20 18, I still insist on running at least three times a week. Run 3km for the first time, 5km for the second time and 10km for the third time every week, although it is basically not perfect for two weeks in a row. But overall, there is actually no deviation. My pace is also improving, and I often hear Keep Jun tell me in my ear that he broke his own record.
The running distance is longer and the running process is longer. Sometimes when I run, I think, what am I running for besides exercise? Looking back now, this answer will be somewhat different in different periods of my university. Apart from relieving stress and mood, I never had a fixed and resounding answer until this moment of the code word. However, one thing seems to never change. There will always be me running in the school in spring, summer, autumn and winter. I like the weather in April and May best. In the days when spring and summer alternate, the days are getting longer and longer. I ran on the slightly wet school road, and the air was full of the fragrance of the revival of everything. After running and eating in the afternoon, I still have a chance to send the sun west. It hides on the other side of the mountain and never gives up. I also like running in the weather in October and November. Although it is not as crisp as autumn in Guangdong, the weather at this time is really comfortable. The midsummer heat has subsided. In the past, there were only a few quiet and poetic frogs. If you can run on the playground, just look up at the blue sunset in autumn at four or five o'clock. Running gives me a chance to get in touch with nature and calm my heart.
20 18 12, and participated in the half horse as expected. I went with my roommate, and he didn't need marathon experience to sign up for the semi-horse in Zhongshan. It is also unforgettable. It's my first time running a horse, and I'm limping. The day before running half a horse, a party was organized in the grade. We arranged a disco in the university classroom. I sprained my left foot with too much force in the wild dance, and my instep was swollen. Although I didn't hurt my bones and muscles, I couldn't even walk for those days. I ran from school and my roommate to Zhongshan under such physical conditions, ready to fight to the death. I think I really can't run, so I'll go. According to my roommate, at the end of the race, there will be a car to transport the runners who haven't finished running to the finish line.
I got up after five o'clock that morning. Although it's only 15 degrees, it's probably because of a foot injury, and it feels particularly cold. I struggled to get up and get dressed, and it took me a lot of effort to put on my shoes. When I stood up, I found that my left shoe was obviously bigger than my right shoe. We boarded the bus next to Zhongshan Zhong Xing Gymnasium at the starting point of the competition. I walked a short distance with difficulty. The genius is dim, and the scene is already crowded. After storing the materials, it's almost 7 o'clock, and a bunch of people gather at the starting point to do warm-up activities. I'm actually a little scared and nervous. After all, it's the first time I sprained my ankle. This is my first time. My foot is in serious condition, what should I do if I leave sequelae? Maybe I will end my running career from now on.
I don't want to worry too much. At 7 o'clock, the starting gun started on time and everyone began to rush into the track. Half a horse started, and I staggered like a car without wheels.
In the first kilometer, everyone ran more intensively, like running on a big playground. Some people run with flags, obviously advertising, and some people wear strange clothes. To tell the truth, running with a flag or wearing such heavy clothes is still quite awesome. After a while, I ran into the tunnel. Someone shouted excitedly in the tunnel. My roommate and one of his junior high school classmates are still running next to me. They took out their mobile phones to shoot videos. I'm still stumbling.
But I seem to be running, forgetting the pain, and my left foot doesn't seem to think that I am struggling to resist my evil deeds. I started to speed up a little bit, so I ran across Zhongshan Road and ran to a bridge. It was raining lightly on the road, and everyone was running in the rain. The continuous light rain washed the asphalt road, soaked my mesh running shoes and wet my hair. Running all the time, I dare not stop, for fear that I will have a sharp pain when I lift my feet after a rest. For an hour, an hour and a half, I didn't wear glasses, but when I vaguely saw the portrait of Sun Yat-sen in front of me, I knew I was almost at the end. At last100-200m, I caught up and crossed the finish line. This battle is over. It took me two hours and ten minutes, my first half horse.
Shortly after running, my feet really hurt, but they didn't get worse. I'm soaked and really cold, but I'm really happy. This rain is actually quite good, at least it moistens the air and makes the heart and lungs comfortable all the way down.
My second half race was held in a local school in Ma Zaixue. March 20 19, no foot injury. I ran for two hours in that half race. I remember using 1 hour for more than 40 minutes.
I only ran these two and a half horses. Then there was an epidemic, and there was no such activity.
Running has become my way of life. Except for half a horse, I continued to run on the school track and playground. When I go back to my hometown in Guangzhou on holiday, I will go to Huanhu Park for my first "long-distance running" from time to time. Now I can run more than two laps at a time, haha.
After four years in college, running made me like other outdoor sports. Besides running, I also like to make all kinds of equipment in the playground. I often go out for cycling on Saturday and Sunday, and I also like climbing mountains and wading. I have basically clocked in by bike in every corner of the city where my university is located. Behind the school is a big mountain. I climb it from time to time to overlook the whole city. The strength of all these outdoor activities comes from my physical strength, physical quality and mentality accumulated in practicing long-distance running.
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I don't want to show how good I can run by writing this running experience. I have always thought that the happiness, interest and value I gained when crossing my legs are more important than running itself, and the physical pain I felt when crossing my legs must be dwarfed by the pleasure I got.
I'm not encouraging you to run, but encouraging you to find fun in a physical exercise or interest, stick to it and benefit from your physical and mental health and even your life trajectory.
Finally, put some photos to commemorate my previous running career.
I wonder if there are any alumni in the two playgrounds and the school road where I often run. hahaha.
The other side of the second day is really a big mountain. Although I seldom went there to run because I was a little far from the dormitory, it was really healing to run here with my back against the mountains and my head looking at the blue sky when the weather was fine. But I don't seem to have any photos either.
I heard that the record of Keep is always faster than the actual record, but I always use Keep. If Keep's algorithm is not updated, the measurement dimension of my grades should not change. I'm still using keep, but I can't break my own record anymore.
This is the World War II Half Horse in March of 19.
All right, that's it!
The original text was published in August 20021,15. The author Zhihu's eight-year persistence in running: my mental journey.
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