When crossing the finish line, Qiu Wen looked around and found that he was the first runner to cross the line. He waved his fist excitedly. After buffering for a while, he subconsciously looked up and found Su Bai and his teammates in the stands. He excitedly waved in their direction.
Although he only ranked first in the group stage and the final ranking has not yet been determined, Qiu Wen himself can feel that his condition today can be said to be exceptionally outstanding.
Although he controlled his speed in the first 200 meters, Qiu Wen could feel that his speed was not much slower than his normal 200-meter run in the past. He roughly estimated in his mind that his speed in the first 200 meters would be around 22.1 or 2 seconds. When it came to the 200 to 300-meter stage, he subconsciously followed Su Bai's requirements and controlled his speed, running at his usual training speed. The speed might have dropped too much at this stage, but in the sprint of the last stage, although he was a little tired and lacked oxygen, he still increased his speed a little.
Qiu Wen estimated again and again in his mind, and he always felt that his result should be within 48 seconds. As for how many seconds exactly, he didn't quite understand.
In short, there should be hope for the finals, right?
Thinking of this, Qiu Wen grinned and felt that the coldness on his scalp had slightly lessened.
After Qiu Wen ran for a short distance, the previous momentum was basically relieved. As soon as he stopped, a greeting voice came from behind him.
"Hey, Qiu Wen, right?" Lin Chuan rushed up from behind. He glanced at the name on Qiu Wen's athlete bib, then walked to Qiu Wen's side, looked at Qiu Wen again, and praised: "Good boy, you are amazing. At the beginning, I saw you running so fast, I thought you couldn't control your speed, but you turned out to be ahead of me the whole time."
"You are still a rookie in the 400m, right? It's incredible that a rookie can perform like this in his first race. You have a bright future!"
Lin Chuan's praise made Qiu Wen grin again. He scratched his head and smiled silly: "Hehehe, I also think I have a bright future!"
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This was the first time Lin Chuan saw Qiu Wen being praised by others, and he also started to praise his newcomer. However, Qiu Wen's character obviously showed that he had no scheming intentions. Lin Chuan could even tell that he really thought so.
Thinking of this, Lin Chuan also shook his head with amusement: "Okay, okay, but you ran so hard in the preliminaries. Don't let your condition be worse than in the preliminaries when you enter the finals."
Hearing Lin Chuan's words, Qiu Wen was not worried at all. He waved his hand and said, "It's okay. I haven't run a competition for a long time. Now I just want to run more. As long as I can make it to the finals, I will be fine!"
At this point, Qiu Wen patted his chest with lingering fear, and said with a serious look on his face: "As long as I can enter the finals, it will be fine. If I can't enter the finals, that would be dangerous!"
Obviously, Qiu Wen was worried that he would not be able to eat the delicious food made by Su Bai after he returned, but Lin Chuan did not know the reason. He glanced at Qiu Wen and thought that Qiu Wen had given some kind of military order to the team, or that Qiu Wen's team attached too much importance to the performance of the team members and would give a hard time to the team members who performed poorly.
He thought about it and didn't ask directly. Instead, he patted Qiu Wen on the shoulder and comforted her, "Don't worry. Before coming to the competition, I have already looked at the list of runners this time. Among them, there are no more than 6 who can run within 48 seconds every time. The performance of the remaining runners fluctuates a lot. With your speed just now, there is no problem running within 48 seconds. You will definitely have a place in today's finals."
As soon as Lin Chuan finished comforting Qiu Wen, the referee team had already counted the results of this group of 400-meter athletes through the loudspeaker at the scene, and the official announcement was made on the radio.
"In the ninth group of the men's 400m preliminary round of the National Track and Field Grand Prix H City, first place: Qiu Wen (S Province Track and Field Team), 47.76 seconds (wind speed +1.1m/s), second place: Lin Chuan (Z Province Track and Field Team), 47.89 seconds, third place..."
As the announcement on the radio ended, there was a warm applause and whistles from the audience. In this kind of domestic track and field Grand Prix race, usually, among more than a hundred athletes in a dozen groups, no more than 10 athletes can finally run under 48 seconds. In the ninth group just now, the top two athletes both ran under 48 seconds. It can be said that the first place result and competition of the ninth group were the most intense and exciting among all the groups in the preliminaries.
The track and field fans who came to watch the game naturally did not hesitate to give applause and encouragement to the athletes for their wonderful performances.
There were also quite a few track and field fans in the audience who didn’t often go online. After cheering for a while, they were all excitedly discussing who this new 400-meter runner who had suddenly appeared was.
"Looking at Qiu Wen's appearance, could he be a newcomer who just got promoted from the youth group? But I haven't heard of such a person among the youth 400-meter runners?"
"Wait, as for Qiu Wen, I do know that there is a guy named Qiu Wen who runs the 100m and 200m events. He seems to be from the S Province Track and Field Team. Are there two Qiu Wens in the S Province Track and Field Team?"
These track and field fans were not discussing in a very organized manner, and their audience seats were not too close to the athletes, so they could not see any details of Qiu Wen's appearance, and they never thought that this Qiu Wen was the same Qiu Wen.
It was the forum members of the Track and Field Kingdom who were sitting not far from them who heard their discussion and told them the correct answer: [The Qiu Wen who ran 400 meters is the guy who ran 100 meters and 200 meters. 】
"Ah?" A middle-aged track and field fan wearing black-framed glasses was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked: "Isn't Qiu Wen also good at running 100 and 200? Why did he suddenly switch to 400?"
When the members of the Track and Field Kingdom heard this question, they all burst into laughter. They were very familiar with this question. Hadn't they questioned this issue in the forum for a long time before?
So one of the forum members, who looked to be in his twenties, started to educate the track and field fans nearby: "We hang out on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum. Hey, when the news of Qiu Wen switching to the 400m came out, we were also skeptical. Some people even contacted the S Province Track and Field Team to ask them why they were so crazy that they switched a good 100m and 200m athlete to practice the 400m."
"But later, the S Province Track and Field Team directly posted an announcement on Weibo, saying that Qiu Wen's talent in the 400m event is much better than that in the 100m and 200m events, and his talent is also guaranteed by Wu Shengping from the national team."
"Just because of this, we on the forum have been waiting for Qiu Wen's first race for a month. Now, the results of his first race are out: 47.76 seconds! He beat veteran Lin Chuan in the first race and ran under 48 seconds in the first race... How long has he been training for the 400 meters? Less than two months!"
"Look at this talent? Can it be better than his previous 100 and 200?"
Listening to the gossip from the Track and Field Kingdom forum, everyone present immediately picked up their phones and looked through the announcement released by the S Province Track and Field Team some time ago - sure enough, it contained what the young man said, and there were also forwarded comments from Wu Shengping and He Yishen.
Everyone nodded in understanding, with excitement showing on their faces.
"No wonder. I was wondering why Qiu Wen switched to 400 when he was running well in 100 and 200 before. He only practiced 400 for two months to reach this level. He must switch to 400, otherwise how can he live up to his talent!"
"That's right." The one who spoke was the middle-aged man with black-framed glasses. "There is really a lack of talent in the 400-meter race in our country. Let alone the World Championships, the Olympics, and the Diamond League. Even in an Asian competition, you can't even make it to the finals..."
Speaking of this topic, the track and field fans in the audience felt a little disappointed. There are good 400-meter hopefuls in China, but after these hopefuls run into 47 or 8 seconds, it is very difficult for them to make further progress. The domestic track and field fans couldn't figure it out. Is it because the yellow race is really not suitable for sprinting, or is it because the coaching level of domestic track and field coaches is not good enough?
"Oh, don't mention that. This time, Qiu Wen doesn't look like the previous contestants. His performance in his first match after two months of training is amazing! I think we might have caught an awesome genius this time."
The audience in the auditorium were discussing the event excitedly, and in the Athletics Kingdom forum, the enthusiasm of the forum members exploded because of this achievement after more than a month of waiting.
Subject: [Good news! In his first 400m race two months after changing his sport, Qiu Wen won first place in the group in the H City race with a time of 47.76 seconds! 】
After this post was published, it was pushed to a climax by the friends in the sprint section of the forum. Everyone in the thread was beaming with joy, and had an exceptionally happy and cheerful spirit.
1l: [Sofa! I've taken this opportunity, congratulations to Xiao Qiu! Keep up the good work and achieve even better results! 】
3l: [I feel relieved after seeing the result of today's competition. He has been training for less than two months and he has already broken 48 seconds in the competition. Xiao Qiu is good. I am optimistic that he can run under 47.60 seconds in this year's outdoor season! 】
10l: [Xiao Qiu is awesome, Su Bai is awesome! I want to apologize to Coach Su Bai. When the news first broke out, I scolded the S Province Track and Field Team for being inhumane, transferring Qiu Wen to the 400 meters and assigning him a useless rookie coach who knew nothing. I have already slapped myself in the face just now - let me say it again, Xiao Qiu did a great job and Coach Su Bai taught well! 】
13l: [When I saw the 10th floor, I thought of Coach Su Bai. To be honest, the S Province Track and Field Team has never produced any particularly good talents in the 400m event in the past. Zhao Heping's training expertise is more inclined towards the training guidance of 100m and 200m. The 400m event was just a useless event in the previous S Province Track and Field Team. It seems that the 400m athletes were recruited in pursuit of the completeness of the event. Unexpectedly, with Qiu Wen and Su Bai this time, their 400-meter event should be revitalized. 】
Not only on site and online, in the S Province Track and Field Team, He Yishen and Zhao Heping were actually also keeping an eye on the 400m results of this race. They told the team leader to report Qiu Wen's results in the 400m preliminaries to them as soon as they were released.
So, Zhao Heping and He Yishen, who were sitting in He Yishen's office chatting with He Yishen while waiting for a call, also received Qiu Wen's 400m preliminary battle report as soon as possible.
"Oh?! 47.76 seconds!"
Hearing the result, He Yishen and Zhao Heping were immediately delighted. After hanging up the phone, they smiled at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they already knew Qiu Wen's talent in the 400m from the previous test matches, and also knew that Su Bai was very good at coaching the 400m, the test matches within the team were test matches, and the official competition was another matter.
Just looking at the fact that so many athletes are "good at training but terrible at competition", you will know that the condition during the competition cannot be determined by the results during training. Although Qiu Wen has never had any problems in competitions in the past, isn't this his first time participating in the 400 meters?
He Yishen and the photos couldn't help but feel a little more worried.
Fortunately, this result thoroughly verified Qiu Wen's potential and talent in the 400 meters, and also proved that Su Bai is indeed capable of teaching Qiu Wen well.
Thinking of this, Zhao Heping couldn't help but shook his head and said, "I always felt a little worried when I saw Su Bai's training plans before. How can athletes not have enough training hours? He explained to me a lot about the recovery and improvement of athletes' physical functions through proper relaxation. However, we also have those theories in foreign research papers. We have tried them before, but the control group of our experiment didn't perform well. I always feel that those foreign theories may not be suitable for our domestic athletes."
After a pause, Zhao Heping continued, "Now it seems that it's not that those advanced theories from abroad are not suitable for our domestic athletes. I'm afraid we didn't study them thoroughly at the beginning and didn't really understand the context of these foreign theories."
He Yishen nodded when he heard this, and then he thought that in addition to Qiu Wen, there were two other 400-meter athletes in the team, Hu Li and Zhang Wei.
He Yishen thought for a moment and said, "Old Zhao, how about we let Su Bai coach Hu Li and Zhang Wei as well? It just so happens that there is no control group for Qiu Wen's 400-meter performance before, and it is hard to say whether his performance is due to Su Bai's current training methods and theories. However, Hu Li and Zhang Wei are veterans of our team for many years. Let Su Bai coach them and use his theories and training plans to see if it works for veterans like Hu Li and Zhang Wei."
At this point, He Yishen added: "If it works, it proves that Su Bai should have mastered a fairly advanced set of training concepts and methods. When the time comes, let him write these into a research paper and then give training to the coaches in our team. This will also be beneficial to him."
Hearing He Yishen's suggestion, Zhao Heping nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll talk to him about this when he comes back."
Zhao Heping certainly understood what He Yishen meant by the benefits. Su Bai used his ten years of athlete qualifications to become a coach, but his grades were average when he was an athlete, and he only obtained a third-level coaching qualification certificate when he was in college. Now the team cannot increase his salary even if they want to.
Fortunately, he also has a job in the kitchen, which provides him with an additional salary subsidy.
In order to improve his rating in the future, Su Bai must contribute to the team and have achievements that are visible to everyone. In addition, if he wants to improve his rating, he must have a lot of research papers.
All of He Yishen's words were meant to guarantee Su Bai's future rating improvement. Of course, Zhao Heping remembered them all carefully and planned to explain them to his apprentice when he got back.
h City Sports Center Stadium
After the 400m preliminaries, Qiu Wen, Hu Li and Zhang Wei met and found Su Bai together.
In today's competition, Hu Li and Zhang Wei were in average condition, with their scores both below 48 seconds, and they have missed the chance to enter the finals. Qiu Wen, with a score of 47.76, ranked 4th in the preliminaries and successfully qualified for today's finals. Lin Chuan, who was in the same group with him, also entered this afternoon's competition with a score of 7th in the preliminaries.
After seeing his own results, Qiu Wen was overjoyed. After seeing Su Bai, his eyes lit up and he immediately wanted to report the good news. However, before he could do so, he saw Su Bai looking at him calmly. So Qiu Wen, who was originally very happy, immediately became timid.
Oh my, ever since Su Xiaobai became his coach, his prestige has been growing. Now when Qiu Wen sees Su Bai in "coach mode", he can't help but tremble at his heart.
Qiu Wen thought about how he had performed today. After much thought, he recalled his sharp slowdown at 300 meters, and then he sentenced himself to death in his heart.
Su Bai didn't expect that Qiu Wen sentenced himself to death before he could say anything.
In fact, Qiu Wen's performance was already very good for a runner who was participating in the 400m for the first time, not to mention that Qiu Wen did not have a very good talent for controlling his speed.
In normal training, Su Bai deliberately trained Qiu Wen so that he could master several different speed states in terms of body conditioned reflexes, but this training method has both advantages and disadvantages.
Because this speed training has not yet reached the later stage, Qiu Wen's speed control has indeed improved, but this speed control is not flexible enough. In other words, he may be able to subconsciously and instinctively switch to a speed state he is accustomed to, but whether the speed state in training is suitable for the state during the live competition is hard to say.
Take Qiu Wen’s condition today for example.
Su Bai could see that after this period of preparation and training, Qiu Wen's overall competitive state had reached a small peak. In this state, he ran the first 200 meters very smoothly, and this increase in speed did not bring much physical burden to Qiu Wen.
However, even in this state, Qiu Wen could not effectively or consciously adjust his speed rhythm. He still lowered his speed according to the speed rhythm of normal training. This speed reduction actually affected his current personal competitive state and sense of fluency.
Even though Qiu Wen slowed down his pace again in the 300-400 meter stage, his rhythm had actually been affected to a certain extent after the speed was reduced in the middle 200-300 meter stage, so that his final result was 47.76 seconds.
Su Bai can be said to be both satisfied with this result, but also a little regretful.
What is satisfying is that Qiu Wen's talent is indeed strong, and his current competitive state is indeed excellent. What is regrettable is that Qiu Wen's training time is too short so far, and he has too many technical deficiencies and shortcomings in rhythm control.
However, this also made Su Bai more determined. After returning, he must do more polishing on the training plan based on Qiu Wen's condition, so that Qiu Wen can further demonstrate his own talent and strength.
At this moment, he saw Qiu Wen coming back. That calm face didn't mean he wanted to teach him a lesson, but just wanted Qiu Wen not to be too proud. After all, there was a tough 400-meter final to fight in the afternoon.
What Su Bai didn't expect was that Qiu Wen, who was originally very happy, immediately looked timid after seeing him, and then he shyly came to Su Bai and apologized to him first.
I listened to Qiu Wen's speech about how he shouldn't have made speed control mistakes at 300 meters, and shouldn't have been too fast in the first 200 meters, which led to an unreasonable distribution of physical energy in the first and second halves of the race...
Su Bai was confused for a moment when he looked at Qiu Wen who had just admitted his mistake, but he still managed to keep a calm expression and look on his face. He then nodded to Qiu Wen and asked him to pay attention to controlling his condition during the afternoon competition.
Beside Qiu Wen, Hu Li and Zhang Wei were both stunned when they saw Qiu Wen start to admit his mistake with his body straight. Then they couldn't help but stand up straight and stand beside Qiu Wen, like two elementary school students accompanying him to admit his mistake.
After all... Qiu Wen ran 47.76 today, which is a huge improvement over his usual training time of around 48.20, and he still admitted his mistake in front of Su Bai. Then the two of them who were not in good shape today and failed to run the ideal results, shouldn't they keep their tails between their legs?
At this moment, Hu Li and Zhang Wei were both feeling fortunate in their hearts - they didn't expect Su Bai to be such a devil coach. They had actually thought about joining Su Bai's team before, but now they thought, it's a good thing that their coach is not Su Bai.
The place where the three met was still in the sports center. Coincidentally, some members of the Track and Field Kingdom Forum recognized the four people as Qiu Wen, Su Bai and two other members of the S Province Track and Field Team.
Seeing Qiu Wen admitting his mistake obediently and Su Bai's calm face, this forum member of Track and Field Kingdom couldn't help but slow down his pace and didn't dare to disturb them. However, he still secretly took a photo with his mobile phone and then posted it on the Track and Field Kingdom forum.
Topic: [How to become an excellent 400-meter athlete - first you need a devil coach. 】
The homepage of the post uploaded a photo of Qiu Wen obediently admitting his mistakes and reflecting on himself in front of Su Bai. The poster also repeated some of the content that he vaguely heard.
Immediately, people in the forum also gave surprised reactions.
3l: [Hey, if Qiu Wen’s performance in the first match today was in the hands of other team’s coaches, they would have praised him to the sky, and would have definitely praised him well and let him fight hard in the final in the afternoon. I didn’t expect that he would still admit his mistake in front of Su Bai...! It's scary. You couldn't tell anything about Su Bai when he was an athlete, but I didn't expect that he would become a devil coach after becoming a coach! 】
8l: [I really can’t tell, this Su Bai has a clean face and seems to be easy to talk to, but you see, not only Qiu Wen, but also the other two veteran members of the 400m event of the S Province Track and Field Team, they were also coached by Su Bai, right? He is actually so obedient in front of Su Bai... He really is a real man who never reveals his true colors! 】
Since this post had pictures and facts, and was closely related to today's hot topic figure Qiu Wen, it quickly spread on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum.
Su Bai had no idea that he had only wanted Qiu Wen to be less arrogant, but after a series of chain reactions, he had already gained a reputation as a "devil coach" in the eyes of some track and field enthusiasts...
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