The canteen of the national team is different from that of the S Province Track and Field Team. The canteen of the national team adopts the form of self-service catering. All buffet meals are planned by nutritionists. At the same time, nutritionists will cooperate with coaches to prescribe food for athletes to choose from during the corresponding training cycle according to the needs of coaches.
Compared with the meal plans prepared directly by the chefs for the S Province Track and Field Team, in the national team's cafeteria, athletes will receive a nutritional meal list and can choose their preferred foods from a variety of foods.
At the national track and field team, the canteen is also divided into three floors. The first and second floors separate the canteens for track and field events and athletes, while the third floor is for some gold medal athletes of the track and field team. There will be some specially customized nutrition packages provided for them. This format is somewhat similar to the canteen of the S Province Track and Field Team.
After Su Bai contacted the national team's head nutritionist and chef through Sun Xiangdong, he borrowed the kitchen and VIP rooms on the third floor of the cafeteria from them.
"Coach Su." The national team's head chef Jin Manjiang was waiting in the kitchen with a smile on his face. Standing next to him was his old partner, Tang Jiangtao, the team's head nutritionist.
"Master Jin, Teacher Tang, thank you for your help this time." When Su Bai arrived at the kitchen, he saw the two kitchen managers who were waiting for him.
"No trouble, no trouble." Jin Manjiang waved his chubby hands: "Oh, we are also very surprised to meet Coach Su."
As Jin Manjiang spoke, he and Tang Jiangtao both laughed.
Speaking of which, both of them are veterans in the food forum "ShiSeShengXiang". Some time ago, the Dou family father and son posted three food reviews in a row, which aroused the enthusiasm of many gourmets in the forum. But in the end, it was revealed that the chef they evaluated was a track and field coach from the S province track and field team, which cut off the gourmets' food search.
In the forum, apart from the Dou father and son, the only two people who have eaten Su Bai's food are Qian Desheng and Li Ruisheng. According to their feedback, although Su Bai cooks a big pot of food in the cafeteria, the taste is indeed excellent.
Unfortunately, since then, no gourmet has been able to find a way to eat on the third floor of the canteen of the S Province Track and Field Team.
The day before, Tang Jiangtao was a little confused when he received a call from Sun Xiangdong - why would a coach from the national team want to borrow the kitchen? After asking carefully, it turned out to be Su Bai who had been mentioned in the forum before.
After exchanging greetings with Tang Jiangtao and Jin Manjiang for a while, Su Bai quickly picked out some ingredients for dinner from the storage room in the back kitchen under Jin Manjiang's instructions.
Compared with the previous time in the track and field team's kitchen, the quality of ingredients here in the national team's kitchen is even higher. The national team's catering standards for athletes in training are basically maintained between 250 yuan/day and 300 yuan/day. Various fresh fish, shrimp, beef, and some Chinese medicinal materials for food supplements and stews are also always available in the kitchen.
When selecting ingredients, Jin Manjiang also smiled and let Su Bai use them freely: "These ingredients were originally included in the meal plan for the athletes in training, but some of them are Chinese herbal medicines, which are too troublesome to prepare. The kitchen can't take care of all the players, so they can only be specially supplied to some people. Coach Su, if you like any of them, just take them directly."
After explaining these things to Su Bai, Jin Manjiang and Tang Jiangtao also went to the side to take care of other things - it is still the outdoor season, and most of the top players who originally trained with the national team for a long time are still training through competitions abroad. Their kitchen has actually been idle for quite a while. With the arrival of the Asian Games training personnel in the past two days, the workload of Tang Jiangtao and Jin Manjiang has suddenly increased.
Although they really wanted to have a meal at Su Bai's place today, they were all busy, so after a brief greeting, Jin Manjiang left a kitchen helper for Su Bai and left first.
While Su Bai was preparing for the evening's 'welcoming banquet', the 400-meter sprinters also did some simple adaptive training on the training ground. At the same time, they chatted with each other, occasionally talking about their impressions of the new coach.
The athletes present at the venue currently only knew Su Bai as a coach in name only. Therefore, Qiu Wen, the athlete who was personally brought into the 400-meter sprint event by Su Bai, of course received the highest welcome treatment in the venue. Several other athletes more or less talked to Qiu Wen and asked him about Su Bai's usual requirements in training.
"Xiaobai's training requirements?" Qiu Wen scratched his head. "Is it okay? Xiaobai's training is quite strict, but Xiaobai is very good!"
As Su Bai's 'direct disciple', Qiu Wen certainly wouldn't say anything bad about Su Bai. What's more, with his continuous improvement in performance, Qiu Wen had long forgotten the tragic past when his midnight snack was cancelled because he failed to complete the speed control training. Now when he mentioned Su Bai, his face was full of pride as if "my coach Xiaobai is so awesome".
Seeing Qiu Wen's reaction, everyone who originally thought Su Bai seemed easy to talk to breathed a sigh of relief, and then dispersed to train, waiting for the "welcome banquet" from their new coach in the evening.
Among the athletes present, the only one who felt something was wrong was Zhang Ziyi. Seeing that the other players around him had relaxed their vigilance, Zhang Ziyi quietly found Wang Ting, the coach of their B City team.
"Coach, please tell me something. I feel like there's something wrong with Coach Su's practice match..."
When Wang Ting saw Zhang Ziyi coming to him alone, he was not surprised. For the 400-meter athletes of the national team, Zhang Ziyi was the one with the most experience in foreign competitions.
For other players, in most cases they only participate in domestic competitions, and even more often they only participate in Asian Grand Prix-level competitions, and they are often only eliminated in the first round of the preliminaries. They rarely have the experience of competing against high-level players, and of course they will not immediately realize what level of strength the players ranked between 50 and 100 in the world that Su Bai mentioned actually have.
Only Zhang Ziyi, because he had more opportunities to participate in foreign wars, could perceive the difference more keenly.
Wang Ting actually learned about Su Bai's plan only after he reported to the national team. Wang Ting couldn't say whether Su Bai's approach was right or wrong. He just glanced at Zhang Ziyi and said, "Don't think too much. In short, you just need to run well when the time comes."
Zhang Ziyi didn't get any answer from his old coach. The only thing he could feel was that from the serious tone of Wang Ting's reply, it could be seen that Su Bai really attached great importance to this practice match.
Seeing that Zhang Ziyi ran to talk to Wang Ting and came back with a worried look on his face, Guo Dun and Li Junhao asked what happened to Zhang Ziyi.
"Nothing..." Zhang Ziyi suppressed his slightly uneasy mood and said to Li Junhao: "Ah Hao, you must remember to concentrate and train well during this period!"
Listening to Zhang Ziyi's teachings, Li Junhao curled his lips, but still nodded: "Okay, I get it."
For the athletes, the afternoon adaptive training time passed quickly, and when it was almost 6 o'clock, Qiu Wen was already eager to move. After seeing Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen coming to meet up, he quickly and excitedly called the other 400-meter athletes and coach Wang Ting to go to the kitchen.
The other contestants who had never eaten the 'Xiaobai Special Meal' did not seem particularly excited, and they even found Qiu Wen's excitement a little strange.
"Is the food cooked by Coach Su really that delicious?" Lin Chuan looked at Qiu Wen with a smile, with a hint of curiosity in his words.
"Hey, Brother Lin, let me tell you, Xiaobai's cooking is the best in the world!"
When Qiu Wen said this, his eyes lit up, which fully demonstrated what sincerity meant.
Lin Chuan was just about to make a few more jokes, but when he reached the third floor of the cafeteria, he smelled a particularly tempting smell of food. He was stunned at first, and then he saw Fang Yu and Wu Yi sitting together eating in the restaurant on the third floor. As a result, both of them stared straight in the direction of the kitchen and forgot to put the soup in the spoon in their hands into their mouths.
What is going on?
Lin Chuan was stunned for a moment and looked towards the kitchen - in the kitchen operation room behind the glass, wasn't that their new coach Su Bai?
“Wow, it smells so good!”
"Wow, I've never been to the third floor before. Is the chef there so awesome?"
Behind Lin Chuan, Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang also entered the restaurant, followed by Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun, Li Junhao, Wang Ting and others.
The moment Qiu Wen entered the restaurant, he used his sensitive dog nose to find Su Bai's location, then happily went to the back kitchen and greeted Su Bai.
In the kitchen, Su Bai had just finished preparing the last dish in his hand. When he looked up, he saw Qiu Wen and others arriving. So he simply invited Qiu Wen and others into the kitchen to help bring all the prepared dinner dishes to the VIP room.
It was not until everyone followed Su Bai to the private room that they came back to their senses with some excitement - it turned out that the tempting aroma of the food on the third floor just now was not the skill of the chef on the third floor, but the skill of their new 400-meter coach?
They originally thought that Su Bai's offer to personally cook a meal for them to welcome them was just average. It was not until the food was in front of them that they realized - with regard to the cooking skills of their new coach Su Bai, how could they be average? No wonder Qiu Wen looked so excited. Didn’t you see that the two leaders of the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints outside the private room were about to cry with envy?
Wang Ting had never expected that when Su Bai said he would cook a meal to welcome everyone, the food turned out to be of such a standard. However, compared to all the people at the table who seemed to be eating without any psychological burden, Wang Ting inexplicably felt that the meal prepared by Su Bai had a bit of the meaning of the Hongmen Banquet...
Including Wang Shen and Cui Luoheng, there were only 11 people eating in this private room at night. However, these 11 people were basically athletes. If you really count their appetite, they could eat as much as two people. Moreover, many of them had just finished participating in the trials and consumed a certain amount of physical energy in the competition. They were still in the post-match nutritional replenishment period.
Therefore, in order to ensure that everyone present can have enough to eat, the amount of food Su Bai prepared is quite large.
On the dining table, there were two bowls of soup in the middle, one was tofu and crucian carp soup and the other was tofu, tomato and egg soup. The two bowls of soup had different colors. The crucian carp soup was milky white, and a handful of chopped green onions was sprinkled in the fresh and fragrant fish soup, which made people happy just by looking at it. I scooped a spoonful and swallowed it into my mouth. The fragrance was rich and mellow, and the tofu in the soup had absorbed the delicious taste from the crucian carp. I took a bite, and the soup burst in my mouth, and then swallowed it with the fresh and tender tofu. Gurgle, everyone was so greedy that they immediately scooped another large spoonful into the soup bowl.
Tofu, tomato and egg soup is different. This bowl of soup looks bright in color and has the refreshing sweet and sour taste of tomatoes. It looks very appetizing. After taking a bite, the slight sourness is just right, which makes people's appetite flow.
The meat dishes on the table are mostly beef suitable for athletes. There are big chunks of beef and potatoes stewed with potatoes, and there are steaks stewed with just a little seasoning. The most flavorful dish on the table is probably the shrimp with garlic vermicelli. The tight and elastic meat of the shrimp is mixed with garlic and vermicelli. When you take a bite of it, you don't know whether to praise the shrimp's freshness or the vermicelli's tenderness first...
In addition to these, the table also had steamed soft-shelled turtle, chicken stewed with mushrooms, steamed egg with scallops, stir-fried shepherd's purse...it was so full that everyone present was delighted with the meal.
"Ah, Xiaobai is awesome. As expected, your cooking is the best!"
At the dinner table, after Qiu Wen had eaten a big meal, he finally happily held the scallop steamed egg in his hand and sighed with satisfaction.
The other athletes present finally remembered at this moment. They were so distracted by the aroma when they sat down just now, and only remembered it now while eating... They seemed to be so busy eating that they forgot to enthusiastically praise their coach who had worked so hard to cook.
Immediately, there was a burst of enthusiastic flattery at the table, praising Su Bai, who had also finished his meal. Even Wang Ting said that the meal was really worth it.
Of course, the "worth it" in Wang Ting's words also hides another meaning that the contestants present are unaware of.
However, Wang Shen, who came simply to eat, looked at Su Bai, who seemed to be observing the contestants, after hearing what Wang Ting said, and raised his eyebrows as if he realized something.
Everyone enjoyed the dinner. At the end, Zhou Xu, who was participating in the relay training, asked with a smile, "Coach, will we have a chance to eat the food you cook later?"
Hearing Zhou Xu's question, Su Bai also smiled and said, "As long as you train hard, you will have opportunities."
As soon as Su Bai said this, the athletes present all smiled, and the private room was filled with a joyful and happy atmosphere.
After a welcoming banquet, Su Bai's image in the minds of these athletes was instantly refreshed, from "a coach who looks easy to talk to" to "a coach who looks easy to talk to, has a good temper, and cooks delicious food."
Both Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang felt that their coach Su Bai had an angel who didn't know where he came from. This angel had a keen vision and was able to guide Qiu Wen from the 100m and 200m events to the 400m. He also led Qiu Wen to continuously refresh his PB this season!
They are so lucky to have met such an angel coach!
Among the players of the B City team, Zhang Ziyi has been conquered by Su Bai's delicious food. He kept talking to Guo Dun and Li Junhao, "I think Coach Su Bai was the kitchen chef of the S Province Track and Field Team before?" I didn’t expect that the members of the S Province Track and Field Team usually enjoy such gourmet treatment! '.
All the athletes in the 400-meter event are very satisfied with the current training environment and coaches, and this satisfactory atmosphere lasted until the practice opponents invited by the national team officially arrived at the training base of the national track and field team.
Pei Jinan personally instructed the team leader to handle the matter of inviting opponents for the practice match. The team leader contacted the American Track and Field Association through the national team, and then directly invited five athletes who were ranked 50th to 100th in the world in 2017 through the relationship with the Track and Field Association.
These five American athletes are all black athletes. When they arrived at the track and field team's training base, they looked exceptionally relaxed. Although it was a bit redundant to fly from the United States to China to participate in a practice match, the practice match conditions and treatment offered by the national team were very generous. These American track and field athletes were very satisfied with this trip.
Although there were some jet lag issues when they first arrived at the training base, these players were very dedicated and immediately asked to see the training situation of their opponents in the practice match after arriving at the base. When the national team invited them, they followed Su Bai's request and stated bluntly that they hoped they could do their best to show the Chinese players how good they were.
With the idea of completing this task in mind, these American players also plan to first see the strength of the players they are about to face.
When the national team staff brought these players to the training ground, Su Bai was observing their individual training situations on the side - the training camp had just started for two days, and although Su Bai had basically completed the training plan for everyone in the team, before officially starting the training, they still needed to complete the practice match process. Therefore, during these two days, Su Bai did not have high requirements for their training, and what was given to everyone was still just a temporary training plan.
Everyone just thought that Su Bai's training plan was being planned, and did not connect this matter with the practice match.
When the invited practice players of the American team arrived, they saw Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun and others doing 200-meter variable-speed running training. After seeing the Chinese team's variable-speed running training, these practice players all showed a bit of contempt on their faces.
In fact, from the perspective of Zhang Ziyi and others, they were not slacking off in their speed-varying running training. However, their traditional speed-varying running training did not require very strict control over the changes in time and speed. It’s just that they have become accustomed to this way of running and do not think it is a big deal.
However, this lack of attention to speed control in subtle places made the American players' technical foundation seem very weak. One American player even asked the staff in a very curious tone: "Are they really our opponents?"
This question made the staff who received these American players seem a little embarrassed.
Zhang Ziyi and his team also noticed these foreign American players. Seeing how casually these American players greeted them, even someone as naive as Qiu Wen realized something was wrong.
It was obvious that these players had come with ill intentions... and their strength was probably far beyond their expectations.
After these American players left temporarily, Su Bai clapped his hands and gathered everyone together.
"You should have seen that these five people are your opponents for tomorrow's practice match."
Seeing that everyone was obviously a little tense, Su Bai said gently again: "These players just arrived today. When the competition starts tomorrow, they can only simply adjust to the time difference. Their competitive state will not be very good. In addition, the opponent only has 5 players. They need to play two rounds with you tomorrow, which will consume a lot of physical energy."
"We have been doing basic training for the past two or three days, and everyone's physical condition should be pretty good."
At this point, Su Bai smiled and said, "At this time when the opponent is obviously in a low state of competition, I hope that everyone can rely on their advantages of sufficient physical reserves and stable competitive state to achieve the best possible results in tomorrow's game."
After a pause, Su Bai said: "Tomorrow's results will serve as a reference for your next training. I hope everyone can do their best tomorrow^^."
After Su Bai said these words gently, he paused again and said, "Since it is a practice match, there will definitely be some spectators. I asked Coach Pei to contact the B City Sports School. There will be children from the sports school coming to watch tomorrow's match and cheer for everyone. I hope everyone can give their best performance."
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After Su Bai finished talking about the arrangements for the next day's practice match, the seven players on the scene were stunned. Even Qiu Wen, who was usually calm, felt a little nervous about tomorrow's match - think about it, these were the practice match opponents specially invited by the national team from the United States, and they would compete with these American players in front of the children of the B City Sports School...
These guys all look very awesome. If they all count last in tomorrow's game, how will they face people? !
Not only Qiu Wen, the expressions on the faces of the remaining contestants also became very ugly.
Looking at the 'angel coach' who had gently and calmly prepared a delicious meal for them two days ago, the remaining 6 contestants including Zhang Ziyi had the same thought in their minds - how can this be an angel? He is basically a devil disguised as an angel! !
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