Chapter 32
As a key class in the grade, the atmosphere in Class 1 is usually relatively serious and focuses on study and discussion. From time to time, there are some competitions of different levels inside and outside the school, but it is rare for them to be as noisy as today.
In Su Yu's memory, the relationship between him and his classmates was ordinary. Because of his physical condition, his classmates did not dare to get close to him, and even regular study discussions rarely occurred.
But today was completely different from what he remembered. These classmates, who in his memory had just ordinary relationships with him, cheered the moment he and Jiang Yuan entered the classroom. The noise was loud enough to overturn the entire floor where Class 1, Grade 2, was located. Even amid the cheers of the classmates in the class, a student from the tail end of Class 2 next door slipped out through the back door, stuck his head in front of the door of Class 1, and greeted him and Jiang Yuan.
"Wow wow wow! Su Yu is awesome!"
"Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan, I didn't expect you to be so good at high jump and long jump!"
Su Yu usually has a cold face and looks sickly and impatient, but Jiang Yuan knows what kind of personality he actually has, a stubborn and awkward child who is fine when no one pays attention to him, but when such a group of people swarm in, he may not show anything on his face, but actually he is a little overwhelmed.
The kids in Class 1 were usually considered top students in the eyes of other people, but there was a top student who was far superior to them in the class. Su Yu always had a sickly and cold face, looked unsociable, and was in poor health, so the students in Class 1 didn't dare to get close to him.
Who would have thought that after one summer vacation, the sickly top student would transform into an athletic athlete?
In fact, during the summer vacation, some people in the class had vaguely heard gossip from classmates who went to summer camp with Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, but the news was not spread too widely at that time. It was not until today when school officially started that the gossip about Su Yu and Jiang Yuan really started flying everywhere.
Something like Su Yu's 100m result was over 17.50 seconds before the summer camp, and he ran it to 10.93 seconds at the end of the summer vacation; and that after Ye Minghao turns 16 next year, Su Yu will be the number one 100m runner in the U16 country. These outrageous news stunned everyone in the grade who knew Su Yu.
“Is this true?”
When these students heard the news, they were shocked and confused. Some well-informed students (whose parents are faculty members of No. 12 Middle School) revealed even bigger gossip - on the day the summer camp ended, the leaders of the provincial sports team brought their coaches directly to No. 12 Middle School to snatch the students from the school.
This series of plots was full of ups and downs. The students were confused when listening to the gossip. At the beginning, some people asked whether it was true or not, but later on, it was just bursts of "wow wow wow" one after another.
At this moment, the students had already eaten their fill of melons before class, and saw with their own eyes that Su Yu and Jiang Yuan skipped the morning reading time and entered the classroom at 8 o'clock. Before the two entered the classroom, Fang Shengping, the head of the sports team, was squatting outside the classroom waiting for them...
So as soon as Jiang Yuan and Su Yu entered the classroom, the more active students in the classroom immediately started shouting, and then the whole class cheered.
When Su Yu followed Jiang Yuan into the classroom, these usually cool-looking elementary school bullies had already started to surround Su Yu and ask him all kinds of questions -
"Su Yu Su Yu, are you feeling better?"
"Wow, that's great. You weren't in good health before, so we didn't dare get close to you!"
"How can you run so fast? I feel like I can run 50 meters in 11 seconds!"
"Come to think of it, my previous 100-meter results were similar to yours, Su Yu. Do you think I would have a chance to run under 10 seconds if I also went to the summer camp?"
"↑Wake up, Zhang Haojun. Lao Fang has been so worried about you getting a passing score for the 100-meter race. You should first follow Lao Fang's instructions and pass the 100-meter race!"
All kinds of ridiculous questions were thrown at Su Yu at the same time, making his face even more tense and looking like he had a bad temper. But perhaps it was because Su Yu was frightened by everyone's enthusiasm when he entered the room and subconsciously hid behind Jiang Yuan, which was discovered by these sharp classmates. As a result, everyone's enthusiasm did not diminish at all, and someone even secretly wiped his head while Su Yu was not paying attention.
Su Yu: “…”
Su Yu turned around to guard against classmates who were secretly trying to take action, but everyone standing behind him looked very righteous and very suspicious.
Jiang Yuan: “Pfft.”
Su Yu then turned his ugly face towards Jiang Yuan: "...Brother!"
Jiang Yuan immediately laughed and said to his classmates in a serious tone, "The teacher is coming," and finally pushed these students back to their respective seats.
After all the classmates finally left, Su Yu relaxed a little and sat back in his seat.
As for Jiang Yuan, after sitting down in his seat, he glanced at the claws of his deskmate.
"Oh, you found me! Well, you know what, Su Yu's head feels really good. No wonder you like to rub his head. I've been very curious about it before, but I always thought that Su Yu was in poor health and I didn't dare to get close to him. I didn't expect that he has such a good temper!"
As they were talking, Jiang Yuan's deskmate Zhong Wen patted Jiang Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Come to think of it, I haven't congratulated you yet, deskmate. You're the national U16 long jump and high jump double champion. That's awesome!"
Jiang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to his funny deskmate, but when he heard the chattering of his classmates around him, which seemed to be a well-intentioned discussion about him and Su Yu, a smile appeared in his eyes.
During the following day, all subject teachers would subconsciously glance at Su Yu's location when entering the classroom - after all, in their impression, Su Yu had always been a sickly and weak academic master. Who would have thought that after a summer vacation, the sickly and weak academic master would have changed his personality?
The one who was most heartbroken among all the teachers was Zheng Hua, who taught a mathematics class. This mathematics subject leader at No. 12 Middle School and a famous teacher of Mathematical Olympiad became furious when he saw Su Yu, as if he was angry that the principal and Chen Sheng had let the provincial sports team abduct Su Yu without his consent.
Until the math class was over, Zheng Hua looked like he wanted to take Su Yu away to discuss life with him, and then ask Su Yu what he thought about math and why he chose to go sprinting.
However, Fang Shengping finally perked up in the afternoon's physical education class. After seeing Su Yu, he arranged a hand-timed 100-meter test for him on the spot - there was no other way, the track and field field of No. 12 Middle School was not equipped with electric timing test equipment, but it didn't matter, the focus of this test was not on electric timing or hand timing.
When Fang Shengping arranged students to take the test in the same group with Su Yu, all the students in Class 1 jumped up enthusiastically on the spot. Everyone wanted to experience for themselves the feeling of competing with Su Yu and see how big the gap was between them and Su Yu, who was currently ranked second in the country in the same age group.
Fang Shengping was not polite and directly selected 7 students who usually had excellent short-distance running results from these students and stood at the starting line together with Su Yu.
Although there was no electric timing equipment, there was no shortage of starting blocks in the school. After arranging the students to be tested in the same group as Su Yu, Fang Shengping asked these students to warm up quickly - and Zhong Wen, who had secretly touched Su Yu's head from behind in the morning, was also among these seven students.
Before going on stage, he was still grinning at Jiang Yuan: "Let me see how good your brother is!"
Jiang Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to him. Since some people don't care about their own younger brothers and insist on bullying other people's younger brothers, they should just face the storm by themselves.
In the stadium of No. 12 Middle School, it was not only Class 1 of Grade 2 that was having physical education class. Another class that was also having physical education class now knew that Fang Shengping was taking Su Yu and the students in Class 1 to do a 100-meter test, so they all came over to join in the fun. The physical education teacher of that class was even called by Fang Shengping to blow the whistle for the start.
When all the students including Su Yu were ready in crouching or standing start in front of the starting line, the physical education teacher from the next class shouted "Get ready," and then blew the whistle to signal the start - the race began!
The students standing around watching originally wanted to shout "Come on" to Su Yu or others, but before anyone could speak, the scene fell silent because of the scene on the track.
The reason is simple. What just happened in front of them could not be called a game at all. It could only be described as a one-sided crushing and "massacre".
“What the hell…”
I don’t know how much time passed before someone said “WTF” with a look of shock on his face.
"it's over?"
“Is this the end?”
"Is this the ability to run 100 meters in 10.93 seconds..."
To be honest, until the physical education test just now officially began, although the students present thought Su Yu's score of 10.93 seconds and the title of runner-up in the National U16 Track and Field Base Competition 100m were very awesome, they still had no real sense of how awesome he was.
But just now, in the test in front of them where Su Yu was unilaterally "slaughtering" other opponents, the students present finally realized the power of the 100-meter time of 10.93 seconds.
Not to mention anything else, just 5 seconds after the start, the other students on the field except Su Yu were running hard for about 30 meters, while Su Yu had already run 45 meters away.
How amazing is a 15-meter gap on a mere 100-meter track?
People who haven’t seen it might not be able to imagine it, but the students who saw the distance difference on the spot fell silent at that second.
This was only a gap of about 5 seconds after the start of the test. After 5 seconds, the gap between Su Yu and the students behind him became larger and larger. When everyone saw that Su Yu was still accelerating in the final 30 meters, the whole audience was already speechless.
In the end, Su Yu crossed the finish line with an absolute advantage of nearly 30 meters ahead of the rest of the students.
In other words, the other students in the same group had only run about two-thirds of the distance, while Su Yu had already reached the finish line...
Zhong Wen, who had been joking with Jiang Yuan before the race, saying he wanted to "see how awesome your brother is," was stunned after finally crossing the finish line.
Of course, what made him even more confused was that after crossing the finish line, Su Yu looked as uncomfortable as he did when he was weak before. His forehead was covered with sweat, his face was pale with a flush, and he held Jiang Yuan's arm and gasped with his eyes closed.
Zhong Wen: ...
Other students in the same test group: …
QAQ!
So they lost to Su Yu like this, right?
He clearly looks so weak and like he's going to collapse and pass out at any moment!
After staring at Su Yu for ten seconds, a group of students led by Zhong Wen turned their heads and burst into tears - Sorry, we get it, the real loser is not Su Yu, but ourselves!
While the students on the field were still screaming in their hearts, Fang Shengping was looking at the timing data in his hand in confusion.
The physical education teacher from the next class who was dragged over to blow the whistle looked at Fang Shengping's bewildered look, came up to him and asked, "Fang Tou'er, what's wrong? How many times did Su Yu in your class run away?"
Fang Shengping stared at the timer in his hand for a while, then threw it into the hands of the physical education teacher and said, "...Look for yourself."
The teacher took the stopwatch in a hurry and finally held it steady. After taking a closer look, he raised his head blankly.
"Huh? Fang Tou'er, am I seeing things? This result... 10.61 seconds?!"
After a pause, the PE teacher's voice rose eight degrees in this second: "Fuck, Su Yu ran under 10.90 seconds?!"
The reason why the score on the stopwatch was 10.61 seconds but the physical education teacher only said 10.90 seconds was because No. 12 Middle School had neither electric timing test equipment nor wind speed test equipment. The only reference for Su Yu's score was the manual stopwatch score.
According to the regulations of the IAAF, all hand-timed results need to be increased by approximately 0.24 seconds to be basically on par with the electronically timed results. Coupled with the unclear wind speed conditions, under this circumstance, the physical education teacher could only roughly judge that Su Yu's result was within the range of 10.90 seconds, but could not be sure what Su Yu's specific result would be.
Fang Shengping's expression was more direct.
"Not just 10.90, his hard power should have advanced to 10.85. This race was just an ordinary test, and it should be similar to Su Yu's normal full-speed speed test during training."
"In this case, he was able to run a hand-timed time of 10.61 seconds, which can only mean that in a competitive state and in a more challenging competition for him, when he is in good shape and has a strong desire to win, his results will only be better than this one."
The physical education teacher beside him listened to the data and subconsciously muttered: "His previous PB was 10.93 seconds in the base competition, so his current performance is definitely among the top in the country?"
With this result, let alone the students in No. 12 Middle School, even if the entire sports team of No. 12 Middle School is added together, there are probably not many who can say that their PB is better than Su Yu.
The only one who is stronger is probably Fang Shengping, who retired at the master level - this level means that Fang Shengping once ran a time of less than 10.50 seconds in official competitions.
Fang Shengping glanced at the physical education teacher and understood what he meant. He subconsciously wanted to shake his head, but in the end he said nothing.
He did run under 10.50 in his career, but only on a limited basis.
If we look at it from a purely hard-core perspective, his 100-meter hard-core ability is probably just over 10.60 seconds, and when he's not in good shape, it's common for him to run times outside 10.90 seconds.
As an athlete, he was able to retire as a 100-meter sprinter, which proves that he has considerable talent in the event. However, only after you really enter this circle, will you know what the saying "competitive sports depend purely on talent" means.
Thinking of this, Fang Shengping glanced at Su Yu and Jiang Yuan not far away and shook his head with emotion: "Our school has produced two incredible geniuses!"
***
After the '100-meter test incident' on the first day of the new semester, Su Yu's reputation spread far and wide throughout the entire No. 12 Middle School - the main reason for this is that for today's students, having a mobile phone is the most basic thing. As a school that focuses on the personalized development of students, although the school is a provincial key school, it does not prohibit students from using mobile phones on campus. Therefore, the 100-meter test on that day was recorded by students with mobile phones and posted on the school forum. In a blink of an eye, a building with dozens of pages was built.
A few days later, another student showed a demonstration video of Jiang Yuan when practicing high jump and long jump in physical education class. At the same time, they compared the high jump height of an ordinary student of just over 1 meter on the horizontal bar with the high jump height of Jiang Yuan of just over 2 meters, which again caused an uproar.
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Of course, what was even more shocking was that on the second day of school, the school conducted another round of full-subject tests after the start of school. Su Yu, who had been in summer camp for the entire summer, once again won first place in the grade with a far-leading score.
Sure enough, even if the top student goes to play sports, he is still a top student. They shouldn't think that they can take advantage of the top student when he goes to play sports.
***
As campus life unfolded, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan's daily training progress also began to enter a regular rhythm.
The two maintained their daily routines from the summer camp, getting up at 5 a.m. every day, washing up and running to No. 12 Middle School instead of the usual circling warm-up runs.
After arriving at the school, Pei Dingshan, Liu Wenjian or Wang Pengfei were already waiting for them on campus, and then began the morning training content tailored for them by Pei Dingshan and Liu Wenjian.
During this stage, some of the training content of Su Yu and Jiang Yuan overlapped. After all, both long jump and high jump require a running start to improve the explosive power and assist in taking off. Participating in sprint training will also help improve his running start skills.
As for Su Yu, he also needs some ability training similar to Jiang Yuan, such as explosive training of single-leg box jumps and standing long jumps with parallel feet and staggered feet. These trainings can further improve his speed and acceleration ability in the starting phase.
It was also during this daily training time that a piece of good news first came from the WeChat group named [Su Yu and his friends] -
Jiang Ruohui: [Ahhh! ! ! @all, friends, come out, come out! ! ! In today's National Grand Prix H City race, Ye Zi ran a time of 10.47 seconds! ! ! Ye Zi succeeded! ! ! 】
This message successfully blew up everyone in the group who saw it.
The first one to jump out was Zhou Yuang: [Fuck, @叶明浩, Ye Zi is awesome! 10.47 seconds, you successfully broke the U16 national record. Hahaha, now your parents won’t object to you continuing on the path of track and field, right? 】
The next thing I saw was Jiang Yuan: [Xiao Yu Thai pants spicy gif, @Ye Minghao, congratulations! 】
The last one to show up was Su Yu: [Congratulations. 】
It can be seen that Ye Minghao was still very excited at the moment. He sent a big red envelope in the group without saying anything: [Thank you everyone (red envelope). 】
This time everyone’s responses were very consistent:
Jiang Ruohui: [Xiaoyu thanks the boss gif]
Zhou Yuang: [Xiaoyu thanks the boss gif]
Jiang Yuan: [Xiaoyu thanks the boss gif]
Ye Zi: [Xiaoyu holding flowers thank you gif]
Su Yu: [……]
Ever since the fact that he had a series of emoticons was exposed in this group, these people in the group were trying to cover it up at first, but later on they became gradually more unscrupulous and would use emoticons instead of typing whenever they could.
Su Yu looked at the series of emoticons of himself in the group with frustration. Finally, he put away his phone with a sour face and pretended that he saw nothing.
When Jiang Ruohui reported the news, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan had already left school and were on their way to the provincial sports team. Seeing Su Yu put away his phone, Jiang Yuan looked at him with a smile and said, "You haven't received the red envelope that Ye Zi sent to the group yet."
Su Yu snorted sullenly: "Oh."
Jiang Yuan looked at him and smiled: "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"
Su Yu shook his head: "No." He paused and said: "I just... want to compete."
The training and study during this period were indeed very fulfilling, but as the training time got longer, Su Yu's desire for the competition became stronger and stronger.
Before this summer camp, Su Yu had never thought that he would be such a person who longed for competition. Before his rebirth, the focus of his life was entirely on academics, and he spent a lot of time in his tutor's laboratory. The library, dormitory, classroom, and laboratory were his former life cycle. Now, in just over a month, the cycle he had established has been completely broken, and he has become increasingly aware of the strong desire for competition and challenges in his bones.
Especially after seeing that his opponent Ye Minghao in the base competition had once again stepped onto the field and successfully broke his own limits, Su Yu's desire for the competition rose even stronger.
Compared to Su Yu, although Jiang Yuan also had the desire to challenge higher difficulty in the previous base competition, his desire for the actual competition was not as strong as Su Yu's.
So seeing Su Yu's depressed mood, Jiang Yuan couldn't say many words of comfort, so he could only rub his head to comfort him.
It was not until they arrived at the provincial sports team and saw Pei Dingshan and Liu Wenjian waiting for them with some documents that Jiang Yuan asked, "Coach, what's wrong?" in order to divert Su Yu's attention.
Pei Dingshan didn't say anything, but handed the registration form in his hand to Su Yu, while Liu Wenjian said simply and straightforwardly: "It's the end of the season. The time since you officially started training is too short. I haven't had the opportunity to make a good competition plan for you this season. It's been a month since we got to the base, and then we will enter the winter training cycle. Xiao Pei and I discussed it. We are afraid that the interval is too long and you will forget the state of the competition. It happens that your previous athlete registration information is complete, so we will simply register you for the last Grand Prix race of this season, so that you two can experience the atmosphere of the open tournament."
Liu Wenjian stopped talking here, and Pei Dingshan said at this time: "It just so happens that Ye Minghao broke his personal record in today's Grand Prix. As an opponent, you should also want to challenge him, right?"
Su Yu did not expect that his restless desire for the competition on the way to the provincial team would be satisfied after arriving at the provincial team.
Looking at Pei Dingshan's calm face, Su Yu thought for a moment and asked, "When is the competition?"
Pei Dingshan smiled and said, "Looking forward to it?"
Su Yu did not deny it this time, but nodded seriously: "Yes, I am looking forward to it."
Pei Dingshan seemed to be very satisfied with Su Yu's honesty, and his expression relaxed a little: "October 3, the National Track and Field Grand Prix S City Division."
After a pause, Pei Dingshan looked at Su Yu, who was full of stubbornness and determination, and said with a smile: "Come on, I am also looking forward to this competition."
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