Run Out of My Life - Chapter 328

    Kingston Fitness Center.

     Glenn Mills stood beside the track and field, holding a stopwatch, a figure on the track quickly started running from the starting block, and the 400-meter standard track seemed to be the track of the velodrome .

    The speed is amazing.

    In just ten or twenty seconds, the person who started the race had circled the track and appeared in front of the finish line. Crossed the finish line.

    With a tick, Glenn Mills pressed the stopwatch button in his hand, raised his hand, glanced at the numbers on the stopwatch, and nodded with satisfaction.

    “Coach, how is it? What’s your grade?” A voice came with a little breath.

    “Very good. Compared with the results of previous games, it is now at a stable level.” Glenn Mills replied with a smile, but did not directly mention the training results, but pointed to Pointing to the track, “I think you should run another lap.”

    “What?” The tall black youth who had just run 200 meters said a little tiredly, “I’m already very tired, coach, let me take a breath.”

    Even though the black youth boasted that their physical strength has recovered well this year, but just finished the 2006 season, the physical fatigue has not completely disappeared.

    In September, he also participated in the IAAF Finals and the IAAF World Cup, respectively, and won the third and second place in the men’s 200 meters. Throughout the 2006 season, he was in very good condition. one year.

    “No, I mean, you can maintain the speed and run an extra lap.” Glenn Mills looked at the disciple in front of him who had been training with him for two or three years, and said slowly , “I think you can pick up the 400 meters again, like you did in high school.”

    “400 meters?”

    The tall black youth shook his head even more like a rattle and refused again and again, which seemed to be a long time ago. But the injuries and pains it brought, even now and then, are still fresh in my memory.

    “You’ve gotten stronger over the past few seasons, the new training program has worked, you’ve improved very quickly, and the treatments the doctors have given you have worked well, and you’re stronger now Like a cow. You can try the 400 meters again. Don’t you want to be a legendary athlete like Michael Johnson, look, now’s your chance.”

    “No no no, I refuse, coach.”

    The black youth had a look of horror on his face, remembering the scene of training 400 meters under the command of two other coaches, the whole person seemed to be not very good.

    Only people like him who have experienced 400-meter training will know how hard the 400-meter athletes are. That painful feeling made people feel like hell, and the tall black youth had lingering fears. The reason why he changed coaches and transferred to Glenn Mills was to get rid of the painful memories brought by the 400 meters. .

    “Usain, you should…”

    Glen Mills seemed to want to speak again, but before he finished speaking, the black youth who had just finished running in front of him simply refused again.

    “No, coach.” The black youth said decisively, “If you want me to run 400 meters, then it’s better to run 100 meters!”

    “What are you talking about!”

    Glen Mills’s smile faded, his face stretched, “Usain, were you misled by the media, seeing the battle between Suzu and Powell made you also born Thinking of giving it a try, or do you see Tyson Gay’s success this season?”

    “I…” The black young man was at a loss for words. He didn’t want to run 400 meters, but blurted out that he wanted to run 100 meters. The influence, he himself does not believe.

    Glen Mills looked at the disciple in front of him, sighed lightly, his tone softened, and he still said bitterly:

    “Short distance events are too difficult and require a great deal of skill. As soon as the starting gun goes off, every step has to go very smoothly, and one small mistake can ruin a game. In the 200-meter race, if you start poorly, your footsteps tremble, and your speed is slow, you still have a chance to recover in the corners. Because the distance is long enough, there is enough error tolerance, so you have time and distance to adjust. But 100 meters is different, there are many places where you can make mistakes, but there is not much time for you to fix them. From the first step to the last moment of hitting the line, every detail has to be perfect.”

    The black youth’s face was a little unsightly, but he was still shaking his head.

    Glen Mills was a little helpless for a while, this black young man is his most optimistic disciple over the years, and he feels more talented than the former Kim Collins in terms of potential, but he is 1.95 meters tall , it is not easy to run 100 meters.

    Glen Milston paused, changed his tone, pointed to the black youth’s back, and continued: “The explosive force required for 100 meters puts extra stress on your back and legs .

    Also, you are too tall. The start is going to be your biggest problem. Under normal circumstances, the sprinter would quickly get up from a squat position as soon as the starting gun was fired. You know it well yourself that a tall athlete will take longer to perform even a simple movement. Taking a breath and blinking an eye is enough time for athletes like Su Zu and Powell to surpass you. In the game, the gap between the champion and the runner-up is often just a moment. Look at the previous Golden League and IAAF finals, how much did Su finally win against Powell, one hundredth of a second! “

    The black youth looked at the fat coach who had been chattering to discourage him, and his heart was slightly shaken, and Glenn Mills added another fire.

    “So, Usain, you will have a good future in running the 400 meters, maybe you can break the world record. The best 400 meters athletes right now are Jeremy Warina, La Shawn Merritt and Garrison Gakikaya, what they can do you can too. Think about it, Usain, do you choose a project that will destroy you or choose a project that will make you successful A sport for a great athlete like Michael Johnson.”

    After saying this, Glenn Mills did not speak any more, looked at the black young man with his head lowered, shook his head silently, paced, turned and left the track and field.

    On the flat plastic track, only a black youth stood in the middle and fell into thought.

    Since high school, his coach said he was too tall to run 100 meters. Although coach Glenn Mills admired him very much, obviously, in his opinion, choosing 100 meters was also a wrong idea.

    So, are you really going to run 400 meters?

    Thinking of what happened in 2003 and 2004, the young black people can’t help but feel a big headache. It seems that they can feel the muscles that have been strengthened now, and they seem to be a little bit hurt.

    The idol he admired most when he was a boy was Michael Johnson. When he started running in elementary school, someone showed him the video of the Atlanta Olympics, in which Michael Johnson created the men’s 200 meters in that Olympics And the miracle of 400 meters.

    Since then he has regarded it as an idol, a goal, a motivation to move forward, and even before receiving professional coaching instructions at that time, he also stole Michael Johnson’s peculiar running method.

    After entering the professional season, the experience of practicing 400 meters makes him feel a little miserable, hard, tired, and injured.

    At this moment, the black youth suddenly made up his mind, raised his head and shouted: “Coach!”

    Glen Mills, who was turning around and leaving the track and field, stopped when he heard the shout, and did not turn his head.

    “Come on, coach, I want to run 100 meters.” The black youth shouted, his voice extremely firm, “Just once. Let me run 100 meters, even if I only participate in a race. If, I mean, if I can’t run well, then next season I’m going to do the 400 meters. But if I’m running 10.30 or better, then I’m going to run the 100 meters!”

    Glen Mills trembled slightly, but still did not turn his head, but his voice came back clearly and unmistakably.

    “You only have one chance, Usain, you have to run within 10 seconds 30. Also, before you can run the 100 meters, you have to break the Jamaican men’s 200 meters national record, only then I will agree.”

    “Thank you, Coach! Thank you!”

    The black youth stood there and grinned, his hands open, as if he wanted to embrace the clean sky in the distance.

    Within 10 seconds 30, the national record of the men’s 200 meters, I will definitely do it, definitely!