all the way west! hunan runners form a group to compete in berlin marathon
2024-09-28
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"xiang yue runs towards the dream world". hunan runners participating in the 2024 berlin marathon took a group photo in front of berlin's famous landmark brandenburg gate. photo courtesy/hunan runners
red net moment news september 27(reporter zhou yumo) on september 26, beijing time, after traveling to 4 cities and taking 22 hours, the "horse racing group" composed of 8 hunan runners and their accompanying personnel successfully arrived in berlin, germany. they will participate in the september 2016 local time. the berlin marathon, one of the six largest marathons in the world, started on the 29th.
among these eight people, there are enterprise employees and retirees. the average age is over 50 years old, and the oldest among them is 62 years old. this time in berlin, they will all participate in the 42-kilometer marathon.
hunan runners displayed the chinese national flag and the flags of their respective running groups. photo courtesy/hunan runners
"the eight of us are from hunan tieyin running group, hunan publishing love running group, hunan spicy running group, and changsha yue running group. as far as i know, this is the first time that hunan has participated in the berlin marathon as a team, so we hope that we can experience the city through horse racing, and we also hope to show our hunanese style in a foreign country. to this end, we also specially customized competition clothes and wrote the words "china·changsha" on the clothes. "the running team leader and coach chen minghui introduced in an interview with a red net sports reporter.
the berlin marathon is a city marathon held in berlin, the capital of germany, on the last sunday of september every year. the main event is a full marathon. this event has been held since 1974. it is an iaaf (international association of athletics federations) gold label event, an aims (international marathon and road running association) certified event, and one of the six major marathons in the world (the other five are boston marathon, new york marathon marathon, london marathon, chicago marathon and tokyo marathon). the berlin marathon track is known as "the fastest track in the world", and many runners are looking forward to breaking their personal pb (personal best) here.
video: before setting off for berlin, hunan runners trained at songya lake in changsha. provided/hunan runners
chen minghui, a bank employee, has participated in road running for 14 years. he is also the person in charge of a running training camp in changsha. as the head coach of the "berlin marathon team" this time, he has formulated scientific and systematic preparations for his team members. training plan.
"our entire training lasted for 15 weeks. there were old runners with rich horse racing experience in the team, as well as new runners who had only been running marathons for more than a year. different stages of training were arranged according to everyone's different situations." chen minghui introduced. , "this time, all of us have signed up for the berlin marathon. i have run more than 20 marathons. this time i have no obsession with breaking through the pb in berlin. i just hope that i can lead everyone in the team to complete the race safely. "sai."
video: stretching exercises. provided/hunan runners
as the oldest member of the team, zhou xinyan is very excited about the upcoming new challenges and is full of confidence in the team. the 62-year-old woman only started to get involved in marathons after she retired. “i have traveled to berlin before, but this time i went to participate in a marathon. it felt even more different. i felt the city in another way, which made me feel... it’s even more exciting. my husband will also be traveling with us, and he will be our cheerleading team. i think our group will be a sight on the track on race day.”
like zhou xinyan, feng zhiwei, who is also a newcomer to horse racing, was previously a senior media person and started to get involved in marathon sports after retirement. he told the sports reporter of red net that after bidding farewell to the workplace, he regarded marathon running as a way of life to "change the track" and wanted to use the physical fitness that he loved sports in the past on the road running track.
data map: the grand opening of previous berlin marathons. photo/xinhuanet
"in my 40-year journalism career, i have used my pen to describe social changes. now, i will use my steps to measure the beauty of the world and convey the spiritual power on the marathon track." feng zhiwei said that after following the training camp for phased training, he recently within one year, he challenged 14 major competitions in shanghai, xiamen, chongqing, changsha, lanzhou, liupanshui, etc., and obtained the qualification for a first-class player in his age group. this gave him a lot of confidence to prepare for the berlin marathon. "i also set a goal for myself - —'hundred races and hundred cities' runs around the world, which means completing 100 marathons in about 10 years, using the perspective of a media person to record and experience the style of 100 cities..."
according to the red net sports reporter, after arriving in berlin, eight hunan runners will take a short rest and participate in the berlin marathon's 5-kilometer breakfast run on the morning of september 28, local time, to experience the local atmosphere in advance.
