After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 53: Pre-Asian Games Training Camp & Intra-team Test Races

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 09/04/2023

Starting from the second day of Su Bai providing the training plan, the national team's 400m project groups officially began their pre-competition training cycle.

Su Bai's goals and bets, mentioned the previous day alongside the training plan, had resounded in the minds of the 400m athletes, making them both apprehensive and doubtful while also harboring a subtle sense of anticipation.

A few familiar athletes privately discussed whether Su Bai's training goals were possible. Guo Dun from the B City team even quietly sought out Wang Ting to inquire if Su Bai's training goal was sincere. The answer he got was Wang Ting telling him to look at the performance curve changes of the three athletes Su Bai had previously coached.

The performance curve changes of the three athletes Su Bai had previously coached?

Weren't they pretty familiar with them?

Aren't they Qiu Wen, Hu Li, and Zhang Wei?

The performance curve changes of these three... Guo Dun, Zhang Ziyi, and Lin Chuan immediately recalled the fact that under Su Bai's guidance, Zhang Wei and Hu Li had swept the top three positions in the 400m at the Z Province Championships, which had affected Guo Dun. They remembered that Qiu Wen had similarly improved his performance. What was their original level?

Those two were originally consistent performers with times outside of 48 seconds, and their personal bests hadn't broken into the 47.60-second range. However, after about a month of training under Su Bai's guidance, their times directly improved to within the range of 47.50 seconds, far exceeding their original personal bests. Furthermore, in the subsequent Asian Games selection trials, both of them showed significant progress in their times.

It can be said that with Su Bai's guidance alone, he managed to elevate the performance of these two athletes who had been consistently clocking times outside of 48 seconds to the range of 47.50 seconds.

Thinking about this, Guo Dun and the others couldn't help but wonder —what if they could achieve such a level of improvement themselves?

Transitioning from a time above 48 seconds to below 47.50 seconds, it seemed that achieving a consistent time below 46.50 seconds, for those athletes like them who could already run under 47 seconds, might not be as difficult as initially thought.

With these speculations in mind, these athletes exchanged knowing glances and decided to give it their all in the upcoming month. The intense training session from today left them no room to escape.

Since their coach, Su Bai, said so, they decided to trust and try it out. After all, as Su Bai had mentioned, this attempt could only bring benefits without any drawbacks.

The next day, led by Zhang Ziyi, the athletes witnessed Su Bai's training methods.

Su Bai's training routine was indeed quite different from that of Wang Ting and the other coaches they had experienced before. Besides asking them to switch to regular sports shoes during training instead of professional running shoes, Su Bai didn't have specific requirements for their training duration. He only stipulated that they must complete a series of training exercises listed in the training plan with both quality and quantity.

For Qiu Wen, aside from having trouble adapting to the regular sports shoes, the rest of the requirements were in line with Su Bai's usual habits. Other athletes nearby saw Qiu Wen obediently following the training and didn't say much.

Including Li Junhao, these new additions to the national team under Su Bai's guidance had a competitive and positive attitude towards training. The stimulating words from Su Bai during the previous day's practice match still lingered in their minds. Whatever the reason might be, every athlete on the training field was taking training more seriously than before.