Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 303 - 247: First Place Throughout the Race Segment (Part 2)
This made them begin to question themselves.
Could it be that only someone of Wang Ye’s height and weight can have an advantage in marathon events?
According to previous beliefs in the sports world, both top marathon runners and coaches generally agree that only people with a short and lean physique have an advantage in marathon events. Because athletes of this body type use almost no energy when running, they have a higher economic efficiency in long-distance running. Their glycogen lasts longer than that of others, and although their top speed is not very fast, people with this body type often can run more persistently, giving them a greater advantage in the total forty-kilometer marathon distance.
Most marathon coaches, when selecting candidates, choose skinny and bony children and rarely choose those who are tall and robust. This is because tall and robust children usually have strong explosivity but poor endurance, so most are selected by coaches in fields like sprinting, weightlifting, high jump, and shot put.
No one has ever thought that people with a well-built physique could achieve good results in the marathon field.
But Wang Ye’s appearance has completely overturned this fixed notion,
Can only short and lean people run marathons?
Wrong—tall and strong people can run too, and they can even break the world record!
In fact, sports history is not without such stories of reversal. For example, Bolt had scoliosis, and his legs showed rare asymmetry in mechanics. No one initially thought highly of him, but eventually, he became the world’s sprint champion. Similarly, Messi, who suffered from dwarfism since childhood, was not expected to succeed at first, but he eventually became the greatest football star.
They all broke industry’s stereotypes through their own power.
Scoliosis and short stature no longer serve as barriers preventing ordinary people from becoming athletes.
And now, Wang Ye has become such a person.
Since Wang Ye broke the marathon world record with this physique, coaches worldwide have started to seek children with similar body types, preparing to train them following Wang Ye’s method.
But the problem is that Wang Ye’s success cannot be replicated. He is a unique individual after the evolution of the system, and strictly speaking, no longer belongs to the human category. No one can truly imitate his growth path.
Therefore, those coaches might end up wasting effort, and those selected children, who were given high expectations, might have their lifelong hopes destroyed. But all these happen in the corners of the world unseen by Wang Ye, unknown to others. So after reaching his current influence, Wang Ye’s every move can affect countless people’s lives.
Since most of the athletes in this starting area are prepared to break their own records, they stayed focused on Wang Ye for just a minute or two before turning away, starting to warm up silently.
Wang Ye also stood in the corner, repeatedly doing warm-up exercises like one-legged deep squat hops and single-arm handstand pushes. With his physique, the only way to activate deep muscles and awaken his body is by doing slightly more challenging moves.
Finally.
A half-hour later.
The time to prepare for the start came.
Everyone was ready to go,
their eyes tightly locked on the front.
Waiting for the starting gun’s sound.
Including Wang Ye, he stood at the forefront, assuming an extremely awkward crouching start position.
This crouching start position has the knees almost touching the ground.
It is suitable for short-distance bursts, typically used in sprinting, long jump, and short-distance swimming events.
However, this starting position requires a lot of energy consumption in an instant, so it is unsuitable for long-distance running.
Yet now Wang Ye adopted such an awkward posture among a group of standing runners,
even the nearby athletes, who were already braced, couldn’t help but lose focus for a moment—
This guy... does he think this is a sprint race?!
BANG!!!
At the moment the starting gun fired.
Everyone seemed to see a black shadow shoot out instantly.
Like a bullet fired from a chamber, it left the main group and headed for the open road.
WHIZ!!!
At this moment, everyone was shocked, including the competing athletes, the surrounding spectators, and the photographers capturing the event, they were all stunned.
Did Wang Ye really burst out with such speed in a marathon race??
This speed, without exaggeration, was faster than a hundred-meter sprint, instantly accelerating to a pacing of 100!
Have you gone mad, or has the world gone mad?
Just as others let out cries of alarm, Wang Ye had already led the other competitors by several hundred meters, like a cheetah chasing an antelope on the grassland, constantly pursuing the guide car in front.
The driver in the guide car had floored the accelerator, yet still saw Wang Ye closely tailing in the rearview mirror, scaring the soul out of him.
Fortunately, after Wang Ye sprinted a kilometer, his speed gradually slowed to a pacing of 150. But the pace still remained within the "fast" range, clearly exceeding the stride frequency and stride length of the other top athletes by a large margin.
The reason he accelerated to the maximum speed at the start was to shake off the other competitors right away, rushing into an empty zone, preventing anyone from trying to obstruct his path during the race. Even though this can’t prevent sneak attacks from outsiders, it at least mitigates one of the risks.
At this time, the live broadcast was being transmitted in real-time to China and being live on platforms like TikTok, so nearly a billion Chinese people were now watching Wang Ye at the forefront of the track through aerial drone footage.
Even ordinary people who do not often watch marathon events could clearly see that Wang Ye’s selected strategy this time had greatly changed from the last time, and Wang Ye had achieved another significant breakthrough in strength.
Wang Ye steadily maintained a speed of 200 paces, running stably on the road.
From the start, he was the first in the whole course segment!
Such a thing is probably extremely rare in marathons worldwide.
Usually, in marathons, the leading group keeps competing for positions until after thirty kilometers, and only in the last few kilometers can a winner emerge. The scenario of leaving everyone behind at the start is essentially unheard of.
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Soon,
Wang Ye reached the mid-section of the ten-kilometer track, gradually arriving at an area without barricade protection,
yet on both sides, many people still watched the race and cheered for Wang Ye, most of whom were Asian.
The marathon spans over forty kilometers, and the roadways in Chicago are very winding and narrow, which is a common issue in bustling cities. If two barricades are added to such narrow roads, the roads would become even more congested, and there are numerous participants in the Chicago Marathon. Overly congested roads would affect the athletes’ passage, so not all parts have barricade protection.
Just as Wang Ye was running on the narrow road, suddenly,
he felt a significant concentration of Primordial Qi approaching.
He immediately pricked up his ears, listening to the sound from that direction.
He heard the roar of a vehicle starting.
"Is someone driving?" Wang Ye squinted slightly.
As an international Grand Slam event, the Chicago Marathon absolutely would not have miscellaneous vehicles appear on the road during the race. Any miscellaneous vehicles in the surrounding roads and communities would have long been cleared by the staff. Except for guide cars and other work vehicles, it’s absolutely impossible for other vehicles to appear.
Discovering this oddity, Wang Ye gradually slowed his pace to 230.
While cautiously using his Five Senses to perceive the situation over there.
Should the vehicle show any anomaly, he could react instantly.
Approximately thirty seconds later.
The car seemed to receive some kind of message,
abruptly accelerating to a speed of eighty to ninety miles per hour,
and Wang Ye could clearly sense with his Five Senses that the car was heading towards him,
"As expected, it’s coming for me."
BOOM!!!
The car instantly crashed through a trash bin in the right alley.
Then sharply drifted towards Wang Ye’s side, charging directly at him.
The spectators on both sides of the road were horrified, scattering and fleeing.
Only then did Wang Ye clearly see the vehicle’s appearance.
A gray pickup, its body adorned with the Chicago Marathon logo.
Wang Ye’s pupils slightly contracted.
This car—
It turned out to be the guide car that led him at the starting line earlier!!
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