After a simple rebirth

The school sports meet arrived as scheduled amid the students’ great anticipation.

The school sports meet is from Wednesday to Friday. The three days without classes make the students very excited. They feel that the air is very fresh every minute.

There was nothing fancy about the opening ceremony of the school sports meet this year. There was no requirement for the classes to march in formation or demonstrate any moves. They just walked around the playground in order and then sat cross-legged at the designated locations.

After the opening ceremony, various sports activities will begin. The most watched events are track and field events because they are held on the playground and are more intuitive.

The class leaders also held a meeting in advance and roughly assigned tasks, including who would be responsible for leading people to follow up on which project, helping to pass water, notifying the contestants to check in in advance, and meeting them at the finish line.

This thing is not small. From the perspective of a classmate, if you play for the class and no one cheers on you on the way, and no one greets you after the game, you will feel lost. Fu Ying has experienced that feeling.

Although Fu Ying no longer cared whether anyone cheered for her or not, she also wanted other students to get help, so she reminded them of this detail.

Fu Ying herself was given the task of watching over supplies, and she had the opportunity to practice singing while sitting with Chen Lu. The preliminary round of the program would be held in the second week after the school sports meet.

On the first day, Fu Ying took a Chinese textbook and read it in full. She sat at the desk in the classroom and read it. Her classmates would give her water when they needed it. Occasionally, Chen Lu would take her to watch an event she was interested in, such as the 4*100m relay race, and she would cheer for them.

The long-distance running events that Fu Ying participated in were both on the morning of the next day. Fu Ying was quite surprised by this arrangement. She said that there was no big problem in participating in two long-distance running events, but the two events were consecutive, and the 800 meters event would be shortly after the 1500 meters. She was still afraid that she would be too tired.

Fortunately, Chen Lu told her to keep encouraging her. Fu Ying thought that even if she didn't have the strength to walk later, there would be someone to support her.

After signing up, Fu Ying thought about running a few laps in the playground every day to exercise in advance, but it was not as convenient as living on campus. Her ideal time to run was at night, as she could not get up in the morning, was exposed to the sun at noon, and had not digested everything before self-study in the evening. She would feel more comfortable running at night, but it would be too late to run after self-study. She could not let Li Xingying and the others wait, nor could she finish running and go home alone. Fu Yu would definitely be worried.

So Fu Ying could only practice in advance by raising her legs high and jogging on the spot in the morning and evening after returning home.

Parents were allowed to come to school to watch during the sports meet. After hearing that Fu Ying and Fu Zhe had both signed up, Fu Yu said she would bring her two children over to watch.

Fu Zhe was participating in the class basketball competition and the 400-meter race. Fu Ying didn't expect that Fu Zhe was quite willing to participate in these activities.

Fu Zhe's competition was not until the next afternoon, so I watched Fu Ying's competition first in the morning.

Before the broadcast notified her of the start of registration, Fu Ying began to stretch her body, mainly her calves, as her calves were the stiffest after running.

Fu Yu was waiting for her at the starting point holding the child's hand. Chen Lu accompanied her to sign in and helped her hold her coat. There were also several classmates cheering her on. Fu Ying felt somewhat warm looking at them.

Chen Lu helped Fu Ying put on her number tag. Fu Ying estimated that there were about twenty people in total. There must still be some classes that had not signed up. The competition was about to start, and Fu Ying was too lazy to go and argue with that idiot, the sports committee member.

After the gun went off, Fu Ying started running. Eight hundred meters was not that long, just two laps. Fu Ying didn't plan to run too fast because there was another one that would take longer. If she ran too fast now, the next one would be too late.

So Fu Ying was almost the last one to run. She jogged at a steady pace from the start, constantly adjusting her breathing and trying not to be affected by the people in front of her.

After running the 800 meters, Fu Ying felt okay. She was a little out of breath and her face was red, but she could accept it and she didn't sweat.

She didn't ask, nor did she pay attention to how many people were behind her, but she estimated that she was about four or five from the bottom, with two or three people ahead of her, so she could only say that she was not at the bottom.

After a long run, you must not sit down or lie down immediately. You must walk slowly to let your body recover. Fu Ying knew this simple common sense and walked slowly.

"Fu Ying, how do you feel? Do you need help?" Chen Lu asked her.

Fu Ying waved her hand, "No, I'm not that bad. I feel fine for now. I'll just take a walk."

Fu Yu held the child's hand and walked with her for a while. The child could see that she was a little tired, so he was sensible and didn't ask her to hold him, but just kept making her laugh.

After Fu Ying adjusted her breathing and relaxed her calf muscles, she was notified to register for the next 1,500-meter race. Fu Ying saw two people who seemed to have just run 800 meters. They probably ran just like her.

There were more people running for 1,500, and it seemed like every class sent a representative.

The gun went off and they set off again. Fu Ying ran at the same pace, but this time everyone's speed was slower overall. No one was stupid enough to speed up.

Fu Ying would divert her attention to such a long and difficult time. Don't worry too much about how long it will take, just keep going forward, and time will pass faster. As a way to divert her attention, Fu Ying chose to recite ancient poems, "Li Sao" and "Chu Shi Biao" from junior high school, reciting whichever one she thought of.

As she went on, Fu Ying felt her feet getting heavier and her breathing becoming faster, but she felt she could still go on.

In the last lap, two girls had already chosen to walk, and Fu Ying felt that she was also slower, and her speed was the only speed she could reach. In the last 200 meters, Fu Ying began to gather her strength and began to speed up slightly to overtake the person not far ahead, slowing down after overtaking one person, and then continuing to overtake the person in front.

Although speeding disrupts the rhythm and makes it more tiring, the sense of accomplishment from overtaking is addictive. Fu Ying didn't know how many people she overtook, but when she finally reached the finish line, she really felt that she couldn't go on any longer. If she went one more lap, she would really faint.

She was fine. She was discouraged at the finish line, but she could still walk. After Fu Ying stopped running, she heard a commotion. She looked over and saw that a girl next to her must have fainted after reaching the finish line. Her classmates gathered around her and probably wanted to help her, but a person who had fainted completely could not do anything. In the end, a tall boy picked her up like a princess. I don't know if he took her to the infirmary.

I heard from the classmates next to her that she suddenly accelerated when she was about to reach the finish line, and then she felt dizzy after passing the finish line. She almost fell to the ground, but fortunately her classmates supported her.

Fu Ying admires such ruthless people. She also wants to sprint, but she will not allow herself to faint. And when she thinks about being carried like a princess after fainting, she will definitely be even more unwilling.

She didn't feel anything right after she finished running, but after she stopped and walked slowly for two minutes, she really felt dizzy, tinnitus, weakness in her legs, and cold sweat all over. Fortunately, Chen Lu and Wang Qiuping supported her on each side, so she didn't fall down.

They wanted Fu Ying to lie on the lawn or sit on a bench to rest, but Fu Ying waved her hand.

"You can't sit down yet. I need to walk for a while. If I sit down now, I might really faint."

With their support, Fu Ying walked for another ten minutes before returning to the bench in the classroom, where she finally sat down and slowly recovered.

Fu Ying also went to watch Fu Zhe's game in the afternoon. She didn't quite understand why girls screamed when watching basketball games. It wasn't about superb skills, and it was obviously a deliberate show of being handsome. That's all.

On the morning of the third day, there was a tug-of-war competition with everyone in the class present, half participating and most cheering.

There were 17 boys in the class, 15 of them went up, and together with 5 girls, we formed the team for the tug-of-war competition.

Class One's opponent is Class Two. It is destined to be the same. They will compete in their usual academic performance and in tug-of-war.

Class 2 is a science class and all the students are boys.

The boys in the second year of high school are almost fully grown. The boys in the liberal arts class are more gentle and thinner. The boys in the science class are definitely stronger, although not necessarily big and strong.

So when the two classes stood together, it felt like the ending could be seen at a glance.

But we won’t lose the battle even if we lose the fight!

Class monitor Wang Xueting came on stage, and Fu Ying and another deputy class monitor stood beside her as military advisors.

Arrange the students to stand on the left and right, and then send tall and strong students to stand at the front and back to ensure the balance of strength. Let the sports committee shout slogans, and after shouting one or two, everyone will push together, sit back, and push back to exert force, so that all the strength is concentrated.

Then arrange the students nearby to cooperate with the sports committee member's slogans. After he shouts one or two, the students nearby will shout "Come on!"

With this arrangement, that’s pretty much all we can do. Tug of war does have tactics, but everyone knows how to do it. What’s more practical is to look at the disparity in strength.

With a whistle, the competition between the two classes officially began.

It wasn't obvious at the beginning, as both sides seemed evenly matched. But after a while it became clear that the center line was moving towards Class 2, and no matter how much cheering there was, it couldn't stop Class 2 from winning the victory in one go.

In the end, we lost to Class 2, lost to Class 4, and won Class 3, a total of four classes, and took third place.

On the afternoon of the third day, there was a summary and award ceremony, along with the results of the third monthly exam.

Class 1’s physical education was indeed average, with the same total score as tug-of-war, and they came in third.

Fu Ying's 16m result was average, th place, which is the fifth from the bottom. But she unexpectedly took fifth place in the m, the fifth from the top. The comparison between the two results is also funny.

Fu Ying thought that only the top three would receive awards, but after reading the names she realized that the top eight in each event would receive a prize and certificate.

Fu Ying looked at the certificate, which read "Fifth place in the 1,500-meter long-distance race."

Okay, this is my first time getting a sports award.

Fu Zhe also received a certificate. He represented his class and won third place in the basketball game. Fu Ying didn't know whether to say that he was good at basketball or that the basketball skills of other classes were average, but even he could get such a result.

The youthful and exciting school sports meet ended, and we went on holiday right after the awards ceremony, without having to attend evening self-study.

Chen Lu asked Fu Ying to practice a song, but Fu Ying refused. The two of them had almost finished playing the accompaniment, and the rest depended on their performance on the spot.

The school sports meet disrupted her rhythm during these three days. She needs to spend more time reviewing and getting back into the reviewing state, otherwise once she relaxes, it will be easy for her to become lazy.