cut the waves

Unlike the competition held in the lake last year, this year's championship is back to the sea again.As soon as Yu Yu got off the plane, he was blinded by the southernmost sun of the motherland.

show.It's too hot.

Yan Zheng smiled and said that it's only June, and the water temperature here won't be able to swim a marathon in August.

Team members from Yan Province arrived one day earlier to get familiar with the track.This time the track is different from the previous 2.5km*4, but 2km*5. The track is shorter, but there is one more lap than before.However, the sun made Yu Yu, a native of the sea, a little unbearable. It was rare for him to take the initiative to think that besides Vaseline, he had to apply some sunscreen.

But he picked up the sunscreen shared by the team, and frowned again: "Why did you change the brand?"

Yan Zheng made an inexplicable "ah", picked up the sunscreen bottle and looked at it: "Waterproof, SPF is enough. What's wrong?"

"We didn't use this brand last year."

Yan Zheng didn't pay much attention to whether he changed the brand or not. When the discount is strong, there is a big bucket of buy one get one free, and the team may buy it as soon as they see it.He glared at Yu Yu inexplicably: "You little girl is wearing makeup and picking brands!"

Yu Yu put the ingredient list on the bottle in front of Yan Zheng's eyes, and pointed to the first ingredient: "This sunscreen contains this—"

Yan Zheng narrowed his eyes, staring at the "octyl methoxycinnamate" for a while, so he was a little confused, "What's wrong? Are you allergic to this ingredient?"

"It's not that I'm allergic!" Yu Yu glanced at Yan Zheng angrily, "Sunscreens containing such substances will cause coral bleaching. Coral is the home of many small animals. When the coral dies, the small animals will die too!"

Yan Zheng seemed to be choked: "...the sea is so big, how much can you paint on your body?"

"I don't apply much by myself, but there are so many people in the world who go to the sea. If they all use this thing, they will pour sunscreen into the sea bottle by bottle!" Yu Yu put down the bottle in his hand and decided to go to the next team to ask Q: Is there any sunscreen whose main ingredient is zinc oxide?

A total of 22 teams from across the country participated in the competition this year, and the organizers arranged accommodation in a centralized manner.Yu Yu asked several teams, and finally borrowed the sunscreen he was satisfied with from the Bayi team.Tao Zebo couldn't stand Yu Yu's sentence "the beautiful little fish died with the coral", so he also took the lead in switching to coral-friendly models.The final result was that the entire team of Yan Province ran to the Bayi team to borrow sunscreen and wiped out their spare stocks.

Bayi Team: "Robbery?"

Soon, the story of "a little kid from Yan Province leading the team to borrow sunscreen before the game" spread, and it also reached the ears of Li Jinyong, the leader of the national swimming marathon.

"From Yan Province? Yu Yu?" Li Jinyong was familiar with the name, "Is that the kid who submitted the application and asked to withdraw it last year?"

Yan Zheng, as the swimming marathon guide in Yan Province, nodded and bowed to the leader: "Yes, yes, it is that brat, who has caused trouble for Director Li again."

Li Jinyong chuckled twice, saying that your salt province swimming team spends the most in the country every year, why can't you even afford sunscreen?

Yan Zheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain the ins and outs.

The middle-aged man who was already a little bit fat blinked his eyes thoughtfully, and said two words: "Interesting."

"Young people are good." Then he shook his head with a smile, "New blood, new vision-you are not afraid that he has ideas, but you are afraid that he has no ideas. It is very good."

Li Jinyong had a faint feeling at that time that maybe he would be a worthy child.

He began to look forward to that funny kid walking up to him with his grades.

let me see you!

This is the southernmost sea in the motherland. At 28.7 o'clock in the morning, the water temperature has reached 31 degrees Celsius. As the sun rises, the water temperature will only get higher and higher during the race.The maximum water temperature for the swimming marathon is [-] degrees Celsius. In order to avoid the water temperature being too high, the men's competition in the morning was moved forward by one hour.

The weather is always playing tricks.Last year, Yu Yu hoped that the sun would be brighter, but the fog in the lake was so thick that the buoys at the bend could not be seen clearly.But the sky is too hot right now, and the sky is so clear under the scorching sun that you can't even see half a cloud.

The first round of preparation before the game, the second round of familiarity, Yu Yu is already very proficient in the whole process.When Yan Zheng helped him trace the number on his body, he noticed the fading "champion" on Yu Yu's index finger again, and couldn't help asking again: "Why do you always write things secretly on your own hands?"

This time Yu Yu didn't hide anymore, and showed Yan Zheng what Su Liao wrote: "Champion means champion."

Yan Zheng patted him on the back lightly, and scolded with a smile: "It's a lot of trickery, go to the sea in a while and give me some face!"

Yu Yu grinned, bent down and wiped a little more Vaseline on his ankle.When he walked onto the departure pontoon barefoot, the hot temperature under his soles could not help but make him hiss.

All the athletes are complaining about the temperature, water temperature, and sun exposure—of course, some marathon runners are better at freshwater environments such as lakes and rivers, but for Yu Yu, these are really not a problem.

He slowly walked to the place where he started, took a deep breath, and looked at the dazzling sea under the sun-shading goggles, which was his favorite sapphire blue.

Yu Yu suddenly remembered that when he was very young, he was also stepping on the hot sandy beach and striding towards the warm embrace of the sea under the dazzling sun.At that time, he was only wearing a pair of swimming trunks and no swimming goggles. He didn't even know what sunscreen was, but the scorching temperature couldn't offset his excitement.

He is also very excited now.

When Yu Yu was taking exams at school, he often felt that he was just trying to fill in the gaps.But at this moment, when he was facing the sea, facing the professional athletes around him who were a few years older than him, even in his teens, there was an enthusiasm burning in his chest that he didn't know how to describe in words——

This is his final exam!

In the past year, he has undergone two cycles of systematic training, swimming an average of 70 kilometers per week, and the mileage in one year is enough to cross a quarter of the Pacific Ocean.This year, he has grown another three centimeters, and his muscles have also strengthened.

Come on, see how much he has improved!

The order to set off sounded, and Yu Yu jumped into the water.He looked at his own reflection briefly across the sea, and as his fingertips cut into the water, he entered unprecedented concentration.

There are many efforts in this world, the process is capricious, and there is no progress afterwards, but after a long time, amazing changes will occur.After two full months of seemingly “useless” and miserable stability training, Yu Yu’s occasional pain in his left shoulder and back gradually disappeared. During the long-distance race, he finally gained control over his body ability.

I don't know if Yu Yu is particularly good at the hot ocean environment or because he is in good physical condition. Yu Yu performed very steadily in the first three laps and basically swam out of his current peak.After swimming three-fifths of the race, he kept up with the first echelon, and still had enough strength to sprint. More importantly, Yu Yu deliberately increased the frequency of his fluid rehydration.

Most athletes will try to minimize the number of refills in the pursuit of speed.Yu Yu is no exception. Usually, he will only resupply once in a marathon before the final sprint.But this time, Yu Yu started rehydration from the first time he swam past the supply platform.

Yan Zheng repeatedly emphasized that the open water marathon is a special swimming event. It seldom has hard skills, but in the unpredictable arena, keep a steady mind and choose a good strategy.

Yu Yu knows the water temperature too well.Even if the game is advanced by an hour, the water temperature will reach about [-] degrees after halfway.And after long-term aerobic exercise, the body will become hotter and hotter.By the time he realized he needed rehydration, his body was far from optimal.Therefore, Yu Yun would rather "waste" some time in the early stage to ensure the water circulation in the body, but also to ensure the body's "successive strength".

Facts have proved that Yu Yu's experience is very correct.

On the fourth lap, the sun and water temperature became unbearable, and athletes who did not drink enough fluids went crazy to rehydrate.However, the decline in physical condition cannot be recovered immediately after drinking electrolyte water.Yu Yu could perceive his state and was not too affected by the high temperature.

The National Swimming Marathon Championships is also a trial for the World Championships, and the champion and runner-up will get the quota for the 10km open water of the World Championships in August this year.Yu Yu tried his best last year, but he was no. 17 in the country. To be honest, he never thought about being the champion and runner-up this time.But on the fourth lap, Yu Yu suddenly felt that the championship and runner-up in this competition seemed not impossible.

That thought made Yu Yu excited with vigor.

Seeing that the race entered the last lap, the final sprint began one after another.Yu Yu's horsepower was at full strength, and he began to compete with several first-echelon athletes around him for a favorable position at the corner, but at that moment, his left eyebrow was hit hard by someone's arm.

The referee blew his whistle on board and the player was given a yellow card.

But that elbow hit the swimming goggle on Yu Yu's left brow bone, and the frame and bridge of the nose pierced hard. Yu Yu only felt a "boom" in his head, and he closed his eyes subconsciously, accidentally choking After taking a sip of water, the entire nasal cavity felt sore like an electric shock.

He had to switch back from freestyle to backstroke.

The beam of his goggles broke.

Maybe it's the aging of the plastic, or maybe the big brother's elbow is too damn easy to use.Yu Yu didn't have time to think about why, so he simply threw away the swimming goggles.He doesn't feel uncomfortable in the pool without goggles, but thanks to his bad habits as a child, he doesn't feel uncomfortable in the ocean with his eyes open.

Several people overtook Yu Yu, and he was anxious. As soon as his breathing slowed down, he immediately switched back to freestyle swimming, but felt that his left eye was tearing sharply after it directly touched the sea water.

Yu Yu had no choice but to turn backstroke again, trying to give the wound a chance to heal, while continuing to paddle hard.

Soon, Yu Yu heard someone shouting his ID with a loudspeaker.He glanced around with his right eye, trying to find the source of the sound.Not far away, a white flag was flying violently on a ship, with three big red characters "rescue ship" written on it.

Yu Yu's left eye is still blurred.That entire area, as soon as it touched the sea water, swelled like a crack.He thought in a daze, maybe the broken beam had scratched the skin, and the wound was naturally very painful when it encountered the high-salt seawater.He has been swimming for almost two hours, and his body and mind are so tense that he really can't distinguish where he was injured.

He's never been in a situation like this before in a game.

However, getting on the rescue boat means giving up the game.

There is only the last point left, how can we give up here?

Yu Yu closed his left eye alone, raised his hand and gestured "OK" to the rescue boat to indicate that he was fine, then turned around and began to swim freestyle again with difficulty.After losing his swimming goggles and being forced to close his left eye, his whole body undulates slightly with the sea.This state made Yu Yu feel a little strange, and he felt a little dazed—but his well-trained body was very familiar with the task he was about to complete.

The final sprint begins.

In addition to the pain in the head, my breathing also began to be short of breath, my heart rate soared, and my limbs were sore as if I was about to lose strength.Yu Yu felt an unprecedented loss of control in the sea.

Such a loss of control made him feel a little panic.

Yu Yu suddenly thought——in the last leg of the Challenge Cup relay final, what kind of state and mood was Su Liao in to rush to the last second?

He has no way of knowing.

All he knew was that Su Liao did persevere until the last second for his teammates.

That thought brought endless power to Yu Yu.

His arms cleave through the waves and paddle the water behind him.In the last 500 meters, Yu Yu chased after him.The half of his field of vision in front of him became wider and wider.

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