It's another story about the relationship between "hunting" and "dream".
Hong Kong women's long-distance running, except for Yao Jiezhen, is Qu Zhiying.
But in today's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, after Qu Zhiying won the women's half marathon championship, she told reporters that two years ago during the days of full-time athletes, she lacked income, so she chose to become a primary school teacher in September this year.
She asked, "Why do you have to take care of your dreams and your work so tired?" After the award ceremony, Qu Zhiying went home to rest for a while and continued to prepare lessons. However, after each practice, the feeling of "worth" is still The satisfaction of the moment of crossing the line today may be Miss Vut's answer between hesitation and persistence.
Qu Zhiying won the women's half marathon championship.
(Photo by Zhang Haowei)
Today's event, Qu Zhiying won the women's half marathon championship in 1 hour 20 minutes 41 seconds, nearly two minutes faster than the expected 1 hour 22 minutes.
For more than an hour, she ran almost the whole process alone. "The female runners behind can't catch up, and I can't catch up with the men's team in front." Her score was 5 minutes faster than that of the Army's Sallander Ellinor, and the latter scored 1 hour and 25 minutes. Won the runner-up in 53 seconds, and Ou Yingning was the third runner-up, with a time of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 43 seconds.
Qu Zhiying won the women's half marathon championship.
(Photo by Zhang Haowei)
In January 2019, in order to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, Qu Zhiying resolutely embarked on the road of a full-time athlete, only relying on teaching running or gymnastics to make a living (she was a member of the Gymnastics Hong Kong team).
Ambitious, but helpless.
With the outbreak of the epidemic, opportunities to go out for competitions and training camps were lost, and life was insecure. In the end, he chose to bid farewell to his career as a full-time athlete, start school with elementary school students in September, and become a busy elementary school teacher.
"Schools have to enter the classroom at 8 o'clock, and I return to school at 7:3. If there is school team training, it will be 7 o'clock. I often have to practice at 4 o'clock. As a teacher, I have to work hard, and I have to make time for practice."
Qu Zhiying also hesitated: "Why do you have to make yourself so hard and so tired?" Runners know that no matter if it is early morning or evening, if you take your tired body in your spare time to practice running, there are always times to hesitate, but you keep practicing. After that, there was a feeling: "It's worth it, because what you practice is your own thing, and every time you practice, you can relax and reduce stress." Miss Vut said, after the practice, the next day I was full of energy to teach the children .
Women's half marathon top three: champion Qu Zhiying, runner-up Sallander Ellinor, third runner-up Ou Yingning.
(Photo by Gao Shiqi)
Qu Zhiying used to focus on the whole marathon, but this time he switched to half marathon. The reason behind this is undoubtedly that his work affects his training. The mileage per week used to be 150 kilometers, and now he "tops out" 100 to 110 kilometers per week.
Moreover, this is the result of 4 hours a day's sleep. In this case, the race distance had to be halved.
She said frankly: "Full-time athletes have low incomes and life is unsafe, so I want to spend money, but I really love running, so I can only take care of both." But she also cherishes training time more and allocates time as much as possible. Saturday and Sunday During holidays, training focuses on quantity, and quality is emphasized from Monday to Friday. In short, pay close attention to every minute and second outside of work.
For the future, Qu Zhiying still hopes to run the whole marathon again, and aims at the Hangzhou Asian Games next year. "There will be a long Christmas and New Year holiday afterwards. Try to practice more. This half marathon is my booster."
Despite the exhaustion of the body and heart, and continue to prepare lessons after going home after the game today, Miss Vut chose to be loyal to herself and work hard for what should be done between hesitation and persistence.
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