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Cross-Country Running | Zeng Xiaoqiang published a book to share his experience of 20 years of running practice "I have traveled a lot, but I have never gone wrong"

2022-08-02T09:29:17.978Z


Cross-country runner Zeng Xiaoqiang has been running for 20 years. He has won many mountain championships, and has been injured many times. He has made many mistakes in training and competition. He decided to publish a book at his own expense to share his training experience in the past, and he took the opportunity to review run


Cross-country runner Zeng Xiaoqiang has been running for 20 years. He has won many mountain championships, and has been injured many times. He has made many mistakes in training and competition. He decided to publish a book at his own expense to share his training experience in the past, and he took the opportunity to review A little bit of my mountain running career, and I hope to help other trail running enthusiasts.

He made it clear that he never thought about making money when he published the book, but only hoped to realize his dream, and promised to donate half of the surplus to environmental groups.


Zeng Xiaoqiang's new book is titled "There is a Faith, Called Cross-Country Running", with more than 200 pages.

In the book, he first introduced his mountain running experience, and then combined his past experience and sports science to share his training plan, from running movements to nutrition plans.

Zeng Xiaoqiang self-financed the publication of the cross-country running book "There is a Faith, Called Cross-Country Running".

(Photo by Yan Minghui)

Taking the newly released book for an interview, Zeng Xiaoqiang showed a satisfied smile. He said, "Owning a book of my own is a goal of my life, telling my story and training. In recent years, I have slowed down and have time to do it. This matter." Regarding running mountains, Zeng Xiaoqiang has hosted many lectures or workshops, but every time the content is scattered, this time he can finally organize all training and competition experiences in a series through a book.

A full-time ambulance man who runs mountains in his spare time, Zeng Xiaoqiang said with a smile that writing a book is more difficult than running a race. , it is more difficult, but besides the hard work, there is fun in it, and it gives me the opportunity to review the records and stories of the past. I look back at the number bib of a previous game, I like to store the number bib very much, from my first game to the storage Now, so there is a large stack, all of them are stinky, but they are very positive, and there are many stories in the face.”

Zeng Xiaoqiang has practiced running for 20 years, and admitted that he made a lot of mistakes in the initial training.

(File photo/Photo by Lin Ruoqin)

Zeng Xiaoqiang was born in the Mainland and settled in Hong Kong with his family at the age of 17. After finishing his studies, he applied for the fire department ambulance test.

He started running at the age of 25 and participated in the Standard Chartered Marathon. He ran until he was physically exhausted and cramped frequently. He was so hungry that he picked up the banana peel on the ground to see if there was any flesh to satisfy his hunger, and struggled to reach the finish line.

Since then, Zeng Xiaoqiang has decided to practice running, and he saw his first results three years later. He won the championship in his first cross-country race in 2005, and fell in love with running in the quiet mountains and forests.

There were ups and downs on the mountain trail. He won the Oxfam Trailwalker championship and was more stable in the top 20 in the Tour of Mont Blanc Supercross Enduro (UTMB), but he also tried to get injured in UTMB and quit I was in a low mood during the competition, and at one point I planned to give up cross-country running.

He said, "I used to be on a Hong Kong and Taiwan program called "There is a Faith, It's Called Running". Running is indeed a kind of faith. Running is like life. There are highs and lows. How do you face and interpret your life? All need a belief to support.” Therefore, he named his new book “There is a Faith, Called Trail Running”.

Zeng Xiaoqiang believes that running is like life. There are ups and downs, and they must be supported by beliefs.

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During the 9 months of writing books, Zeng Xiaoqiang has also tried to use the pen to fly, and his inspiration is like a flood. He is reluctant to stop writing in the middle of the night. Through writing, he relives the beauty of the past, but he is often "brain occlusion" and cannot write anything. .

He shared: "When you sit patiently and think too much, your brain will suddenly 'really' and you can't organize, so I will go out for a run. When I run, inspiration will come out. Running is the secret of my book writing. Weapons give me more inspiration to write, so running is amazing!"

Zeng Xiaoqiang hopes that the content of the book can help trail running enthusiasts. He sighed: "I have traveled a lot of wrong roads! I used to do a lot of training, and I was very tired and injured, and I couldn't improve my performance." He later Go to study, train with foreign coaches, and learn more about sports. He said, "When you understand the truth, you can arrange your own training, focusing on quality rather than weight, and the amount of training is reduced, but it will be more effective."

Zeng Xiaoqiang said that when he wrote and wrote "brain occlusion", he would go out for a run and be inspired.

(Photo by Yan Minghui)

For the freedom of writing, he can work slowly and produce fine goods without being urged by editors. Zeng Xiaoqiang decided to give up the cooperation with the publishing house and publish at his own expense.

He said: "(Do you want to spend a lot of money?) There is a certain cost. I don't plan to make money. I just want to achieve a goal, tell my own story, and share my training."

He pledged to donate half of the surplus from book sales to Green Earth, because he appreciates the environmental group's work on plastics, tree planting and trail conservation.

"Through trail running, I changed my life," he said. "I also know that nature is important to us." Zeng Xiaoqiang's new book is now open for order online, and he will be attending an autograph session this Saturday.

Zeng Xiaoqiang promised to donate half of the surplus from book sales to "Green Earth".

(Photo by Yan Minghui)

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Source: hk1

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