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On November 29th, the three cities of Shanghai, Nanjing and Chengdu held a marathon simultaneously, with more than 29,000 people participating.
In addition, there will be a number of running events of different scales held in Chongqing, Kunming and other places on November 29.
Affected by the epidemic, the long-dormant Chinese marathon is quietly recovering in the early winter.
The number of participants in marathon events held in many places has increased year by year
At Shanghai's Bund Taurus Square, the reporter saw that 9,000 runners had assembled, and the first shot of the 2020 Shanghai Marathon was fired here.
After three rounds of starting guns, the contestants set off from the Bund Taurus Square and galloped on the urban roads of Shanghai.
After 6 hours and 20 minutes, the 2020 Shanghai Marathon will usher in the "closed" moment. In this event, the men's group finish rate reached 97% and the women's group finish rate reached 96%.
Participants of the 2020 Shanghai Marathon: It happened to be our 20th wedding anniversary. She ran a whole marathon for the first time. We completed the race together. We ran at a pace of 5 minutes and 20 seconds per kilometer.
Participants of the 2020 Shanghai Marathon: Happiness, bringing us so many good sisters, we all met because of running.
2020 Shanghai Marathon Participant: Almost 60 years old, but I am in a good spirit now. Thank you for the happiness the marathon brings me.
Participants of the 2020 Shanghai Marathon: Usually work is very busy. Except for running a marathon, where you can have four or five hours of time to completely empty your head, you rarely experience this state at other times.
Participants of the 2020 Shanghai Marathon: This is a kind of freedom. You only need to put on your running shoes and start running. You can start immediately without too many things. This feeling is very good. I like it very much. It can keep me young.
For the participants, the marathon is not just a pure sports event, it is more like a city carnival. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Marathon. In 1996, the first Shanghai Marathon had only 6,000 participants, and it is now attracting every year. More than 100,000 people signed up.
Marathon clubs rise to market-oriented athlete training
Not only is the number of participants increasing year by year, there are also more and more good results in the marathon.
In Sunday's competition, many contestants in various cities broke through their personal best.
At the same time, in the marathon field, many market-oriented clubs have emerged in the past two years, which also provides new ideas for the training of athletes.
The reporter observed that in the three marathons on November 29th, not only professional athletes broke through themselves, but the performance of ordinary athletes also continued to improve.
In the Shanghai Marathon, male runner Jia Orenga crossed the finish line first, which lasted 2 hours, 12 minutes and 44 seconds.
On the day before the Shanghai Marathon, the reporter met Jia Erenga and his current teammates in the club where the contestants stayed in advance. They took pictures and chatted together, arranged equipment, and cheered each other up.
Marathon runner Jia Oringa: I love running very much. I want to be more focused. I will join the club at the end of 2018.
It is equivalent to trying a Japanese industrial team. High-level players will sign in to the company, pay them wages, five insurances and one housing fund, to protect their survival, as long as they go to the competition, nothing else.
The reporter learned that there are not many domestic clubs of this level in the marathon field, and the market-oriented marathon athlete training model is still in its infancy.
Gu Yiwen, the leader of the E-House Marathon Club: Volkswagen's marathons have been particularly popular in recent years. Amateur runners have run very hot recently, and their level is gradually improving. We hope that market forces can give them some impact.
At present, the E-House Marathon Club has expanded to a team of forty or fifty people, and the echelon size and elimination mechanism are still being designed and planned.
In general, the cost of building a marathon club of this size is at least ten million.
Yiwen Gu, the leader of the E-House Marathon Club: At the beginning of the first year, the investment was mainly in the salaries of the athletes, the salary of the coaches, and the bonuses of the competition; the operation started slowly in the second year, which may increase the communication cost; We are going to build a training base this year. At present, we have invested millions of dollars. We didn't put a lot of pressure on ourselves in the early stage, so we set up the framework of the club first.