Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 131: Lanzhou Marathon’s True Recognition

Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Lanzhou Marathon’s True Recognition

These days, Kipchoge’s status in the marathon world is roughly equivalent to Bolt in the sprinting field and Ali in boxing; you could call him a true legend. It’s naturally hard to convince others that someone like Wang Ye, a robust amateur runner, could surpass a legend like Kipchoge without any embellishment.

At the same time, many domestic runner bloggers expressed certain doubts about Wang Ye’s accomplishments.

They even released detailed analysis videos online about the race where Wang Ye broke the record.

Wang Ye glanced briefly at these bloggers’ analysis videos.

He found that the content of these bloggers’ analyses was mostly repetitive; they didn’t find any concrete evidence from the race to prove Wang Ye cheated, but instead focused on his physique. Most runners know that being hefty is actually a potentially fatal trait in long-distance running.

But the internet is by no means a lawless place; the sword of law is always hanging over everyone’s head. Without concrete evidence, all their remarks are nothing more than rumors and slander. This is indeed the case; over 70% of the comments in the section believe Wang Ye did not cheat and that he broke the world record based on genuine skill.

Meanwhile, Wang Lianzheng, who had helped Wang Ye a lot during his brief marathon career, also made a video on his Douyin account to clarify and prove this point for Wang Ye.

Since Wang Lianzheng himself was at the race and saw with his own eyes Wang Ye breaking the world record alone, he clearly knew Wang Ye did not cheat. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

After seeing Wang Lianzheng’s clarification video, Wang Ye felt a tinge of gratitude in his heart. After all, he had only met Wang Lianzheng twice on the track, at most like passing acquaintances. Yet Wang Lianzheng took the initiative several times to lend a helping hand, providing a lot of help to Wang Ye, which is quite rare.

Wang Ye steadied his thoughts and continued scrolling down, only to see countless netizens arguing in the comments section.

[Haitang Remain: Everyone saw that there was no suspicion of cheating during Wang Ye’s race; on the contrary, those few black guys’ disruptive actions severely slowed down his speed and performance. I want to ask, did the organizing committee take any measures?]

[Yu Ji 89: A guy over 190 cm tall running such a time—everyone knows, it’s either doping or on-site cheating. Many things can’t be seen in the videos.]

[Starry Sky: Now you are the expert. I’ve never heard of any drug that can enhance marathon performance.]

[Starting from Heartbeat, Ending at White Hair: Another issue is like marathon runners, people who do extensive aerobic exercises long-term tend to accumulate a large amount of free radicals in their bodies, causing sallow skin, aging, and spots. Yet Wang Ye’s skin is as tender as that of a teenager, which is completely unreasonable.]

[Starting from Heartbeat, Ending at White Hair: I’ve gone through his Douyin account and researched many of his videos; this person has too many anomalies that can’t be explained. If you tell me now that he used some genetic evolution drugs, I would believe it.]

[Starry Sky: Keep being sour. Each of you is a walking 500,000. China’s marathon project finally has a world record holder, and you’re determined to ruin it.]

[Starting from Heartbeat, Ending at White Hair: Just speaking the truth, and that’s worth 500,000?]

Wang Ye continued scrolling.

He discovered the arguments in the comments section were generally repetitive.

They merely focused on debating Wang Ye’s particular traits.

After a while, Wang Ye found it uninteresting, so he closed Douyin.

Anyway, in just over ten days, he would be participating in the Lanzhou Marathon.

This Lanzhou Marathon is a bona fide IAAF-certified gold-label event with quite strict verification procedures, thereby minimizing cheating risks.

If Wang Ye breaks the record in this race as well, it should shut those netizens up once and for all.

After figuring this out, Wang Ye put down his phone and zipped up the tent.

He then lay back in his sleeping bag and gradually fell asleep.

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May 22

4:35

The sky wasn’t yet light.

Trucks hauling goods could already be seen roaring down the national highway.

The dust kicked up by the tires spread nearly two meters high.

High beams were needed to barely see the road ahead.

Amidst this rolling dust storm.

A figure could be seen sprinting fast, carrying a heavy load.

Moving at an astonishing speed, with every swing of his arms and step, he could part the surrounding dust clouds.

He kept tearing through the sand curtain, sweeping past street lamps, the shadow at his feet shifting between front and back.

Yet even under such high-intensity exercise, his breathing showed no sign of strain, instead, his speed increased, his momentum growing stronger. Like a cargo truck rolling downhill.

The passing drivers who saw this spectacle looked on in surprise, some even picked up their phones to shoot short videos, posting them on their social media.

The man sprinting down the highway was none other than Wang Ye.

Due to increasingly shorter sleep times.

Around four in the morning, he woke up.

Upon waking, he started by practicing a set of Tai Chi and did some Telekinesis Training.

He then caught a few fish in a wild pond, fried them in a pan with oil, and ate them with milk and compressed biscuits to make up for the daily calorie deficit caused by evolution. After tidying up his sleeping bag, tent, and moisture-proof mat, and packing them into his backpack, he set off on his walking path.

Over the day, his backpack weight dropped from roughly 40kg to about 25kg.

Thus, his running speed was noticeably faster today, and he could maintain a long-distance pace of 2:40 per kilometer even with a 25kg backpack.

Moreover, his maximum speed limit increased slightly, though not significantly. His bare minimum sprint over 100 meters even reached 6.54 seconds. However, this was simply marked by Wang Ye’s stopwatch, hence there’s a certain deviation, probably faster by about 0.5-second to 1-second compared to precise electronic timing.

It shows Wang Ye’s entire day’s weight training indeed had some effect.

Even though Wang Ye spent the entire previous day running. He didn’t feel the slightest boredom. Because he could genuinely feel every step he took brought tangible progress. And each step forward is toward the realm of the extraordinary.

Besides running and walking.

Along the way, Wang Ye would occasionally encounter rock walls and mountainsides.

He naturally wouldn’t miss such an excellent training opportunity.

With the backpack on, he would charge up and dive into climbing and wall-climbing and roof-jumping.

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