Life Notes Appreciation: Running Together

Editor's note: The author recalled the past of running and wrote that running can bring happiness, relax and make people feel comfortable. Let's take a look at this serial article.

Running together

Author: Bian Hongxing

? Are you busy?

? If you are not busy, let's run together! ?

I like running, and I also like inviting friends to run with me. In many mornings, afternoons or evenings, I will run two or three kilometers or five or six kilometers side by side with my running friends on the playground and the riverside path in the city, and experience a hard exercise process of sleeping and sweating, so as to enjoy the relaxation of mood and the comfort of the whole body.

Running together has accompanied me for many years.

After joining the army, running became a routine for soldiers. Morning exercise, physical training, running in normal class. In order to pass the physical examination at the end of the year, to get a good ranking in the competition, to be a squad leader, to be a sergeant, to join the party, to learn technology, and to enter a military school, comrades even seized the opportunity to run hard, even with sandbags tied to their legs and carrying sandbags on their backs. At that time, the 5-kilometer long-distance running was a compulsory item for the physical examination of troops. /kloc-excellent in 0/9 minutes, good in 2 1 minute, and passed in 23 minutes. I am a military journalist and an army soldier. My main task is to write articles for Junbao, praise the good deeds of the unit to the newspaper, mix with a group of officers all day, and deal with words for a long time. So my running training is much more serenaded than when I was in the fighting class, so my running performance has long fallen outside the passing line. No better than those company soldiers, especially those in infantry companies and reconnaissance companies, they are still excellent even if they run five kilometers three times a day. In those years, who were praised? Scud? Flying on the grass? Shenxingtaibao? I really envy and admire my long-distance runner!

What shall we do? Although I have genetic defects and lack of acquired training, I still want to run. Not only am I sorry for this military uniform, but I can't go to the military school if I don't run. No way, I found a soldier of the same year who was also interested in entering the military school and had excellent running performance. I get up early every day and run with him on the road outside the camp. Our troops are stationed in remote places, and there are few vehicles on the expressway. The operating environment is still very good before dawn. However, this road has downhill, uphill and turning. After running for a long time, I was out of breath and didn't want to run any more. At this time, my comrades encouraged me, inspired me, and even dragged me through two or three villages where dogs barked one after another on the roadside and ran back to our camp until I ran into the gate of the military academy.

After entering the military school, I ran a lot. After the self-study at 9 o'clock every night, everyone runs together. Rarely wear long pants, and most of the time wear vest shorts. We ran around the teaching area, less than 2 kilometers in a big circle, and completed the training task after running for 3 laps. I like to run next to Qingyang's classmates in my class. He became a soldier a year earlier than me, worked as a clerk, wrote and painted beautifully, and spoke humorously. He is very experienced in running. When I can't run and feel that my legs can't move, he taught me to swing my arms back and forth greatly, so as to drive my legs to move in harmony with the power of swinging arms. I tried it right away, and the effect was really good. This trick turned out to be an experience that I passed on to runners in the future. In this way, we ran through the military academy together until I turned myself into an officer and ran from second lieutenant to lieutenant.

18 years ago, as a lieutenant officer, I was lucky enough to work in a military newspaper. Here, running a newspaper has become a job, and overtime has become the norm. It's common that you can't eat or sleep at 12 o'clock at night because you have to rush, wait and make up the manuscript. In the long run, if you sit too long and stay up too late, some old newspaper reporters will suffer from occupational diseases, such as hunchback, hair loss, compression of sciatic nerve, varicose veins in legs, insomnia and so on. In the dead of night, lying in bed, eyes still wide open, very sleepy. It's no use counting sheep, guns, tanks and cannons in my mouth. Finally, you can only sleep with hypnotics. In order not to follow in their footsteps, young colleagues will choose one or two sports to keep fit. And running is especially popular with everyone. Gradually, colleagues who love running agreed to form a running circle of friends. During the physical training time at 5 pm, if the work at hand is not too busy, you will consciously come to the circular runway of the camp playground and run a few laps or more in groups, which has always been the case.

Simple running is hard and boring. It is easiest for a person to run a lap and give up halfway, which requires strong perseverance. Because I often run with my comrades-in-arms and colleagues, with their drive and encouragement, I actually persisted.

Compared with other sports, running has many advantages: it is not limited by equipment, venue, time, number of people and funds. It is a systematic and systematic sport, suitable for men, women and children, easy to carry out, with high safety factor, no need for personnel support, and self-adjusting intensity. In this respect, other sports are not as good as running.

There was a chubby colleague in the club who had a bad cough, but many treatments had no effect. He insists on long-distance running every day and does not less than ten kilometers of exercise every day. A year later, his cough disappeared and he became healthier and healthier. The little fat man who weighed nearly 160 Jin turned out to be a handsome guy who weighed more than 120 Jin, which made those who rely on drugs to lose weight and keep fit shout? Incredible? . Comrades feel that according to the height ratio, he is too embarrassed, reminding him to regain his weight will be better and more conducive to health. He said:? Is that easy? . By adjusting the amount of running, after half a year, he kept his weight at 140 kg. Embarrassed if you want, and fat if you want. Isn't it amazing? Colleagues responded with a smile:? I just care about my figure, okay? My body. I'm in charge, okay.

The other director, who turned out to be a demobilized soldier in Xinjiang, ran every day for nearly 30 years. He doesn't run fast, but it lasts no less than 40 minutes, and sometimes he runs backwards several times. He said that running for a short time has no obvious effect, and running backwards is good for the kidneys. It is also because of long-term running that he has a very standard figure in his fifties, has no small belly, has a clean face and is always full of energy, giving people the feeling that he is only about 40 years old. Today, although he has retired, he has been re-employed to the People's Liberation Army Daily and continues to be the editor of the newspaper.

Running together has many hidden benefits.

For example, being able to think and discuss problems. When people are exercising, the brain is also exercising and is in an excited state. They are usually quick-thinking and full of inspiration. Running, maybe you can come up with a better title for a manuscript and a better argument for a speech. When you encounter an incomprehensible problem, you may get a word or two of inspiration from your running friends.

Like making good friends. Although I am a colleague of a unit and a comrade-in-arms of a compound on weekdays, there are not many opportunities to talk together. But running together is not bad. No phone calls, no other distractions, no attention to the level of the position. No matter what happens in the world, parents, wives and children can communicate and participate. Over time, their relationship became inseparable running friends.

For example, it can give people happiness. We often run together, and everyone is very lively. While running, chatting and refueling. Who suddenly stopped to give up in the middle of the run. We will tell him: reporters are always on the road! ? Or give him a sentence:? Run, brother! ? He listened for a while, and then he followed everyone. The colleagues in the newspaper are full of cultural atmosphere, and jokes and jokes often make people laugh. Running, talking, listening and playing not only exercise, but also enliven the mood and produce strong feelings. This kind of time is still very happy and enjoyable.

But you never know. Due to the adjustment and reform of the military establishment system, our newspaper "People's Army" was closed on June 5, 20 16. Since then, colleagues in the newspaper have left their posts as editors and reporters in waves. Some retired, changed jobs, took off their military uniforms that they had worn for many years, and some went to other positions in other units. Two years have passed, and all the running comrades on the playground are gone. I go once in a while, but I don't realize the fun of running together. The originally lively playground suddenly felt lonely, empty and strange.

At the beginning, some of my colleagues went to Beijing and Nanjing, some went to Chengdu and Xi 'an, and went to the southeast and northwest of the motherland step by step. But no matter where everyone is, the contact with each other and the news of WeChat friends circle have not been interrupted. Most people who loved running habits at the beginning persisted in different cities and trails. I once heard that an old director of the newspaper took part in a long-distance race around the city wall in Xi 'an and ran into the top 50 of the amateur group. I also heard that several colleagues participated in the city marathons in Beijing, Nanjing and Lanzhou, and finished the whole course with good results. Every day, we can see their amount of exercise from the WeChat movement and Yuepao circle of the mobile phone, and we can also remember their vigorous posture when running. Now, although the newspaper we used to work for many years has closed down and the newspaper has completely disappeared, the unforgettable memories are still there, and the days of running together can still be remembered from time to time, as if it were yesterday and just in front of us.

I still love running. When you are worried, lonely and bored, you will want to run, and you will involuntarily think of your comrades and colleagues who are running together.

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