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Bai Bin doesn’t like being called “China’s Forrest Gump”.
At a runner party on the evening of May 14, a boy raised his glass and said to him: "Brother Bai, I saw you and remembered " Forrest Gump "..." Bai Bin smiled and gently refuted the other party's words: "Forrest Gump ran away from the United States, we are different, I ran away from the earth."
This is a challenge that was planned for 7 years before it was finally implemented. At 7:19 am on May 8, Beijing time, 49-year-old extreme runner Bai Bin crossed the Arctic and Southern Pole, went through 14 countries, completed 568 marathons, with a running mileage of 24,110.52 kilometers, and arrived at the finish line of the Arctic Ocean. It has been 433 days since he started from the Antarctic Great Wall on March 2, 2018, which is 133 days later than the expected completion time.
On May 8, 2019, when Bai Bin (left) and Li Zhenyu arrived at the Arctic Ocean landmark at
at the Arctic Ocean landmark, Bai Bin stretched his body into the word "big" and lay on the snow. There was only the rustling sound of snow blowing around the strong wind. , which seems a bit "crazy and stupid" to some people, is actually not a journey for Bai Bin alone to be a lone hero.
Return
end point.
end point is finally coming soon. On the 432nd day, heavy snow fell from Inuvik, the city of Arctic Circle in May. In the temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius, Bai Bin ran 100 kilometers. It was already 3 a.m. when he returned to the station. There were 105 kilometers left, and he could reach the Arctic Ocean.
Day 432, running 100 kilometers
I thought I would be extremely excited, but I was extremely calm. I woke up the next morning and still stepped on my legs from the end of the previous day as usual, inhale, exhale, and inhale again...30 kilometers, 10 kilometers, 5 kilometers... When Bai Bin was lying in the snow, "I had no feeling, I just wanted to go home quickly, and finally I didn't have to run anymore..."
On May 14, I met Bai Bin in Beijing. He looked very thin and had white hair on his head. That morning, he ran 22 kilometers in Olympic Park . "Every time I want to finally not run anymore, but I want to run when I stop. If I don't run for a day, I feel anxious and uneasy." He smiled embarrassedly.
There was a party at 7 o'clock that night. Beijing runner Wen Hua was the organizer. The party location was set at a roast duck restaurant near of Olympic Forest Park. Runners raised banners: Traveling through the Arctic and Southern Pole/Creating an extraordinary life/ Warmly congratulations to Li Bai's team on his earth's success.
Those who came to the party were runners who played outdoor hiking with Bai Bin in their early years, and most of them ran the full marathon. "Bai Bin basically took us on the off-road routes around Beijing." Bai Bin was surrounded by friends like a returning hero. He smiled and took a photo with them in front of the banner, and in conjunction with the thumbs up. A runner even brought a quick-drying T-shirt with the words "Beijing Marathon Association" for Bai Bin to sign.
This is a very sincere atmosphere. Everyone regards Bai Bin as a "great god" and tries their best to praise him. Everyone is curious about what he has experienced. Bai Bin returns to his friends with tea instead of wine. Compared to the silence when Bai Bin arrived at the Arctic Ocean, this kind of excitement was what Bai Bin expected and was a little uncomfortable. He could not take care of everyone and always didn't know whose question should be answered first.
Bai Bin's circle of friends only has one theme for running, and the content is a running track picture, a selfie picture or a landscape picture. can be finished in half an hour with these friends. These friends are used to seeing where Bai Bin has been running again in the circle of friends every day. Friends always have an illusion: it seems that Bai Bin suddenly arrived at the Arctic Ocean, but in fact, he was running every day for 433 days. I asked Bai Bin, what do you think when you are running? "To the end, I felt that my body seemed to be separated from me. My legs just moved forward. I couldn't sense the pain and my brain was blank."
Day 418, running 57.2 kilometers
Day 388, running 68 kilometers
I remembered Haruki Murakami wrote after he ran 100 kilometers: I was in a state similar to autonomous driving. If I continue running like this, I am afraid that I can still run after 100 kilometers. seems to have acted first, and then me will have my presence intercourse. I ran, so I was in Bai Bin.
In today's China, there are an average of 4 marathons every day, and 17,320 people run on the streets of the city. Marathons have become popular from a "middle-class" sport, and more running enthusiasts have begun to pursue longer and higher difficulty running activities. Even so, compared with the huge marathon group, is still a minority who can complete long-distance running more than 100 kilometers, and running from Antarctic to Arctic is the only one - Bai Bin is the one who runs further among the domestic running groups.
graben , fundraising and kidnapping
Behind Bai Bin is a team called "Li Bai Runs the Earth": planner Li Zhenyu, recorder Lei Zi, Spanish translator luna, designer Liu Nian, photographer Jing Yuan, pavement explorer and driver Shen Zhen, chef and housekeeper Sun Wei, sports rehabilitationist Rinus and others. This is an elite group of ordinary people who have quit or suspended their original jobs in a long or short period of time and participated in this action.
On September 28, 2018, in the capital of Honduras, a group of people went to the Embassy of El Salvador in Honduras to apply for an entry visa for El Salvador
They rarely encountered good weather along the way.
33 days, strong winds are 52 days, heavy snows are 18 days, heavy rains are 26 days, high altitudes are 12 days, hot heat is 107 days, temperatures below zero degrees are 76 days, and strong ultraviolet rays are 128 days.
When Bai Bin and his teammates arrived in Colombia for more than 150 days and their running mileage reached 10,000 kilometers, there was an insurmountable barrier in front of them. There was a large tropical rainforest at the junction of Colombia and Panama , known as the "Dalian Grain". If you want to run to Central America, you must pass the "Dalian Grain", but the danger here is extremely high. A large area of territory is separatisted by anti-government armed forces, full of smugglers, drug lords, and people who are preparing to smuggle into the United States for the time being.
According to the team's plan, running from south to north should be done with both feet throughout the journey, without any other form. The day before preparing to cross the graben, the local guide said that he could only guarantee the safety of the Colombian region, but the Panama region could not. Without a familiar guide to the whole process, I can only find another way.
Everyone was frustrated in the face of this situation. Some people even said that they would fly over and forget about it. Li Zhenyu insisted on using manpower. In the end, the four of them decided to take the water route to the Indian tribe island, and kayaking on the Caribbean for 9 days before they reached a place with roads on the shore. Later, due to bacterial infection in Bai Bin's feet, he could not continue moving forward. The group took a small plane from a small town on the beach to treat his illness. The plane passed the "Dalian Grain" and looked down at this mysterious emerald green territory from a high altitude. Everyone was in a complicated mood.
From August 9 to 18, 2018, Bai Bin rowed on the Caribbean Sea for 9 days. When he arrived at the land starting point
5,000 kilometers, the team encountered a shortage of funds. The more than 2 million yuan raised by Li Zhenyu had spent before departure. Bai Bin decided to ask for help from his runners in his personal name. He sent a private message to his known runners and finally raised about 700,000 yuan. fundraising behavior has caused controversy, "Why do you need to crowdfund your personal behavior from runners? Are you not ready at the beginning?"
Li Zhenyu said that during the period when deciding whether to raise funds, they talked about giving up several times. "The expectation has been changing. At first, I wanted to complete it in 300 days, but later I thought it would be enough to complete it. Later, as long as I could go back alive." Everyone's thoughts have experienced a struggle from complexity to simple. Li Zhenyu once cried in the car after receiving a call from his girlfriend. Lei Zi next to him turned his head and pretended not to see it. This was a tacit understanding between men.
" Get up at around five o'clock in the morning to cook. After dinner, a car took Bai Bin to the end of the day before, and the other car stayed in the hotel. After cooking lunch, it packed, checked out, loaded items. The driver drove the food to the running location, and then went to find a place to cook and board to prepare supper." days are like this. As the distance of running becomes longer and longer, the more difficulties you encounter, the excitement when you set out gradually fades away, people's attention gradually fades away, and Bai Bin still has to run forward. At the beginning of , everyone will share their experiences along the way in their circle of friends. Slowly, everyone's circle of friends every day becomes a screenshot of the exercise route and a simple explanation of the exercise track. They quit most group chats and stay away from almost all the social interactions before.
at the dinner table , a friend asked about the kidnapping incident that Bai Bin experienced in Mexico .
It was at 10:26 am on November 12, 2018, and the fundraising was in progress. The air was hot, and on the Mexican highway, only 50 kilometers away from the US border, Bai Bin and his teammates encountered kidnapping.
"We met gangsters, we met gangsters, I hurried to a place more than ten kilometers away from me, and there were many policemen to seek their protection..."
"Bai Bin is still on the road, but I have to call the police to turn back and pick him up..." Li Zhenyu sent two urgent voices in the work group.
At 9:58 that day, Bai Bin and Li Zhenyu arrived at the end of the day. 73 kilometers of Mexico Highway 97, Bai Bin walked to warm up and started, Li Zhenyu drove an Chevrolet sedan behind - they have always cooperated in this mode, watching Bai Bin run over, Li Zhenyu started Make the record, then drive forward to catch up with Bai Bin.
On the same day, when he was busy making the record, an off-road vehicle leaned over to his left. There were 4 people in the car, and two of them were holding guns. Li Zhenyu recalled: "The two in front pointed at me and said, I shrugged at them, saying that I didn't understand, and started the car, stepped on the accelerator and rushed out. The criminal should not have my car two or three times but failed. I ran faster and faster. About two kilometers later, the criminal gave up chasing me. I contacted my teammates and rushed to the checkpoint to find the police. "
8 minutes later, Li Zhenyu met the police at the checkpoint. While calling the police, he followed a team of policemen back to find Bai Bin. He searched along the road for 20 or 30 kilometers without success.
At 1:30 pm, Li Zhenyu received a call from Bai Bin, saying that the kidnappers had released him and the police were by his side. According to the timeline, it should be that Li Zhenyu drove away shortly after he left, and the kidnappers met Bai Bin. "I was speeding up at the time, and a car was approaching. I saw two guns pointing at me, so I could only choose to get in the car. "After getting in the car, the kidnapper covered Bai Bin's face with his coat, "and around, the car drove for half an hour. "Afterwards, Bai Bin's mobile phone GPS showed that the kidnapper took him around for a full 82 kilometers.
Bai Bin was taken into a yard surrounded by high-walled city. He didn't know Spanish and was fluent in English. No matter what the other party said, Bai Bin could only answer NO, "They asked me if I could Chinese Kung Fu, and I said no, and said I could only running. "After so entangled for a long time, Bai Bin was taken to a strong man who seemed to be a bandit leader. "He asked me if I was a Chinese. I said yes, he said he also had Chinese friends, and added a message to My Friend. He saw the photos and videos of running on my phone, and answered a call in the middle. After he came back, he told his subordinates to take me out in Spanish and let me go. "The call may have been called by the police, but all this can no longer be verified. Bai Bin simply used "luck" to pass these complicated processes.
On November 12, 2018, Bai Bin was kidnapped in Mexico, and the police and his teammates worked together to rescue him. From left (IV) Bai Bin
and chose each other
May 8, accompanying Bai Only Li Zhenyu reached the end of the journey. The rest of the team left halfway due to various subjective and objective reasons. Why are you the only one in the end? Li Zhenyu was not willing to review the specific details. He said that it is not right or wrong to leave or stay. Such a long journey must be full of the complexity and changes of human nature. Leaving does not mean ending friendship. Lei Zi said: "Run all the way, go home after running. If you weren't running like this, you'd probably be able to stop eating early. ”
This is a mutual selection process.
Li Zhenyu and Bai Bin met in June 2016. He spent half a year observing Bai Bin and finally made up his mind to do this with Bai Bin. It originated from the fact that he saw a kind of "lumbing force" in Bai Bin. This kind oflumbing force is rare in adults, but from another perspective, it may represent paranoia.
Bai Bin has never been a person who plays according to common sense. Born in the mountainous area of Guizhou, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. At the age of 30, he started running systematically because he wanted to participate in the Olympics. If you use one word to describe his past 20 years of life experience, it can be attributed to one sentence: you are running anytime and anywhere.
By running, Bai Bin won too many championships. He told me that from 2006 to 2008, he won the first place in almost all outdoor sports challenges in China, and his home was full of trophies. In 2010, he won the Beijing International Cross-country Run Challenge 100km event championship. In 2011, Bai Bin and Taiwan Lin Yijie ran to complete the challenge of a total mileage of 10,000 kilometers from Türkiye to Xi'an, with an average of 70 kilometers per day, and his body did not react abnormally. It was also at that time that Bai Bin had the idea of running from Antarctic to the North Pole. In his understanding, running from Antarctic to the North Pole was just a greater challenge than running from Turkey to Xi'an.
On the 333rd day, the running volume was 63.8 kilometers. On Highway 101,
Bai Bin told me that he had a habit of participating in the competition, either winning the championship or treating the competition as training, slowly and without caring about the results, and reaching the finish line before closing. In the first "Eight Hundred Quicksand Extreme Competition" in 2015 (the participants must complete 400 kilometers of extremely arid desert crossing within 149 hours), Bai Bin did not get any results due to the wrong route. The next year he participated in the competition and won the championship. Winning the championship is the way to prove himself.
is different from the past. He runs through the Arctic and Northern Pole, and Bai Bin’s opponent is himself. The people around him are his collaborators, and Bai Bin is not good at this way of getting along.
On September 18, 2018, the team and the team gathered at the Costa Rica/Nicaragua border
in the second half, Bai Bin's wife Chen Chunyan appeared on the dining table with her son who was about to turn one year old. She is from Shandong and is a well-known cross-country runner in China. She has achieved the 14th overall women's ranking in the 2012 Mont Blanc cross-country run. For a long time, the couple was in constant activity of cross-country, running and other outdoor events at home and abroad, and the prize money received by the event was the main source of family life.
When Bai Bin set off, Chen Chunyan was pregnant, but he still chose to set off. He believes that his wife, who has experienced the peak of cross-country running, should hope that he will achieve his goals rather than trap him by his side. Bai Bin has always been a person with a strong sense of self. His sports company and the cross-country races he founded are all named after himself - As Li Zhenyu said, Bai Bin is a mixture of heroes and children, a mixture of simplicity and paranoids.
(the picture in this article is provided by the interviewee)
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