Although he had stopped running for a long time, he could not see any signs of gaining weight. The reason why Guan Jialiangyi has not run recently is because he is recovering from his injuries. During his visit to China, he did not run at all, "just riding a bicycle around the West Lake."
However, his itinerary is no less tense than a super game: from December 16 to 20, Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai - five days and five cities, five sharing sessions, and return to Japan on the 21st. At the Shanghai sharing meeting, a runner privately sighed: "Only those who run super horses can afford it." In the evening after the last sharing meeting of
, we sat in a Western-style restaurant in Daning International Plaza in Shanghai and had a long talk by the window on a rainy night for nearly three hours.
is more like the eldest brother next door
Guan Jialiangyi came to China this time at the invitation of Love Burning to recommend his new book "Running Teaches Me the King's Style" in mainland China.
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998 to 2000, 100 kilometers of Miyakoshima, Okinawa, Japan, three consecutive championships; 001 Nagoya-Kanazawa Sakura Road International, 250 kilometers of Super Horse, champion; 002, 2009, 24-kilometer Super Horse, 246 kilometers of Super Horse, two championships; 004, 2006 to 2008, 24-hour World Championship, four championships; 001, 2005, 2007 to 2012, Taipei Tokugawa International, 24-hour Super Horse, eight championships; 4-hour Super Horse, Asian record of 274.884 kilometers... 008, 2010 Surgeres, France (Surgeres, in the book, is called "Sujie") 48-hour supermaster, two-time champion; the homepage of the IAAF website of the IAAF website reads: "Kan Jialiangichi has the honor of winning the 24-hour World Championships of the International Supermaster Runners Association - four times." (Ryoichi Sekiya has the distinction of most IAU wins at a World Championships with four at the 24 Hour events.) The International Supermaster Runners Association (IAU), a subsidiary of IAAF, also pointed out on its website: "Kan Jialiangichi's name is synonymous with the 24-hour World Championships." (The name Ryochi Sekiya is synonymous with the 24 Hour World Championship.)
Guan Jia in real life, but he has no airs of a big-name A-camera. At the Shanghai sharing meeting, he introduced his running experience and experience seriously and calmly, and answered questions from participants; every time he finished the answer, he would say "thank you" in Chinese.
, he refused everyone to sign and take the photo request, and took the initiative to pose with his arms straightened and his index finger facing the camera to take photos. He could not see his fatigue in running around for days. This most famous super king in Asia is more like a big brother next door.
The author can't help but suspect that the name of the
Guan family, which uses the title of the Taiwanese version, seems to be more famous in Taiwan than in Japan. His two books, this one and "100 Days of Practice of Runners", were first published in Taiwan and not published in Japan.
The book "Running Teaches Me the King's Style" was written by the Guan family since the end of the 24-hour Super Horse and World Championships in 2006. It was published in Taiwan in December 2012. He is not sure about the specific sales volume of the book, but "I heard that I sold tens of thousands of books two years ago - all sold in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia."
What is curious is that the book contains a lot of old things from 20 years ago. How can you remember so clearly? "Like the Eastern Wu Super Horse, I ran more than 10 times in total, and the impressive scenes will be memorized repeatedly, just like they are engraved in my body; in addition, I also have the habit of writing a diary," explained Guan Jia.
Last year, he revised the book and released it online in the form of an e-book to satisfy the reading wishes put forward by Japanese friends.
The lonely superma
Without the Japanese publishing house taking the initiative to publish a book for Guan Jialiang, and the fact that he has no sponsor so far and relied on blue-collar work to make a living, it is inevitable that Japan does not attach enough importance to this person who has repeatedly "gives glory to the country".
The reason should be that in Japan (and in many countries, the Supermax is a marginalized niche sport with limited popularity compared to its "school cousin" marathon.
Compared with the marathons that dozens or even millions of people across the country, "there are probably less than 10,000 people who have run super horses in Japan," Guan Jia told the author.For example, he and the writer Haruki Murakami participated in the popular event Saroma Lake 100 kilometers, with only about 2,000 participants in each session, which is incomparable to the tens of thousands of people in the Tokyo Marathon.
Take two of Japan's most famous amateur runners as examples. Guan Jialiangichi, who runs super marathons, needs to be a blue-collar worker and earn money. Kawauchi Yuhui, who runs marathons, has already exceeded his salary income. This is still the case when he is a civil servant and cannot accept sponsorship fees, sponsorship bonuses and appearance fees (see the author's article on Kawauchi Yuhui for details).
By the way, the Guan family also knew Kawauchi, although they didn't know him. Kawauchi ran over the super horse - last year's Oki Island 50km race, he set a record in Japan and the sixth best in world history with 2:47:27. The author asked Guan Jia: Do you think it is possible to run about 6 hours in a hundred kilometers in Sichuan? "It may be more difficult," he admitted.
(Note: The world record of 100 kilometers of road running 6:13:33, created by Japanese Takayuki Sakuta in Lake Saruma in 1998; his marathon PB is 2:10:07, nearly two minutes slower than Kawauchi. The record of 100 kilometers of field race is 6:10:20 created by British Donald Ritchie)
Kanjia is now running supermass competitions, and basically everyone is invited to participate, but the organizers usually only bear travel expenses. For example, the 24-hour Supermass Club of the Soochow Association provides air tickets and food and accommodation, and very few give appearance fees; "Of course, I will also participate in some competitions that I am interested in at my own expense."
As for the supply staff who accompany the competition, he also pays for the air tickets. Among the Guan family's previous participation experiences, the most expensive was the 217-kilometer super horse in the US in July 2011. He had to bear "air tickets, accommodation, and car rental money for three of the four supporters, totaling 500,000 yen." That time he got the second place, maybe the bonus can subsidize some expenses? "There is no bonus for the first place!" said the Guan family.
is also a world-class runner. Compared with the marathon runners who are "respected and rich", the super horse racing is obviously much lonely and poor. No wonder almost all enthusiasts come from rich countries. However, taking this path is Guan Jialiangyi's own choice. There is a passage on page 99 of the book
: "If I focus on the marathon, I should be able to push the results into 2 hours and 30 minutes... Even if I break 2 hours and 30 minutes, I can participate in international competitions, but it does not mean I have a chance to win the championship... However, in the world of super horses, because I broke the Asian record in the Eastern Wu International Super Horse last year and also won the championship in the Spartansson Super Horse event in Greece, so I chose Super Horse without hesitation for a multiple-choice question for horse’ and ‘Super Horse’. “Hiang 2
Guan’s choice is undoubtedly wise: he has a big gap with world-class marathon masters (Kawauchi Yuki’s first horse score is 2 hours and 19 minutes, nearly 1 hour and 20 minutes faster than Guan’s). He would rather be the head of a chicken, but after Wuwei, instead of being an unknown third-rate marathon runner, it is better to concentrate on firepower and burn the cold stove of Super Horse and make a name for it.
"Joying slowly will make you faster"
At the Shanghai sharing session, Guan Jialiang mentioned one thing that was not covered in the book: a 100-kilometer super horse held in Taiyuan, China on August 30, 1997. The competition, which had only double-digit numbers, was a turning point in his leap in running strength.
After Taiyuan Super Horse passed, his pace of 100 kilometers increased significantly from more than 7 minutes to around 6 minutes in September and October, and he ran into the 10-hour mark; in November, he ran into the 5 and a half minutes, approaching the 9-hour mark.
In January 11998, his pace reached 5:10, thus winning the 100 km race for the first time with a score of 8 hours and 37 minutes.
A month ago, his full PB was shortened from 3:11:21 set in early 1995 to 2:56:08 - he has been running for 5 years and finally entered the third place! The book
reveals the reason for his rapid progress in running performance that year: "In the first half of 1997, I unknowingly began to practice the strategy of 'jogging far'. Just like a car, the exhaust volume has increased, so I can easily increase the speed."
After several years of training, in March 2001, the Guan family won the international championship in the 24-hour Super Horse Competition at Taipei Soochow University in March 2001.
In the second year, Guan Jia, who has been running for 10 years, has completely set a new record for all: 5 kilometers 16:32, 10 kilometers 34:47, 100 kilometers 7:25:07 (Sorama Lake); the whole horse ran to 240 for the first time with 2:39:07, and increased to 2:35:36 in 2003.
During daily training and participating in 100-kilometer races, most of the Guan family jogged at about 5 minutes, while the pace of the entire horse 235 was 3:40. If you don’t practice normally, how can you reach such a high speed during competitions?
Guan Jia explained that in 1997, he had never done speed training before entering the third place of the entire Malaysian school, but he did not have never practiced speed. From 1998 to 2000, he participated in training classes once or twice a week, and he also practiced before 2:35. But later he stopped practicing. At most, he only tested it himself occasionally, and most of the time he still jogged slowly like in 1997.
He pointed out that the key to "jogging slowly and far away" is that the body must maintain a natural state. Even if it runs fast, the body must still be stable; maintaining a good running posture is an important part of laying a good foundation. You see, although the African players are very fast, their running posture is very stable.
significantly improves speed by jogging, which seems to have a prerequisite: accumulate considerable running volume? The average monthly running volume of Guanjia is 500 to 600 kilometers, about 7,000 kilometers per year, and once reached 8,000 kilometers five years ago. In response, he said: "There is this factor, but you may have all kinds of things. It is impossible to force the monthly running volume to reach a certain level. In fact, you can change the angle and consider how to make full use of time, such as not driving, running to work.
"At first, I didn't have the concept of monthly running volume. I started to pay attention when I ran too much and had requirements for my grades. I mainly used my usual time to run. And after running over 100 kilometers, I felt that the distance to the marathon was very short. In addition, the mental aspect is also very important, and you can control your speed through your mindset. "
One thing that needs to be noted is that in terms of running, the Guan family is not without talent. From elementary school to high school, he often won the first place in school running competitions. The best score for 8,000 meters in high school was 30:24 (speed 3:48, "The first place in our school, but it is slower than other schools."). In June 1992, he started running for weight loss. Two months later, he ran 1:39:00 in the first 24-kilometer race (speed 4:07), winning 11th place.
Guan Jialiang said that he was not a competitive person and was usually more humble; the book mentioned that "if the opponent runs 250 kilometers, I would run 250.1 kilometers", just because on that specific occasion: the 2006 Dongwu 24-hour Super Horse and World Championships; "I attach great importance to the Dongwu event and want to show the level of Asia to the world. I just attach great importance to my results in this competition. If I just want to show myself, my results may not be so good. As a representative of Asia, this result is achieved. "
That time he ran 272.936 kilometers, breaking 270 kilometers for the first time, and recovered the Asian record rewritten by his teammate Masayuki Otaki in 2004.
A year later, he raised the record to an astonishing 274.884 kilometers, with an average pace of 24 hours a day of 5 minutes and 14 seconds. "That time I only had less than 3 minutes off in total - 6 times to go to the toilet; the supplies were all running and eating and drinking. "It's really incredible!
(Note: the 24-hour world record is the Greek Yiannis Kouros ran 303.506 kilometers in 1997, with an average pace of 4:44)
Super Horse Practical Strategy
Currently, the record for 243 kilometers in China is 243 kilometers. It was created by Zhao Ziyu, associate professor of the School of Mechanical and Electrical and Automation of Huaqiao University in January 2015.
The Guan family also went there that time, but he ran only 150 kilometers due to injury and withdrew from the competition. These two Chinese and Japanese Super Horse masters met three times in the past two years, and the Guan family twice in the past two years. With injury withdrawal - Another time was the "Xuanzang Road Eight Hundred Quicksand Extreme Race" (UTG, Gobi Supercross Race) which was 400 kilometers away. The champion of that time was also Zhao Ziyu.
But in the 24-hour Super Horse in the Eastern Wu Dynasty in 2014, Zhao Ziyu lost to Guan Jia's 241 kilometers (fourth) with a score of 225 kilometers (sixth). The reason was that "I have no experience, I don't have enough supplies, I ran too fast in front, and my legs were cramped after 4 hours." He also told the author: "Guan Jialiang's speed is better, and I learned a lot from him. ”
Before this interview with Guan family, the author also asked Zhao Ziyu to ask some questions.The following are the intermittent questions and answers of two Chinese and Japanese masters:
Zhao: I heard that you have won more than 25 Super Marseille championships. It is hard to imagine. Is there any secret?
Guan Jia: Mr. Zhao and I talked about it in the Eastern Wu competition. At that time, he saw him rushing out at a very fast speed and thought he couldn't hold on. As a result, his grades were pretty good, and he also won the championship in Hong Kong Super League and UTG, and his performance was quite stable. However, he is only one year younger than me, and I am a little worried that he will get injured when running like this.
may not be that many Chinese players have achieved results, and they will attract more and more attention in participating in various competitions in the future. It is okay to try your best to rush and fight during the competition, but in daily training, it is recommended to run slowly to consolidate your physical foundation, because the running age is not long, which can avoid injuries and have better results, and your running career will be longer. Super Horse is a long endurance race, and there is no need to do excessive speed training. As long as you have a good physical foundation, you can basically achieve good condition during the competition. In addition, you don’t have to pay too much attention to age, such as what I want before I was 50. He has only 4 years of running, and his muscles are similar to those of young people in his twenties who have not been running for a long time. He still has a lot of room for improvement, so there is no need to rush to achieve success. He should have better results after he is fifty.
Zhao: How many Super Marseilles have you participated in in total? How many events do you attend each year? Do you think too many Super Horse competitions will cause damage to a person's body?
Guanjia: About 90 games, three or four games a year. I will have a physical examination before the international competition, and there are no bad indicators. The doctor said that at your age (the Guan family was born on February 12, 1967), it is very rare for you to be as good as you. (Guan Jia revealed that his resting heart rate is 55bpm, which seems to be higher than many long-distance running masters)
Zhao: In addition to the Super Marathon, how many marathons do you participate in every year?
Guanjia: I haven't run a marathon recently. The most recent one was the 2014 Hsinchu Marathon in Taiwan, which lasted more than 4 hours.
Zhao: In order to prepare for the super marathon, how do you train normally?
In response to this problem, page 68 of the book explains: I usually run five kilometers to go to work, take a long way after get off work, and then go home after running 10 to 20 kilometers. This is my regular homework every day.
On weekends, I usually run 20 to 30 kilometers, and at most I run 75 kilometers, and at other times I will change the distance and speed of running according to the intensive training period or adjustment period before the competition.
I usually start training three months before the competition. I will focus on increasing the distance in the first two months, but the speed will slow down. One month before the game, I will slowly reduce the distance and increase the speed. Join short sprint exercises in the last two weeks to adjust your physical condition to accept the challenge.
Zhao: How did you replenish it?
Guanjia: Ask the supply staff to give me 100 ml of water or cola, sports drinks, tea, orange juice per kilometer; eat small pieces of chocolate, jelly, dried plums and other foods, and eat a bowl of curry rice or cup of noodles every 4 hours or so. These are all arranged in advance, because you only care about your feet during the game, and when you think about it, your body may be in trouble.
Zhao: How do you formulate a pace plan for the 24-hour Super Marseille?
maintains a pace of about 5 minutes in the first 12 to 14 hours, and of course the speed will drop later, but the positions of the top few have been determined at that time, and the main consideration is how to run to maintain the ranking.
Guan Jia and American super horse star Scott Jurek in the 2011 Dongwu 24-hour competition
. Regarding the author's other super horse participation questions, Guan Jia answered the following:
1. The rest strategy of 24-hour running: Depending on the physical condition of each game, it is different.
2. How to recover after the game: Don’t do anything special, just eat and sleep. I don’t do physical therapy or massage because my muscles are hard after the game, and it will hurt if others press them, so I can’t relax.
3. How many days of rest after the race: you will stop running for about a week, then jog and gradually increase the amount.
4. Why do you mainly participate in field races and road races, and rarely run cross-country - it seems that you have only participated in the West 100 (mile) and 800 quicksand in the United States: I don’t particularly like cross-country races, mainly because of the timing. Most of my participation in the competition was invited, and so were those two off-road games. If someone invites me to run cross-country races in the future, I will go there too.
. Will you participate in UTMB, TDG (Giant Journey) and UTMF at your doorstep: If you have the chance, you will be able to do it. UTMF has thought about it, but it still needs to consider work and timing; if there is no conflict in arrangements, I still want to participate. 6. Have you ever heard of the world's longest super horse - 3100-mile circle race in Queens, New York: I have heard of it, and I have no intention of taking the initiative to participate. If someone invites you, you may consider challenging yourself to see if you can stick to it.
Guan Jia's last championship was in the 2012 Dongwu Super Horse; "I don't pursue results now, I just want to play with my friends." During the conversation, the waiter brought a large glass of beer and a set snack on a large wooden pallet. Guan Jialiangyi's reaction was no different from many foodies: taking photos, but he did not use a mobile phone, but a small card machine. "Everything in China is delicious," he exclaimed.
The super king doesn’t have a very large appetite for daily meals: three meals a day, eat as much as you have in the bento box. The long distance mainly depends on burning the body’s fat, and does not particularly need to be supplemented by eating. Before the game, she would not pay attention to carbohydrates, proteins, etc., or tell her wife to eat whatever she wants to eat.
Kan Yayoichi, who lives in Sagamihara, Kanagawa City, has a family-centered daily life: he sends his 5-year-old daughter to kindergarten every day, and then runs to work; he spends time with his daughter after he gets home from get off work. In order to run long distances on the weekend, he got up at 4 a.m. so that he could finish the run by noon so that he could spend the afternoon with his family.
His wife Sugiyama Kaori was originally a full-time wife. After her daughter entered kindergarten, she started looking for a job last month.
The couple met while having sex in the gym. After class in 2005, "Everyone have a drink together. I asked her, I will go to France for a 48-hour supermass competition next. Do you want to be a supply officer?" Sugiyama agreed. He went to France for the first time and the Guan family ended with withdrawal. He went back after marriage in 2008 and won the championship.
His wife also ran a hundred kilometers of super horses - from Hiroshima to Shikoku, and they didn't know each other at that time; her marathon score "seems to be around 4:50". The Guan family’s daughter is also very flexible and active and likes to run.
Guan Jialiangyi, who runs to work, becomes a street scene. People will greet him: "I saw your report, come on!" Local newspapers publish news and introductions about him from time to time.
Guanjia competition does not listen to music, and often listens to running, including the songs of the "Nanxing" band and Toyo Ozaki. European and American rock in the 1980s was also his favorite - singers such as Bill Joel, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, etc.
Guanjia has a GPS running watch, but it is rarely worn during competitions. Although he usually wears the watch, he tries not to look at it. He only reviews the data after running. "I pay more attention to my feelings. I will be controlled by the watch."
Recently, he has stopped running due to injuries to the bones and joints at the root of the thigh ("maybe it a bone spur or something"). He will have an examination after returning to Japan this time, and may require surgery or may be treated with intramuscular injection.
Some articles on the Internet say that Guan Jialiangyi is an engineer in a machinery factory. In fact, he is a blue-collar worker and works in a town factory - equivalent to a small street factory. "We process parts for testing according to the design drawings given by our customers. These parts are used on various machines - from cars to rockets, and then mass-produced by other factories after testing. The Japanese industry is mainly composed of such small processing plants, and often has only a few employees."
operates lathes and milling machines when working at home. He wrote down the Japanese names of the two "Ship" and "Rotation" on paper, and drew diagrams: the former cuts the round parts, and the latter cuts the square.
sounds like a job that is susceptible to 3D printing. Guan Jia admits that it is indeed the case: "Everyone has a sense of crisis. Japan is a country supported by technology, and everyone is worried about the future. However, it can run a marathon well and do its job well, which is more optimistic. There is a saying in Japanese: なんとかなる (Nantoka naru) - there will always be a way."
Guan Jia is worried that many young people are reluctant to enter the foundation of the Japanese industry now, which leads to the fact that most of the people working in it are already in their sixties and seventies.
As for the Japanese craftsman spirit that people admire, he is a little dissatisfied: "Maybe many people label people from different countries based on different countries. But I have been to many places and met many people, and I feel that's not the case at all. All people are personalized and vary from person to person. There are also many people in China who pay more attention to details and are more serious than Japanese. "
Guan Jialiangichi did not go to college because his parents divorced when he was in middle school. He and his father, his sister and his mother. Because his father often had to work (send newspapers) to make money when he was in high school. When he entered industrial high school, he planned to work directly after graduation. 90% of his classmates were the same. At that time, he was also influenced by some books that said that going to college was useless and it was better to go directly to society.
He quit his job at the Town Factory last year, and has been mainly engaged in book promotion this year. Events, the source of life depends on selling books, doing odd jobs occasionally, and attending some events in Japan. He will also give money when interviewing some running magazines.
In the future, the Guan family hopes to share the fun of super horses with people in more places, but they never thought of selling themselves. If others invite them, they will participate in some activities from time to time; everything will go with the flow. He thought of making a living with a marathon, but it will be difficult, so he may return to his old career and work as a mechanic and parts processing.
016 March is the fifth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan. Kan Jialiangichi plans to conduct a "Taiwan gratitude journey" similar to his 2012 "Taiwan gratitude journey" from the foot of Mount Fuji to Hachigo Aomori Prefecture, northeast of Honshu Island. The distance is similar to the last time, and it is almost 1,100 kilometers, to raise funds. As for running around Japan Island, he may try it if he has the chance, but he has not found the meaning of doing so yet. Compared to him, he prefers to run from Beijing to Hong Kong to promote Japan. Friendship in China, this makes more sense.
If you don’t run, Guan Jialiangyi might be just an inconspicuous worker in your life; if you don’t run a supermarathon, he might be just one of the millions of ordinary marathon enthusiasts. It is the supermarathon that ordinary runners dare not care about, which has created Guan Jialiangyi’s life glory.
(Special thanks: Thank you very much for Ai Lan Shao for arranging this interview and the professional guest translation of the beautiful runner Zhang Jiayi)
