Chapter Thirty-Eight: On Fire

  This also gave Zhan Fei enough rest time, the men's 1500 meters ended, and then it took more than ten minutes. Next was the women's 1500 meters, the girls performed worse than the boys, running to the slowest few, even taking twenty minutes to finally finish the 1500 meters.

  At this time, the men's 3000 meters finally arrived, and Zhan Fei also took to the field again. This time, when Zhan Fei appeared, the entire school's audience was boiling with excitement. The current Zhan Fei is no longer the same, he has become a celebrity. How can one become a celebrity?

  Generally speaking, if someone excels in a particular area, they can easily become famous. However, being famous and being a celebrity are different things. A celebrity is someone who has information that can be sensationalized, like Zhen Xiaohong, a physical education student who specializes in the 1500-meter run and won the championship last semester.

  However, he was a student in the sports department and performed exceptionally well in long-distance running, winning the championship, which was expected. Although being the champion of 800 meters made him famous for a while, it only lasted for a few days because there was no sensational element to his story.

  Zhan Fei is different, first of all, the fact that he won the championship is unexpected in itself. The sports department's monopoly on the championship was taken by Zhan Fei, a math student, which is a sensational point.

  Secondly, Zhan Fei broke the school record and was only three seconds away from the world record, which is another major highlight.

  Thirdly, Zhan Fei is about to participate in a math competition soon, and the four words "well-versed in both literature and martial arts" are another selling point.

  To sum it up, Zhan Fei is more handsome than Zhen Xiaohe and easier to win girls' favor, which is also a selling point. That's why Zhan Fei became popular in the whole school. This time, when he participated in the 3000-meter event, many of his fans among the audience cheered for him regardless of their own class's athletes.

  And when Zhan Fei walked in front of the contestants, he also felt their resentment. The cheers and applause that originally belonged to them were now directed at Zhan Fei alone. How could they not feel resentful?

  At this time, a tall and handsome student said: "You're very impressive, but 3000 meters and 1500 meters are different, can you sprint?"

  Hearing what the student said, Zhan Fei smiled and said, "Try it out and you'll know?"

  When the students heard Zhan Fei's words, their faces changed slightly, and others also felt Alexander. After all, Zhan Fei's previous performance was there, that kind of terrifying sprint and endurance. If Zhan Fei could sprint to the extreme in the 3000 meters as well, then the championship would have nothing to do with them.

  And the audience, each and every one of them was extremely curious, could he still sprint like 1500m at 3000m? Everyone was full of curiosity and anticipation.

  Finally, after a minute or two, the starting gun fired, and all the athletes rushed forward. This time, Zhang Fei was just like in the previous round, rushing out directly. The other athletes saw this and their faces changed slightly - this is 3,000 meters!

  If he could continue to rush all the way like before, it would be too terrifying. As for the students in the audience, many of them were taking pictures with their mobile phones again. In the first three laps, Zhan Fei remained in first place without exception, and pulled down the second place by 500 meters, which was not unexpected.

  After all, Zhan Fei is the 1500m champion, and it's impossible to fall behind in the first four laps. If Zhan Fei can persist, the 3000m championship will be his for sure, just see if he can persist or not. In the next three laps, Zhan Fei still didn't slow down, at this time, he had already run 2400 meters, and there was only one and a half laps left to the end.

  At this moment, apart from Zhan Fei, the second group had only run four laps, and Zhan Fei was 800 meters ahead of them!

  And Zhang Fei's speed did not slow down, the endurance value of 11 points was fully demonstrated on Zhang Fei's body, and when he ran to this point, even Zhang Fei felt his whole body hot and panting, after all, he had been running at full speed for 2400 meters.

  However, the feeling of fatigue is not very obvious yet, and as long as I persist for a little while, the remaining distance can be easily run.

  Zhan Fei basically understood his own limits. Sprinting at full speed for 2500 meters wouldn't be a problem, 3000 meters would leave him slightly fatigued, and 4000 meters would exhaust him to death. For long-distance runs over 4000 meters, he absolutely couldn't use this running method and needed to change his strategy.

  However, in the school sports meet, 3,000 meters was already the limit, and he could easily finish it. When passing by his own class, Zhou Tai and others seemed to be able to see that Zhan Fei was a bit tired. So, the voices of "add oil" from the classmates became louder and louder, which made Zhan Fei feel as if he had been filled with energy again, and his footsteps also quickened a lot, perfectly completing the next 600 meters sprint.

  The physical education teacher who was in charge of recording the results also shouted loudly: "7 minutes 22 seconds 6, only 2 seconds away from the world record!"

  At that moment, everyone who heard it was shocked. This is too terrifying! Previously, the 1500m dash was only three seconds away from the world record. This time, it's directly two seconds away. And this is still a math major student without any training.

  If after a period of regular training, even with the guidance of world-renowned coaches, it shouldn't be too difficult for Xuan Fei to break through the world record. And then, Xuan Fei once again walked towards his own class's small square formation under the encirclement of his classmates.

  Xu Xuanhong also exclaimed: "Too awesome, three thousand meters actually rushed down like this, if it were me, I'm afraid I'd have to be carried back again."

  When they heard Xu Yunhong's words, everyone also burst into kind laughter. Although Xu Yunhong didn't achieve a good result when running 3,000 meters, he persisted and ran for the honor of his class.

  So, he was also glorious in defeat that year, although not as brilliant as Zhang Fei is now, but he also won the respect and admiration of his classmates, and his prestige as a class leader was established in that competition.

  Next was the final of the sprint event, which had nothing to do with Zhang Fei's class. Everyone played with their phones while waiting for the end of the competition. After more than an hour, all the events were over.

  And then the host said: "The competition has come to this, it's all over. Next, please invite the representatives of each class to come on stage to receive their awards. The men's 100-meter champion..."

  Then, with each sentence, one person walked up to the podium and stood there. Soon, the host had invited most of today's competition winners, runners-up, and third-place finishers onto the stage.

  Of course, there are still differences in the ranking of each project. The champions stand in the first row, the runners-up in the second row, and the third-place winners in the third row.