Recently, Mr. Cao, a Chinese running enthusiast, took his 9-year-old son to challenge the Zhengkai Marathon held in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, and completed the entire marathon. Afterwards, Mr. Cao was reported by netizens for violating regulations. After investigation by the marathon organizing committee, it was confirmed that he violated relevant regulations and was banned for two years.
According to the mainland media “Upstream News”, Mr. Cao is a sports self-media person. The father and son are famous for running in Pingdingshan where they live. On March 31, he took his son to sign up for the Zhengkai Marathon parent-child fun race. Tao, but ended up running the whole marathon. It took his son more than five hours to finish the race, but he “collapsed” due to uneven distribution of physical strength. He only picked up his son from the volunteers at the finish line.
Mr. Cao revealed that his starting point was just to take his son to experience the atmosphere of the marathon. Because minors could not register for the marathon, he signed up for the parent-child track. But when they actually arrived at the starting point, they found that the place was full of official half-marathon and full-marathon runners. The father and son were trapped in the crowd and could not return to the starting point of the parent-child fun run, so they just started off with the crowd of participants.
Mr. Cao said that they did not intend to finish the race at the beginning, nor did they plan to get a ranking. They just wanted to run as much as they could and take their son to experience it. Unexpectedly, when they turned back halfway, his son felt that he ” I can still run”, so I took my son to challenge the whole distance.
Mr. Cao said that his son ran 3 kilometers every day for three years from the age of 6 to 9, and his physical strength was very good. At the beginning of the race, I could still take care of my son, but after 30 kilometers, I “ran away” first. Instead, my son ran further and further away, and finally reached the finish line 30 minutes earlier than him. Thanks to the volunteers who helped guide him. , and then quickly took his son back.
Regarding the two-year suspension penalty, Mr. Cao admitted that he was willing to accept it. But he also proposed: “On such a wide road, high-level athletes have finished running. We don’t want rankings or medals. Can we run it? After all, minors can participate in rock climbing, skiing and other sports as long as they are accompanied by a guardian.” “
The marathon event organization told the media: “According to the regulations of the Chinese Athletics Association, minors are not allowed to participate in the marathon. Currently, you must be over 20 years old to participate in the full marathon, and you must be over 16 years old to participate in the half marathon and 10 kilometers.”
Sports medicine expert Lin Sheng also said that minors are not suitable for running a marathon because the marathon is an extreme sport that requires high cardiopulmonary function and requires long-term exercise before participating. The bodies of minors are still in the developmental stage, and running a marathon will overload their bodies, which may cause a variety of developmental problems.
As for Mr. Cao’s inability to outrun his 9-year-old son, Lin Sheng analyzed that it may be related to the minor’s lack of inhibitory function. Adults will have obvious discomfort reactions after physical fatigue, but minors’ feedback is relatively slow, which also leads to the situation where children don’t know they are tired when running.
However, Lin Sheng emphasized that “not knowing that being tired does not mean that the body is not tired.” Therefore, he strongly does not recommend that minors run the marathon. If you really like running, you can run a few kilometers of healthy running. Wait until your body is basically mature at the age of 16 to 18, and then gradually engage in long-distance running.
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