Cultivating through increasing my stats in America-Chapter 65 - Start with a Sprint
Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Start with a Sprint
Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Start with a Sprint
Li Ang’s overtaking method, if used in the early stages of the race, was actually quite irrational.
The usual approach for most riders was to follow the main group for a while and wait until the crowd gradually dispersed before the stronger riders began to accelerate, preserving their energy in the process.
But Li Ang’s approach was more brute force, constantly accelerating through tight gaps to overtake, a method that required frequent deceleration and changing directions, wasting a lot of kinetic energy.
Li Ang was not ignorant of these details; he simply didn’t care about them. All he wanted now was to not be affected by others and to perform at his best.
The riders in the large group behind him, seeing themselves being overtaken by Li Ang, didn’t mind too much. In fact, they had already concluded in their minds that this was just a newbie. With a race distance of 180 kilometers, if one didn’t know how to distribute their energy, finishing might even be in question.
Li Ang, listening to the cheers and shouts from the crowd on both sides of the race track, felt his own emotions surge with excitement and soon increased his speed to 50 kilometers per hour.
This speed on flat ground was something the vast majority of the riders present could achieve, but only during a sprint.
His sudden emergence quickly caught the attention of the directors; his ethnicity, sponsors, and high speed at the start, each point was a feature that attracted attention. Therefore, he even received as much focus as the leading seeded riders.
Three minutes into the race, Holt suddenly noticed a strange figure had appeared by his side at some point.
He glanced out of the corner of his eye a few times and realized he had absolutely no memory of this rider.
While he was still pondering who this person was, Li Ang had already overtaken him and even surpassed his windbreaker, taking the leading position in the team.
Holt: Eh?
The other seeded riders didn’t take it seriously and simply assumed Li Ang was someone else’s windbreaker.
Although this race was an individual competition, in theory, it was their turn to take turns breaking the wind at the front.
But for these big clubs, they had plenty of slots, and even after filling up their own participant numbers, they could still pay members of smaller clubs to work as windbreakers for them.
The original windbreaker in the lead was somewhat surprised; according to their pre-race agreement, it wasn’t time to switch windbreaker roles yet.
However, having one more person at the front to bear the brunt and give him some relief was not something he minded.
But very quickly, he realized something was amiss.
How did this Asian rider start getting farther and farther away from him?
He reluctantly had to pick up his own pace, all the while internally criticizing the windbreaker for being unprofessional.
This pacing was simply not suitable; it would not only increase the energy consumption of the people behind him, but he also wouldn’t last long before having to switch to the rear.
This series of moves left the dozen or so seeded riders behind him completely baffled.
What’s going on, brother? They indeed had to sort out a winner, but it wasn’t supposed to be now.
But there was no helping it, they had to grit their teeth and keep up, since this pacing was quite high, even for them.
“We can see that the current leader of the group is from… Hillsboro. Let me check his historical performance… Well, he has won the Hillsboro City’s youth team championship.”
The two pieces of information the host steadily found led to pauses in his commentary.
Nevertheless, he quickly adjusted, thanks to his rich experience.
“It looks like this is a very young newcomer. Although this is only his second race, it doesn’t stop him from showing us a promising performance.”
…
“Miss Sheila, may I ask how your father has been doing recently?”
On the podium, a middle-aged white man seated beside Sheila, immaculately dressed, greeted her in a hushed voice.
But Sheila, clad in a fiery red dress, remained absorbed in the live broadcast on the screen, completely unaware of his words.
Before coming, she had deliberately researched and learned that red is an auspicious color in China, symbolizing victory, which is why she had chosen this particular outfit.
“Miss Sheila?”
The middle-aged man, undeterred, raised his voice slightly and called out again.
“Oh, Chairman Orlando, I’m sorry, I didn’t hear what you were saying just now.”
Sheila turned her head, greeted him, and then quickly shifted her gaze back to the screen in front of her.
“I was asking how Mr. Reinhardt has been lately? I had a conversation with him at the last election meeting, which taught me a great deal.”
“Maybe… he’s fine? Who knows.”
After speaking quickly with him, Sheila turned her head back again.
“Miss Sheila seems quite interested in the bicycle race? I haven’t heard of this before, did you start following it recently?”
“Yes.”
This time, Sheila didn’t turn back.
Orlando seemed to realize that Sheila had no desire to chat with him, but he couldn’t afford to show even a hint of impatience. He resignedly took a sip of water and started greeting the person on his right instead.
In fact, at that moment, Sheila was quite worried about Li Ang’s condition. She feared that her words might disrupt his rhythm and ultimately affect his final performance.
After all, this was an intercontinental level competition with participants from other continents, the scale and intensity of the competition were nothing like the local race they had before in Hillsboro City.
“Should I ease the conditions for him? A reward for being in the top hundred? No, no, finishing the race alone should be enough for a reward. That would be safer.”
Sheila silently calculated in her heart.
At this pace, Li Ang had been maintaining it for ten minutes, and from the rear view, there was no sign of decline in his cadence or breathing.
“Damn it, this can’t go on, I need to slow down.”
The windbreaker who had been trailing him felt a severe drain on his energy. If this continued, he wouldn’t be able to last the next few rounds of windbreaking.
As he slowed down, the pace of the seeded contestants behind him also decreased, one by one following his lead.
“Holt, is this guy from your club?”
Harry asked, frowning.
“Certainly not. In fact, I’ve never seen him before.”
“Right, regardless of who he is, let’s act as if he was never here, and not let him disrupt our rhythm.”
A seasoned professional, now retired, said from behind.
Because they were just influenced by Li Ang, they now had to slow down to a speed even lower than originally planned to compensate for the energy they had just expended.
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But as their speed decreased, Li Ang’s pace, as if set on cruise control, quickly widened the gap between them.
“Looks like a rookie who knows nothing. The first long uphill section of the course is coming up ahead. I bet he’ll fall to the back of the pack before we even get over the hill.”
