Chapter 227: You Owe Me This Time (2/2)

Baogang Liu knew that this was where the gap lied. When only the scores of the top five of each team's participants were counted, the Dingtian Group seemed to be no weaker than the police team. The other runners from the Dingtian Group after the top five, however, were obviously weaker than the police team.

We were basically tied at the 17.5-kilometer supply zone. The gap had to have happened during the final three-kilometer sprint. Baogang Liu immediately figured out how this had happened.

Losing the match was not so terrible when you knew the reason why you had lost. The national team coaches were very good at learning lessons from their failures. Baogang Liu immediately found the reason for his failure.

I thought Dai Li was only a sprinting coach. It never occurred to me that he knew how to train marathon runners too. He had been playing innocent to trick his opponent! Baogang Liu cursed under his breath, then helplessly shook his head. This kid was so skillful; no wonder Coach Xue Li values him so much!

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On the other side, Dai Li had also silently evaluated the effects of the endurance halo.

Although I have won, it was so close that I could have lost if it had not been for the endurance halo. I thought I would win easily, but in the end we only won by a small margin. The effect of the endurance halo for this super long race didn't seem to be as strong as I imagined.

The tactical arrangements made before the race and the on-field commanding were also my weak points. Before the match, I scanned all the contestants for their ability and they were very close; I barely won even with the endurance halo. This means I still have much more to learn from Coach Liu about the tactical arrangements and on-field commanding.

As for leading a team, Dai Li thought he had much less experience than Baogang Liu. The tactical arrangements Baogang Liu had made before the race were certainly better than Dai Li's, and the tactical instructions during the match he had given were certainly more reasonable than Dai Li's.

I'm in the intermediate phase of a top-level coach. With this advantage, I am one of the best on the national team in terms of training effects. In other aspects, however, I still have a lot of weaknesses, especially in leading a team during the match.

In the few projects I have done, whether it was the shot put, long jump, or sprinting, basically no tactics were required. I have not paid any attention to this. Now it seems that I have a lot of things to learn. As a coach, I can't just train! Leading the team in competitions is what I will have to do, and this is something I will have to continue getting better at.

Through a half marathon race, Dai Li had found his shortcomings, which could not be learned from the coaching system.

The coaching system could make his training effect multiply, could enhance his athletes' performance in certain aspects, and could even help the athletes recover from injuries; but it could not give Dai Li coaching experience, and was not able to help Dai Li master on-field commanding techniques.

Dai Li had considered himself very strong in the intermediate phase of a top-level coach. But now, Dai Li suddenly found that he was only a little better than a newbie.

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Dai Li lowered his head as he summed up his shortcomings, so he didn't notice that Yunan Xiao was checking him out from not too far away.

The young coach of the national team was quite interesting! Baogang Liu said earlier that he was a sprinting coach, but he managed to beat a professional marathon coach in a marathon. Yunan Xiao felt that Dai Li was now even more mysterious than he had been before.

”Director Xiao, we have lost the competition. Will we continue to follow the publicity plan?” someone asked.

”Switch to plan B!” Yunan Xiao helplessly said.

For a project where more than one billion yuan had been spent to buy the land, there would surely always be a publicity plan B. The Dingtian Group had prepared several sets of alternative plans, though they were not as good as plan A.

What was more important was the fact that this was the first project Yunan Xiao had managed since she had returned to China. This setback at the beginning of her campaign had really made her upset.

She stared at Dai Li from far away, who was on her mind to blame for her defeat. She muttered, ”Our plan took the planning department so long to prepare. But you screwed it up! You owe me.”