Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 315 Chrysanthemum Appreciation (1): Competitiveness

Thinking of his good friends, Maruzenski's idea was simple. He would invite them to practice with him based on the connections he had accumulated over a long period of time.

3000 meters on the grass, which is the race for chrysanthemum viewing.

The symbol of Luduo, the representative of Qianming, the praise of Meipu Shenzan, and the green grass are all the champions of the Chrysanthemum Appreciation in their respective classic years.

As for Katsuragi, although he felt a little sorry, Maruzenski was thinking that as a horse girl who was good at long-distance racing, she could only come in second to last in the Kikuka Sho. The mistakes should also be a very important reference.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable run.

The one in charge of timing is Mejiro Takamine.

Because of their past friendship, several horse racing girls didn't care when they were called out for a practice race.

Especially with the arrival of overseas visiting groups and the expansion of competitions in the future, all these mean that running like this will definitely have to be gradually restored compared to when it was in service.

Everyone was just a little curious as to why Maruzenski, who had never made such an invitation before, had the sudden idea of ​​organizing a "Chrysanthemum Viewing" this time.

"Hey, Maruzen, go on."

The first person to ask the question was Midori, a senior among all the horse girls.

After finishing the run, he took the energy drink handed over by Mejiro Takamine and threw it to Maruzenski. She came over and asked with interest: "Why do you suddenly want to run long distances? Do you have any competitions prepared?"

He subconsciously took the drink and found that it was the recently popular "Alfalfa" flavor, and Maruzenski couldn't help but smile.

She had some impression of this new drink. At first, the big star from Huangjincheng was endorsing it.

After the Eternal Club was established, Kitahara also signed a contract with the manufacturer as an advertising spokesperson and also found time to shoot commercials.

The same is basically true for the well-known Uma Musume within Eternal, and this drink and similar drinks are almost designated as such within the club.

Maruzenski is naturally happy to see this situation.

Although she doesn't know much about business, her family arranged for her to learn some lessons when she was in Europe. She does understand that there are generally many benefits to brand endorsements.

The only small regret is that the bottle of drink in my hand is not endorsed by Kitahara.

It was at this time that she realized that the drinks she had bought before seemed to be endorsed by the same person.

“There’s no special event to prepare for.”

Hiding his thoughts, Maruzenski unscrewed the drink, took two sips, and said with a smile: "I want to support a junior, so I want to run and see if I can learn some experience from running like you guys."

"Oh? So that's how it is. No wonder, Luduo, Qianming, and Meipu Shenzan are all the Chrysanthemum Festival horse girls, except for..."

Now, following Maruzenski closer to the fence, a little further away from the other horse racing girls, Green Grass was halfway through her speech when she suddenly tightened her lips, looked to the other side a little nervously, and changed the subject.

"If you just run with me once, I may not be able to give you any insights or anything like that."

I almost accidentally mentioned the disastrous defeat of Katsuragi's ace junior, but after changing my words, I took the opportunity to talk about the Chrysanthemum Award, "To be honest, I was lucky to win that year."

“Because if we do it again, I have little chance of winning by ten points and Fujimasa.

"But it was only because of the two of them that I was able to win the Chrysanthemum Award that year."

As she spoke, she was suddenly startled and smiled, "This is an insight."

Originally listening carefully, and confirming the feeling when running just now, Maruzenski was also startled when he heard the last sentence, and then he was happy in an instant. "What kind of experience?"

She thought about it, "Could it be the competitive spirit that arises from my opponent?"

She felt something was not right when she said this.

As a horse racing girl herself, she knows very well that the more you care about your opponent, the greater the possibility of losing.

Uma Musume's physical fitness is indeed stronger than that of humans in all aspects, but it is not infinite, and the same is true of her energy.

Focusing on your opponent means you have less energy to focus on yourself.

If you can maintain the same state of concentration as in the field throughout the whole process, there will be no problem, but things like in the field require you to concentrate on yourself in order to feel them, so this is a conflict.

What's more, Oguri is still in her classic year. Even though various competitions and leading training have made her mastery of her field extraordinary, she cannot treat her field, or concentration, as a normal state.

When it comes to focusing all your energy on yourself, Maruzenski is very experienced.

After being rejected by the URA Association to participate in the Japanese Derby that year, he ran to participate in the Short Wave Stakes and won by 7 lengths without showing any mercy to any opponents. This was the result of his full concentration.

Missing the Japanese derby is not my loss, it's yours, understand?
When she was young and energetic, she had such an angry and arrogant mind in front of the shortwave award.

However, he had won too many big victories in the past, and his Short Wave Award wins were too humiliating. Perhaps his mind had calmed down after retirement, and he no longer had any arrogant thoughts and treated every person and every horse racing girl peacefully.

Now, reminded by the green grass, she remembered what happened that year and couldn't help but realize something.

Just at this moment, Green Grass shook its head and continued speaking.

"On the contrary, if you want to win, don't even think about competing with any opponent."

She suddenly became confused, "Maruzen, you are a horse girl who is no less skilled than Shidian and Fujimasa, you should understand this.

“The more you want to win, the more you focus on your opponent and the more you will just follow in his footsteps.

"You are also clear about our speed, or our speed limit.

“Following the opponent’s footsteps, if you are one second behind… no, if you react 0 second late, you lose.

"I've been reading a paper published by the trainer from the Eternal Club recently, and this point was mentioned in it. I remember it was called the concept of reaction time, which said that this reaction is unavoidable.

"You were very close to him, so you should have seen it too."

Maruzenski was stunned. Although she and Lucao had never competed on the field, they were senior and junior classmates in the same class. After retiring, they often made plans to hang out together, so they could be said to be friends.

It’s just that in the past I always felt that I had no chance to play in the game, so I seldom talked about professional matters in this area.

Now it seems that this good friend, like himself, is also looking forward to the Peak Cup in the future, otherwise he would not pay attention to research such as papers.

What she didn't expect was that her friend's study materials actually came from Beiyuan. She usually never thought about reading papers or anything like that.

But she felt relieved after thinking about it. She had heard Kitahara mention papers, and those papers were analysis and discussion of daily training and competitions.

I have been following Yongshi all the time, which means I was the first to know those conclusions and witnessed the whole process. So there is no need for me to go out of my way to read the less vivid text content.

So, it seems that I am closer to him than to other people than I originally thought.

(End of this chapter)