Mountain climbing competition

When autumn comes, the school organizes a hiking race.

Although he is very confident about his speed, his opponents are not to be underestimated, such as the goat who is good at climbing in the mountains, the monkey who is good at traversing the woods, and the camel who is good at endurance running, all of which are strong contenders for the title. The ponies do not take their rivals lightly, after all, even the hare has lost to the tortoise.

Therefore, the pony made a strict plan, including a set of intensive exercise, diet, and sleep schedule. In order not to let himself have a chance to relax, he also refused to have fun after school and on weekends, even his good friend calf came to play with him, he did not agree.

In addition, the pony will now and then spy on the opponents to find out what they are doing and whether they are engaged in no secret special training. These days the pony spends more time with his opponents than he does with his friends.

The closer the competition is, the more stringent the pony is to himself, the amount of training is constantly increasing, making him exhausted every day, and sometimes even fell asleep during class.

In this regard, the pony's mother and father are both angry and anxious, they advised the pony not to be so strict, a little easier is okay.

But Xiao Ma said, "It's okay, these days are very hard, but as long as the championship in the competition, then the hard work is worth it!"

Finally came the day of the competition, the pony confidently looking forward to the moment when he was on the podium. After the race started, the calf found the pony and said to him, "Let's run together." The pony agreed.

When the race started, the calf was so slow that the pony had to slow down and run along with him. But watching others constantly overtake themselves and run ahead, the pony still could not hold back, so he accelerated his pace and leaped to the front of the line.

The effect of this period of training is obvious, the pony can feel that all aspects of his body than before have been greatly improved. However, he overlooked one thing, he only focused on the effect of training, completely forgetting to rest, the fatigue accumulated during training remained on the body, and about halfway through the run, it was completely exposed.

Pony dragged his heavy body and continued to run towards the top of the hill, but he did not take a step, it was like pushing a huge rock, and could only move a little. Pony has never felt like this before, it turns out running is such a painful thing!

Fortunately, no one passed the pony along the way, he was the first to cross the finish line and became the champion of the mountain climbing race. After finishing the race, the pony was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyes and could only lie on the ground, panting continuously to recover his strength. It took a long time before he heard the laughter coming one after another, and it was the other students who had reached the top of the mountain.

Afterward, there was no grand award ceremony, no trophies or prizes, and even the principal's reaction when he announced that Xiao Ma was the winner of the climbing competition was extremely calm, feeling that this was to be expected.

When it was time to go home, the calf found the pony again and wanted to go down the mountain with him. Pony agreed, anyway, at this time he did not have the strength to run. This time, no longer in a hurry to move forward, pony and calf slowly walk on the mountain road, they sometimes under the trees to collect leaves, sometimes in the grass to enjoy the wildflowers, and sometimes in the creek to find a stone. The pony realized that when he went up the mountain, he only thought about getting to the top quickly, but did not notice that there were interesting things everywhere along the way.