The members of the Olympic Sports Center Elite Running Club knew one another's abilities quite well.
Jiang Yining had been with the running club for some time, running with its members at least twice a week.
Everyone had a fair understanding of her abilities.
Today, she had suddenly improved her personal best by eight or nine minutes, reaching the national standard for female elite athletes!
Had they not witnessed it themselves, they probably would not have believed it!
In marathon running, once your performance reached a certain level, shaving off even another minute was incredibly difficult!
For Jiang Yining to improve by eight or nine minutes in one go was simply inconceivable!
What happened today certainly could not be explained away as "chance"!
Nor was improving a personal record something that happened overnight!
Having ruled out those two possibilities, everyone focused on the Treading the Clouds shoes Wang Qiuxia was wearing!
The most likely reason Jiang Yining had achieved this result today was the new pair of shoes she had put on!
A suitable pair of running shoes could make a considerable difference to someone's performance!
But this was the first time any of them had seen shoes produce an improvement as great as Treading the Clouds had for Jiang Yining!
"Xiao Jiang, get me a pair too!"
"I want a pair too!"
"I want two pairs!"
"I want four pairs!"
"I want two pairs!"
Seeing their club leader, Wang Qiuxia, order six pairs at once, everyone else followed suit.
"I can't quite remember all that. Send your orders to my phone in a bit, everyone. I'll put them together, and they can arrive as early as tomorrow."
Seeing everyone order shoes, helping Lin Zhe sell well over a dozen pairs at once, Jiang Yining was delighted.
"Oh, right! I