Before the start of practice, the captain and the other members of the track team chat about the new member of the team, Kenji Kobayashi. The captain asks Kenji what event he's going to focus on, and Kenji answers that he'll focus on the 100m dash. Akitsuki chimes in that the other sprinters are running too fast, and that's because they keep talking too much while running. Kenji asks akitsuki if she's a sprinter, and she says that she is, too, because she works for Asahina, the coach at the school where they're both students. The coach is always trying to beat her own personal record, but she doesn't set these goals as high as she wants them to be, so she never sets these goals high enough for her to really achieve them