bhwS

by Cr0w0019

this is a fanfic of a bhwS book i read with a little bit of things edited to make it better

15. Chapter 15

Starting the Season for Sports

For the next few days, Zack followed Jake's training routine and got tired every day, seeing that William was no longer jealous of Zack and didn't want to talk about it with Jake anymore.

In fact, William was surprised by this, it was obvious that Jake did much stronger training than Zack, but Jake arrived well every day in the dorm and didn't even look tired and Zack looked exhausted every day.

After a day of training, Jake got a call from John, it seemed that his sponsoring company representative wanted to talk to Jake, Tiffany and Clara were busy with the company as they were the president and so John was assigned to talk to Jake about the marathons.

John had come to Chapel Hill to talk to Jake and so Jake went to the dorm to warn his friends that he could not dine with them and went to talk to John, after a few hours Jake finally arrived at the restaurant where John was waiting.

"Hi John, how have you been?"

"Very well, thanks to you, our sales this year promise to break our previous record for a long time, after that commercial and the Olympics your media exposure has further helped our company sell more."

After seeing the sales reports, the directors of John's company were delighted to renew their sponsorship with Jake, while Jake was at university they could earn a lot from Jake while he was at university.

In fact, they tried to pay Jake a higher amount of sponsorship by thinking of gaining his trust and perhaps getting a sponsorship contract renewal when Jake joined the NBA.

After all Jake was now a college athlete which would be worth a lot of sponsorship only if he could wear something of the brand in uniform, and a marathon athlete wouldn't be worth as much as they were paying, just because Jake did the two sports worth the sponsorship.

But after seeing the increase in sales they no longer thought so and we're glad they could renew sponsorship, a contract of more than $ 5 million over 5 years was a high-end contract even for professional athletes.

They also knew that Jake had a $ 13 million sponsorship-only contract in 3 years if they counted all 4 sponsors, yet all of Jake's sponsors would be willing to renew this sponsorship.

"So Jake, we got an invitation from the Chicago Marathon organization to compete there this year, so I wonder if you plan to be there in the coming weeks?"

"I'm going to participate yes, I already organized a regular registration, I didn't think I needed anything like this."

"You won last year and got a gold medal in the Olympics, so it's normal for them to want you to participate in the marathon this year."

"You can count on me, talk to Tiffany so you guys share ads in this year's marathon, will you be there?"

"Yes, I will be there, I will organize everything personally, if you need a registration for a marathon you can talk to me too, do you want to participate in any more this year?"

"Yes, I will participate in New York too, this year I will win."

John was glad to hear that Jake was still competing in two more marathons this year, which was best for his company, of course, it would be nice only if Jake had the intention to win, otherwise he would lose the spotlight he won at the Olympics.

After that Jake and John talked for a while longer before John left, fortunately in a short period of time John and Alan didn't plan on doing another sponsorship commercial, because they spent so much this year on advertising.

As they thought it would be the last year of sponsorship with Jake the company spent a lot on the commercial earlier this year, thanks to Jake's advice they were able to save a little and spend less on producing the commercial.

Of course, they had an excellent return on that investment, but they didn't plan on doing another commercial next year, maybe another 2 years in the last year of their contract with Jake they thought of doing that.

In the next few days, things were going well for Jake, the team started doing the full training preparing for the first game in November, as the play drills started so everyone could see more of Jake's skills.

The most remarkable fact was that Jake did not miss a pass in training, even though not knowing well the style of play of his colleagues Jake could still read the moves well and be without any mistakes.

Coach Smith could see that it was Jake's experience that allowed him to play so well without knowing his teammates' playing style, but it was impossible for Jake to have much more experience than his teammates who also played every game in high school.

Not to mention that Coach Smith learned that Jake had been left out of the team in the first two years of high school, so it was normal for Jake to have less experience than his teammates, only Ed Cota had a similar skill to Jake and also missed a few passes.

Jake had a lot of advantage over his teammates because he played over 1200 games in his imagination training space, it was very difficult for anyone to get over it, in saying that now that Jake was used to it he could train twice a day in his imagination training.

This gave Jake more than 700 games a year of experience, it was essential for him in his quest to become the best NBA player, in fact, Jake already thought he was improving very slowly with all the training resources he had.

Of course, the reason for this was that Jake wanted to split his training to play in all positions, so it would take him 5 times as long to have experience in all positions, which was what made Jake give the best passes knowing all the positions on the court.

With that Jake got even more respect from his new teammates, they realized that maybe Jake was better than them in some parts of basketball, after training Vince Carter came to talk to Jake.

"Hi Jake, I thought you played very well today, maybe you could become a team owner if you kept playing like that."

"Thanks, Vince, coming from you is a big compliment, I think you play very well too, will be one of the highlights of our team this year."

"I would rather win than be recognized, if we could win the ACC Tournament in a few months I would be very pleased if we win the NCAA Tournament I will be even happier."

"I agree with you, I came to UNC because I believe we can win this year, the NCAA Tournament is a little harder, but I think we can win with more effort."

Vince had hoped to win these Tournaments, but Jake knew they would win the ACC Tournament and reach the final four of the NCAA Tournament, with Jake on the team he thought they could win these two games and be champion.

They talked some more and then broke up. Jake was happy to talk to an idol he had in his past life, he was already thinking about how he could ask for an autograph from Vince Carter as if it were a joke.

Jake called his mother after training to tell the good news, Jake talked to Eva whenever he could and Eva was very happy whenever she knew Jake was fine and making more friends at the university.

In high school, besides Joseph and the basketball team players Jake did not have many friends and even among the basketball team players, only a few were actually more friends of Jake.

So Eva hoped her son would enjoy this time at university to make more friends and enjoy life more, after all, she knew that Jake already had a lot of money and that didn't worry her anymore, just the fact that Jake didn't have many friends and no girlfriends It made Eva sadder.

After another week Jake was doing daily morning training with Zack, after a week following Jake's training for him every day, Zack no longer tired running 2 km every day.

Jake, who realized this too, took no pity on his friend and doubled Zack's running routine to 4 km per day, the fitness training at the gym was still the same, Zack wanted to refuse this training and spoke to Jake.

"I don't think it's a good idea to increase my training routine now Jake, I've just gotten used to this 2km distance per day, so maybe I better adapt before increasing the distance again."

"I don't think so, you can't get used to a weak training routine like this one you have to force your body until you get what you want so after you move to 4 km and get used to it will increase to 6 km."

"This way your body will always get better and you won't stop until you can run a whole marathon smoothly."

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"I do not agree if you always increase the distance by 2 km and one day you reach your limit the most that will happen is you fall on the track without power, only after you reach the extreme that can happen your body can not stand before your stamina."

Jake knew what he was talking about, with this training method only when Zack reached the 20km run a day he would reach the limit, at which point Jake would have to make Zack run one day and rest the next.

4 km of the race is impossible to make a healthy person injured without forcing his body, and Zack doesn't look like someone who would force his body to complete the 4 km, not to mention that Zack was running at a very low speed, so tired even less.

"So at least let's increase just another 1km, so I run 3km every day."

"So you won't feel any challenge, I want you to run a distance you can't to the satisfaction of when you can, just so you will notice your improvement in the race."

Jake's training method might not be the best, but to finish a marathon was the right one after Zack wanted him could hire a professional trainer to compete.

The other day with a rested body Zack managed to run the 4 km, but he was exhausted after running and ran slower than before, yet Jake didn't interfere as long as Zack could.

As it was, it would take a few more weeks for Zack to move on to 6 km training, when Zack's fitness improves faster and he can complete 42 km.

So next month Zack would improve much faster if he didn't give up on training, it also served to show Jake the difference between him and another of his age, at 14 Jake could easily run that distance with the speed that Zack was running.

And because Zack was supposed to have more than 14 on average statistics and had the advantage of being adult and having developed body that Jake did not have as a child, yet it was obvious what Jake could do better than others thanks to the system.

Not to mention when Jake started training in just over 2 months he had greatly improved his time even running faster than Zack, it would probably take 7 months before Zack could run a marathon with Jake's training.

That's because even if Jake's training was much more inefficient than others, he could ensure that Zack's body developed and when Zack could run a marathon once he could run several whenever he wanted to.

In training with the basketball team, Coach Smith performed several different play drills after pass training, in dribbling and ball control drills Jake was among the best but did not surpass Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, and Shammond Williams.

This showed Jake that there is always someone who can be better, of course, this is because Jake chose one of the best NCAA teams, if it was a weaker team he would be the best for sure.

In attacking moves Jake outperformed his other teammates in mid-range and 3-point shots, not to mention that he was only slightly worse than his teammates in indoor moves such as layups and dunks.

That with players with Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison and Shammond William who were considered skilled even in the NBA, surprised all of their teammates and Coach Smith.

Impressed even Coach Guthridge who invited him to college, the coach had never seen Jake play at a high level and just heard what others said about him, so he thought Jake was good only at mid-range plays and shots from out.

But that wasn't really true, Jake just preferred to score mid-range shots and 3 point shots because it was so much more efficient and his opponents didn't have the ability to hinder their shots.

At Jake University he knew it would be different, so many teams would have defensive and strong players that even if they couldn't block, they would still get in the way of their shots, so now Jake would have to use his skills much more to do inside scoring.

So Coach Smith was thinking that even if Jake could not start as a starter, he could still go into the spin in the match and play for several minutes, just because he didn't have a lot of rapport with the team.

Maybe in more games, Jake could become the starter if he had good performances, it was the same situation in the high school Elite team, Nathan and Lucas were clearly better than David and Harrison and would still be the future of the team.

Even so, Coach Mike couldn't take David and Harrison out and leave them as starters because he had to think about how the two veterans had a relationship with Jake and his teammates.

Just at the end of the season last year that Nathan and Lucas were able to play as starters, Jake was in a similar situation, but even more, complicated because his teammates were of the same skill level as him so the coach could leave Jake in reserve.

Even though after these weeks of training, the basketball players talked more often with Jake and he was gradually getting in touch, Charlie was still talking to Jake more and Vince also talked to Jake more and more often.

That day when Jake returned to the dorm his friends hadn't arrived yet, Zack had gone off as he often did to talk to his brother, and William was in the library studying to do better in class.

So only Jake and Aaron were in the dorm, Jake thought this was a great opportunity to try talking to Aaron again, if he was wrong and Aaron still didn't want to talk to him, Jake would give up.

"Hi Aaron, we tried to talk the other day and I realized you seemed to have some problems that day, but we're in the same dorm so how about we go out to dinner and try to talk again?"

Aaron who was reading his book looked at Jake surprised after more than 1 month of classes and he still couldn't talk to his roommates, Aaron was shy and had already rejected Zack that day and so expected an opportunity to talk.

He didn't think Jake would understand his problems and try to talk to him first, so Aaron agreed with Jake and went out to the restaurant where Jake and the others would normally go, Aaron found it more comfortable talking to Jake than the three of them together.

"So Aaron, I don't know how to be as sociable as Zack and hope you have time to talk, can you tell me something about yourself?"

"I lived in New York before coming to university, my father owns a transportation company and my mother died many years ago."

"I have two older sisters who don't have much contact and an older brother named Terrence and he works with my father in his company, I should also go to work in the company, but I had the opportunity to study and came to UNC. "

Jake had realized that despite having a face that always seemed to be angry Aaron was actually quite calm, so he spent all day reading when not in a class, Jake was glad to have decided to talk to Aaron again.

Just as Jake told a little about his life and family as he did with Zack and William, Aaron was also surprised to learn that Jake played basketball and still ran marathons, but did not doubt Jake as much as Zack and William had.

After they talked about many other things and Jake learned that Aaron also enjoyed sports a lot and remembered that Jake had won the marathon at the end of the Olympics, he had not recognized Jake because he did not care much about the marathon winner.

They also talked about various things that happened to them in middle school and high school, Aaron also got angry when he learned what the teachers did to Jake in middle school and what the coach did to Jake in high school.

In a few hours of conversation the two found that they had many things in common, Jake said he played some high school football games and Aaron was impressed and a little depressed before talking about what happened to him.

"I also played American football in high school, I always had a strong body and was pretty fast from a kid, so early in high school, I decided I would try to play football like I always saw my idols playing in the NFL."

Jake really thought that Aaron had a lot of muscle for someone normal, so he was an athlete, many play American footballs in high school, a shame that most do not have enough talent to enter the university as a player.

"I always trained my body at the gym and took care of my fitness, I didn't want to end up suffering an injury for not taking care of my body, when I was a Sophomore I finally got into the starting lineup in the WR position."

"As the years went by I secured my starting position on the team and made several touchdowns during the seasons I played, in the last year of high school I was the best WR on my team and I received scholarship offers from various universities."

When Aaron kept talking Jake understood that he had misunderstood the situation Aaron was in, it seemed that he really had a talent unlike most and even got a scholarship to play with.

But Jake understood that something must have happened for Aaron to tell this story without a smile and seems to be hurting to speak.

"I ended up choosing to study and play here at UNC because I'm a big fan of Michael Jordan, besides, I knew I wasn't that good at football and wanted to play on a team that I could play in."

"My father was not very happy to hear that I did not decide to work at his company as my brother and I decided to study, but he also liked football and knew that studies could just do me good, besides, as his company is his I can work there anytime I want. "Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Unfortunately on my vacation before I came here I went to play a football game with my high school teammates and ended up suffering a rupture in my Achilles tendon."

"So my father warned the university that he said that as the injury was caused out of an official game they would not help and that I would lose my scholarship as I could not play on the football team."

Jake could understand why Aaron was so angry and nervous when they met him at the beginning of his semester at university, even though Aaron was wrong to end up hurting himself by playing outside of an official game they could be more supportive at such a time.

"Fortunately my father was able and paid for part of the surgery that was not covered by my health plan, so I was just over 2 months unable to walk normally and fully recover."

"Also, my father had to pay tuition and tuition here at the university as I had lost my scholarship, luckily my father can support me, otherwise my future would be lost, so I was having physical therapy before coming here and I'm still doing it."

"I was angry at the beginning of the semester when you came to talk to me about everything that happened to me on vacation and I was also very angry with the university that can't support me at the moment I needed it most and with the physiotherapy that was difficult to transfer sessions here and still bothers."

"The new physiotherapist told me that it would take at least another 8 months for me to recover, which means that I would lose the first year of chances to play, not to mention that it will take longer for me to regain my fitness to can play again."

"Actually, I don't have any motivation anymore to keep playing football at this university, but I know that if I want to have any chance of joining the NFL I have to play there even if I don't want to."

"That's why I ended up being rude to you at the beginning of the semester, I apologize, I know I had no reason to do that, but I ended up stressing over the situation."

So Jake can understand why Aaron was like this at the beginning of the semester, he had already apologized and sympathized with Aaron, he didn't know if Zack and William could understand and be friends with Aaron normally, but Jake was optimistic that the 4 would be great friends.

"Don't worry about it, Aaron, I think when you explain your situation to Zack and William they'll understand your circumstances and forgive you and we'll all be friends soon."

"I hope so, I've missed my chance to play football at this university, if I can't make friends either, I see no reason to stay at this university."

Jake saw that Aaron seemed really mad at the university, Jake would probably be just as angry if something like that happened to him, luckily Aaron's dad could afford the surgery, otherwise, the situation would be even worse and his career would be even worse Aaron as a player would be lost.

"I understand you use anger at what the university did to Aaron, but I think you shouldn't think about quitting football because of that, you should use this first year to do your physiotherapy and fully recover from your injury."

"Then you have to take the rest of the time to fully regain your ideal physical strength and maybe even get stronger than before, so next season you'll be back playing without any risk of injury."

"I think it may even be a good thing that the university dropped you and took your scholarship, otherwise you would have more pressure to play again and could end up injuring yourself again if that happened your career would really be over."

Jake advised Aaron with what he thought was really the best solution for his friend at the moment, even if Aaron didn't listen to Jake he would at least remember that advice and could follow in the future.

They would be friends after that and so after a while, Jake would gather everyone from the dorm for dinner so maybe everyone would become friends, that was what Jake wanted most and the others seemed to want the same.

In the next few days, Jake went to train his race with Zack every day, just over a week before the Chicago Marathon and he couldn't relax if he wanted to win.

Jake had already gotten used to the new race pace and could run the 50 km without getting too tired, he was very happy to have taken those 5 minutes in the 50 km race time, Zack thought Jake was a monster and Jake never I would say that I ran 50 km and no less as Zack thought.

Zack was also getting better at training and was not getting so tired running the 4km every day now, but Jake didn't decide to increase his friend's daily running routine to 6km for now, because Zack's body hadn't strengthened so much quickly like that.

Zack's stamina and energy improved a lot in these training weeks, but his training at the gym couldn't keep up with his improvement in running, Jake couldn't suggest further training at Zack's gym because he knew it was his friend's limit.

Zack also realized that even though having managed to run the 4 km Jake had not increased his training again, he thought that Jake was giving him time to get used to it and was happy about it.

Some might run a marathon even without training before if they had a good physique, and with a few weeks of training Zack could try, but Jake didn't think that was right.

Many did not know it now, but Jake had lived at a time several years in the future in his past life, with the internet and curiosity. Jake may know that several people so lacking in fitness eventually suffered serious injuries and sometimes they ended up dying.

Running over 42 km is not something an average adult can achieve with training alone and can protect his body from having repercussions after the race, so Jake has always been so cautious about his training taking several months even though the system strengthened and strengthened. protected his body.

Still, when he didn't have a fully developed body, Jake nearly suffered several injuries if the system had not warned it shows how running without sufficient training could be dangerous.

Jake didn't want Zack to end up having an accident because of his training and was meticulous in scheduling his friend's training, so if Zack followed Jake's training he could even finish a marathon before 3 hours of the run.

In training with the basketball team, they also had defense training and Jake stood out again, he was not the best in defense but was among the best and certainly was the best among them in intercepting passes and steal the ball of the opponents.

Jake also lost only in rebounds, his teammates were far superior to him in that sector, yet when Jake had the advantage in positioning he could always get the rebound, with this year's Tar Heels team being one of the best in rebounds Jake It was still fine.

So Coach Smith thought that Jake was just left to do what to do in training in games and he would earn the respect of teammates, who might also get the position of team holder.

So the days passed again and only two days before the Chicago marathon, Jake warned Coach Guthridge that training would have to be missed these days, Coach Guthridge had talked to Jake before about it.

He talked about this with Coach Smith who allowed Jake to take a few days off training, they knew they couldn't just ask an Olympic champion to stop running, so he allowed Jake to miss those few days.

That day Jake still trained normally and went to Chicago in the evening after advising his friends, so the other day Jake would rest well so he could run in 2 days, Jake can rest peacefully in the hotel he had chosen.

The other day Jake had all day to rest and kept remembering the race track last year to run more efficiently this time, in the last 3 marathons Jake had learned a lot about how to make the most of his energy in the race.

Because of that, he can win more easily at the Olympics this year, Jake was very confident this time because he had gotten 2 points in Resistance and Agility stats and also because it was the first time Jake had ever run a track again.

With his photographic memory, he gained from fourth job skill Jake could remember perfectly every detail of the track, even if he didn't have the help of the Jake system he could still do some imagination training after doing it hundreds of times.

So Jake can imagine the best route to use and also where he would have to increase and decrease his pace to save energy, after this marathon Jake would have even more experience running in New York just the same.

In the afternoon of that day Jake was just resting normally, he had made all the preparations he could for the marathon the next day, in the afternoon John who was in town to support Jake in the marathon showed up to talk to him at the hotel.

"Hi Jake, how are you doing? Ready for tomorrow's race?"

"Yes, I don't think I will have problems running and I will try to win again."

"Well, I'll be at the finish line for you, I hope you can win too, but don't try hard to have no risk of injury."

If it was Tiffany or Clara he might think they were thinking of him and taking care of him, but as John was talking Jake understood that he didn't want Jake to get hurt because he still had the basketball games and the New York marathon for Jake to try.

"Did you talk to Tiffany and Clara to send someone to advertise for today's marathon?"

"Yes, I said, Tiffany, said she would send the same people last year to do this work for her and Clara."

Jake didn't care about Alan because the way he advertises a razor company was different, just commercials and having the company's brand name in uniform can have some impact on them.

The one who was making the most of it was John's company, it was an energy drink company that was popular with young and amateur athletes, not to mention that despite his shared attention with Tiffany's drinks company.

John's company was bigger and so it had a lot more sales, the one that profited most was Tiffany's company, but John cared about that because they weren't direct competitors, if it was Jake wouldn't have a contract with his company.

Many companies in the market partnered with other brands just to increase target audiences without losing customers, which is what John's company was doing with Jake's other sponsors.

The other morning Jake was getting ready for the marathon, October 20, 1996, Jake was getting ready to run the Chicago marathon again, this time, however, he was trying to win for the second time and was no longer an unknown marathon runner.

In fact Jake was the one who drew the most attention in this marathon, he was the absolute favorite after winning the Olympics and this year's race, everyone knew that Jake knew the track well and should be very confident for this marathon.

Also, the fact that Jake was a 17-year-old was remembered by everyone who saw Jake waiting for the start of the race, if nothing bad happened everyone knew that Jake could dominate athletics for many years to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Everyone considered Jake a rival in this race, but still expected to have many chances to win, a marathon is a race that can always have an unexpected result, the weather of the day, the temperature and even the condition of the athletes had to be taken into account to the result.

Rarely did an athlete dominate the marathon events for many years without any rivals, it showed how unpredictable the sport was in its results, Jake also knew it and so always made such a hard training routine.

The winner of this event in Jake's past life was Paul Evans, this was a special year in which two UK athletes won this event in men and women, a result that has rarely happened in history.

Paul Evans was the toughest opponent Jake faced in a marathon, after all, Paul's final time was less than 2 hours and 9 minutes, only 1 time Jake managed to run in less than 2 hours and 9 minutes in his previous marathons.

Of course, the reason for this was that Jake always slowed his running pace when he secured first place and therefore finished the race in a long time, which was the biggest reason Jake decided to start training before the Chicago Marathon with a speed fastest race.

So Jake would be sure to finish the race first even if he decided to slow down the final kilometers after all Jake knew well that a race time in training could not always be repeated in the official marathon because of the pressure of the race.

Jake was also thinking that if he is in good physical shape in the final kilometers and is confident he would try to race to set the current world record, it was a possible time for Jake after his new training and his strongest physical stats.

After a few more minutes the 1996 Chicago Major Marathon officially started, Jake decided to run at a slower pace at first to keep up with the other athletes and after a few kilometers, he could take advantage of them.

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"The annual Chicago marathon has officially started and after a few hours we will know who will be the winners."

"Do you have any favorites for today's race?"

"I think the favorite for this race is for sure Jake, he won here last year and is trying again this year."

"I also think he's the favorite, Jake ran his first official marathon here last year at just 16 and nobody expected anything from him, this year is completely different, he took second place in New York after winning here this year past and still won the Olympic gold this year. "

"No doubt he's a favorite, plus his running time has only been improved since New York so far, Jake also seemed to have learned to choose the best path to run without wasting energy."

"Yes, that comes with experience, this is Jake's 5 official marathon, amazing to have those numbers with only 17 years and 1 year as a pro."

"And in the last 4 marathons he came in the top 2 in all and won 4 of those events, that data really shows why he won a gold medal."

Unlike other times commentators just praised Jake who had won so soon, a talented young genius is nice for anyone to see, and Jake is still an American who hasn't had good athletes winning in marathons for a few years.

Maybe it was Jake who could positively influence young people to compete and get more people to know and appreciate marathons if that happened these commentators would only gain from it as the Chicago Marathon broadcast.

This time they didn't mention the fact that Jake also played basketball for a university, many didn't even know which university Jake was at because everyone thought Jake had decided to become a pro marathoner instead of basketball.

It was what any normal person would do, it was impressive to compete in two sports when they were younger, but when you grow up you have to choose one of them, it was common sense for everyone to make that choice.

Also, after Jake won a gold medal at a major event like the Olympics no one else could deny his talent as an athlete, even if Jake never won anything in his life from now on he would always be remembered as one of the top names of the sport.

Of course, Jake didn't care about common sense and wanted to do even more than that, he wanted to become an NBA star and win multiple titles, and also wanted to win many more gold medals and other athletics modalities as well.

In the first few kilometers of the marathon, Jake just like everyone else was still running along with other athletes while taking turns leading the group, so they wasted less energy, in Jake's group he was the leader among the athletes.

Even when not leading the group they all followed the same racing pace as Jake because they knew it was the best thing to do, Jake didn't care about that because he didn't consider any of those in his group to be rivals.

Fortunately, this was ideal for Jake who ran at his running pace as he did in training, so the group of 8 was the first platoon in this marathon, everyone realized that Jake's running speed was too strong for them.

But everyone in this group was professional and intended to reach the top 100 at least, so they thought it best to follow Jake's pace in the first few kilometers and then slow down in the second half of the race.

After 15 km of running the group was still far ahead of other competitors, with just this distance nobody felt tired and everyone followed Jake in the support stations to hydrate.

They were still running at a much faster pace than they usually did, but as this was a steady pace they didn't get tired that much, so this group of 8 people staying together was unusual in the races.

Especially for everyone besides Jake they didn't want to try to win, the reason for that was that Jake always kept the same running pace and didn't try to speed up just to leave the others behind.

Jake felt a little pity for the people who competed in his group, he knew this was good for them and wanted to help those people who were not his competitors have a good time.

Unfortunately, they were unlucky to try to follow Jake when he was running at a much faster pace than he usually did so they couldn't keep up with him for long.

"Jake is in the first platoon leading the marathon, this group is a bit different and has no runner who has good placements in previous marathons, the best of this group managed to reach thirtieth in a past marathon."

"Maybe they may have improved a lot and have a chance of winning this year, they are competing with Jake who is the first favorite."

"I don't think it's like that, it seems like Jake is leading this group and setting the pace they run, I think the others can't keep up like that for a long time."

Just as the commentators talked, the athletes who knew their bodies well realized this problem close to 18 km of running, so they started to fall behind and Jake kept running at the same pace.

The other 7 in the group slowed down together and knew they had to stay together, after all, they were almost 3 minutes ahead of the second platoon that was far behind, this second platoon also came at a fast running pace and the 7 had to slow down further your racing pace.

Only then did they realize how strong their running pace was following Jake, they also realized that this was an excellent opportunity for them to be in the top 50 if they kept a running pace a little less than they normally ran they still had a very big advantage.

Washing at least 10 km more for the top 10 runners to pass them if they slowed down their racing rhythms, Jake no longer cared about the athletes in the group he ran with.

As he passed the 20km race the commentators were surprised again, Jake was running at a steady pace like a clock thanks to his experience and the system dashboard he had.

"Jake has passed the 20 km mark and leads with a lot of lead to the runner-up, he's running at an incredible pace of fewer than 3 minutes every 1 km, so he's gone 20 km in 58 minutes."

"He is really running fast, less than an hour and he has reached almost half of the marathon if his pace continued so he could beat the marathon world record."

"Really, but it's almost impossible for him to keep that pace, in New York he was running at a slower pace than that and suffered an injury in the final kilometers of the marathon and struggled to reach second, it was his worst time in a marathon. "

"An injury happens to marathon runners, that was a coincidence and proves that Jake is able to run at this pace, not to mention that he's much more experienced now after the Olympics."

The commentators seemed to disagree about it, but both were concerned that Jake was running at a very strong pace and could end up getting hurt by it, after all, Jake winning would be very good for the organizers of this marathon and also for the commentators.

Jake was over 25 km and still keeping the same running pace, in fact, he was having the best race of his life, the weather on this marathon day was very good and Jake knew the track well as he ran for the second time and did the Imagination training before the marathon.

In fact Jake thought he was better now than in his everyday training, elite professional marathoners prefer to train on the regular road rather than on an official track like Jake did because running always in circles could slow down an athlete.

That meant running a normal road depending on the weather could be better than running on a professional track, and Chicago was a great track to race, proof of which was that the world record had been broken four times in this marathon.

After Jake had passed the 35 km he had not yet slowed down, Jake was feeling good and just a little tired, as he trained every day he knew his own body well and knew he could keep running like that.

"He has already passed the 35 km race, still maintaining a strong pace, now just over 7 km to finish this marathon, even if he slowed down he would still win this marathon."

"That's true, it's amazing to see how Jake can keep a steady pace of running, it's like he's looking at a watch, he has little difference in his average running speed."

"He just seems to slow down on the toughest stretches on the track to saving energy, he's not wasting too much time on the back-up, that's the benefit of being first in a marathon."

"Jake is over 3 minutes ahead of the runner-up, I think it was better for him to slow down his running pace."

"The problem is that he doesn't know how much advantage he has for his opponents, Paul also comes at a fast pace."

"I think Jake may also be trying to break the world record in this marathon if he's trying to do that with his current time he can really do it."

This commentator spoke only of the possibility, but soon they saw that it was really possible. Jake had just over 7 km of marathon and clearly seemed to be comfortable with his current running pace.

Even if he slowed the race too much he could still break the WR, so they were excited about that possibility and the viewers watching at home would be too.

Jake was really trying to break the world record in this marathon, he saw that his running pace was good and he was comfortable running for over 50 km at this pace, yet to be cautious he slowed down the running pace.

After all, it was just over a month since he was running at this pace and he didn't want to push himself too hard and risk repeating what happened in New York, commentators realized that Jake had slowed his pace.

After Jake passed the 38 km he had clearly slowed his running pace a lot, it was still too fast, but it was too big a difference to be a common thing, anyone who expected Jake to break the world record began to get worried.

After all, it was really amazing to see someone breaking a world record, it would be a time for history even if Jake's record was ever broken, and commentators, even more, wanted it to happen.

"Just over 5 km to the end of this marathon, Jake suddenly slowed his running pace a few kilometers back and we don't know why."

"Jake always has this tendency to slow his pace in the final km of the race, but he seemed to be very comfortable with his previous race pace and he was noticeably slower."

"He lost almost 30 seconds of time compared to the pace he was running normally, it's a little worrying and we hope it's just a running tactic."

"If it's a tactic it's too risky, he may lose the chance of breaking the world record like that, breaking a record like this is something that can't be done just skillfully and has to be very lucky."

"As I said before, he may not know he has a chance to break the record and if he slows his pace this way he can safely win, maybe that's the best winning strategy he has ever thought."

Jake didn't know what the commentators were talking about, he knew very well what he was doing, he also knew the time it took to break the world record and also knew Paul's total race time was second.

So he consciously slowed down and was prepared to win by breaking the world record when he can relax his tense muscles by slowing down the race he felt he would surely get what he wanted in this race, this year's marathon was in the hands of Jake.

By the time he crossed the 42 km he was still a huge advantage to the runner-up and was in the final meters to finish this marathon, he saw that he had a great marathon time and was celebrating the victory internally.

"It's amazing, who's at home is seeing this amazing feat of Jake that is breaking the world record, he's only 17 years old and breaking that record he puts his name among the top marathoners in history."

"I'm excited to see that too, the current world record belongs to Ethiopian Belayneh Dinsamo, and was set in 1988 on April 17 at the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands, with a time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 50 seconds."

"It's been 8 years since this record was set and today it will be broken by Jake by a few more meters, 33 years since an American broke the record last time."

"This year is historic for Jake, he broke the Atlanta Olympic record this year of Carlos Lopes of Portugal in 1984, and now breaks the world record a few months later."

"He must also be the youngest to break those two records at just 17, this year he has to win the AIMS World Athlete of the Year Award if Jake doesn't win anyone he deserves."

"And now Jake finishes this Chicago marathon in 1996 that's going to be history, he finished the race with the time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 2 seconds, he officially breaks his now WR."

"Really amazing, he's going to be the future of athletics and already a great athlete at the present, he's still attending college and should still be playing basketball, plus I think he'll try to win again in New York in less than 1 month."

"See, Jake already has some fans in today's marathon, they have a banner written saying Jake is Captain America, Hahaha I think this nickname suits him, he's not even tired after such a marathon."

"For the few who don't know, Captain America is a comic book hero from Marvel, an American soldier who was physically improved in a lab and got super strength and other powers, except in the comic he is Steve Rogers and not Jake Hahaha."

"So Jake is the American Super Soldier who came to win a lot of marathons for our country, I have to admit it makes sense, if he really gets into the NBA he'll already have a new nickname."

Jake didn't know he had been given a new nickname that would stay with him forever in the future, he was very happy to have broken and broken the world record, all the training he did was worth it when Jake won.

After a few minutes, the other runners were arriving, the other 7 who ran with Jake in the group managed to finish all in the top 50, the fastest of them finishing fifteenth in this marathon.

They were impressed when they saw that Jake had won the marathon, they knew how hard it was to run at the pace Jake was running, then they were more surprised when they learned that Jake had broken the world record, now they could tell this story to their children in the future.

John who accompanied Jake in Chicago and was hoping that in the crowd near the finish line was so happy that his eyes sparkled, he expects a chance that Jake could really win in Chicago and that was very good for his company.

But neither could he expect Jake to break the world record in this race, so Jake would surely make the list of the best marathoners in history, and Jake was only 17 so he could enjoy a lifetime of glory and make even more of the sport.

After a while Jake went to the podium and received the prize for being first place and $ 150,000, $ 100,000 for victory and $ 50,000 for the world record, the organizers treated Jake very well for winning a second time next time year they would call him authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

After taking some pictures and answering some reporters Jake went to talk to John, all this time Jake had a huge smile on his face and was very happy to have won, this was just the beginning of Jake's winning season in sports.

By the middle of next year's vacation, Jake would still have plenty of basketball games and still participate in many other marathons, if Jake could win anything that played this time would really be history.

"Congratulations on beating Jake, amazing you could break the world record, I always trusted you would win, but I didn't expect a record."

"Thanks, John, I appreciate your support coming here, now I'm going back to the hotel if you need anything to talk to me."

"Of course, good rest for you."

They weren't friends even if they worked together, Jake had won and even talked about John's company, so John was pleased with that and could come back with a smile to report the good results to the board.

Jake went back to the hotel and picked up the phone to tell the good news to his friends he wasn't tired after the marathon because his training was so much harder than that, and mentally he got used to the pressure after the Olympics.

"Hi Tiffany, I'm calling to let you know I've won the marathon."

"I already knew from my employees, congratulations Jake, congratulations on the world record too, you were the best thing that has happened in my life in recent years."

"Hahaha you say that because your company is doing well to sponsor me, I want all the best for you and Clara, you guys supported me at my hardest time, thanks to you guys that I took my mom out of her horrible job and I could start making money."

"You've paid everything we did for you a long time ago, Jake."

"I know I already paid, but now that you are in a difficult situation that you cannot invest in the company I want to help, in a few more years I will not be able to continue with the sponsorship agreement, I hope to help now."

Jake was continuing this sponsorship deal just to help Clara and Tiffany's company as they helped him a few years ago, most of all for the friendship they had.

Right now Jake had to be very careful not to disclose his contract with Tiffany and Clara's company, otherwise, John and Alan's companies wouldn't want to know that they were paying 5 times what Tiffany and Clara's companies were paying.

When Jake left college and joined the NBA that would be even truer, after all any Jake contract he got from the NBA would be at least $ 4 million a year, so he couldn't keep getting so little from Tiffany and Clara's companies.

In fact, it would come to a situation where it would be better for Jake to give them both money than to continue with the sponsorship deal, Tiffany and Clara knew very well what Jake was in and understood very well and were grateful to him.

"I understand that and I'm sure Clara also understands, we are very grateful for what you have been doing for us, if we are unable to greatly increase our profit in that time you still have to contract with our companies and buying those stocks would not deserve your help. "

The sponsorship deal with Jake was the same as several television commercials and a lot of advertising that the company could invest, it was a worldwide ad with the visibility that Jake had now, and they spent the least on it paying Jake.

So in the next few years they would have to secure enough profit to buy the stock from Robert's hands, this year they had to use the money to repay Tiffany's illegal loan to Clara by taking money out of the company, so in the next few years, they had to secure it close to 50 million to buy these shares.

Tiffany and Clara regretted an agreement that they could not use their shares to make a personal loan, otherwise, Robert's shares would have been bought long ago.

"How is university life, Jake?"

"Okay, I'm making a lot of friends these months, I'm also fighting for a spot on the Tar Heels starting basketball team and the classes are as easy as ever, you know me."

"Hahaha I know well, they should have given you the diploma by now."

"And how are you and Clara?"

"I'm fine, as I promised you I never drank like that, I'm still recovering emotionally, it's not easy to forget a love of several years, and Clara is fine too, as she always says she can't really be happy until she buys the stock from Robert."

It had been a long time since Jake had talked to Clara in person after they had a nice chat last time whenever he tried to talk to Clara about something she sent Tiffany to talk to Jake.

Jake then thought that Clara should be bad because of the problems she had faced in recent years, and no longer tried to talk to Clara and always preferred to call Tiffany who always talked to him.

After talking about a few more things Jake called his mom, he talked to Eva whenever he could and so allied a little to the longing he missed her, Eva said he'd watch Jake's marathon on television and Jake wanted to hear her voice mom.

"Hi son, you were slow to call me, I'm here at the restaurant with Anna, we watched your marathon on television, congratulations on winning and breaking this world record."

"Thank you mom, I'm very happy about that, tomorrow I have to travel to university again."

"I miss you, when you can come home, you said you would come whenever you could and you haven't come yet."

"I'm getting ready at university yet, so it's going to be long before I can go out for many days like this to get home to Miami."

"I understand, rest now so Jake, I'll call you in a few days again."

"See you later, I love you mom, send Anna a hug for me."

After talking to everyone Jake decided to get some rest, the other day he would have to travel to Miami and get tired again, he could still remember the adrenaline he felt after winning the marathon, as he hoped won no reward this time even for victory and not for the world record.

This was normal, if he earned one statistic point in each world athletics record he would have to earn another 10 points after beating everyone at the Olympics.

After winning Jake felt that in this marathon was much easier than in the Olympics, it shouldn't just be the 2 statistics points he earned in all for all physical statistics, so Jake decided to look at his statistics window again after so much time."

"Fate, show me my third job statistics window."

[Here it is]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Runner]

[Height: 1.95 m]

[Weight: 97 Kg]

[Force 35]

[Agility 36]

[Resistance 39]

[Intelligence 60]

[Luck 99]

Techniques

[Second Lung A]

[Iron Body A]

Jake finally understood why he improved so much, and while 2 points in all physical stats improved his two skills also improved, Jake knew how important those two skills were to him, so he earned much more than he expected from the rewards of the Olympics.

That would probably be the maximum for Jake too, maybe in another 4 or 5 years, he could raise the rank of these skills again, at which point he would be the best in the marathon and other track and field history.

Jake can also see that his height and weight had increased again, he was 1.95 m now, he didn't know how much the system would help him grow in the next 2 years he still had, after all, he was much taller than in your past life.

Being tall wasn't such a good thing, but for Jake who wanted to be the best in basketball that was a sport where height mattered he wanted to be as tall as he could, maybe no more than 2.10 m, but wanted to pass from 2.00 m, so he could compete with everyone for a rebound and make several authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

At the beginning of his basketball training Jake had decided to be a PG because he had very good passing skills and knew how to organize play, but most of all because he knew he could not be very tall and was not very good at defense.

After more than 7 years of training Jake felt these reasons no longer mattered, he corrected his weakness in defense, even if it could not be a Center he could play defensively in any other position.

The system also did what Jake found impossible again and increased his maximum height so Jake had no more limitations in basketball, in high school he wanted to improve with PG and so fought not to play in another position.

But he always thought that after entering university he would play where the coach asked him to play, he wanted to continue as PG but knew he had no ability to demand it yet, after becoming an NBA star he could choose where to play.

Jake also saw that his intelligence statistic had finally increased after so many years, initially increased by over 5 in a short time and Jake thought it was easy to increase, now he realized why the system said it was random.

Most worrying to Jake was his strength statistic which had only increased by 2 points with the system reward, was falling behind the other statistics and this difference would only increase over time.

He could not easily increase his strength now and could no longer train with the football team, so Jake just had to accept seeing his strength statistic falling behind, thinking that was what he had always struggled to train at the beginning for the cause of the accuracy of your shots outside.

Jake had finished this marathon early in the morning as he started before 8 am, before lunchtime he was at the hotel and called all his friends, so even though he wanted to rest he had to have lunch and couldn't think of sleeping in the afternoon.

So after launching at the hotel he got the call saying that someone was waiting for him in the hotel lobby, this was the same hotel he stayed in when he last won last year, so he thought John was the one waiting for him.

But as he went downstairs to the first-floor hotel lobby, Jake remembered what happened last year, he remembered the reporter who came looking for him asking for an interview after winning last year.

So Jake thought it might be her again, after all, John had his cell number and could just call him, thinking about it Jake went back to his hotel room and changed his clothes, he had showered as soon as he arrived, but wearing a regular outfit to relax.

After slowly getting ready Jake was finally satisfied and headed for the lobby when he arrived and saw the same woman who came to him last year, she seemed bothered by Jake's delay in appearing in the lobby.

"Hi Miss Chloe, I hoped it was really you looking for me again with the same trick as last year."

"Jake, how inelegant to call it a trick, it took you a lot longer than last year to show up after I called."

"I had not arranged anything with you, so I knew a beautiful woman was waiting for me and I had to dress better."

"I will forgive your delay for your compliment and consideration, just as you hoped I came again to request an interview, will you accept?"

"Of course I accept, I won't be so rude and reject an interview when you came here and showed me so much respect."

"I heard you denied the interview with NBC after the Olympics, I thought you were arrogant after the success."

"It's because you don't know the full story, but let's not talk about it, I accept the interview, however, it has to be today because tomorrow I have to go back to university."

"Today is fine with me, but it won't be a live interview but a recording, do you mind?"

"That's fine with me, let's go?"

"Yes let's go."

Jake had already gotten ready because he intended to do this interview the same day and didn't want to delay, after all, he had his responsibilities at university the other day and could not delay.

After a while they were in a car that was asked of the station while going to the station, Jake didn't care much about the car they were in and Chloe was making some calls to prepare the interview, then she hung up the phone and started talking to Jake.

"You look a lot more like an adult now after just a year, how was that year for you?"

"It was all right for me, I had a lot of marathons that I participated in and some basketball games, my personal life also had a lot of situations, and there were the Olympics and the university, it was a busy time."

Jake gave a summary of everything that happened to Chloe, she was amazed at how many things Jake went through in just one year, especially the fact that Jake's house had been broken into, of course, he asked her not to comment to anyone about what he said.

Jake was someone who always liked to be honest whenever he could so he felt bad when he had to hide something for his mother or for his friends, but life is so everyone has their secrets.

"I'm curious what you said happened between you and NBC, I promise I won't tell anyone about it, I didn't expect anyone young like you to have a problem with them."

"I had exactly one problem with them, in fact, I think it was because I was young that I just had some kind of problem with them, my pride is so great sometimes."

"You still haven't said what happened."

"Before the Olympics started NBC I called on a number of athletes who would be competing in the races if they didn't call everyone representing the United States."

"As you well know I do not refuse invitations like this from the broadcasters and went there, they took several photos with me and recorded some videos, then confirmed some information about my life and sent me away."

"I had seen some athletes who had short interviews with them, almost all if not all of the athletics were called in to do short interviews and tell a little about their lives."

"But they didn't ask any questions or interview me, so I understood that because I was young they didn't expect me to win a medal, so they decided not to waste time doing an interview with me."

"So after I won a gold medal no one came looking for me after the closing ceremony, so I decided to go home with my mom and didn't want to talk to anyone anymore."

Once Chloe understood what Jake was feeling, he had gone to talk to the NBC team when they called and paid no attention to Jake who was young and thought he would not win, so of course Jake would not be happy about that.

It turned out that it came to stand out as the only medalist who didn't do an interview with NBC, as the closing ceremony was soon after the audience didn't find anything strange, but Chloe and those who understood sports journalism knew this wasn't normal.

"Like you said it was just a small matter because of your pride, but they sure were wrong in that situation and you weren't irrational in what you did our station would never do something like that."

Chloe wasn't trying to please Jake and really thought that she understood that maybe because there are 646 athletes representing the American team at this Olympics, a broadcaster might not have time to talk to everyone.

But Jake was different, he was a marathon athlete who was only 17 years old and had won the Chicago Marathon and was second in New York and had still won the marathon qualifying for the Olympics.

Someone like Jake clearly had a good chance of winning in Atlanta, and even if it wasn't just his age, it was worth an interview, especially since Jake had already been called to the station.

It was their failure not to expect Jake to win or Jake to be so proud, a news crew has to hope that anything could happen to make no mistake, even more so she understood that even if she asked for the interview later they did not personally go to the press Jake's house to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

After a while, they arrived at the station and everything was ready for the interview, Jake realized that unlike last time people looked at him with respectful eyes for what he did and everyone knew him that made Jake happy.

After Chloe gave Jake some questions she was going to ask and what she was going to talk about and Jake agreed to everything, once again Chloe admired how easy Jake was to interview unlike others and was still handsome which was good for the cameras.

"Hi Chicago, I'm Chloe and I'm here for an interview with one of the new stars of national sport, the Olympic gold medalist and winner of two consecutive Chicago marathons, Jake."

"Say hi to Chicago Jake."

"Hi Chicago, I appreciate the invitation to be here again."

"We thank you for 17 years now and are one of the biggest names in the sport in the different world from last year that was just starting out, how do you feel about that, Jake."

"I'm very happy with that, I've always trained with the goal of winning, I'm not so confident thinking I'm better than my competitors and that's why I train so much, and when I can win I'm very happy with that."

"Even if you are modest, this is your fifth official marathon and the fourth victory, surely any marathon you participate in will be a favorite."

"A marathon is very unpredictable, I've lost a marathon myself for hurting myself, and a lot of things like that can happen."

"That's true, the experts thought you would not try to compete this year Jake, after all, you won the Olympics which is the pinnacle of any athlete in the world just 2 months ago, why did you decide to compete this year?"

"I wanted to run in Chicago again, I love this city and I have a special fondness for this marathon which is the first one I participated in as a pro, so I decided to race here as I was in good physical shape and rest and was rewarded for it."

"I'm so glad you said you really like Chicago, and it's true that you were rewarded for your decision to race here again, Jake here in addition to winning broke the world record with the fastest marathon time."

"Jake's time was 2 hours, 6 minutes and 2 seconds, almost 1 minute faster than the previous record, and Jake had broken the Olympic record a few months ago, as it was to win the Olympics, Jake."

"It was really amazing, one of the most special moments of my life, even more breaking the Olympic record, was almost as good as winning here for the second time and breaking the world record."

"The pressure of running at such an important event as the Olympics where I not only ran for myself but also represented my country is a unique feeling, I hope to be able to participate again after 4 years."

Jake knew that Chloe was taking the opportunity to talk about the Olympics because she knew that Jake had not done any interviews after winning, and Jake really wanted to talk about how he felt after winning the Olympics.

"It was a special moment for all our country I'm sure, it ended with a gold key this Atlanta Olympics that our country managed to lead the medal table with Jake winning the last gold medal."

"It was so unforgettable for so many people that after Jake won and broke the world record today here in Chicago he had a lot of fans cheering for him and one of them had a poster calling Jake Captain America, what do you think of that nickname Jake."

Jake was surprised by this nickname, he didn't expect to be called that and didn't even know it had happened in the crowd when he won today, Chloe was smart to hide it from him before the interview.

"I'm going to confess that I'm a big fan of this comic book hero, it's one of my favorites and I'm very honored to be compared to him thinking about what he represents for our country in comic book history, but I don't think I deserve that nickname."

"I think you deserve Jake, many athletes have won many competitions and won many gold medals in history for our country, some have won several gold medals in the same competition."

"But a test of endurance like the marathon is hard to see someone win so many times, especially you who are still young and in college and still playing basketball besides running."

"By the way, tell us Jake, which university did you decide to go to?"

"I was lucky to be accepted at UNC, I'm very happy studying there for a few months ago."

"The UNC? So you decided to go to the same university as NBA star Michael Jordan, it seems like you still dream of playing basketball even though you have achieved so much in athletics with so many marathon victories."

"Yes, I chose UNC for a variety of reasons, I'm a big fan of Michael Jordan and I also think teaching there is very good, it's not that far from my house and the UNC basketball team Tar Heels is one of best basketball teams in history at universities."

"I know that too, now that you've joined this team after winning so much at high school should you be going to win again?"

"Yes, I hope to win a lot of Tournaments with this team, there are great players on our team this year, I think a lot will have a great NBA career in the future."

"That's a very high rating, who are you talking about?"

"There's Vince Carter, Shammond Williams, Antawn Jamison, and others as well."

"A lot of people then, we can expect a lot from the Tar Heels team this year, do you naturally expect to join the NBA with those names you said?"

"Of course, my goal is this, after finishing college I want to be on a team in the NBA."

"So we see that Jake really wants to be Captain America, besides being in the elite of athletics winning several marathons and still wants to play in the NBA, we hope you get everything you want thanks for talking to me Jake."

"I really enjoyed it, who knows next year I may be here again."

After the end of the interview, Jake said goodbye to Chloe and got a ride in the station car back to the hotel, this may be the only time Jake can stay for 3 days for a marathon, usually, he would only have two days at most and would have to go back to university.

In addition to his mother and Anna, it seemed that his friends at the university were watching Jake in the marathon, Jake had already said a few things about what happened to Aaron so Zack and William had no problem with him anymore.

As the three watched Jake's marathon they got closer and even talked and ate together and celebrated when Jake won and broke the world record, so things would be easier for Jake when he returned to approach the three.

When Jake returned nothing different had happened, some who liked marathons and followed the news about the evidence would know that Jake won in Chicago, but these people would probably already know Jake from other marathons.

Those most affected by this were the basketball team, Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge were impressed when they learned that Jake had won a big marathon again.

Especially when he learned that he broke the world record, this was not something that was easy to do even for the best athletes, it seemed that Jake would continue to go out of training to compete and they could not complain because he really competed to win and brought more advertising for the university.

His teammates watched the marathon because they knew Jake would be running, and were surprised to see him winning and breaking the world record, they understood that he was really different from them and deserved sponsorship just for what he did in marathons without regard to basketball.

Everyone found it funny when they remembered trying to compete with Jake in training intensity a few weeks ago if he could break a world marathon record you could imagine how strong stamina he was.

Vince and Charlie who were closest to Jake were the happiest with their friend's conquest, all teammates were even happier when they saw him talking well about them and the university in an interview.

When Jake arrived at the university he went to tell Trainer Smith that he had arrived and was soon to his classes, Jake had come to the first flight of the day, but had still missed some classes.

He can't even talk to William in the room so as not to disturb his classmates, so after class, Jake had to go to basketball team training and was happy when everyone came to talk to him about the marathon Jake had won.

Even if everyone was basketball skill and some could join the NBA, it wasn't every day that they knew someone they knew played well and could still participate in another high-level sport.

Jake was happy to join the group, in another two weeks he would have to go to New York to participate in the marathon, so it was good that his coach and his teammates were not angry that he missed training,

Normally it would be crazy to take part in a marathon two weeks after running one, John and his sponsors were not really specialists in the competition and so just followed what Jake wanted to do.

So few believed that Jake would try this and only commented on it as a joke that he missed it last year, even Chloe said Jake chose Chicago because he thought he would rather run in Chicago than in New York.

Jake would run because he had no problem with that, in fact, the day before he was in Chicago he had recovered after the marathon, he was just a little tired from the plane trips he had to do in addition to the marathon.

But the next day he intended to train with Zack again in the morning, so running in two weeks would be no problem for him, after the lighter training he went to the dorm to talk to his friends.

"Congratulations, Jake, for winning this marathon and breaking the world record."

"Congratulations, we all watched your marathon on television and saw how well they spoke of you, even called you Captain America Hahaha."

"Thank you all, I was very happy to have won."

Afterward everyone chatted happily and even Aaron joined the conversation sometimes saying a few things to Jake, with Zack making some fun comments it was a nice conversation, Jake also saw that Aaron was talking more with Zack and William and so Jake decided to make the celebration dinner of his victory as a place for everyone in the dorm to be friends.

At dinner everyone performed again and Zack and William understood what happened when they heard about Aaron's story, everyone soon agreed to be friends and so Jake achieved his goal of making the dorm a nice place and making 3 friends.

The other morning Jake went running again with Zack in his daily training, Zack took advantage that Jake went to Chicago and missed training in recent days, so he had to run the 4 km today to regain his running pace.

Jake still did the same training as before, he ran the 50 km and at a much faster-running pace and speed than he did in the marathon breaking world record, Zack was impressed by Jake's tenacity in his training.

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With this commitment easy to understand because Jake could win multiple marathons in a short period of time, Zack began taking Jake as his goal and decided to train with him and stronger until at least he could finish a marathon.

Zack always suspected that Jake ran more than 40 km every day, but never thought about the speed Jake could run, he thought Jake ran slower and so it took almost 3 hours, he could never imagine that Jake ran faster than its time in the world record and for 50 km.

So after Jake finished training he went to talk to Zack, Jake was thinking it was maybe time for Zack to increase his training to 6km race every day, so before the mid-year break, Zack could run a marathon. quietly.

"Jake, I want to increase my daily training, I think I can handle running more than 6 km every day."

"I was thinking of telling you exactly that, but what happened to you suddenly deciding to come to talk to me about changing training?"

"I realized I was being very relaxed in my training even though you were taking your time to help me when you were in Chicago, for example, I didn't train any day."

"I really love running, but I didn't think of being a marathon runner, so I thought your training could be very hard."

Jake really thought his training was too hard and would get even harder over time, Jake didn't tell Zack but hoped his friend wouldn't train when he was in Chicago and it might be good to relax Zack's muscles.

"But I don't think so anymore, I saw you training with me every day and much more willingly than me to finish a marathon in the first place and still break the world record."

"So I understood that I was actually missing out on an incredible opportunity in life to improve, who else can say they do the same training as the best marathoner in the world?"

"I don't think I have the talent or the desire to try to win marathons, but at least I'll follow your training and finish a marathon and then I decide what I can do, I mean I'll do my best in training going forward."

Jake was very pleased with his friend's change of mind, often a person's will and attitude can influence the outcome of training and run, so as discouraged as Zack was Jake couldn't do much for him.

Now he would try to give the best training possible so that Zack could take it and in a few months to finish a marathon, Jake couldn't give Zack a very heavy training that did not think of becoming a pro.

If Zack decided to become a professional marathon runner like him after the first marathon, it wouldn't be too late for Jake to improve his friend's training, not to mention that Jake was first trying to improve Zack's fitness and train him in a way that runs a marathon It was normal for him.

So Jake told Zack to increase his daily training to 6 km and also reinforced the physical training that Zack had to do at the gym, Zack accepted the change of training and seemed excited to try.

Over the next few days, Jake's routine was back to normal, there was nothing Jake thought of doing other than attending classes and training with the basketball team, classes were as easy as ever for Jake.

Zack had also been exhausted every day from the change of training, but he was still eager to continue with this difficult training, William and Aaron found it amazing that Zack was holding the training without complaining this time.

In training the basketball team Coach Smith was more satisfied than ever, several players he already knew the skill well, but the newcomers were a pleasant surprise for him, Jake and Ed Cota were competing for the same spot in the team.

In this match, Jake had the advantage in terms of overall skills and the coach realized that Jake had improved in skills since he began training with the team.

It showed how strong his potential was, Ed Cota was the same and also improved after he arrived, but Jake was more complete in skills than Ed, Jake was much better in defense and in making points beyond passes.

Even though the coach's favorite was Ed to start playing, the reason for that was still Jake's rapport with the not-so-good team, but that had changed a lot last month and Jake had already been accepted by his teammates.

Even though the coach considered putting Ed in first because he thought he was the best for the team, Jake would definitely be in the game and could play many minutes even though he was not the starter.

From the mentality of both, Coach Smith realized that Ed fought a lot more for a starting position and Jake didn't seem to care much about starting out or not.

The truth wasn't that Jake didn't expect to become a starter, it was that in his past life he remembered how well Ed Cota played, so it was normal for him to think that with his current skill level he was the team's reserve.

Also, Jake was very confident that he could get a place in the team after a few games, he could see that Coach Smith seemed pleased with his performance and that his teammates accepted him over time.

So Jake thought that if they played multiple games scoring high points and playing very well, it was impossible for him to be left in the team reserve for long, it was because he was confident he didn't care.

In the team who had the most contact with him among the players, he was a fan of before was Vince Carter, what happened was that Vince had a very good personality and so he was liked by almost every player so Jake couldn't get close to Jake for now.

So the player on the team he was talking to most was still Charlie who was the first player to have a proper conversation with him, they both had a lot in common and after a while, they talked a lot about business too.

Charlie never intended to become a professional basketball player, he had a talent in basketball, but he also had a lot of responsibility for his family business, in that respect Charlie was very similar to Joseph.

So at the end of a training day, Charlie decided to call Jake to a diner so they could talk, Jake naturally accepted and warned his friends not to eat with them that day.

"You're really an interesting person, Jake, I think it's our teammates who are missing out on making friends with someone like you."

"Hahaha you're very kind, I've been through a lot of trouble, that's why you find me interesting."

Jake told some of his stories like when he got his first sponsorship and that he used that money to get his mother off the bad job where Eva was.

Jake also told how he raised money and earned money from other means to build a restaurant for his mother and that this restaurant was a success, also told some stories about his playing high school basketball.

Jake just didn't comment on some of his personal life and his investments, yet they talked about which companies might be better off investing at this time.

Knowing the Future Jake spoke quietly about companies that he knew investors could earn a lot from by investing if he knew the right time to sell his stock, Charlie thought all these tech companies were too risky to invest.

Jake also knew a little about Charlie's life who had gotten a college scholarship as well, Charlie always worked in his family business that was related to agriculture.

What Jake didn't know was that Charlie was a very successful investor in the future and that he would be CEO of a large agricultural investment company, if he knew that he could give Charlie some more investment tips.

"I didn't know you had entered this university with such high grades, you're also very smart, it looked like you really didn't need a sports scholarship and could get a scholarship like me."

"I didn't know you were that smart and had good grades either, I confess I thought everyone on the basketball team could be smart, but they wouldn't have good grades."

"It's good that you learn to put bias aside so you won't be so surprised at what happens, you said you haven't joined any fraternity yet?"

"Yes, it's not my way to join a fraternity, I don't like parties very much and I don't like meetings with a lot of people, my roommates think the same."

"I don't agree with that, you have to go to a university to make the most of your university time, you said yourself that you wanted to enjoy your university time."

"Yes, but I don't think it suits me to be in a fraternity."

"You have to learn sometimes how to do what Jake doesn't want, maybe you can get closer to your teammates if you have a fraternity and you will belong to a group, this is very important for your social and professional life afterward. to finish college."

Jake started to think and saw that what Charlie was saying was true, he himself knew that sometimes people knew each other or started to relate just because they attended the same fraternity, even though they knew each other after college was over.

It was like cheering for a football team and other well-known sports teams, sometimes people became friends just because they cheered for the same team after all the world as a society.

"Come to my fraternity then, Jake, so you will already have an acquaintance in that fraternity and because I am a Senior I will have no trouble facilitating your incoming baptism and even allowing you not to attend any meetings you do not want."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Won't that cause you problems?"

Fraternity entrance ceremonies were a very important ritual for many fraternities, Jake had never heard about anyone having any kind of exception, so he was worried that Charlie would have trouble because of him.

"Don't worry, the fraternity I belong to is the Phi Beta Kappa you know for sure, it's one of the most respected in the whole country, but this fraternity has a very tight grade restriction that someone has to have to be invited to. "

"But for you, the grade requirement was easily fulfilled, besides, you have a lot of important achievements like winning multiple marathons and even a gold medal in the Olympics so I think they would want someone like you to increase credibility for my fraternity."

Charlie really thought so, he was very proud to be in this fraternity and one of the points that interested him most when he decided to enter was that many US presidents and many Nobel laureates had attended this fraternity.

So he thought the achievements were very important to the image of a fraternity, and Jake had and could have many more achievements in the future, he did not say that only a few could join the fraternity in the first year.

Jake was tempted by Charlie's offer, he really thought he had to live his university time to the fullest, so a fraternity was important, not to mention one of the best-known fraternities, and Charlie was promising him so many facilities that it was hard to refuse.

"Alright then, Charlie, I accept your invitation to the fraternity, let's see if I will actually be accepted and if you will get some of those things you said to me."

"You can count on me, I'll do my best."

So Jake went back to the dorm and told his friends that he was considering joining a fraternity at the request of a basketball senior, his friends understood that and even got jealous of Jake.

They had agreed not to join any fraternity because they had no interest in joining any fraternity since the most interesting ones had very difficult entry requirements, so Jake was lucky to be recommended by a Senior.

Charlie was quick to do what he said and after a few days, Jake had received a letter saying he had been accepted and was invited to a fraternity integration ceremony, as Jake requested it was just a few formal procedures and Jake joined the Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa and learned the secret handshake among other things.

Jake was pleased after joining the fraternity, even though he was never interested he had to confess that he was jealous of some of his friends in his past life who always had fraternity friends and went out to eat together.

When Jake told his mother about this, Eva was very happy to see that Jake was really enjoying his time at university, she missed him so much when he was home, thankfully she spent a lot of time in the restaurant and had Anna and other friends to keep company with.

One person Jake couldn't talk to after he went to college was Lola, the times he called the restaurant he talked to several people in the restaurant, but Lola never showed up to talk to him.

He also didn't think about calling Lola personally because he didn't want to give her false hopes while they had no relationship, Jake would be happy to know if Lola met someone and could move on, he knew he hadn't been fair to her in his time in Miami.

When he left college Jake thought he might relate to Lola if she still wanted to be with him, but by that time he would probably be in the NBA and wouldn't have much time to be with her either.

Eva and Anna never talked about Lola either, so Jake didn't mention her in conversations either and so they got farther and farther away from Jake's time at college, Jake could only know about it on vacation when he went home.

Over the next few days, the basketball team's training got more and more intense and they always did play training and even several game simulations during the week, when Jake played on the reserve team the game got exciting and he always did on average 30 points in the training games.

That's because these games had less time than the official university games, he also made several passes and steals, as well as catching rebounds, yet he always lost the games when his team was fully in reserve.

Even if it was only for a few points and the reserve team players were also skilled, they could not match the starting team with Vince Carter, Shammond Williams, Antawn Jamison, Serge Zwikker and Ed Cota.

Even though Coach Smith was impressed with Jake's performance in the simulation games, in fact, he just didn't merge teams to increase competition because Jake was on the reserve team and so the game was played.

When Jake joined the starting lineup instead of Ed Cota, the game became even more uneven, the starting lineup won by dozens of points, not only the coach but the other players also noticed the difference.

The other week training continued to be more intense because it was a few weeks before the team's first game, unfortunately for Coach Smith, Jake had applied for another two-day license to compete in the New York marathon.

This eventually broke the team's pace of training, but Coach Smith had to accept it because he knew Jake was competing for the win and even the university would want Jake to compete.

But this assured the coach that Jake would not be in the starting lineup in the early games as a punishment, after all, he could not set up a stable group if a starting player missed training a lot.

Jake also knew he wasn't right and promised that this was the last time he would do it at the end of the year, he just wanted to win all major marathons once to get the bounty and help even more in his training and also in the games themselves of the basketball team.

After all with these extra statistics on Resistance and agility, even his basketball performance would be much better, but he had no way to explain it to Coach Smith and had to accept the consequences of his decisions.

In the few days before the New York Marathon, Jake didn't even think about resting and always did his daily training with Zack, after those weeks of training it was much easier for Jake to run the 50 km at a speed of 2 minutes 54 seconds for 1 km.

Jake was not confident in increasing his training at all, after all he could not increase his speed and also do not want to increase the distance he ran per day, with 50 km that was more than the distance of a marathon he was almost over 3 hours in training, if he increased the distance would have to run longer.

By the time Zack's increased training intensity was almost accustomed to a distance of 6 km a day, this wasn't hard to do even for amateurs, so with more training at the gym, he could soon run longer.

Zack himself had not noticed any of this, but Jake with the help of the system had realized that Zack's physical condition was improving every week, he was much more physically prepared than the people who do basic exercises.

So by the end of the year, Zack would have a physical condition to run 12 km every day which was the same intensity as some elite runners, that was Jake's goal when Zack could run 32 km every day without tiring him would be ready for a marathon.

Maybe early next year when Jake had a new coach to run another track sport Zack would also have a better method of training, after training another day Jake and Zack returned to the dorm.

William was also waiting for both of them, after all, he had to wait for Jake to go to classes with him, as William was not training with both of them and was not jealous when he saw Zack's suffering, he can realize that Zack was much better physically than before training.

But who most noticed this change from Zack besides Jake was Aaron who was also training to play American football before getting hurt, he can see that Jake's training was very effective.

After attending classes with William Jake got a call from John before coming to basketball team training, it was no coincidence that Jake passed the times he could answer the phone for John and Emily.

"Hi Jake, I just wanted to call to see if it was all right for the New York Marathon?"

"Yes, I've already spoken to Coach Smith and will arrive a day earlier in New York."

"That's great, the folks at the New York Marathon organization have also sent you an invitation, they might be one of the few who thought you'd accept to run after a few weeks."

After winning the Olympics, marathon organizations began to show interest in inviting Jake to compete in marathons, this was especially true for Chicago and New York where Jake had competed before.

That was a respect that they could show to the best runners and even more to Jake who was an American, these were really the marathons Jake thought most about competing, after all in other countries it was harder for Jake to compete having to come back in a few days.

After a few days as planned Jake went to New York the day before the marathon after training with the basketball team in the evening, so he would compete for the next day in the marathon and return to the same day the university, so he would only lose 1 day of training.

Knowing that Jake would try to do something like this Coach Smith himself said that Jake didn't have to work hard and could take 3 days to rest better, but Jake assured that he didn't need to.

After all, he had to get used to this training routine if he really wanted to run after becoming an NBA pro, he didn't think NBA coaches who paid a huge million dollar salary would allow Jake to skip training just to run.

He came to town tired and went straight to the booked hotel to rest, luckily New York was near the university where he studied and so the trip was less tiring, Jake had a much stronger body than usual and knew that after a few hours of rest would be fine.

The other day he woke up early in the morning and went to the marathon start, John showed up and said he would be waiting for Jake at the finish line, after doing the warm-up exercises Jake again was the center of attention in the running.

Some of the professional athletes hoping to win were even mad at him who was trying to compete again a few weeks after winning in Chicago and breaking the world record, it was obvious that everyone felt pressured by Jake competing.

Normally athletes would participate in a maximum of 3 marathons during the year, so if they had to live on the prize money, they didn't know if Jake needed the prize money, but they knew this was Jake's fourth marathon in the year.

Of course, even if some didn't like it they wouldn't have the courage to say anything to Jake, after all, he was an elite and the best marathoner in the world today after achieving what he got.

Jake didn't care what others thought, he was too focused for today's marathon, he had rested for two days before that marathon without doing his daily training with Zack, and just did the training with the basketball team that was a light training for Jake.

What made Jake happy was that Zack was doing his daily training running the 6 km even without Jake having participated, which showed that he was serious about trying to improve to run a marathon.

After a few minutes of preparation the marathon for Jake began, he started running normally with the starting group in the race and hoped to continue like this for a few kilometers, the only competitor he thought was Giacomo Leone who won this marathon in Jake's past life with the time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 54 seconds.

This was an easy time for Jake to normally do in training in just over 2 hours and 2 minutes, but after what happened last year Jake learned to never underestimate a marathon.

"The 1996 New York Marathon officially starts, the weather today looks good for a race, only after a few hours can we know who of those runners can win this marathon."

"Even if we have to wait a few hours to know who is the winner, we can know that we definitely have a favorite to win this marathon."

"Oh, we have someone like that? Tell us who it is then."

"This year's highlight is 17-year-old marathon runner Jake Smith, after his debut last year this will be his sixth marathon."

"So Jake will be competing this year too? I don't know if he can be a favorite for this race, last year he ventured like now in running a marathon less than a month after winning in Chicago and wounding himself, the same could have happened today."

"I don't think so, even though he was injured by bad luck last year he still came second in this marathon, this year he is much more experienced and got the gold medal in the Olympics and broke the Olympic and world record this year."

"I still think he may end up hurting himself again after forcing his body."

Jake did not care about the commentators arguing and ran with the first platoon at a normal race pace, after 5 km he still continued with the first platoon, after so many marathons Jake was much more experienced and learned to save energy in these races.

Many competitors who heard rumors about Jake joined him in the first race squad, some elite runners pulled off and moved away from this squad in the first place and others slowed down, no professional wanted to have their racing pace dictated by Jake.

But the elite runners who had no hope of winning followed Jake because they heard the rumor that everyone who ran with Jake nearly half, finished in the top 50 in Chicago.

Of course, no one in that group was running today because they were still recovering from the Chicago Marathon, but they told this information to several people, so always in this race, a group of almost 14 people was near authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

The rumor was that Jake didn't try to get away from the other runners and always kept the same running pace, even if that pace was too strong all professionals could run at that pace for a few kilometers.

After all, what was most important to runners was the steady pace of running that kept an athlete from getting tired more than necessary, all 14 of those people were elites and could take Jake's pace.

"Look at the group of runners around Jake, something like that happened in Chicago, everyone who could handle almost half of the marathon with him finished in the top 50."

"Some experts have already analyzed Jake's marathon, for the first few kilometers he always maintains a very strong and steady running pace and so doesn't lose much stamina."