bhwS

by Cr0w0019

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

23. Chapter 23

The Major Marathons

Jake was very happy with everything that happened in the previous days and the victory in the NCAA tournament, all the newspapers were talking about the Tar Heels team and Jake and the best players of the Tar Heels team.

Jake did not give any interviews and only said after winning how happy he was to win the NCAA tournament, this was because many of the questions were strange and suggested that he was solely responsible for the team winning the NCAA tournament.

He knew well that this was not right after all his teammates were very skilled and many would-be stars of NBA teams, and even without him, the team would reach the final four in the NCAA tournament.

In the last two games, he could accept being told that he was responsible for the team's victory, but for the rest of the season, he only added his skills to a team that was already very good.

Jake knew he had improved a lot this season because even if his skill ranks didn't change he knew that this season he was getting used to basketball style and getting better and so towards the end of the season he could play a lot better.

One thing that made Jake very surprised and happy was that he had received a system reward after winning the NCAA tournament, it was such a good reward that he was very surprised.

Jake had received as a reward that all his basketball skills would reach the next rank, it made him very happy and a little sad, he felt that many skills had already improved this season and were close to reaching the next rank, other skills he knew it would take at least another year to reach the next rank.

Either way, it was a very good thing and so he was just one step closer to getting the skill needed to level up with his skills to know what the NBA players look like, with that he would reach the peak of basketball.

That was the reward that most improved his basketball skills, the other was something that made Jake very thoughtful for a few hours, he received 4 attribute points as a reward for winning the NCAA tournament.

But unlike before these points came as free points and he could put in any attribute he wanted, this made Jake very confused because he could put the 4 points in strength and thus improve his basketball accuracy and improve a little on other things.

He could also put the 4 points in Resistance so that he would be much easier with basketball and the marathons he would have to run, and this statistic could more easily cross the 50 statistic barrier.

Jake could also decide to put those 4 points into agility so he could start training in the other athletics modalities more easily and so maybe compete in some more races in the upcoming Olympics.

Another thing he could do was put the 4 points in the strength stat and thus balance the difference he would make more and more after he won a few major marathons.

In the end, he decided to put those 4 points in strength statistics to improve in basketball and because it was harder for him to get strength statistics, he could wait another time to compete in the other athletics modalities.

And Jake didn't think he needed Resistance anymore at the moment, he could finish a marathon in almost 2 hours and could play the games of the season quietly, and Jake knew he could get more points in agility and Resistance with the marathons.

After doing this he was very pleased because after he won a few more marathons his stats would be more balanced, he was pleased that the next season would be so much easier for him.

That didn't mean it was guaranteed that the team would easily win the NCAA tournament as it did this year because it would depend much more on the whole team's work than just him, but it would be much easier for him to make the moves he was used authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Fate, show me my statistics on my first job."

[Here it is.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 18 years]

[Job: Basketball Player]

[Title: College Player]

[Position: PG, SG]

[Height: 2.01 m]

[Weight: 103 Kg]

[Force 41]

[Agility 37]

[Resistance 40]

[Intelligence 60]

[Luck 99]

Basketball Skills

[Ball Handling SS]

[Body Control S]

[Man to Man S]

[Dribble SS]

[Layup SS]

[Set Shot SS]

[Block A]

[Pass SS]

[Rebound S]

[2 Points SS]

[3 Points SS]

[Free Throw SS]

[Steal SS]

[Dunk SS]

It was amazing to see how he had improved in just one season, he knew it was because he had already greatly improved in training in the imagination training space, but it also had to do with him facing more skilled opponents and with him playing a lot more games in the season.

Now besides the block ability, he had all S-rank skills and was close to being able to improve his level to the NBA level so that he could finally know what the NBA players' skill was like.

He was also surprised that his height was already over 2 meters, he never expected it to be so high in his life, he was already much taller than in his past life, with his current height Jake already had confidence in play in the NBA without being harmed by lack of height.

[You did well to choose to increase your strength stat, Jake, this is the only way your physical stats will be more balanced after you win a few more major marathons, otherwise, your stats would always be unbalanced and that could hurt you a little.]

"What do you mean I would be harmed? Why did you never tell me anything about it?"

[I didn't say anything before because this is not something you can do something to change if you just decided to continue with the marathons you would not need your strength statistic and the statistics would be out of balance.]

[Your physical statistics getting out of balance is not such a serious problem, what happens is that you won't be able to use your statistics so easily, if your Resistance statistics were much smaller you couldn't, for example, use all your strength for long. time and not run too fast.]

[If your agility is much lower you will react slower and you may not be as efficient at using your strength if your Resistance is much higher than your strength you will not be able to use all of your Resistance because your muscles will not hold.]

[That's why it's best to always keep your stats balanced, especially for you looking to do more than one sport at a time, so you'll better use your stats.]

Hearing this Jake finally understood how statistics were so much more important than he thought, it wasn't like an RPG game where it was better to just improve a stat as much as it could to be more useful.

[Now, though I think it will be difficult for your statistics or skills to improve before you leave college, your statistics can only improve if you get more rewards.]

[Your body has fully developed now too and you will not increase your height further, but with your current height it should be enough for you to play high in the NBA in PG position.]

Jake understood that now it would be harder to increase his stats through simple training and his height would not increase anymore either, now he could be considered totally an adult.

Even though he was pleased with everything the system did for him, Jake wanted to increase his Resistance stats and his agility a little more because of the other track and field modalities he would have in one NBA season.

But if it wasn't for this balance of statistics that the system said Jake wouldn't care more about increasing his strength statistics, after all, he realized that even if he had 90 strength statistics it didn't mean he would hit all three-point shots to try.

So that's why Jake thought the strength statistics were good enough, but now that he knew the balance he would try to improve the strength statistics he received from rewards.

What he would have more trouble finding was ways to earn more stats on strength as a reward, he knew that marathons could help him improve his Resistance and agility stats, but he knew nothing he could do to increase his strength.

Jake hoped that after he entered the NBA in professional basketball he would find many more opportunities to improve his stats with rewards as he received by winning the NCAA tournament.

He didn't even think about increasing his stats with just ordinary training, after all, he already had more statistics than most professional basketball players, he managed to increase a statistics point this year by training because his body was developing as the system said.

In the coming days, contrary to what Jake imagined, Coach Smith did not release the team and would continue training until the players went on vacation, the only difference was that the training was not so heavy and if the players needed it they could miss training.

In the team's first training several days after the NCAA tournament final everyone noticed a strange situation, Jake who had improved by a whole level in basketball decided to train with everything he had to see how he improved.

So after this training, all players of the Tar Heels team could not help thinking that Jake had not played the best he could in the final, he scored over 50 points in a training game and completely dominated the opposing team's defenders in training.

Even though Coach Smith thought Jake had not tried his hardest in the final, the problem was that no one could complain about this to Jake because even without trying his best he was certainly the best player in that game and led the whole team to victory.

So players from the Tar Heels team could only be happy that if they have a tougher game next season they could count on Jake at that time.

Coach Smith was also happy to see that Jake could play even better than he did in the final because in training all players were training to their maximum and improving all season.

Without Jake on the team the best players could be arrogant because they are already skilled and do not put so much effort into training, but seeing how Jake was so much better than them in games and training the most talented players wanted to train even more to overcome Jake.

That would make the whole team even better during the season, it was a shame that coach Dean Smith knew he could not continue coaching this team of geniuses, he was glad his last year as a coach ended as an NCAA tournament champion.

He had already started talking slowly with Coach Bill Guthridge, after all, Coach Bill Guthridge would be his successor to coach Tar Heels next season, if the team didn't win he thought of staying longer but with the team winning It was the best time to leave.

Of course, he decided not to say anything to the players so as not to hinder their training, after the holidays when everyone came back he would not be the team coach anymore, only Jake knew that among the players.

So it turned out that Coach Guthridge's favorite player was Jake, because Jake was the player on the team who most respected him and even talked to him more than Coach Smith, so next season Coach Guthridge was already thinking about using Jake as the main player of the Tar Heels team since the beginning of the season.

Maybe even Coach Smith decided to do the same thing after all Jake had a great season even though he didn't play all season as a midfielder, at first he didn't play much time in the games.

Jake showed all of his skill and even if he thought about entering the NBA draft this year he would definitely be the highlight, so everyone could say that it was already worth it for Jake to go to university instead of joining the NBA directly.

Even if Jake decided to enter the NBA now with the grades he had, it was almost certain that the university would somehow arrange for Jake to still get his degree even while playing in the NBA.

But Jake wanted to spend some more time at the university which was where he had a lot of fun with his teammates, besides, Jake already had some plans when he entered the NBA and for that, he needed more time and his sports agent David Falk.

David just called Jake to congratulate him on winning the NCAA tournament, but he didn't want to talk to Jake while he was still at university so they wouldn't have unnecessary rumors.

After this season David was even more convinced that Jake could be the next player to be the main NBA star just as Michael Jordan was now, even though there were players with similar skills that Jake became known earlier and had David Falk as his agent.

But this was all for next year, now Jake wanted to focus on his training to run the marathons he would have in the coming months, Jake had decided to run 4 marathons this season.

Two of those marathons would be this April, he warned after the final game for John to organize his entries, he would first run the London marathon in over a week and then run the Boston marathon.

When they heard this his coach Frank Davis and John thought Jake was crazy, after all the difference between the two marathons would be only 8 days, no runner in the world would try to run these two marathons to winning in that short time.

Besides, one of those marathons would be in another country and he would have to make a long trip and get tired even more, but Jake didn't care what they thought because he wanted to win every major marathon he could this year.

Unfortunately, he had lost the Tokyo marathon, but the other three were still possible for Jake to win, this year he wanted to win these three marathons and thus secure three more statistic points which would help him in next year's basketball season.

Plus, Jake had something no elite marathoner in the world has, if he could beat this London marathon he would get a Resistance stat point and an agility point, so he would be even better off running in Boston.

And early next year he would race and win in Tokyo even if he had to lose a game with the basketball team, after all, Jake knew that after joining the NBA it would be even harder for him to take time to run these marathons.

If Jake could win the four marathons he intended to race this year he was sure he would have even more fame and stand out even more in the sports world, after all, he didn't know anyone who could win 7 different marathons.

In addition, he had already won 2 times in Chicago and this year he would race again in Chicago, so this year he would have won 9 marathons in total if he counted 3 times in Chicago, few marathon runners in this world or none would be able to do that.

So when he negotiated upcoming sponsorship contracts as soon as he entered the NBA he was sure he would get a great deal early on because of what he did at university and in marathons.

Frank Davis and John couldn't even imagine that Jake intended to win these 4 marathons, after all, they thought that even though he was talented Jake had been lucky to win so many marathons after all even elite runners have days when they perform poorly.

Jake continued training with Zack who could already run 25 km every day after Zack got in shape he could already be considered a great amateur athlete, so how much he ran easily increased as it was with Jake in the beginning.

In addition, Zack already ran that 25 km every day in a good time for an amateur athlete, so he could run a half marathon quietly, Jake suggested that Zack try a half marathon just to gain more authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

But Zack didn't want to, his dream was to run a full marathon and not a half marathon, knowing that Jake told Zack he would run the Chicago marathon with him, the Chicago marathon was just after their vacation so Zack would have time enough to prepare.

Frank Davis said that in fact, Zack was already able to run a full marathon, but Jake didn't think that was a good idea, he trained for over 6 months with Zack and can realize that his friend really loved running and so he would have to train Zack to have a marathon result that could boast for a lifetime.

As Jake had already said the training he was doing might not be the fastest way to prepare someone to run a marathon, but after that training, Zack would be almost a complete athlete and if he ran from time to time for a few km he would still be in good health for all life.

Even more, after Jake had gone through some of the training that Coach Davis had given him, the training had gotten even better and so Zack had improved faster in recent months, Aaron had recovered too and was training to get back in shape and fitness he was doing a good job.

While Jake was training a week quickly, Jake warned Coach Smith that he would not go to training and went to London to run the marathon, John was already in London and had prepared the hotel for Jake.

Jake asked if Coach Davis would like to go to London to accompany the marathon, but Coach Davis said that Jake was already well prepared and ready to win this marathon if he only ran as he did every day.

It was easy for John to sign up Jake for this marathon because the organizers sent Jake an invitation this year, the London marathon was one of the most important in the world and the most important in England.

So it was only natural that they wanted to have Jake participate as he was the current Olympic champion and have the current marathon world record, yet the London Marathon organization itself did not expect Jake to participate because everyone knew he had just finished the Basketball season as the champion.

So they were very happy to know that Jake was going to participate in this marathon, John was sent by the company that sponsored Jake to accompany Jake in every marathon he participated in this year, after all, Jake was the best investment the company had made in recent years.

John's company today was the one that profited the most from sales after making the contract with Jake, this was because Clara and Tiffany's companies hadn't been investing in companies in recent years because they had Robert's stock to buy.

That's why John's companies that had a sports-related product and younger audience, as well as a much larger production, gained a lot in those years with Jake's achievements and sponsorship.

The other morning Jake was ready to run the marathon and went to where the race would start, in a few hours Jake was ready for the marathon and John stayed where the race would come to be there if Jake won this time too.

"This year we are here again for the 1997 London Marathon, some of the best marathoners in the world are attending this year's marathon, we all look forward to another exciting race and perhaps a record being broken to make this race historic."

"That's right, we always hope that maybe a record could be broken in a big marathon like this, and this year can really be possible because the best marathoner in the world today is participating in this marathon today."

"With Jake Smith taking part in this race today we can expect him to perhaps win this marathon like almost every marathon he has participated in the last few years, this year Jake is 18 and still very young as an elite athlete so maybe he can still dominate the world of marathons for many years."

"He sure is the best marathon athlete today, but I don't expect him to win today's marathon, not even two weeks since he participated and won the NCAA tournament final at college basketball."

"Plus, with college basketball season being so hard and so many games I don't think he had time to train for marathons, so I think this time he could lose."

"We'll have to follow today's marathon to see what will happen, after all, we have several talented athletes participating in today's marathon who can win even if Jake is running well."

Soon the marathon started and Jake started running at his pace and tried to find several athletes who were running at the same pace as him at the start of the race to save his stamina and use less energy.

The winner of this marathon in his past life was António Pinto from Portugal with a great time of 2:07:55 which is less than 2 minutes from the world record that Jake achieved at the end of last year, so Jake would have to go well if he wanted to make sure the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Jake was confident because his stats were better than the last marathon he ran in with a great time and contrary to what commentators said he didn't stop training even while playing several games in the season.

Over the past few months, Jake has learned a few things from Coach Davis, how he should move his arms and breathe while running to save more energy and some tricks for him to use in marathons.

Since Jake ran a marathon every day he trained, it was much easier for him to learn these things while training almost every day. In training, Jake had already confirmed how these things helped him after running many km.

The pace of the runners in London was good for the first few km and Jake could always find athletes near him so that he could save some stamina unlike US marathons, but there were no runners who wanted to run along with Jake in this marathon.

Runners in America did this to help him in the marathon and because everyone knew Jake always had a great running pace and elite athletes just had to gain by running along with him, but in London, it wasn't like that and Jake had to always find other groups to run.

After 15km of running it was harder for Jake to find groups of athletes running at the same pace as him and having to run more alone, Jake didn't know the race route either because it was his first time running in London and so he lost a lot of energy in the wrong places running alone.

"Jake has been running at a strong and steady pace as always and in this marathon, he can't find many athletes running at the same pace as him, plus this is Jake's first time running in London so he may not get a good one time and win."

"That's right, these are problems he doesn't normally encounter running in America and Jake comes from a tiring season of over 35 basketball games and may not have the stamina to finish this marathon in a good time in today's marathon."

Jake and Eva's friends were also watching this marathon to follow Jake's marathon and had the same concerns that commentators had, everyone was worried that the same thing happened in New York and Jake finishes the hurting race.

Only Coach Davis and Zack who accompanied Jake's daily training were quiet watching the marathon and not caring what the commentators said, Jake ran a greater distance than this one day faster after the games, so it was. It was impossible that he could not bear to run in London.

Jake wasn't worried about any of this either and just ran quietly trying to do everything he could to keep going well, what happened in New York was many years ago and since then Jake had a lot more stats and had no problem finishing a race like this same with all the odds.

But Jake was already thinking as he ran that he probably wouldn't race in London again for many years, maybe many years later he could race again, but after earning the rewards of the system if he won this marathon he would rather keep running in America.

After passing the 25km race Jake was already leading this race and those running in front of Jake before had already lost a lot of stamina and we're getting further behind during the marathon.

Jake learned from his mistakes before and whenever he could stop at the watering stations, Coach Davis told Jake several times how important it was to stay hydrated during such a long run.

After passing 30 km Jake was still running at the same pace and was already far ahead of second place in this marathon, at this point Jake didn't even look as tired as he was in every marathon he ran.

Anyone who saw Jake running might have thought it was easy to run a marathon at this speed, as it had been a long time since he had been running. Jake forgot to slow down and kept running fast.

"Jake still keeps the lead running at a very strong pace, he doesn't even seem to be trying very hard to run this marathon and it's been 30 km, honestly, I don't see him as a tired person who has just been through a whole intense season of basketball."

"He really is the best athlete today and that no one can deny, so he can participate in such a high level of two different sports and still win shows that he is different from other athletes around the world."

"That's right, the Resistance that Jake has been showing these last few years is amazing and I think that's the best gift he has, with this Resistance he can keep doing all that and maintain that top-notch performance."

"Let's hope he keeps running well like this in today's marathon and wins well and maybe can break some record as we're hoping."

After driving the 33 km Jake had finally realized that he was still running at his normal pace, if he went on like this he would break his own world record and he didn't want to do it in this marathon, so Jake started to slow his running pace a lot to finish this marathon at the time he wanted.

But for all that was left to finish the race everyone could see that Jake slowed his racing pace too much and even those watching on television could see, only Coach Davis and Jake's friends knew he did it in every marathon and not They were very worried.

Jake was lucky to have the help of the system to calculate his running pace and the time he needed to run to finish the race at a certain time because it was because of this that Jake could control the way he ran and also run better keeping up a steady pace of running.

After passing the 41km race Jake was still right in front of the other runners and only Antonio Pinto was closest to him in this marathon and yet everyone could see that Jake would still win this marathon quietly.

"What a great race Jake has today, we can see that he has already won this marathon and even though he has slowed his racing pace a lot over the last 10 km he can win much more easily because of that."

"That's right, Jake really has to save on the marathon for the last few km because he's tired of all of his game season games that ended just two weeks ago, this is Jake's first marathon this year and he's winning after winning the NCAA tournament this year too."

"Many said that because basketball was so much more important and could give Jake a lot more money, he would stop running marathons now that he was starting to get more prominent in basketball, but this victory shows how Jake never abandoned his training this year."

"True, it's great to see a great athlete like him winning this marathon today because this marathon will be a piece of the story that Jake is building as an elite marathoner."

"We don't know if Jake will keep running in other marathons this year, but we all hope he will continue and win some more."

After winning the London Marathon with the time of 2 hours, 7 minutes and 5 seconds Jake celebrated a lot because he was really happy when he won and even more so when it was a marathon he had never participated in before.

So when Jake received the trophy for winning the marathon and the $ 100,000 prize, Jake talked to John for a while after that he was much happier than Jake with another marathon won.

John could even imagine Jake winning the 4 marathons this year after winning the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament, sales of Jake's sponsoring companies will increase a lot this year and Jake's fame will also increase a lot.

Jake thanked John for the work he did in this marathon and asked John to prepare everything for the upcoming marathon in Boston.

After winning the London Marathon, Jake returned to university the same day because he preferred to rest at the university than stay in London and have to travel the other day, after all, Jake still had the basketball team training and classes to attend.

His friends congratulated Jake for winning one more marathon and Jake can rest well to start training and classes the next day, in just over a week he would have another marathon to run in Boston so Coach Davis said it was better not Jake train until after the next race so he can get some more rest.

Jake was very happy after receiving the reward after winning this marathon, now he had gained one more stat point in agility and one point in Resistance and so was much more prepared to win the next marathon.

Jake can also see that the newspapers from the United States and some countries around the world were talking about one more victory of him in this marathon, everyone wondered when Jake would run again and no one could expect Jake to run shortly after in Boston.

This made Jake much more excited to win all major marathons and win all the rewards and be much better known in the future, after winning those marathons Jake felt he would be ready to race in more track and field.

After all, after earning all these reward statistics, Jake would be much better prepared for the next track and field modalities he would have to train, which Jake knew would take a long time and hoped to be ready for it in 7 years.

However, over the next few years Jake hoped to be prepared for at least the long-distance modalities and thus participate in 4 different modalities at the upcoming Olympics and make history, of course even if that was Jake's goal, he knew well how it could be hard to happen.

The week went by and Jake just focused on training with the basketball team and classes as he was not training the daily runs to rest before the next marathon, Jake was already thinking about the Boston marathon during the week.

One day before the Boston Marathon Jake again excused himself from basketball team training and traveled to Boston, Jake had already warned all his friends that he would be participating in this marathon so that none of them would be surprised.

Those who understood more about how marathons worked told Jake not to try to run another marathon so soon after running in London, everyone knew how marathon could be stressful for the body and usually a week was not enough for someone to rest.

Even more so for Jake who had won in London and so had certainly worked harder than anyone in the last marathon, of course, Jake said he knew what he was doing and would run the same way, that was because he had a different body than the others because of the system.

Jake rested peacefully in the hotel that John had already prepared in advance, John was already in Boston the day before Jake and was preparing the last details for Jake before the marathon.

The Boston Marathon organizers were pleasantly surprised when they learned that Jake would run in Boston shortly after running the London Marathon, yet John made a point of saying that Jake was very happy to run this marathon in America.

This was true, even if this was the first time Jake had run the Boston Marathon since many years ago. Jake had thought about running that marathon, maybe in the next few years, Jake would always be in that marathon.

After all, Jake would much rather run in Boston than run in London, and this was a major marathon, the only problem was that this was not the best opportunity for Jake to break a record because this marathon has had problems with world records several times.

The other early morning Jake went to the spot where the Boston Marathon would start, when Jake arrived at the venue he soon caught the attention of everyone he knew and even some sports reporters.

The other athletes who would participate in the marathon were also surprised to see Jake participating in this marathon, after a week ago Jake was participating in the London marathon and had won there.

Jake didn't care much about the attention he was getting because he was used to it if it wasn't because he wanted to get the reward of major marathons this year he wouldn't risk running two marathons in such a short time.

But Jake knew well how important his timing was and how he didn't know if he could participate in these marathons in the coming years was better that, he did all of them this year and so would also get the statistics he needed.

After doing the warm-up exercises Jake was finally ready to start this marathon, Jake was very fond of the city of Boston and thought that maybe after a few years he could live there if he was on an NBA team.

After a while the marathon officially began, just as in London Jake started the race at the pace he always ran and soon found a group to run along and save stamina.

However, unlike the London marathon, this marathon was in Boston, America, and several athletes who were participating in this marathon were Americans and Jake fans, so soon a group of professional athletes who did not intend to win the marathon began to run at the same pace of Jake.

"I'm surprised and impressed to see Jake participating in this Boston marathon, as it's a major marathon I think Jake should not just be running for fun and thinking about winning as he did in Boston."

"I worry the same thing might happen in New York and Jake finishes this marathon wounded, but the same was said by my fellow commentator in London and Jake seems to have easily won the race in London, so I think Jake could be Special."

"That's right, I also think Jake is a special athlete who is now an adult and no longer a young man like a few years ago when he was injured, so it's normal to think that your body is much better prepared to participate in various marathons."

"But even if that's the case I hope Jake Smith doesn't overdo it and run a lot of marathons just because he knows his body can handle it, because even if he can handle it it's a fact that he's going to strain his muscles a lot and I've seen a lot of talented athletes ending their careers by trying too hard."

In fact, Jake was feeling very good in this marathon, even though his Resistance has improved since the last race. Jake understood a little of what the system meant by balance, Jake could feel that he could run the same as before and his muscles no longer tense.

After the first 10 km of running Jake was still running with the same group of athletes, Jake could see that almost all athletes in this group were elite athletes other than previous marathons and everyone could fight for the top 20 positions in this marathon.

The group of this marathon was 9 athletes besides Jake and sometimes as they ran other athletes would join the group for a while before falling behind when the fans were following the marathon they saw the group they knew it was Jake in that group.

After nearly two years as a pro, Jake had already become an idol of Americans and many marathon fans around the world, even the people who only followed the marathons in the cities cheered for Jake like everyone else.

Especially because marathons in the United States were usually won by athletes from other countries, which was a bit of a shame for some Americans who believed that country was the best in athletics.

In Jake's past life who would win this marathon was Lameck Aguta from Kenya who beat this Boston marathon for a few years in a row, fans of the sport celebrated anyway because it was natural for people to enjoy seeing the best in the world winning.

But they were much happier to see that Jake wants to be an American winning marathon in the United States, Jake was also very proud to win and so he considered running marathons only in America after winning all major marathons.

After 22 kilometers in this marathon Jake's group was already leading the marathon and those running in front of them were already behind, this was normal because Jake ran this marathon at a faster pace than his current world record, so if someone ran faster he couldn't stand the pace for the rest of the marathon.

The athletes running in Jake's group were elite and still fine even after 22 km and want to keep running with Jake as long as they could, after all, they were experienced and could understand how they would only win by running with Jake who always ran at the same pace.

Jake was happy about that too so that he could save more stamina and run better in the rest of this marathon, Jake also knew that even though they were elite runners they couldn't stand running with Jake much authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"We are already over 22 km and Jake still seems to be running smoothly leading this marathon along with the group he has run since the first km."

"That's right, that's what is different from the London marathon and that's one reason why Jake enjoys running marathons so much in America, a group has naturally formed near him and they are all elite athletes."

"I'm sure after seeing Jake's latest marathons in America that none of this is arranged before the race and these athletes didn't even know that Jake would participate in this marathon today after running just a week ago in London."

"They are athletes who sincerely admire Jake and know how talented he is, and so they run with him while helping Jake save energy, it doesn't happen in marathons in other countries."

"I agree, I'm sure this is one reason why Jake likes to race more in America than other countries and another reason that happens is that it's so much easier for Jake to race in America than to travel to other countries just to run."

"There is also the crowd at the venue, in America everyone is sure to cheer more for Jake than for the other athletes and that's an excellent motivation for an athlete."

All the reasons the commentators said were things Jake thought before running, for all these reasons he realized that it was much better to race in America than in other countries, but he would still run sometimes if he wanted to and had time.

After 27 km the other athletes in Jake's group decided to slow down and move away from Jake who was in the lead, they could run longer with Jake, but if they did they would get very tired in the final kilometers of the marathon and could lose positions.

Now that they separated from the leadership group all 9 of these athletes were rivals for the top positions in this marathon, everyone knew Jake was first, but they could try to compete in the top 20 positions.

Jake's friends who were watching at home cheered for Jake and were happy that he was first again, they learned never to hear the negative things commentators said about Jake because he always surprised at marathons.

It was amazing to think that Jake could win this Boston marathon after a week of winning in London, and these two marathons were unusual and were hotly contested marathons around the world.

Besides, Jake had already won everything he could win in basketball season this year, so everyone could know that it was true what Jake said he hated losing, which made him always win.

It was strange how something as surprising as winning such a big marathon became expected when Jake participated, no one could doubt that Jake was one of the best marathon runners of the last decades.

After reaching 31 km of running Jake slowly began to slow his racing pace, he already knew he should not break any records in this marathon and agreed that it was better to save more stamina if he could.

Everyone who knew Jake already knew that he always did something like this at the end of every marathon and so they were quiet, some experts didn't know why Jake did it because it seemed like he could take a few miles longer if he tried.

But no matter how much they thought they would never guess that Jake did it on purpose so as not to push himself and excel in marathons, Jake thought he was still too young and so should show others that he was slowly improving.

And that was working so far, so many experts showed Jake's incredible progress in the last marathons, even now that he wasn't running at such a fast time as last year's last marathons the experts said it was because Jake was tired of the season of basketball

That's why Jake liked these sports reporters so much, they all wanted to get the audience's attention by telling fans about their theories and saying that was what happened to Jake, so Jake just had to pick what he wanted and give the credits to this reporter and no one would suspect him.

After going through the 41 km race Jake was already calmer with this marathon and saw that contrary to what everyone said he was not that tired and could still run several km.

"Really impressive, yet another marathon won by Jake Smith here in Boston, and just over a week after winning the London marathon, Jake shows how truly the best in the world in marathons today is."

"That's right, many questioned whether it was right or possible for Jake to win two marathons in such a short time, but today we're seeing Jake really achieve what many thoughts were impossible."

"This has been an amazing year for Jake as an athlete after all he won, he could wrap up this year with this marathon and everyone would still say he was great, but we are still at the beginning of the year in April, I'm sure Jake will try other marathons this year."

"That's right, I just hope he rests for a while before the next marathon and doesn't try to keep proving that he has excellent Resistance, after all, Jake is still studying at university this month."

"Hahaha, it's true, I hope Jake gets a little more rest now because he has achieved incredible achievements this year and is only 18 years old, he can relax because he is very young and can still win many more marathons in the coming years."

Jake won the Boston marathon and soon after ate a stamina bar, he felt that he didn't need to and could even run further after that marathon, but it was better to prevent any injury and eat a stamina bar since he has so many in history.

After eating the stamina bar Jake felt every muscle in his body relaxing, he felt great and relieved about it, it had been a long time since he had eaten a stamina bar because he didn't think he needed it after 40 Resistance points.

But it seemed like it was good for him to relax the muscles that were always tense after all the daily training, Jake was very happy to win and celebrated a lot while sitting a little to feel the muscles relaxed.

Jake didn't know that a picture of him sitting with a relieved smile on his face would be the cover of many sporting magazines in the coming months, from the scene it looked like Jake was tired and under pressure and could relax after winning this marathon.

Jake won with a time of 2 hours 7 minutes 24 seconds, it was a little longer than in London and Jake felt it was a good time for such a marathon, he didn't need to break the records of all the marathons in the world as I earned no reward points for it.

After a while, the marathon organization called on Jake to lift the trophy and receive the prize for winning that marathon, Jake received the $ 150,000 prize and celebrated well after this marathon.

The same day Jake returned to university in the next few days earned a break from Coach Smith and was practically obliged to take a break from his daily marathon training by his mother.

Coach Smith and Eva saw the photo in Jake's newspapers looking relieved after winning in Boston and decided he needed to rest, Jake still had a handsome, photogenic face and so the newspapers and magazines that published these photos were very much bought by American women.

Jake couldn't explain why he seemed relieved and had to go a week without training again, that wasn't really a problem for him who was always training, but Jake didn't like feeling that he was doing nothing.

One day, while Jake was having a lecture at the university on economics William, was not around because it was the teachers who chose the groups to foster friendship among the students.

In Jake's group, there was a boy who didn't seem interested in studying and a student who looked like he just wanted to get away from this lecture, and the last member of Jake's group was a young man of Asian descent.

This last young man seemed interested in the lecture and sometimes also looked at Jake a lot, Jake realized that and found it a little strange and just hoped that this young man was a fan of his and not interested in him any other way.

After a while the students had a break from talking to their classmates about what they heard, the woman and the other guy left and only Jake stayed with the guy who seemed interested in him.

"Hi, my name is Haruto Watanabe and Watanabe is my family name."

"My name is Jake Smith."

"I know that I'm a big fan of yours, I like basketball a lot and I think the way you're already amazing, I'm sure in a few years you'll be one of the best players in the NBA, can you give me an autograph?"

"Sure, so you're a fan of mine, I hope what you say happens and I can play well in the NBA after a few years."

After that the two talked for a while, but not about the lecture as the teachers wanted, Haruto was Japanese and his family had moved to the United States a few years ago.

Haruto's father is named Eiji Watanabe and is the manager of one of Toyota's factories in Charlotte, North Carolina not far from the university, Haruto is 20 and a sophomore studying at the university.

Haruto's older brother will take his father's place in the factory in the future, so Haruto's father wanted him to study to have a good job in the United States, so Haruto said he wanted to study at UNC because it was close to home and his father accepted it.

In fact, Haruto wanted to study at this university because he was a big basketball fan and wanted to see the team he played Michael Jordan in so that he might see some future NBA star play and luckily in his sophomore year of college he saw Jake playing.

Still, Haruto was a responsible man and was studying hard to get a job in the future, after talking with Haruto for a while Jake realized that he was very smart and could work with him in the future.

Jake no longer thought about inviting William to work for him because William wanted to work on wall street in the future, but he could call Haruto to work with him in a few years.

It seems that Haruto was also a movie fan as well as a basketball fan and was such a fan of Jake because he saw that he was also a good actor, was the first person Jake knew that was really his fan and became his friend for it.

Jake had a good memory and so still managed to talk about the talk with Haruto and the two did well in the report at the end of the talk unlike the other two who didn't even pay attention to the talk.

So Jake and Haruto became friends because Haruto was a fan of Jake and because Jake wanted to hire Haruto to work with him in the future, after returning from the lectures Jake returned to his dorm to rest.

After a week since the Boston Marathon Jake could finally return to training, he himself felt that after resting for almost 3 weeks between these marathons he was much more rested.

Now he would just have to train normally because he would have no marathon to run until September, Jake had been asked to do an interview with ESPN to talk about basketball and marathons.

Jake had already become a sports star after being able to do all this at the age of 18, in the NBA many teams have already shown an interest in having Jake play on their team.

Jake was already seen among teams the same way as some current NBA stars because Jake had high-level skills that could help lead any team to victory and had infinite potential that all teams wanted to see in a young player.

Some NBA team managers and big companies also knew that David Falk was Jake's sports agent and would negotiate his NBA contracts, which made many teams respect Jake even more.

Jake naturally accepted and went to one of the ESPN stations that would be broadcast to commentators at ESPN's sports center, he was naturally very happy about it and was already used to doing interviews.

"We're talking to Jake Smith today who is one of the new college basketball and marathon stars in the world, Jake emerged in the sports world over two years ago in his third year at high school and shortly after winning the Chicago Marathon with 16 years."

"After that, we just saw Jake in sports news winning several high school basketball championships and winning multiple marathons and even the Olympics."

"In that 1997 year that is not even halfway through, Jake has had several impressive achievements, he won the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament with the Tar Heels basketball team and won the London Marathon and the Boston Marathon."

"Jake, what do you feel after you got all of this at the age of 18 and convinced everyone in the sports world that you're already a big star?"

"First of all I would like to thank you for the invitation to speak here on ESPN, I have always enjoyed this channel."

"I feel that even though it seems that things happened quickly and very early, everything happened with a lot of work and preparation over many years, I ran into Chicago two years ago when I thought I was ready and so I won."

"As for basketball I always train a lot and this season I was lucky to be part of an amazing team like the Tar Heels team that has great players, it is thanks to a lot of hard work and my amazing team that I could win so many things this year and last years."

"Of course, I'm sure you had to train and work hard to achieve everything you have today and win so many competitions."

"Let's talk a little about your first season in college basketball, what was it like having such an impressive season with just 2 losses in 36 games and winning every tournament this year?"

"I am very happy with that, as I said I am on a team that has excellent players and an excellent coach, I learned a lot during the season and could perform better in games."

"This is my first season and as a freshman, I'm happy and couldn't expect a better season than this one, next season I hope that the experience I got this year will help our team win several games and maybe have a season as good as that was it."

"That's right, I could say for sure that this must be the best freshman debut season of a college basketball season."

"In addition to winning all the individual awards, he could in addition to the best defensive player award, Jake broke many individual records and helped the Tar Heels team break a few more records."

"I'll show you some records that Jake broke this freshman season."

Jake's 1996-97 Season Records

Jake tied Shaquille O'Neal with 11 blocks in a single game in the 13 Mar UNC 94 x 61 Fairfield Stags game.

Jake broke Mark Wade's record of 18 assists by making 21 assists in a single game in the 6 Feb UNC 97 x 64 Florida State Seminoles game.

Jake broke the record with more steals making 12 steals in one game in the 29 Mar UNC 92 x 52 Arizona Wildcats game.

Jake has done 8 triple-doubles and 13 double-doubles this season and 2 quadruple-doubles.

More steals in an NCAA tournament final four-game with 12 steals in the 29 Mar UNC 92 x 52 Arizona Wildcats game.

More blocks in an NCAA tournament final four games with 8 blocks in the 29 Mar UNC 92 x 52 Arizona Wildcats game.

More assists in an NCAA tournament final four games with 20 assists in the 31 Mar UNC 92 x 69 Kentucky Wildcats game.

"These were just a few and we will talk during the interview about a few more records, we also have the records that the Tar Heels team broke this season."

With Jake, the Tar Heels team broke some records this season.

More assists in one game with 41 assists in 6 Feb game UNC 97 x 64 Florida State Seminoles.

More blocks in a game with 16 blocks in 13 Mar game UNC 94 x 61 Fairfield Stags.

More steals in a game with 21 steals in the 29 Mar game UNC 92 x 52 Arizona Wildcats.

"After seeing these records that Jake broke this season, I'm sure many who doubted before will agree that Jake had a great season that will be in college basketball history."

"With these records, you can even do a triple-double that Jake made 8 this season, and Jake has done something that had never been done twice a quadruple-double in a game."

"What do you think about these Jake records?"

"I honestly didn't even know I had broken any records this season, I just played the best I could and took the opportunity."

"But knowing that I was very happy to hear that this great season of mine will be remembered in history because of these records."

"With these records, I think it's only fair that you won almost every single award this season, what do you think about that, Jake?"

"I didn't receive many national awards at the time I played in high school so this is all new to me, but I have to say that it is very gratifying to know that my work was recognized in this way."

"I think you deserve these awards you received this year, let's pass some more records that you broke this season."

The highest number of right field goals in a 501 season.

More points made in a single season with 1170 points.

A best percentage field goal in a season with a 75% hit.

Highest 3-Point Field Goals in a season with 205.

Best 3-Point Field Goal Percentage Single Season with 70%.

Fourth with more assists in a season with 373 assists.

Most steals in a single season with 217.

In fifth with the highest average assists per game with 10.4 assists.

First with more steals per game with 6 steals per game.

In seventh with the most points per game with 32.5 points per game.

"These records are very hard to break, remembering that even though Jake doesn't have number one number of records this season Jake did it all just this season while other players focused on just scoring or assisting."

With all that doubting Jake's talent has to agree that he was the most important player to win this NCAA tournament on the Tar Heels team and deserved to win all the prizes he got.

None of the television channels were allowed to talk about Jake being the only one sponsored in an interview with Jake, so commentators and reporters never talked about it, but when Jake wasn't he was just praised with everyone saying he deserved to be an exception.

"Jake, many have said when the Tar Heels team won the NCAA tournament this year that you could go straight to the NBA draft this year without waiting any longer than you would surely be one of the stars of that draft and next NBA season."

"But it looks like this year you still don't intend to participate in this NBA draft and maybe wait in the coming seasons, why do you think that?"

"I think it's just not the right time for me, I still want to enjoy this amazing university environment a little more, it's a unique experience in life that I want to spend more time here before going to the NBA."

"Also, I wanted to take advantage of the fact that I'm on such an amazing team as Tar Heels this season to try to win the NCAA tournament next year too, I know it's tough and a lot of good teams want that too, but we have the opportunity to try."

"That's right, as a talented player and an amazing team like the Tar Heels team I think it's right that you think about winning the NCAA tournament next season too, and if the Tar Heels team succeeds you will surely enter into very prominent history."

"Now that we've talked about basketball let's talk a little bit about marathons too, which is something Jake also stands out a lot about, you said you prepared well for marathons since before running in Chicago, how was that?"

"The first sport I enjoyed when I was a kid was athletics, I liked running more than basketball, but I still loved basketball almost the same way."

"But in the neighborhood where I lived in Miami I couldn't play basketball with my friends even if I wanted to because they didn't have courts, so I always liked to run in the city squares."

"I didn't know that it's nice to know you were interested in sports since you were a kid, and why did you decide to play basketball and not keep running?"

"As you may well know, basketball is one of the most beloved sports in our country, and I was very fond of basketball myself, and my family was in a complicated situation with just my mom working and she seemed to have health problems at the time."

"So I was a child just thought it was easier to get money for my family through basketball than through athletics and running."

"Even though it was a decision I made as a child I took my training seriously and trained on my own for almost a year before attending my first basketball tournament."

"I played against children who were several years older than me when I was 11, and yet I won that tournament and knew it could really be good at basketball."

"My mother always supported me playing basketball not knowing I was doing it thinking of making money for my family, so after many years I got a sponsorship and I could help my family before I even entered high school."

It was the first time Jake had spoken in an interview more directly about the difficulties he had as a child, he said he decided it because he was a child not to mention that he had an adult mentality and already knew basketball was the way to go right for him.

But in the rest, he said everything that really happened and because he first chose basketball over marathons first when he was younger, Jake could feel that some people who were participating in the recording were thrilled to hear about it.

"It's really an inspiring and exciting story, many in sports came from a humble background and had financial difficulties before finding the sport to change their lives."

"True, part of my basketball training has always been running, because I loved running and because I knew it helped improve athlete stamina, so I never had a hard time participating in a whole game and even now I don't have this difficulty."

"Also, I've always had good fitness and could have stronger training than other basketball players, when I already had sponsorship and still had time before college I decided to start training more seriously for marathons that to me because of my Resistance was the easiest of athletics for me."

"Of course after I started training I realized it was not easy at all and I suffered a lot because of it, but when I continued training at my school's athletic field alone and when I saw that I was running well and at a good pace I decided to run in Chicago."

"I really enjoyed the marathon there and managed to win even though I wasn't fully prepared, then I lost in New York for running the marathon wrong and then that's how you all know well."

"After that, you won all the marathons you participated in including the Olympics winning a gold medal for our country, I have to say it was great talking to you Jake, I hope you continue to be very successful in your career."

"I thank you very much for coming here and hope to be back here again one day."

Jake really enjoyed the interview and said a few things he wanted that had not been arranged before the interview, yet the commentators and the recording crew seem to have enjoyed the interview with Jake quite a lot.

After that Jake returned to the university to continue his classes and training, after a week the classes were finally over and Jake took all the exams, the classes were very easy for Jake who got the high grade again.

So the training with the basketball team was over and Jake was getting ready to go to Miami, Jake said goodbye to coach Dean Smith who wasn't coming back next semester, Jake attended a frat party with Charlie and had a great time being careful to do not drink.

So Jake had a little party with his roommates before everyone left home, so Jake got an idea and rented a big house for two nights near the university to have a party with the basketball team before everyone left home Coach Dean Smith was also invited as was Coach Guthridge.

It was the way Jake thought to throw a farewell party for Coach Dean Smith who would leave without saying anything to anyone, Jake spent good money on that party and organized very well to be fun for everyone.

The players were less comfortable because the coaches were at the party too, but Jake knew that everyone would remember this party fondly after Coach Smith did not return next season.

Jake even prepared a tribute for Coach Smith by preparing a video of the best moments of the Tar Heels team in recent years with the help of the university, in this video Coach Smith was the one who appeared most.

So naturally Coach Smith was very much applauded by the other players because he was the only one in the video, so Coach Dean Smith looked at Coach Bill Guthridge as if wondering if he had said anything.

Coach Bill Guthridge had said nothing and Coach Smith believed he could never expect Jake to come from the future and knew what would happen to him when no one else knew.

Even though it was a great time before the holidays Coach Smith said nothing that was leaving the team, even when Jake asked Coach Smith to say a few words about the team winning the NCAA tournament that year.

Jake secretly recorded the whole party and would send a copy to everyone after the party, he might have had a complicated relationship with Coach Dean Smith, but he knew Coach Smith just wanted the best for Team Tar Heels this season that was so important for him.

After that Jake returned to Miami and arranged a place for Coach Davis to stay with his family, as Jake's athletic coach Coach Davis insisted on getting as close to Jake as possible to help his training more, and Jake didn't care with that and can organize everything.

Unlike other times the first thing Jake did when he arrived in Miami was to go home and not go to the restaurant, Eva and Anna knew that Jake had arrived in Miami and closed the restaurant for a few hours to meet him.

They didn't say why they did it, but Jake could imagine, it seemed like they just like Julius were now trying to leave Jake separate from Lola, everyone could realize how Jake didn't like Lola as she liked him.

Jake was very kind and never rejected her directly, but everyone would realize that this relationship would not work, Jake never said of the decision he made that would date Lola if nothing happened until he left college because it would leave Lola unchanged nothing in her life and Jake found it unfair to her.

So Eva and Anna thought that this time Jake was at university and spending little time in Miami was a great time to make Lola forget about Jake, and to make it even better was better that Jake didn't go to the restaurant at that time.

Jake didn't care about that because he had a lot of respect for Lola and Julius and would be short on Miami anyway, if Lola could be happy because Jake would be very happy, feeling things were hard to explain, Lola was beautiful and yet Jake had no strong feelings for her.

Even though Jake spent a few hours with his mother and Anna, Eva told Jake how much she had been thrilled when she saw Jake's interview with ESPN, she knew nothing about it and was a little sad to learn that Jake realized how she was having trouble and was glad to hear that Jake had done it for her.

After all, Eva knew that because of this decision everything had worked out well for Jake and he was very rich right now that Eve didn't know how much money he had, no mother could be unhappy knowing that her son was succeeding.

Anna was also thrilled to see this interview, maybe a lot of people were thrilled like them watching this interview, but Anna even more because she knew Eva personally and remembered how Jake told her to be careful that Eva was not depressed.

So in the next few weeks, Jake spent a lot of time with his mother while also training with Coach Davis for the other athletics modalities, they had already talked about it and thought it was a great opportunity for Jake to start some different training.

For the short-haul modalities like the 100m or 200m Jake just trained the correct positioning and how to make the correct starts, the hardest things to learn on his own that he didn't know.

Even someone like Jake made a lot of mistakes in these things, but Coach Davis could imagine that Jake could have a talent for at least 200m and was quite surprised at that, at 400m so Coach Davis thought it was only a matter of time before Jake could run.

Coach Davis had always thought Jake had only the talent for long-distance sports, and it was hard to find anyone who could run the 10,000-meter and 5,000-meter marathon in an Olympics.

Jake could soon be able to run even the 1,500-meter race, so he could win in 4 modalities in just one Olympics and would surely go down in history and become a track and field legend, but if he could compete too Between sprints he can also try to beat the other 4 modalities by winning 9 medals in total.

Of course, Coach Davis was thinking in the best scenario that was impossible for him, which he could not imagine was that this was exactly what Jake was hoping for and so wanted to train for it.

To train more seriously during this vacation, Coach Davis suggested only the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters that were races that Jake was more likely to run at the next Olympics if he trained more.

Jake wanted to try the 1,500 meters and 800 meters, but Coach Davis told him to take it easy if Jake got the 800 meters the 400 meters would be possible as well as the 200 meters, so it was better to train in parts.

Jake understood that Coach Davis wanted to see first what he was capable of and hoped, after all, he knew he had time and in the coming years would impress Coach Davis to be able to run at least 1,500 meters at the next Olympics as well.

For the 10,000 meters, Coach Davis was very confident that Jake would make it because Jake was an athlete who had a lot of speed as shown in his basketball games, and he could already run at 2 minutes 54 seconds per km currently for 50 km.

Jake would have to run just 10 seconds faster than that for miles to be considered a great 10,000-meter runner, knowing Jake Coach Davis knew that would be easy for him.

In the early days, Jake focused on learning the right way to run as he had been doing for several months and now with more time with coach Davis, Jake's only defect as an athlete having the system to help was the technique and what the athletes learned of professional coaches.

So now that he had a good athletic trainer, Jake first wanted to learn all the technical stuff correctly because he was confident of doing the modalities training thanks to the system he had.

Coach Davis didn't understand Jake's calm, he was eager to know how long Jake could have in the 10,000-meter race, he had a feeling Jake would have a good enough time to participate in the upcoming Olympics, but Jake who was the main interested didn't seem to care.

What Coach Davis could not know was that Jake was in no hurry because by the next Olympics he would get at least 2 Resistance points and 2 agility points if he won the remaining two major marathons and could run those modes much more easily.

After more than a week spending time with his mother and training with Coach Davis, Jake received an invitation he had been waiting for a long time, it was the invitation of director Crowe who made the movie Jerry Maguire.

Just as Jake had expected the movie had now come out of theaters after several months and had raised a lot of money at the US box office and international box office, Director Crowe had promised to throw a party if it went over $ 100 million and Jake was just waiting.

He didn't know how much the box office had grossed correctly, he just remembered that in his past life had gone over $ 250 million, it was an excellent box office for a movie that was very good and much praised by movie experts.

Jake didn't know, but who was happiest about it was director Cameron Crowe who expected this movie to be a hit because of Tom Cruise and many other renowned actors, but didn't expect it to be such a hit because of the theme. sportsmanship that was usually not so successful at the box office and the fact that the movie is not for all ages.

So there was no way he wouldn't be happy to see that this was the biggest success of his career even being such a young director, director Crowe couldn't help but think that this success had anything to do with Jake's small part in this movie.

This movie premiered well when Jake had his best time in both marathons and college basketball, so some of Jake's fans definitely decided to go to the movies to watch this movie.

Also, Director Crowe realized that Jake had a talent for acting and was already thinking of inviting him to participate in other films of his own thinking that Jake would not accept at this time because he was so busy.

Even though Director Crowe was very fond of Jake, he can't have this party in Miami because most of the guests lived in Los Angeles, so he had to have this party in Hollywood, Jake didn't mind and took a plane to go.

Jake was even given a gift Armani suit that he personally went to the store to take measurements before leaving for the party, Jake could buy one if he wanted, but did not have time to think about which suit to buy and a gift like this helps in choosing his future.

Jake had rented a hotel room for a few days to stay in Los Angeles and so asked for a limo to go to the party, he thought about renting a car, but it would be more complicated to return the car after so renting for a night was much better.

Not many people at the party knew that Jake would attend the party, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't care much, because at that party other sports stars who had more fame than Jake were invited to attend the movie.

Many movie stars and singers were also attending this party that even someone like Jake would be forgotten if he attended such a party, at least that's what Director Crowe thought.

Jake arrived at the party and many pictures were taken of him, he just waved at the cameras and quickly walked into the hotel where the party was taking place, he knew that everyone who entered these parties had photos being taken and so did not care.

As soon as Jake came in many looked at him, Jake just paused for a moment until he saw where the director Crowe was and so went to the director, he knew many people here were famous and if it was another time Jake would not hesitate to ask for an autograph to a lot of them.

"Congratulations on the success of the movie, director Crowe, since I saw you talking about the movie I knew it would be a big hit."

"Hahaha, thanks, Jake, I think part of the success of this movie has to do with you too, your success in these two years in the sport has made you part of the movie something special."

The two exchanged accolades and director Crowe led Jake to the table where he was sitting with Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Renee Zellweger, the film's top Oscar-winning stars were at that table.

Meanwhile, other sports stars were sitting at another table like NFL players Art Monk and Kerry Collins, as well as others who participated in the movie and were invited to this party.

"So, Director Crowe, you still haven't told me what was the total box office of the movie that was the reason for this party."

"Hahaha, I knew you had not heard from anyone yet, we got $ 330 million in the worldwide box office and $ 190 million in national box office alone, our movie was fifth in the total box office and third in the national box office with 190 million of dollars. "

When he heard that even Jake was surprised, he remembered that this movie was ninth in the total box office with just over 270 million dollars, it seemed that in this life this movie had almost 60 million dollars more and almost 40 million of those 60 were in America.

So even Jake had to accept that his participation in this movie had greatly increased the total box office of the movie, thinking that the budget of the movie was 50 million only that increase paid the initial costs of the movie.

Jake was happy because the first movie he appeared in was a bigger success than he expected, it was no wonder director Crowe said so many times that the increase in the movie's box office was related to his achievements in sports, the directors usually they knew what they were talking about and some research must have been done to know that.

Jake congratulated Cuba Gooding Jr for the Oscars and they talked for a while Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger talked to other people at the party, then for a few more hours at the party, Director Crowe talked about his upcoming film projects.

Jake listened attentively because he thought about participating in some movies by director Crowe or another Hollywood director in the future, after all, Jake has always enjoyed acting, but in the next few months, there will be no movie to shoot in the coming months. could not think of participating.

He didn't have to think about how much he could get with these movies because he didn't need that money to live well, but it had to be some good movie like this and a movie he could shoot at the time he had free.

While everyone was talking a young girl entered the party long after the party had started, at parties in Hollywood this was very common so few people noticed who entered.

Anyone who saw the young lady who entered realized that another very famous person had come to this party, was a young singer who was very famous in the music world in recent years and almost won some of the top music awards in recent years winning the attention of all the world.

Kate Annesley had arrived at the party, Kate Annesley was the singer Jake met several years ago while recording some commercials, this had been the only time they had ever met, but since then Jake has always bought all the CDs of the new works from Kate.

Jake even tried to find Kate when he recorded other commercials a few months ago, but unfortunately couldn't find her in the same recording studio where they first met.

Kate walked into the party venue looking around as if searching for something, she looked toward where Jake was and started walking over to the director's desk smiling, everyone thought she would just talk to the director to congratulate on the success of the movie.

But Kate walked towards the other side of the table where only Jake and Renee Zellweger were sitting, Jake also noticed that someone was walking towards where he was when Jake saw Kate was very surprised and was even more surprised when she approached and hugged him as he cried.

This took everyone by surprise and even those who knew Jake and Kate did not know where the two knew each other or that they were so close, and the most discreet all looked toward the two embracing young people.

Jake didn't know what to do in this situation but still hugged Kate and waited for her to stop crying to explain what was going on, the director Crowe who was talking to Jake wasn't quite sure what to do in this situation and just waited to see if Jake explained to him later what was going on.

After a while, Kate kept hugging Jake, but she was no longer crying, after so long even the most curious did not look at the two young men hugging each other and even Principal Crowe began talking to other people.

"I wanted to try to see you, Jake."

Jake felt his heart flutter when he heard Kate say that, he was going to be more polite and call her Miss Annesley, but after that, he had no way of realizing that there was anything different about Kate he had known for several years ago.

He also missed Kate, and even though he didn't want to admit, he had to say that he had liked her since the first time they met, maybe that's why he can never match Lola's feelings for him.

"Kate, I missed you too, but now I was wondering what happened to make you cry like that."

Only after Jake said that did Kate remember that she was hugging him in the middle of the party while crying, did Jake help her get away from the party a bit and they sat at a table away from everyone's eyes so they could talk more calmly.

"It's been many years since the last time I saw you, I knew you would be at this party and that's why I came here when I saw you I couldn't control my feelings and ended up crying."

"That day we met in that studio while you were shooting those commercials I felt something for you, something different, a kind of connection."

"That's why I followed you to see your recording even though I arranged to meet my parents elsewhere at that time."

"After I left I went to the place I had to go the other way because my parents had already left at the time we had scheduled before."

After saying that Kate stopped talking and started crying again, Jake already thought that something bad had happened to Kate and that's why she was so thrilled since they met.

"I got to the place where I had to go, but my parents weren't there, then I found out that halfway through my parents had a car accident and died."

"After learning about it I was very sad and almost stopped singing, whenever I was sad I remembered you and when we met that day, so I realized that if I hadn't stayed in the studio for a while of you I would have died along with my parents in that accident because I wouldn't have been late."

"Even though still sad because of my parents' death I decided to keep singing and enjoying my life that I'm still lucky, and always wanted to meet you to thank for saving my life."

Now Jake knew why Kate was so thrilled when she met him, it seemed that since her parents died she had always remembered him to keep well, Jake believed that Kate really would have died in that accident had she not met him.

"I'm glad you didn't die in that accident and I'm sorry for what happened to your parents, I know it must have been difficult and I wonder what I would do if my mother died."

Jake could really feel what Kate was feeling after all he really knew what it was like to see his mother die, he was glad that Kate was fine thanks to what happened to him that day, it seemed like he wasn't the only one who felt anything special about that day.

After that Jake was talking to Kate for a long time about quieter things and about their career, so she managed to calm down again and so they talked until the party was over, Jake got Kate's mobile number and she got her number his cell phone.

The party was over Jake arranged to meet with director Crowe the other day, as well as several other actors Jake wanted to talk to, but what happened to Kate was very striking for Jake.

After returning to the hotel Jake still thought about it, he knew he might have changed the future a bit, but the system said several things would not be changed even if Jake interfered.

He was very happy that Kate had escaped the accident and had not died just because she met him, but so Jake was a little confused if more such things would happen and how much it could interfere with the future he knew.

[You don't have to worry so much about that Jake, as I told you, fate judges, what you will or won't change in the future based on your actions, but none of that will greatly change the future you know.]

"What do you mean, Fate?"

[Fate must have felt that this Kate was important to you and also that she would not have much interference in the future and so because of the meeting between you she should have died ended up living.]

Seeing the system confirming what he was thinking Jake even had to take a moment to think, he figured that if he didn't meet him Kate would die just because in his past life he didn't remember any singer named Kate who was so famous.

He found it strange himself several times and even though it was he who had changed it, then he thought it had nothing to do with it and that his memory was too bad and he didn't remember Kate being famous.

"You say that doesn't change things, but Kate is a well-known singer and can win many awards from other major singers and thus change the future I know."

[These things only you consider important, fate doesn't change things that much, you also won this year's NCAA tournament and will win some NBA championships that should be won by other teams.]

[These things will change naturally just because you exist, just like the marathons you win and the actions you invest, a few million adjustments have to be made by fate not to affect the future each time you do such a thing.]

[So you don't have to worry too much about these things because there is no way that you or Kate, or who you know changes anything, you won't even realize what has changed.]

So Jake can finally be relieved, he was glad to know that he had saved Kate even if it wasn't on purpose, so Jake went to sleep relieved, the other day Jake returned early to Miami to train early in the morning.

Jake did all the training he did at the university because he hadn't warned Coach Davis that he would be back early to do the training, he knew he had to train his technique with Coach Davis, but sometimes he just missed running without having to worry about the time.

When Jake came home later Eve had already returned because she left the restaurant early when Jake was home, Jake went to take a shower and when he returned to the room he saw his mother sitting with a magazine in his hands.

Jake found it odd that Eva wasn't making dinner like she always did at this time, but he thought she just wanted to get some rest and so got up to make dinner after he came back to see his mother still sitting with the magazine in the hand.

"Mom, I've already prepared dinner, leave this magazine there and come eat with me and then you come back to read the magazine."

"Do you know why I'm reading this magazine, Jake?"

"Because you like it? I don't know what you mean mom."

"I was working at the restaurant today because I knew you'd be back today, and I saw some of the restaurant customers looking at me strangely, it wasn't just the restaurant customers and even the staff were looking at me differently."

"When I asked Anna what was going on, she just gave me this magazine."

Jake didn't understand what his mother had today that she was always talking about this magazine, he didn't even read magazines and newspapers unless his friend said he had something about him, like someone from internet time Jake had lost his custom of reading newspapers.

"I don't understand, Mom, what this magazine has to do with the fact that customers and restaurant staff are looking at you in a different way."

"Look at the magazine yourself and you will know why."

Jake was curious and took the magazine from his mother's hands and understood what she meant when she saw the cover of the magazine, somehow someone took a picture just as Kate hugged him and started crying.

On the cover it still said 'reunion and youthful love between stars', not far from the truth what it said in the magazine aside from the love part, Jake understood that customers looked at his mother strangely because they knew she is the mother him and the employees knew that Lola liked him.

"Luckily Lola wasn't working today, so I didn't know what I could do to talk to her."

"Who is this woman, Jake?"

So Jake explained the whole situation of how they met and what had happened to Kate for her to hug him like that in the middle of the party, so Eva was no longer so angry with Jake and knew how to understand the situation.

"I understand the situation well, but of course, after all, that has happened this woman must like you very much, Jake."

"I think it may be so too, to be honest from the first time I spoke to her I felt something different as well."

So Eva didn't know what to do, she knew well that Jake had done nothing wrong and was a right and single man, but she felt sorry for Lola's situation, after learning of Kate's situation she felt even more sorry for Kate and understood what she felt.

After all, Kate was someone who had lost her parents the same day she first fell in love, she must have felt very bad for a while after she lost her parents and it was thinking about Jake that made her better overcome the loss of her parents.

Besides, Eva knew that Jake was the dream man of many women in America, he was intelligent, good at two different sports, handsome, nice, famous and still rich. Eva couldn't imagine a better quality in a man who was missing on her son.

And Kate had fallen in love with Jake when he was young and not even that famous, so in those years with the death of her parents, this love just increased as Jake looked even better in other years.

Maybe what made Kate not fall in love with Jake completely at that time was the fact that she didn't know if Jake remembered her, but at the meeting, they had this time Jake said he always thought of her too, that must have further strengthened that love.

Luckily some time ago she and the others in the restaurant were trying to make Lola forget about Jake, so after a semester with Jake at university, they might feel that Lola had forgotten about Jake a bit.

What happened this time Lola was going to suffer a lot, but it would be even easier for her to forget about Jake after that happened, as a mother, Eva had to support Jake and what he wanted to do as long as it was right and made him happy and seem that Kate was the one that made Jake happy.

In fact, Jake didn't even think about it that much, he knew he liked Kate a lot, but since he'd never felt it and didn't know exactly how Kate felt about him, Jake didn't think about it as much as Eva.

After that Eva calmed down and the two had dinner together and then Jake went to rest, as someone with many things to do Jake did not think much about this event and the other day returned to focus on his training.

Jake and Kate were very busy and if they didn't agree days in advance could never have time to meet, Kate still got a scolding from her business for doing what she did at the party and so the two would not see each other for a while let the public forget that.

Kate was still a pop singer, but she was more successful with young audiences who would not accept her boyfriend well, she had received a lot of support from her fans a few years ago when she lost her parents and so Kate decided to do it for her. her fans, but she wouldn't forget Jake not easily.

Jake can focus on his training more easily because Coach Davis just like he didn't read magazines or newspapers either, he still continued his positioning training and did what he could to improve his running technique for all forms of athletics.

Coach Davis had to admit that he found Jake's dedication to training inspiring, after all, he didn't even know if Jake would participate in all forms of athletics, in fact he found it impossible for Jake to participate in all forms of athletics.

Even so for many weeks, Jake was very keen to learn everything completely as if he was sure everything would be useful in the future, as Jake had many points in intelligence statistics he was practically a sports genius and learned everything much more easily than the others.

If it wasn't because Jake wanted to learn only once and never forget, he would have learned everything he had to learn a long time ago, in a few days they would learn everything they had to learn and could start training more seriously for others modalities.

The other day after much training Jake got a call from Tiffany who wanted to talk to him over lunch, Jake was a little tired of learning how to position himself in training and agreed to have lunch with her and gave Coach Davis time off.

Jake hoped it was something important for Tiffany to call him on the phone, Jake knew that Tiffany and Clara were busy improving their companies, and soon Jake knew he would have to record a commercial for their companies and was ready for this.

"Hi Jake, thanks for coming, I knew you were training on this vacation, you have to get some rest too and enjoy spending time with your mom."

"I'm resting well, I'm training positioning only in recent weeks."

"That's good so, I saw your picture with that famous singer, I didn't know you started dating while you were in college, she's really pretty, congratulations."

"No, she's not my girlfriend, just a friend, it was just a misunderstanding because she was thrilled about something that happened to her a few years ago, but what you wanted to talk to me about, Tiffany, is about the commercial I will record?"

"That's not it, so we'll be doing the commercial in a few weeks too, I wanted to talk to you about something John passed on to me yesterday."

"It is what it is?"

"It's usually him who talks to you about marathon issues when you're at university, but as you're on vacation he asked me to pass this on to you, our country's athletic organization invited you to participate in a qualifier for this year's Athletics World Championship in Athens."

Jake had really forgotten about this year's Athletics World, he didn't care about these Athletics competitions because he usually didn't have marathons, but this year he had, the Athletics Worlds was the second most important competition for marathon competitors, so it was obvious that Jake wanted to participate.

Everyone expected him to participate because he had won the marathon at last year's Olympics, but Jake had said nothing about it and so the organization decided to talk to John who was responsible for Jake's entries in these competitions.

"I'm going to participate yes, thanks for reminding me, with so much going on this year I had even forgotten, apparently I won't be able to just rest until September as I thought before."

"Good then, in two weeks will be the recording of the commercial, will be in that same studio you like here in Miami."

"Alright, I'll be there in the day."

Jake was excited to participate in this year's Athletics World Championship, he thought he could only participate after he started running in the other athletics worlds, so he would have one more marathon to participate in this year.

But nothing would really change for Jake, because this year's Athens Athletics World Championship would only be August 1-10, 1997, so there were still almost 3 months left to go and nothing would change in Jake's training.

He didn't have time to focus on the marathon training he was confident of winning, he had to keep training the positioning for the next few days and then train for the other athletics while training for the marathon.

After all Jake would train now only for 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters, so the training would not be much different from what he did now, it would only change in the running pace and also the distance he would have to run at each different pace.

The other day Jake told Coach Davis about this year's Athletics World Championship the coach was also surprised that he had forgotten about this important event, he had problems with his family and was also paying more attention to what Jake was doing than he was the sport in general.

But he wasn't surprised when Jake said he didn't want to train anything especially for this World Cup and wanted to continue with their training plans, Coach Davis also thought Jake was ready to run any marathon anytime.