Busy Holiday
In addition, Jake's training over the next few months would only further help him participate in this marathon, would be intense training for a number of different sports and to improve on the few weaknesses that Jake still had in long-distance running .
Meanwhile contrary to what everyone thought Lola was working normally even after hearing about the news about Jake, everyone could see that she had cried a lot the day before, but she didn't let down and went to work normally .
This relieved everyone in the restaurant and made Eva and Anna proud of Lola's strength of mind even though she was so sweet and young Eva and Anna really liked Lola because she was such a strong woman .
Eva wanted her to be with Jake, but since it hadn't worked out, it was better for Lola to meet someone in the future to be happy and they would continue to be friends, after all as a mother, Eva had to root for Jake's happiness .
Who was happiest with all this was Julius, while this problem happened and everyone was worried about Lola, Julius was secretly thinking about maybe secretly leaving the restaurant with his daughter .
If Lola couldn't seem to get over his love for Jake and continued to suffer at Julio's restaurant, he would have to resign and look elsewhere, he didn't want to because he was so happy working at this restaurant and was so grateful to what Eva did for him when he needed work .
Julius knew that while in Miami Jake did not come to the restaurant out of respect for Lola and at Eva's request, Julius could not even imagine a restaurant that the owner could not enter just out of consideration for an employee's feelings .
Luckily it seemed that Lola was stronger than he thought and would be able to get over it, Julius was not angry with Jake because he knew he had no fault in this whole situation .
Jake also didn't know that because of a misunderstanding his mother's restaurant had almost lost two of the best employees and was just focusing on his training, for the next few days Jake just kept training the positioning and finished his training and learned everything that could with Coach Davis about the techniques of track and field .
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Now it was time to go back to marathon and long-distance training, as Jake didn't have much training time before having to stop recording commercials for Tiffany and Clara's companies, Coach Davis went through another training session off the training track for Jake .
It would be a training session since they were in Miami, they went to a beach that was less frequented for Jake to do various resistance training, aerobic exercises and cardiovascular exercises .
Knowing how great Jake's stamina and stamina was, Coach Davis took advantage of them being on the beach for the next few weeks and decided to prepare one triathlon a day for Jake to train as much as he could .
The goal was to train Jake's body to handle the longest runs and not the speed, so the time Jake would have to swim in the sea and ride the bike didn't matter, to make it harder Jake would swim in the sea and run in the sand .
Coach Davis was responsible and even made Jake pay some lifeguards to stay on a jet ski in case Jake drowned while swimming, Jake swam very well in his past life before suffering the accident so Coach Davis had him swim 500 meters since the first day .
Jake had a hard time swimming in the sea and going through the waves and the way to swim was different, even to breathe it was difficult to find the right way, but with the stamina, Jake had no problem swimming the 500 meters .
After swimming with no time to rest Jake started the bike ride, it was 15km because Coach Davis knew that Jake would have no problem with that, Jake really had no problems and pedaled slowly while catching his breath at sea .
After quietly doing the 15 km Jake went for the sand race, running in the sand without stable terrain for 8 km was the hardest for Jake, even though he was used to running Jake almost fell several times and had not done the drills heating properly could have been injured .
But Jake can finish this weird triathlon done by Coach Davis, even though doing less than he normally did . Jake felt tired from this activity that day, he felt many muscles that he normally did not use sore and felt it was an interesting experience .
Jake didn't think it was that hard to swim in the sea even at such a short distance, after all, 500 meters was swimming 10 times round trip in a pool, cycling for so many km despite not being tiring was a different experience for Jake too .
Coach Davis and the lifeguards were only impressed that Jake wasn't so tired after doing such a triathlon for the first time, he'd done a sprint triathlon even though he swam a shorter distance and walked less on the bike's path .
On the other hand, it was his first time doing this and Jake had run more than usual and still run on the sand, it was his first time swimming in the sea and Jake didn't use any special clothes or shoes to do this triathlon .
Jake's performance made Coach Davis excited, the coach thought that after this triathlon training that was perfect for Jake, many of his failures would end, after the lifeguards he hired found out who Jake was they were less surprised by it .
Jake didn't know that, but the Captain America nickname he had received at the marathon had become well known, all his fans and many people knew Jake as Captain America, so to see Captain America doing a lot of high-level triathlon sports It wasn't that hard to believe .
For the next few days Jake continued to do Coach Davis's triathlons, in a few days he got the hang of swimming in the sea and it was easier for him to ride his bike, just running in the sand was more complicated because he couldn't get used to running in uneven ground .
An interesting fact that happened 5 days after Jake started training on the beach was that he had an accident of a yacht almost 800 meters away from the beach, this yacht was going to a party and had 22 people inside .
Because of the drinks and other party stuff, this yacht had only one lifeboat which was forbidden for the yacht to have, something happened and the yacht caught fire and the people inside had to go out to sea drunk .
When this happened Jake was close to swimming the 250 meters in the sea and was coming back, for safety reasons Jake always hired two lifeguards on a large jet ski that could seat up to 6 people .
The lifeguards no longer had to worry about Jake swimming very well in the sea after 5 days of training, they both saw the yacht on fire in the distance and warned the coast guard and beach lifeguards on the safety radio .
Even doing so both lifeguards thought there would be no time for the rescue to reach the yacht and they did not know the situation the yacht was in that had not yet started putting out the fire, because all the yachts had a fire extinguisher .
So they called Jake who was nearby to see what they could do, after all, it was Jake who was hiring them and they had a jet ski and were closer to help the yacht in time .
"What happened that you called me?"
"There was an accident with a yacht near here Mr . Smith, that side has a yacht that is on fire, we think to take advantage of jet skiing and go to help those who need it, after all the rescue may not arrive in time . "
"I see, let's go there . "
After saying that Jake climbed on the jet ski too and without saying anything one of the lifeguards started guiding the jet ski towards the crash site, they arrived quickly and saw chaos there, some people were on objects while others were swimming to stay on the surface of the water .
The two lifeguards quickly took the jet ski lifeboat and threw it into the sea and soon 7 people climbed into the lifeboat, while Jake had already seen that almost everyone in this accident was drunk, he sought someone soberer and called a man to talk .
"What happened here?"
"I don't know, we were having a party and the yacht started to catch fire, we all jumped into the sea and the yacht owner is too drunk to talk . "
Jake told what happened to the two lifeguards who soon understood what was going on, one of the lifeguards continued to help the others while the other climbed into the far yacht to look for some more lifeboat to help the others who were still in the water .
"How many people were on the yacht?"
"There were 22 people, I remember that . "
Jake stopped talking to the man after that and started counting how many people they had, he found only 17 people counting those at sea and lifeboat, so he told both lifeguards and dived into the sea to see if anyone was found .
One lifeguard opened the only lifeboat he found and started putting some people in while the other dived with Jake to see if anyone was found, Jake diving saw some people drowning, luckily they had been quick to rescue, otherwise he could not have time to save no one .
Jake rescued two women who were almost unconscious and left those who were better off for the other lifeguard because he knew it might be riskier to save the conscious and drown himself trying to save someone desperate .
When Jake went up to the sea surface with the two women the other lifeguard had also risen and the other plunged into the sea, Jake put the two women in the lifeboat, and the others were rescued gradually .
If they hadn't been quick, maybe some people had died, mostly because no one knew how to open a lifeboat and almost everyone was drunk . Jake left the two drowned women's help for the professional lifeguard and went back to jet skiing .
The two women were successfully saved by the lifeguard and the other three who were drowning were saved and were fine too, Jake was surprised by the speed of the two lifeguards who saved them all quickly and he can only help a little .
8 people were placed in each lifeboat and 3 people were left in buoys that were taken from the yacht, after rescuing the lifeguards suggested that lifeboats and jet skiing be carried further because the yacht could explode at any time .
Jake agreed with that because he didn't want to risk seeing if the blast would happen or if it could hit them, with Jake and the two lifeguards the jet ski had 6 people so they could get away with everyone saved .
The owner of the yacht that was primarily responsible for this accident was fine, but was fainted from drinking and was taken from the yacht by his friends, was an unexpected situation that Jake did not imagine could happen to him .
A while later the beach lifeguards arrived with the jet skis so that everyone could go back to the beach while waiting for the coast guard to arrive when everyone arrived at the beach many people were seeing what was happening .
Coach Davis was concerned that Jake had not returned after swimming to the lifeguards at sea, he was also surprised when he learned what happened, Jake left quickly and left only the two lifeguards who had to testify to the coast guard about what It happened .
Jake was just helping and didn't understand any technical terms so he left quickly before anyone recognized him, Jake hadn't done anything wrong and had even saved some people, but he didn't want much media attention on his vacation .
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Jake knew well how the media was and were always wary of everything he did because of it before he wasn't so famous and so didn't have to worry about it, but now he was very famous and especially after what happened to Kate, he didn't have a good relationship with the non-sports media .
Jake returned home after what happened and said goodbye to coach Davis, today he had no way to continue with training so he thought it was better to wait for another day at home .
Unfortunately, things were not as simple as he expected and he had to be summoned to give testimony of what he saw to the police later, the case got more complicated because it looked like the yacht owner would be sued for the security breaches he made that almost killed the 22 people in the yacht .
After Jake gave the police testimony he was told to wait and then even one of the Miami Alderman appeared to compliment him on what he did for the Miami people in this accident .
Indirectly Jake was responsible for saving the lives of these 22 people, if he was not training on the beach and hired lifeguards with jet skiing and went with them to help people in this accident the 22 of the yacht would surely die .
After that Jake was invited to receive a medal along with both lifeguards for their rescue, everything was organized the same day and Alderman seemed to want to take advantage of Jake's fame to win some votes in the next election .
Fortunately, as everything was organized quickly few people were in place and only a few members of the sports media attended this ceremony, Jake did everything as fast as he could to go home .
When Jake came home again it was night and Eva had already made dinner, he recounted everything that happened on the day and Eva was very proud of what Jake had done but fought him for taking the risk of doing so .
Jake was happy saving those people and couldn't help thinking that he had changed the future somehow again, luckily he was calmer because the system said it wouldn't cause too much trouble if he did .
Fortunately the other day the beach was the same as the previous days and Jake can train quietly, next week Jake continued with his training doing a triathlon a day and could feel that he was somehow improving even if little with that training .
In the next few days Jake couldn't train because he had so many things to do, he had to meet with Tiffany and Clara to do the commercial for their companies, and then talk to Emily and the others about his business .
So Coach Davis and the lifeguards would have more than a week off, Jake went with Tiffany and Clara to the advertising company studio to record both commercials, as this time the two were more experienced, Tiffany and Clara had already spoken to the company prior to organizing the new commercials .
They had already talked about what the commercials would be like, so Jake just had to get ready to record and record the commercials, Jake didn't care about that because he was participating today only as a sponsored athlete of company and he left everything that happened at Clara's company for her decision and didn't interfere just because it had 10 percent of the company's stock .
The commercial for Clara's company was simpler this time, Jake would participate in various sports in this commercial except basketball because of Jake's deal, and in every sport, he would appear in the video he would use the sporting goods of Clara's company .
It was simple, but it said that when Jake played sports he trusted Clara's company to do quality physical activity, he didn't need a very obvious message because everyone knew that Jake was known for high-level basketball and marathon practice .
Tiffany's company commercial was more creative, but it was also more complicated to do, Jake would run down the road and the scenes would show Jake running down the roads in several cuts, then Jake would take a rural path and keep running down the dirt road .
At the end of the commercial, Jake would run to an orange field and grab a bottle of Tiffany's sports drink, then run back, the commercial would show that Jake would run to the field to get the bottle of liquor .
Jake liked the Tiffany company commercial better, but he didn't say that and just made the recordings, Clara's commercial was done faster, but Tiffany's took almost two days for the advertising company to get the best images .
After that when the two commercials go to television, Jake would be appearing in 4 television commercials, the public would even get sick of Jake who appeared so much in the commercials, it would also help to promote the 4 companies that helped each other with advertisements .
This was only possible because the 4 companies were small, if they were large companies they would not want to share customers with other companies even if it was good for everyone, after which Jake talked with Clara about her company for a while .
Clara and Tiffany went back to investing in the company a lot this year, the money they were saving to buy Robert's stock was all invested back in the company in the form of a loan that they would receive in profit shares over the next few years .
They did so because the company had not invested for many years and urgently needed money, the two would not make loans to banks that would endanger the company being able to invest their own money .
As Jake knew now, Tiffany and Clara's companies would always pay half of the profit share to the shareholders and invest the rest back in the company, with the investments made this year expected that the company's sales this year would be the best .
Because Jake had accomplished so much in sports and would continue to do so this year, it had a very positive impact on the sales of the companies sponsoring Jake, both of them were excited to see the company grow .
As for Clara's company competitor who had too many shares of the company, she decided not to care about it anymore and just treat them like ordinary investors, because she would have to take a lot of money every year just to buy those shares from the rival company .
But it was necessary money to invest in the company, if it were possible in a few years Clara would surely buyback not only those shares but also the shares that were with Jake and her father .
Only the shares that were with Tiffany, Clara did not think to buy even in the future, because it was Tiffany who helped her the most in difficult times even putting her own company at risk .
Jake thought that in a few years Clara would no longer even think about buying Jake's stock again, because in a few years with the internet age and Jake playing in the NBA just because Jake was a shareholder of her company would make many people want to buy the products from Clara's company .
Jake was very pleased with how Clara was investing in the company, he always trusted her because he knew how well Clara was a competent woman just like Tiffany who made her company grow out of nowhere .
After that Jake arranged with Emily to talk to her about how his investments were going, Emily seemed to be a lot more tired and stressed when Jake met her at the restaurant .
He could imagine how busy Emily was working for him, now Emily took care of the company-wide investments, which included Jake's personal investments and Matthew and her father's investments as well as her father's friends who were already over one billion of dollars in total .
In addition, Emily was now overseeing Charlie and his team who worked at the company in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, which Jake had just created for now to develop multi-touch technology .
As someone who didn't know about the future and what the internet would mean in the future Emily thought it was a huge waste of money that Jake was doing, she could just see a smart calculator that would cost a lot to be worth it .
And there were a lot of other investments that Jake had that Emily was responsible for taking care of, of course . To do that Emily had authority and respect given, she was president of Jake's investment company and received a huge salary directly from him .
Plus she would get some of the profits from all Cisco stock when they were sold, Emily estimated that the 1 percent she now had was worth at least $ 10 million .
"Hi Emily, you look pretty tired . "
"Of course I've been tired, you know how many things I have to take care of, I'm responsible for billions of dollars and I'm doing my best not to disturb you while you're busy playing or training . "
"I know, I'm just kidding, it's a shame you're very busy right now, but in a few years I'll hire a few more people to help you, and the investment company won't do anything for a few years after that either . "
"I understand, this can be hard to come by because a few years with the investment company closed means a lot of money will be lost, I need only a few months of rest when this phase passes and I will be fine again . "
Emily didn't complain much because she knew Jake was very talented and even busier than she was, and she was so happy to work with so much money, even her father had never had so much responsibility and it was all thanks to Jake .
AdvertisementEven if someone offered her some quieter job that paid her better she wouldn't accept it, she felt she would make a lot of money when Jake decided to sell all the stock that the investment firm cared for .
She was no longer so stressed because she knew it was impossible for investors to lose money even if the bubble burst as many investment analysts said because investor money was already more than double invested .
Also, thanks to the contract that Jake made with those who wanted to invest in the company, besides complaining who invested money could only trust that Jake knew the right time to sell everything, it was a contract she didn't know for sure, but she knew no one would risk contesting this contract .
Her father would also make a lot of money when Jake decided to sell these stocks, which showed how much better it was for her to work with Jake because there might be more opportunities for her and her father to get rich after that .
"I told you to hire more people for the investment company to relax, but I know you keep going the same way as before checking the market, you don't have to do that Emily, that's what tires you the most . "
"You know how impossible this is, our company takes care of over $ 1 billion in investments, anything that happens in the stock market can make our company lose several million, me and I don't know how you can be so calm about that . "
"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore, tell me the investment company reports . "
Just as Jake asked Emily said the investment firm reports, with Matthew's investments alone over $ 900 million, even Matthew was surprised to learn how much money he had and regretted not investing more at the end of last year .
Even so, Matthew still wanted to just sell the stock and take all the money he was afraid of losing more money after, but Matthew knew that Jake didn't care about his investment opinion, so Matthew just had to keep trusting Jake .
The entrepreneurs who invested with Emily's father had over $ 90 million at the time as well, it was three times as much as they had invested, so they also wanted to sell the stock if they could .
Jake didn't care what they thought because he knew that this money now was nothing compared to what they would earn over the next 3 years, that money would still multiply sometimes and they would complain in the future if Jake sold it all now .
What also made investors sadder was the fact that 10 percent of the money they would earn would be given as a commission to Jake's investment firm, at the moment was a lot of money, over $ 66 million, and would be even more in the future .
After Emily said about the investments Jake had, Jake currently had over $ 40 million invested in equity, it was less than the others had because Jake also made other investments that would earn him hundreds of times that amount in the future .
One such investment was the silicon valley company that Charlie and the others were working on to develop multi-touch technology, with nearly a year of investment and a lot of work the touch screen technology had already been developed .
Jake received the test product and saw that it was very similar to what he used in the future, which gave him confidence that Charlie and the others were on the right track, maybe later this year or early 1998 Jake could apply for a patent that would make him a multimillionaire in the future .
Just investing in the development of this product would make Jake have more money than with all the actions he invested, another investment, the best he had done so far was the Amazon company that would make him a billionaire in the future .
"Amazon company as you may know officially made the IPO this year, you invested $ 12 million for 25 percent of the company's stock, after the IPO you have just over 20 percent of the stock . "
"Jeff Bezos has asked to reassure you that his shares will not fall below 20 percent in the future of the company, his shares that have been further diminished, he has just over 35 percent of the shares . "
Jake knew Jeff was saying that because he still hoped Jake would support him in all his decisions as he had promised and not just decide to sell the shares now that they were much more valued as some investors had already done .
"You can tell Jeff that I would still fully support all of his decisions and not sell my shares no matter what happens for at least 12 years . "
Jake could promise that because he knew what the future would be like and also needed to calm Jeff down so that he would work as Jake remembered in the future, that 20 percent of the stock would be worth over $ 80 billion .
When the company is worth more than $ 1 trillion, Jake would have $ 200 billion worth of these shares, investing only $ 12 million a few months ago, so Jake didn't regret not making any more money with Cisco shares .
Of course Jake thought he could also help Amazon in a number of things in the future that would make him and Jeff Bezos even richer, Jake also knew it was only a matter of time before the media knew he had tens of millions of dollars invested in it only 18 years old .
He hoped he had just finished college before that happened, Jake was using Emily's name for the investment firm for the time being and hiding his stake from Amazon, so the media didn't know he was the one who had so much money .
After that Jake already told Emily some more details before leaving, the next day Jake went to meet Matthew, he had to talk to him if he could help anything in the company before he could go back to training .
This time the conversation would not be in any restaurant, but in Matthew's house, when Jake saw that Oliver was also in the house, and to his surprise Joseph was also in Matthew's house .
Of course Jake knew Joseph was on vacation from Princeton University, too, but he didn't expect to see Joseph in Miami and hoped his friend was enjoying his vacation with Liza somewhere .
"Joseph, how long I haven't seen you, I thought I'd see you only when I finished college . "
"Jake, I missed you too, you're very overdone, it's been less than a year since we last met, with you working with my dad and grandfather on some holiday we were going to meet . "
"You say like this is a bad thing, as my friend I want to see you at least every month, it's good to see that you're fine and came to visit your family . "
"He came to visit the family because I sent him, it's good to see you, Jake, you've been doing great things these past few months, me and Oliver have been following your games and your marathons . "
"Thanks, Matthew, I came here to talk to you and was expecting to see Oliver here, but I didn't expect to see Joseph here really . "
"It's like I said, if I didn't order him to spend this vacation here in Miami he would be traveling around with his girlfriend, I should have broken up while Joseph was still in high school . "
"Stop talking about it, Grandpa, I've come here as you said and I really love Liza, you can't separate us . "
"Because of this girlfriend of yours you don't care about your family or your best friend anymore, Jake is much busier than you and yet whenever you can come to see his family and even us here . "
"That's because he works with you . "
"You don't know anything, Jake didn't even have to come here because he's a partner and not an employee of mine, he sees just because he wants to help, and you? The company will be yours in a few years and you don't even mind coming here . "
"You see in the magazines, Jake has a much better girlfriend than his and yet see Miami every vacation and still works hard . "
Jake was uncomfortable seeing Matthew fighting this much with Joseph, he hoped that meeting his best friend would be more enjoyable after so many months, but it turned out to be that way.
Oliver seemed more used to it and seemed quiet and agreed with everything Matthew said, seeing that Jake was uncomfortable he guided Jake discreetly into another room so that Jake wouldn't be in the middle of this fight.
"Sorry you had to see this Jake, my dad has long been very unhappy with Joseph whenever they might end up arguing like that."
"Alright, you're in the family and it's normal for everyone to fight, I shouldn't be here, next time I'll warn you before you show up."
"Don't say that Jake, you know we consider ourselves to be part of our family, that's why my dad fought Joseph even though you were around."
"Don't worry about how Joseph treated you, he's angry because my father made him come here on this vacation, it seems that Joseph is in a rebellious phase and is doing everything wrong, only his studies that are fine can calm me and my dad."
"This rebellious phase of his started when he met Liza and that's why my dad thinks she's guilty of everything, the truth is that we're very disappointed with Joseph."
Oliver didn't say anything, but they were so disappointed in Joseph because they had only Jake as a comparison of a young man of the same age, to all Jake seemed like a perfect young man who was talented, responsible, stayed with his family and still good at school.
Compared to Jake who was all right, Joseph's mistakes seemed far more serious than they normally would be, but even so, Oliver told Jake not to feel responsible, because it really wasn't his fault.
Jake was just disappointed because Joseph looked like he didn't care about him anymore, for someone like Jake who had few friends and always valued relationships he didn't expect Joseph whom he considered as a best friend didn't care about him.
After a while, Joseph had gone to his room and Matthew called Jake and Oliver to talk, Matthew still looked agitated and didn't look like someone older having so much energy to fight with Joseph.
"Sorry for making you see this Jake, I fought with Joseph around you because I consider you part of my family, Joseph has to improve a lot to have the ability to take over my business someday."
"I understand, you have your reasons for being mad at Joseph, I came here today to talk about what has happened to the company in the months I was at university."
"The company has been doing very well, as you know in February of this year we started selling the new camera we have been developing for many years ago."
"Even though only a few months have passed since the start of sales, it seems that sales have been a success, many who knew our company expected a quality camera and were impressed by how our camera is superior to others in the competition."
"Anyone who didn't know our company is getting it right now because of this camera, some even said that if we sold this camera in Asia we could have great sales because they know good quality products."
"I don't think that's a good idea, not good for a company that is still developing as ours wants to compete with the biggest companies in Asia, we better just keep trying to sell from Europe and America and spread the brand and name of the company with this product."
Matthew agreed with Jake and didn't want to challenge the best companies in the market yet, not to mention that they wouldn't make so much money from having difficulty getting distributors and partners to sell cameras and still making a profit.
"I agree with you, in these months we have also begun to prepare the development of our next digital camera on the market for a few years from now, with their councils we have already started the development and improvement of technologies."
"Very well, as I said to you, it may be that the next camera of ours that should be ready in 1999 will be one of the last ones we will do before mobile phones become better known, then we will have to cut production costs a lot to keep selling and profiting."
"Yes, I believe you, even though we don't see any evidence of this happening we are preparing to reduce costs as much as we can, with our company getting better known we are getting great deals with suppliers."
Matthew was someone with a vision and could see that cell phones were getting more and more popular in recent months, he could also see that the internet was getting popular too, so he could imagine that if a cell phone had internet and a camera it would sell much more than that his company's cameras.
That's because Jake didn't say that this phone would also have something more advanced than a Walkman, that should be hard to imagine today, but Jake was developing touchscreen and multi-touch to have a patent and then would develop the Android system.
Just as Jake himself was preparing the technology that would make it all possible, Matthew even suggested that they create this modern phone themselves, but Jake knew that the costs to make it happen would be tens of billions of dollars.
Maybe if Matthew's company sold a lot in the next few years and Matthew decided to invest everything they would gain from selling Cisco company stock, maybe they could think about starting such a company.
But Jake himself knew that he didn't have the ability to run such a big company, not to mention that Jake would already be rich from Amazon's stock without such a risk.
But he would support Matthew if that was what he decided to do in a few years, maybe if other investors decided to go into this business it could be much more possible, but their gain would also be greatly reduced.
But this was something that could only be seen after several years, the important thing was to earn as much as they could with this camera right now if Jake didn't have a deal with the university and the basketball association he would make a television commercial Talking about the new camera.
Now he would have to miss this opportunity and hope the company is strong enough to make sales of this camera better than the last camera and secure a few billion dollars for the company.
Admittedly, they would earn more than their last camera sales, after all even if they didn't understand technology, they could see that Matthew's company products were of superior quality to others on the market, and this camera was much more superior than the camera that was sold a few months ago and only for a small extra price.
Matthew suggested that since this was a much larger camera they could sell for a few hundred dollars more, but Jake was against it because even though it was superior to other cameras on the market, Matthew's company already made more than half of its profit value.
And this camera should have an attractive cost that would compete with the digital cameras of other companies in the market, so Matthew's company would gain much more credibility in the market, in a few years the price of the camera would fall a lot and the quality would continue to improve.
Also with the rise of camera phones, people would continue to buy digital cameras from Matthew's company because they would know it is a fair price for a very high-quality product.
After that Jake spent some time talking with Oliver and Matthew before returning home, after this conversation with Matthew he had temporarily settled all the business he had during the holidays.
So he stayed at home with his mother for a while because in the coming months he would have to focus on training before the World Athletics, even if he didn't need to train for marathons he had to enjoy all the time he had to train and improve to compete in more modalities at the next Olympics.
The next day Jake went to training normally at the beach and Coach Davis went with him as well as the lifeguards who had been warned the day before that Jake was coming to train today, before Jake paused to record the commercials and take care of business, he was already getting used to Coach Davis's triathlon training.
Even though it wasn't directly related to long-distance running, Jake understood that this was the best training for someone like him to do, Jake already knew how to keep pace in the race and everyone knew he had good stamina, he had also learned all the techniques you could learn from Coach Davis several weeks ago.
So before training directly for the 10,000-meter and 5,000-meter races, it was smarter to train the few weaknesses Jake had, in Coach Davis's view, Jake already had enough to be able to run the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters races in a good time.
But if Jake wanted to win the upcoming Olympics he would have to be as good at these races as he was with marathons, and just running was not enough, of course, if Coach Davis knew that Jake had the system he might not create such training.
Even so, Jake was very pleased with this training that was clearly beneficial to him, even though he had the system and could push himself a little harder than other athletes to perform better.
At the end of the day, Jake swam easily into the sea, rode his bike for several miles without tiring, and ran more than 8 km in the sand, seeing that Coach Davis saw that this training was no longer a challenge for Jake and that the next day they could increase the difficulty of training.
When Coach Davis said this to him, Jake agreed that he needed more difficult training, he had realized how good this training could be for him, and he also knew he could do more than that.
After Jake had become accustomed to swimming in the sea, these trials were no more difficult for him, he also enjoyed a challenge and thought it might be better for him to make more training gains.
Seeing that Jake had agreed to increase the difficulty of training, Coach Davis greatly increased the training load, swimming was 1 km at sea, cycling was 25 km and running in the sand 15 km.
Coach Davis trained to be harder for Jake instead of being more evenly balanced to compete in the triathlon that was not the goal of this training, running was the easiest for Jake who normally ran 50 km at a pace to break the world record every day.
So the 15km slow-moving sand wasn't a real challenge for Jake, it was harder because it was just unsteady terrain and after swimming and cycling, so Coach Davis thought it was right to Jake.
Riding the bike would be Jake's easiest and swimming would be tricky, even though Jake had become accustomed to swimming in the sea that didn't make swimming against the waves any easier, so swimming twice as far would be more challenging.
Seeing this training load that was almost double what the lifeguards had once again looked out to help Jake if needed, Coach Davis who knew what Jake was capable of did not think Jake would have trouble doing this triathlon.
Jake also went confidently to the sea because he knew he would only get tired when running on the sand, Jake had a harder time swimming the 1km in the water, even though he was used to swimming in the sea these past few weeks he tired his arms swimming in the sea.
After all, it was different from running and even though he was still too stamina it was tiring for him, after leaving the sea Jake had no trouble doing the 25 km bike ride, even if it was the 180 km ironman Jake didn't think he would have problems.
So the coach did not even insist on increasing the bike path, after all, Jake's daily training would only take longer on the beach and would not have much gain, when it came to the race part was much harder to run the 15 km on the sand.
Even though Jake managed to finish all the running in the sand and so ended all the triathlon training, Jake found it tiring, but not so much when his daily training running the 50 km, the sand running and the swimming part was the most difficult and the cycling route was the easiest.
While not striving for the best times Jake still managed to do the 1 km in 12 minutes at sea, 25 km in cycling in 30 minutes and 15 km running in the sand in 52 minutes, he didn't push himself to the sand and nor in cycling, but gave the best he can in swimming.
Jake thought he could run at a better time than this one on the sand, but he was in danger of getting injured if he tried to run faster and would get a lot harder to run faster on the sand.
Even though he thought this training was better than before, he asked Coach Davis to increase his running and sand swimming and to reduce the part of his cycling path so that he would have the best training possible.
Coach Davis told Jake to get used to this training first and then they would increase further, Jake accepted and was patient because they were still early June and had almost two months until the World Championships in Athletics.
Jake hopes that before that they would start training for the 10,000-meter and 5,000-meter modalities because after World Championships in Athletics Jake would have little time before he had to go to university.
Jake was well aware that he could have more time next year and years to train before the next Olympics in 2000, but he wanted to see what he was capable of running, Jake knew he could win, but even really running he wouldn't be comfortable with that.
Over the next few weeks Jake continued with the training and besides staying at home with his mother did nothing else, Jake wanted to hide a bit from the media after what happened with Kate and she didn't try to call him either.
Jake knew he would have to wait several months before he could talk to Kate again because of what happened last time, he just hoped it wouldn't take several years like last time.
As sports and normal media forgot about Jake, his fame was growing more and more popular among the public, the news of Jake helping in the Miami Beach crash made people have a better opinion of Jake.
Some people also remembered Jake because of his picture with Kate and others because of the various commercials in which he now appeared on television, Tiffany and Clara's companies have already started promoting the ads they made a few weeks ago on television stations.
All this plus the news about Jake in the sport meant that the audience couldn't forget him, many movie directors like Director Crowe were already thinking of inviting Jake to appear in their movie next year.
After a few weeks Coach Davis increased Jake's training as he had requested, it was 2km of swimming and only 13km on the cycling path along with 30km of running in the sand.
Taking the cycling path was more than half an ironman triathlon, after doing this training Jake finally felt he was struggling, the lifeguards thought Jake really deserved to be called Captain America because he was almost a superhuman.
Several athletes were able to do an ironman triathlon and perhaps even more difficult races than that, but the lifeguards came to Jake doing almost half of the ironman in just over 2 months of training, which meant that if he had a few more months Jake could Compete in an ironman.
This is because Jake wore no special clothes to help him perform and still ran the 30 km in the sand, meaning that if he had all the right equipment and clothes to do the triathlon and would run normally he could even finish an ironman normally.
That was right because the normal run time for athletes in Ironman was just under 3 hours, Jake could run in just over 2 hours and 30 minutes even after swimming and cycling.
It wasn't that Jake thought cycling was an easier sport than the others, but he tried to make the 180km route himself and didn't get too tired, that should be the equivalent of a running marathon as it was more than triple the distance.
But for Jake, this was very easy for some reason, perhaps because of the system that improved all his physical statistics and stamina he was much easier with cycling than the other modalities of triathlon.
Just as swimming for Jake was more difficult even though it was only a few km away, many athletes preferred swimming over cycling and running, while Jake preferred running and cycling over swimming, so much more challenging for him.
After a few more weeks Jake had finally finished coach Davis's different training, he had to prepare for the World Championships in Athletics, in those nearly 2 months of training Jake had felt that he had greatly improved his stamina and other things he wasn't sure what.
Soon after he ran the 50 km again as he always did before and still managed to run easily without any problems, but this time he felt that he was less tired after finishing running.
Mainly because he was running on a track and not in the sand like before, so it was much better to run without fear of injury, after seeing that it was okay Jake began to prepare to run the other modalities.
It would be almost the same as he normally ran, but he would have to run at a faster pace and for many fewer km, he would run a maximum of 12 km to do this training instead of 50 km so that the training would work out he would just have to run every km in 9 seconds less.
So Jake would run the 10,000 meters in 27 minutes and 30 seconds, that was just over 29 seconds from the Olympic record, not a great time, but it was enough to be in the top 10 in this World Championships in Athletics he would participate for example.
For starters Coach Davis asked Jake to try running at a pace of 4 seconds less than he normally did, Jake thought that would be very easy and really it was, he managed to run the 10,000 meters with ease and ran up to 12 km before be stopped by coach Davis.
Coach Davis had hoped that Jake would be able to do that, but still, he couldn't be surprised, with that time Jake ran the 10,000 meters in just over 28 minutes, in 28 minutes and 20 seconds, was a great time to an amateur athlete for example.
With this Jake's time done naturally, he would be able to finish tenth of the 10,000-meter race at the World Championships in Athletics, which means that Jake was already a high-level athlete in all long-distance races without ever having trained to this before.
From what Coach Davis saw Jake was able to do a much better workout than that, so he had Jake run again at a pace 2 seconds faster than the last time per km.
Jake did it too, but with more difficulty, perhaps because it was the second time he made the 10,000 meters at this race pace, but that has already surprised coach Davis who was excited to see Jake perhaps win two gold medals at the next Olympics.
Jake was also excited to be able to race at that time, he also had some knowledge of race times in the 10,000 meters race and knew he had a great time, it could be said that Jake never trained in this race.
But in fact he had a great base for starting training, he was the best in the world in marathons and even in training, he had a great time besides having the system to help him, only the many years he trained already prepared him to start training.
In addition, Jake knew that the system not only improved his endurance but also improved the agility that greatly helped him run faster than most athletes, so Jake could run at a great time even though he had never run at this pace before.
This year he still had the opportunity to gain another point in endurance and agility by getting better for endurance events, meaning that this training would be even easier for Jake.
This made him more excited instead of getting relaxed and quitting training, Jake was excited to know that after all this training this year and in the coming years he would be more likely to win more gold medals in the upcoming Olympics.
Not to mention that Jake loved to run and the feeling of winning the races, whenever he won a marathon he felt very happy, so he had decided that he would run at least one marathon a year if he could for several years even though he was in the NBA.
When Jake came home he was very happy and Eva was happy for him knowing that something good should be happening to her son, it was good to know that everything was fine, the restaurant was at peace again after Lola got used to the fact that Jake had a girlfriend.
Eva knew that Jake didn't really have any girlfriend, but she as a mother felt it was only a matter of time if this Kate really liked Jake, because she realized that Jake really did like Kate even if he didn't realize it himself.
Jake didn't talk much about his training to Eva because she probably wouldn't understand how he was getting better at training and if she did, she would be shocked like Coach Davis, so if Eva didn't ask Jake wouldn't say anything about it.
After getting a good rest Jake resumed running the next day, he would do the 10,000 meters twice again because he and Coach Davis realized that Jake couldn't stand running at his best.
In training that day Jake would run twice the 10,000 meters at the same time he had done in the last training of the day which was 2 minutes and 48 seconds per km, with that time he would run the 10,000 meters in 28 minutes.
In that time Jake could be considered an elite athlete in the 10,000 meters even if it was hard to win running at that time, but for the start of training was a very good time, Coach Davis wanted Jake to run in that time to get used to the pace of 10,000 meters.
In training yesterday day Jake said he got tired of running at this pace the second time, so Coach Davis thought it was better for Jake to run at this time twice than at a faster time only once.
Jake agreed with Coach Davis, but Coach did not know that Jake had a way of regaining stamina after running a long-distance training, running at a faster pace, leaving Jake powerless, but his muscles could handle more than 50 km race quietly.
So just for training he could eat a stamina bar and regain energy and relax his muscles a bit, so with a 30-minute rest he could run up to three times the 10,000 meters.
Coach Davis didn't believe Jake would be able to do that because he knew how the 10,000 meters spent more stamina on athletes and running twice was already very impressive, but as Jake insisted he decided to do as Jake suggested.
The first time Jake ran the 10,000 meters in 28 minutes much more easily, just as Coach Davis thought the second time he ran out of stamina and so lacked energy at the end of the race and Jake became more tired.
After the first run, Jake went for a drink and asked for 30 minutes to rest, Coach Davis thought it was a good idea because Jake was training for the 10,000 meters and not training his resistance that needed to run without rest.
So Jake did not save the stamina bar and already ate one not being so tired, Jake can already feel the tiredness fading and his energy coming back and so rested much better 30 minutes.
As Jake had 41 points in the resistance statistic his body functioned differently from normal people and even his body recovery was faster than others, after 30 minutes he felt completely rested.
Jake ran the 10,000 meters again in 28 minutes and was not tired at the end of the 10,000 meters, so Coach Davis had no choice but to believe that Jake was actually able to run the 10,000 meters 3 times.
But since the training would be very fast with just 1 and a half hours max with Jake running 3 times Coach Davis suggested that Jake have a 1-hour rest each time, so in 3 and a half hours they could do all the training and Jake would have more time to rest.
Jake didn't think it was necessary, but he thought it was better to have 30 more minutes to rest, with 1 hour to rest each time. He would be much more sure that he could run 3 times the 10,000 meters at the best time he could eat the stamina bars.
After an hour's rest, Jake ran the 10,000 meters again in 28 minutes and began to feel tired even though he had eaten two stamina bars and rested for an hour and a half, but Jake and Coach Davis were already happy to have those three times run and train.
Coach Davis agreed with Jake that now he should do marathon training one day and the 10,000-meter training the next day, on Jake's next vacation next year they would try to improve the time on the 10,000 meters and start training also the 5,000 meters.
Jake agreed with Coach Davis that it was best to wait and see what was the best time he could do at 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters because that would make him more willing to continue training.
Not to mention that until next year on holiday Jake would run the Berlin and Tokyo marathon he could earn two more points in the resistance and agility statistics and be much better prepared for the marathon, the 10,000 meters, and the 5,000 meters.
So with the World Championships in Athletics almost two months away Jake already had his training routine set and plenty of time to rest, at that time Jake also did the imaginative training to train basketball and spent a few hours on his court almost every day.
Even though he spent no more than 5 hours in training every day, he spent the rest of the time spending with his mother or just relaxing, Jake could try to do other things.
But at university, he would spend a lot of time with his friends and studying as well as training and playing a lot of basketball, so in those months before the World Championships in Athletics, he just wanted to spend his rest time.
He might have wished he could try to meet Kate at this time, but he knew that was not a good idea because after what happened a few months ago she may have had more problems than him with the media and her fans and was better to her if they didn't meet.
Joseph was annoyed that he had to come home on this vacation and stay away from his girlfriend and so didn't even try to talk to Jake, Jake was also angry about that and didn't want to look for Joseph on this vacation.
While he was thinking about what to do, he got a call from Emily saying he had someone who wanted to talk to him, knowing Emily Jake knew it should be important and decided to meet these two people.
But first he needed to know who these people he had to meet, after all even if he had nothing important to do, he couldn't just find anyone.
"It's some directors who are brothers, it looks like they had a project for a movie that will be shot next year and they wanted to see if you were interested in participating in that movie."
"I would normally refuse this call, but it seems that these brothers have many contacts in Hollywood, and they seemed to be really sincere in presenting this proposal to you, as I know you have some interest in an acting career I thought you could at least talk about it for you."
Jake really thought that was right, he was very interested in having a film career and he had already told director Crowe that he could only participate in a movie that was filmed during his vacation.
So if these directors still wanted to talk to him about this movie, he at least wanted to know what this movie was.
The other day later after finishing daily training, Jake went to have lunch with these directors, he was so interested to know which movie it was that he even forgot to ask Emily what the directors' name was.
If it was a good script Jake didn't even mind investing himself in the movie just to participate in another movie that was filming during his vacation, after all, it shouldn't be a movie like Jerry Maguire he knew.
After a while two brothers showed up and soon sat at Jake's front table, so he knew they were the directors, they had a familiar face, but Jake couldn't remember who they were.
"Hi Jake, my name is Larry Wachowski and this is my brother Andy Wachowski, we are making a movie and when we saw you at the movies and commercials and decided to call you to participate in this movie."
So Jake finally remembered where these managing brothers were and why he couldn't remember both of them, that was because both of them, especially Larry Wachowski, looked different from what Jake remembered now.
It was the Wachowski brothers who many years later became the Wachowski sisters, known as the Wachowskis They were both very famous directors in the future even though they were not so famous at the moment because their first big hit movie The Matrix 'had not even been filmed.
Jake was a big fan of this movie and can never expect to meet the directors of this movie in person, and by the time he was excited thinking that maybe the two of them came to invite him to participate in the movie The Matrix, he would only refuse to be invited to play the role from Neo because he was a big fan of Keanu Reeves.
"I saw the Bound movie you guys made, very good movie with very good social criticism, I had never seen a movie that talked about the lesbian relationship like that, I don't know if I said it right."
"No, that's right, the movie talks about that and I'm glad to hear you liked it."
"The next movie we are going to work on has a different style, it's an action, science fiction movie and a story with a different point of view from society, it has a lot of visual effects that make the movie different."
After the Wachowskis brothers began to tell the story of the movie that soon it was clear that it was The Matrix that Jake liked so much, they talking showed a movie a little different from what he remembered and part of their point of view about the film.
Having seen the movie several times Jake can understand very well and even comment a few times after the Wachowskis brothers talk about a scene that could be made, to the Wachowskis brothers it would seem that Jake was excited about the movie and interested.
Jake was really interested and excited about the idea of participating in this movie if it wasn't for the character Neo and other main characters he didn't even care about making a small appearance in the movie.
"So this is the proposal for the movie called The Matrix, we haven't picked all the characters yet, but we wanted to talk to you because we know you have a few months left to shoot."
"This movie will be shot between March 1998 and August 1998, your part of the recording can be scheduled for months you can participate in that time."
"I thought this movie was great and I'm sure it will be a great success, it's exactly between these months that I can participate in the recording and then we'll see the right dates, I just wanted to know what my character will be in this movie?"
"Yes, I don't think any of the characters in this story are right for you, but before you give the final script to Warner Bros. Pictures authorize, we had to create a storyboard."
"And on this storyboard, a lot of our ideas were taken to show how the movie would look, one of those ideas was a character from Morpheus the Nebuchadnezzar's hovercraft who would be friends with Neo."
"This character ended up being cut short before the storyboard because it wasn't so relevant to the story and because we couldn't think of an actor who would be suitable for playing this character."
"But when we saw you in the movie Jerry Maguire and in the commercials, we saw that you were the actor we thought of for the character, and you have a great appeal to movie fans as well as acting very well."
"So before talking to you we talked to Warner Bros. Pictures and we said that if you participated in the movie we would have more fight scenes and more action scenes without changing the main story and the studio authorized you to participate if you wanted to participate."
So Jake understood what was going on, but from what his talent for acting he was called because of him the box office of the movie Jerry Maguire increased so much, as they didn't have a character in the movie that was his profile as an actor they decided to bring a character that had been deleted before.
But Jake didn't care about that because it was impossible for him to be called to a movie because of his ability to act because he only participated in a few minutes of the movie Jerry Maguire and many actors were called to movies just because the directors wanted to ensure a good box office and audience.
"Could you then explain to me what my character would do in this movie?"
"Yes, the character's name would be Jev, Jev is someone from the Matrix who was rescued by Morpheus as well as Neo and other crew members of the ship, in the movie Jev would be a friend of Neo and would believe that Neo was the chosen one from the beginning."
"Jev's role on the ship was like a front-line soldier to help the team getaway should the agents show up, Jev is the best fighter on the ship and the only one who could fight the agents for a while before Neo appeared."
"So he is an important character who will appear a lot in the movie?"
"Yeah, sure, most of the fight and shooting scenes he will be in the scenes, and some scenes can be added with him in the movie to bring more action to the movie, it was just taken because we didn't think of anyone suitable for the character before and why his story doesn't change the story of the movie."
Jake liked this character a lot and liked it even more because he would see a different The Matrix movie than he remembered, it would be better for sure because the main story was the same and would only have a character that would not change the story and would just bring more action to it. the film.
"So I definitely agree to participate in this movie, it will be a huge pleasure for me and I'm sure this movie will be a success."
"We can offer you a contract that will be $ 2 million as a fixed salary or 2 percent of the total box office."
Even Jake was surprised by the high salary, even though they didn't expect much from the box office, giving 2 percent to an inexperienced actor was too much for Jake, but in fact, the Wachowskis thought it was fair, that came from Jake's current high fame as an athlete copy and the trades he made on television.
Especially after the news that Jake could be dating famous singer Kate Annesley after that who didn't know Jake came to know and many became fans of him even though he didn't date Kate for his talent and his character after he saved those people.
So it was true to say that Jake had great appeal to the audience and could increase the movie's box office, after all an actor's salary was often related to how much box office or awards he could bring to the movie, so in that case Jake could bring more box office than other more experienced actors.
Jake, who knew how much the movie box office would be, accepted the 2 percent of the final box office, so he would make more than $ 8 million, a great salary for a first movie, the directors were also happy about it because Warner's own studio Bros. Pictures had suggested this to the directors.
"We are very happy to work with you Jake, we hope you do some martial arts training a few months before the movie, you will be the one who will have to train more than the others because you will fight more during the movie."
So Jake knew it could be a problem because he would probably be playing while the others would be rehearsing the choreography for the movie fights, just as he knew that Yuen Woo-ping was the one who would teach the actors he could ask to spend a few months earlier with him to train.
Before that Jake could even learn something from martial arts to learn things faster before shooting the movie, he knew that with his physical statistics and intelligence he could learn much faster than the others.
If the actors took 4 months he could do in 2 months or less so he told that to the directors who said they would help Jake with that, they already knew it would be harder to work with Jake because he was not just an actor but he was the only one suitable for the character.
So they got all the details right and the directors said they would talk to Jake later if they needed him for something, after all the movie would be shot only next year, Jake was excited about it and decided that he would strive to participate in the film and do the role well his.
The directors also gave Jake some materials to study because he would need to know how to explain Matrix if needed, Jake had no problem with that because he was good at studying and also knew how to explain Matrix for watching the movie before and several reports about the movie.
So Jake returned to the house very happy normally and Eva was happy about it thinking that her son was very happy lately for some reason.
After arranging his participation in Matrix Jake was very happy, even though he did nothing after that he could say he was a successful actor after making just this movie, and it was a movie he liked a lot.
It seemed that everything was working out for him again, he was fine with basketball, with marathons, and he was already preparing to surprise the world again when he competed in other sports as well.
His mother was fine with her friends as well as the restaurant and Eva was very happy, the businesses Jake was investing were all very successful that after a few years when he sold these stocks he would no longer have to worry about money for all life.
His personal life was fine with all his friends Jake was able to make at university, and now with Kate who had everything to work out this relationship in the future, now even his dream of acting was coming true by making one of his favorite movies that It was The Matrix.
The time had gone by since the accident in his past life and everything seemed to be going very well in this second life, Jake was very grateful for the system that helped him achieve all this and would also continue to strive to keep going well.
The other day Jake resumed his normal training with Coach Davis as if nothing had happened, Jake knew he had to take his time before the break to train daily because when the basketball season resumed he would have to miss training on match days.
On this vacation Jake also had a special gym training done by Coach Davis that drove Jake to his limits and focused only on athletics and not basketball, Coach Davis came up with this idea because he knew that in the months he was at university he had training that was just for basketball.
Jake trained for a few more weeks and then July came and went, with less than one month left for the World Championships in Athletics maybe just Jake was more relaxed with his normal training every day.
He knew and Coach Davis knew that even if he didn't train Jake he could still easily win this World Championships in Athletics, Coach Davis was impressed that even though he was training at a faster pace than his own world record, Jake looked like he had improved a lot in the year he trained with him.
Especially on the technical side, which for Jake had been almost nonexistent before, now he had greatly improved his posture in the race and even if it did not improve his time it still helped to lower his energy expenditure in the race.
Coach Davis even suggested that Jake could improve his daily training time by increasing his running pace, but Jake denied it and said it was better to focus on 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters training before thinking about improving his own record his.
Coach Davis was impressed by Jake's dedication to track and field and realized that Jake was right, but in fact, Jake refused because he wanted to first win the two remaining major marathons and get 2 points in endurance and 2 points in agility before improve his time in marathons.
After all, after these two major marathons, Jake no longer knew where he could get the most statistics points, he figured that ordinary marathons might not get any points like these six major marathons in the world gave.
Of course, even if I didn't get any more statistics points in the marathons Jake would still be satisfied with what he had and would keep running, after all, Jake knew well that with the more than 41 stamina points he would have after those marathons he would no longer need statistics to be the best in the world in long-distance races.
Not to mention that he hoped to get more statistics from basketball games when he entered the NBA, Jake's current goal with statistics was to have 50 points in each of his physical statistics.
He'd be pretty close to that after earning his resistance points as a reward for major marathons, if he did that, Jake would surely have physical advantages over everyone else in any sport he played.
Jake was just thinking about training nonstop until the World Championships in Athletics, but he can't do that because after a few days of training two unexpected guests showed up at his house.
It was Mark and David, Jake's two former high school teammates, even though Jake matched everyone's remaining friends, he didn't expect anyone to show up before the internet age where it was so much easier to find anyone.
"Mark, David, I didn't expect to see you, it's a nice surprise."
"Hahaha, of course, we would show up here at one time or another, we played together on the same high school team and we were always good friends."
"True, even more so now that you're so famous, you're appearing in almost every newspaper and magazine, a famous girlfriend, winning the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament and breaking a lot of individual records, we're proud to have played with you."
"Hahaha, thank you. I said you don't expect us to meet anytime soon because I know you lived in other states before you came to play in Miami and now you are at university."
"Yeah, but we got used to living in Miami after so many years since middle school, and my university is actually in Miami too."
"Yes, mine is not in Miami, but this city is much better than my family and I used to live, my parents also got good jobs here in the city."
Jake was glad to hear that, he didn't know David went to a university in Miami, he must have made up his mind in recent years, and Mark was a different story, he remembered that Mark's family preferred him to go for a good college than playing basketball on a good team at the university.
"It's good to know you're going to be near Miami, you know that as long as my mom lives here and has a restaurant where I'll always consider this place my home."
"Yes, it was she who told us you were here during the holidays, we thought you were traveling or with your girlfriend."
"Kate is not my girlfriend, it's a more complicated story than you might think, but who knows what might happen in the future, but let's stop talking about me, how was your first year at university?"
"For me, it was very good, I did very well with my classes and my grades, in basketball my team is only in NCAA Division II, but at least I can play as a starting player, my team is very offensive just the way I like of play."
"We did well in the conference championship, but we didn't win or qualify for the NCCA Division 2 championship."
"I also did very well in my classes and my basketball team is also from NCAA Division II like David's, I played as a starting player and I'm the main player of my team, we haven't had such a good season, but my style of game was highly praised."
Jake understood that Davis must be really happy because he realized that he would never have the ability to play in the NBA one day, so he would rather play as a starter on an NCAA Division II team than always be a spare on an NCAA Division I team.
But Mark didn't look that happy, he had the talent and ability to play as an NCAA Division I team starter like Jake and even if he didn't become an NBA player he would still be happy to do what he could.
But because of his family, Mark had to choose a university that had better classes than one with a stronger basketball team, he even tried to get into Princeton, but they didn't want him there because this season's team was so strong.
Jake felt sorry for his friend but didn't know if Mark really had the talent to be a pro, but he hoped that Mark could do what he wanted and then see if it was right, now what he could do was support Mark in his decision.
After that they were talking for a few hours about the year at the university, in fact, much of the conversation both asked what was going on at the UNC and Jake's team that was the NCAA tournament champion.
In fact, they were both very surprised when they saw on television how well Jake played well on the star-studded Tar Heels team and yet became the team's best player and had such a great first season.
They even thought to see that Jake couldn't play as well as he could because the team was bad and he couldn't play the best he could, that wasn't true because Jake improved when he faced tough opponents.
"I have a basketball court here at my house, if you wanted to play we could play some games to relax."
"No, I don't even think about playing like you are so good now, instead we go to a court near here that always has young people playing, we can make a three against three and win easily."
Jake and Mark liked David's idea and so they went to a place near the Miami beaches that David knew always had young people playing, it would be a little cowardly Jake who was almost professional and David and Mark who also played on college teams.
But they just wanted to have fun and the other players were unlucky enough to face these three college players, they got there in David's car because Jake's car was in college.
Jake even considered buying another car to use when he was in Miami, but then decided to wait until he had more money, because he wanted to buy an even better car later, maybe when he got into the NBA he could buy an ideal car without moving in his investments.
But it was better to go to the court in David's car which was more common, Jake didn't want to be recognized if possible, he wore sunglasses and a bandana to hide his hair, David and Mark laughed at Jake, but had to admit that He disguised himself very well.
Jake was very famous after becoming a winning college basketball player and well-known marathon athlete, but in Miami, he was much better known than anywhere in America, it was much easier for someone to recognize Jake in Miami than in his own. his university.
It wasn't everyone who knew him, but if he just walked a street for a few minutes someone would surely always recognize him, on a basketball court that was almost certain to happen.
Amazingly on the court was the place he didn't stand out so much because of his height, many basketball players were tall and Jake could disguise himself better than in a mall.
David soon went looking for people who wanted to play with them, soon three men showed up to play against Jake's team, two of the men were tall and only one was smaller, but Jake and Mark were bigger than their opponents.
Even though the opponents were not intimidated and soon spoke to start the game, Jake had brought one of his balls from his house to make sure they had no trouble playing, Jake agreed with Mark and David that he would pass the ball more than he would point to disguise.
David said that was not right and it was better than Jake at least did some layups to disguise and Mark agreed, so Jake had to accept that, David would not play with the best Tar Heels scorer and allow Jake not to make any points, It was a waste.
In a short time the game started and the opposing team started with the ball, the lower one was called Rick, he looked like a PG, the others were Joe who looked like a Center and Paul who looked like a PF.
Just for this game Jake would mark Paul who was taller and David would mark Rick who was the smallest, Mark would mark Joe who was of the same height and position as him, Rick tried to feint at David, but David would not allow and defend well every time.
David could play on a more offensive team, but he had to train hard on defense and of course he would improve this year at university playing, seeing that he could not pass by David, Rick passed the ball to Joe, Joe got a spin with speed and Mark followed Joe's movement.
Joe pulled back and attempted a hook shot to make the first 2 points for their team, Mark did not expect it and was a little embarrassed to have allowed his opponent to score.
David didn't care about that and then passed the ball to Jake to restart the game, Jake moved slowly to pitch and went to David again, David held the ball and made a quick feint to pass Rick and advance to make the 2 points with a layup.
Rick took the ball to make another play for his team and Mark seemed determined to defend this time, Jake was calm and Rick realized this and passed the ball to Paul, Rick thought that Jake was calm because he didn't care about the game and wanted to enjoy it.
Paul tried to get past Jake a few times and realized that even though Jake was taller than he was also faster, so he tried a feint and Jake naturally didn't fall, so Paul tried to get past Jake protecting the ball.
Jake let Paul pass and Paul tried the layup to make the two points, Jake reacted quickly and made a block on Paul taking his chance to make the points, Jake advanced slowly and passed to David again.
David tried to make a feint and failed and so passed the ball back to Jake, Jake made a quick pass to Mark who received the free ball and made a Dunk to make 2 points, Mark looked excited and David also to play with Jake again.
So the game went on and Joe scored a few more points using the hook shot and Rick also managed to score a few points by getting rid of David's defense, only Paul couldn't score any points over Jake who made two blocks and one steal.
So the opposing team gave up making moves with Paul to leave Jake alone, David and Mark realized that incredibly Jake had done much better in defense and was not even trying hard to defend against Paul.
They were glad they decided not to play against Jake at his house, they would lose even if Jake didn't play seriously against them, David was just having fun and Mark was annoying that Joe had made several hook shots on him and he couldn't defend.
Jake realized that Mark wanted to defend on his own to show what he was capable of, so he didn't help Mark in defense, and Jake thought this Joe was very skilled even though he was just an amateur player.
Jake played slowly and did not attempt any three-point shots, who saw that he really was a PF in this game, without doing what he normally did in games no one would think that Jake was that Tar Heels PG.
As he was just having fun Jake made his signature moves he had created, the Ghost moves and the Elastic pass, even though his signature moves Jake didn't use much in college games and so no one would recognize him.
The Elastic pass was mostly used by Jake because sometimes a pass was needed that the opponent expected, but the Ghost dribbling was unnecessary against the university opponents, currently only with his agility and crossover Jake could easily pass the opponents.
Jake didn't want to use the moves he created so much that his opponents didn't find a way to stop those moves, it was better to save them when needed or for the NBA, but for a game like that he liked to use.
After a while, the game was 18 for Jake's team and 12 for the opposing team, who scored the most points on the other side was Joe with 8 points were all making a hook shot that Mark didn't know how to defend against.
Jake saw that Mark was annoyed by it and decided to do something against it, he advanced the ball and passed it to David, David understood that Jake wanted to do something and passed it to Jake when he went inside.
Jake stood with his back to the basket and used his strength to advance, Paul could do nothing to stop Jake who was much stronger, when he got close to the basket Jake pulled away and made a Skyhook Shot make 2 points.
This Skyhook Shot which was the move that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar created when done well was impossible to defend against this move, Jake naturally had the necessary talent and was bigger than his opponent and can easily make the move.
Joe who saw this understood that Jake was telling him that this was how to make a good hook shot, he was a little embarrassed to be proud of the hooks he made before, they would lose the game anyway.
The others even wondered if Jake was any Center or PF from some professional or college team to play that well, but they couldn't remember anyone like that and after Rick scored 2 more points, Jake made another Skyhook Shot and ended up with the game-winning.
David and Mark had fun playing again with Jake and had to say that Jake was much better than a year ago, Mark was embarrassed because most points were made against him, but after a while, the three were laughing and they forgot of this.
They played again before the three broke up and Jake returned home alone, who knows when they would meet again, but Jake was glad to see his former teammates.
Being calmer Jake trained in the coming weeks with Coach Davis just as they had arranged before, one-day training for the 10,000 meters and the other training for the marathon.
Jake was already running quietly three times a day the 10,000 meters with the best time he could that was 28 minutes, but as it was better for him to get used to running at the 10,000 meters pace was better than for a few months he keeps running at that pace.
With a few days to go before World Championships in Athletics, Jake flew to Athens, Greece to join the US team to wait for the start of World Championships in Athletics and wait until the last day to compete.
This time Jake was no longer an unknown novice but one of the biggest names in athletics in the world and was very well received by the other athletes, he can talk to Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson who were great names in athletics without being uncomfortable.
Jake remembered that this was one of the worst years for the United States in this decade's World Athletics World Championship with only 6 gold medals won, he could perhaps win one more gold medal for this team.
He had the confidence to do that, but he had to wait for anything to happen so that he would not be disappointed after that, the American team seemed excited and hopeful to get many medals in this world.
On August 1, 1997, the 6th World Championships in Athletics officially started, Jake was not as excited here as he was at the Olympics, it was a great and incredible event, but something the Olympics lacked.
Jake wasn't as nervous as he was in the Olympics anymore because he knew he was the favorite to win the marathon, Jake just wanted to follow the finals that he knew the United States would win a gold medal and also the 10,000 meters and the 5,000-meter test.
He would like to see the events that the United States would win and also the events he would play after a few years, as soon as the World Championships in Athletics began the days passed quickly.
Zhang Yi can accompany the United States by winning some gold medals, he followed the proof that Maurice Greene won his first gold medal in international competitions in the 100 meters and also saw the 400 meters proof that Michael Johnson won the gold medal.
He also saw the women's 100-meter event that Marion Jones won the gold medal, after which he saw no further evidence that the United States won and only waited until it was his turn.
Of course, he also saw the 10,000-meter race that Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia easily wins and saw the 5,000-meter race that Daniel Komen from Kenya won, these were the most important events Jake saw because it could be him winning at future.
Since Jake already knew his current time was enough to win the seventh place in this 10,000-meter race, of course, he wouldn't want to run just to finish seventh, but that already showed how he had a great time already proof.
If Jake did as Coach Davis wanted he could have some training time to easily win this race in the future, but Jake wanted time to break the world record and be one of the best athletes in the world.
After all, he could relax in the marathons he was running at the Olympics and in the worlds because he could break the world record where he wanted in official marathons around the world, but in the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters he could not do that because he would only run in World Cups and Olympics.
The days passed and soon came the day of the last day of the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, this time just as Jake knew it would be the United States was not as well as in other worlds, so the excitement of the American team athletes was no longer so big.
But this day was different and everyone was excited because they knew it was marathon day and Jake was the favorite to win this marathon, as Jake had won this year two marathons a few months ago was almost certain that he was in great shape to win today too.
So in the morning before the marathon began when athletes were warming up for the marathon Jake was the center of attention, Martín Fiz who was the current champion of this world championship having won in 1995.
But even the best time of Martin Fiz's career was not close to the time Jake ran this year, everyone knew that Jake had not missed a marathon that had competed since New York a few years ago.
And he had won several since then, which gave more pressure to the other marathoners who were competing in this marathon when the marathon started everyone rushed to try to win and maybe only Jake was calmer.
"We are now starting to follow this marathon in this World Championships in Athletics here in Greece, in a little over two hours we will see who will win and win another medal in this event."
"There are many who can win this marathon like the Spanish athletes who are doing very well in the last world championships, we have Abel Antón and the champion in 1995 Martín Fiz, but the biggest favorite for sure is Jake Smith who is the current Olympic champion and who has the world record in marathons."
"Sure enough, Jake Smith is the favorite in this marathon today, he's doing very well this year beating the Boston and London marathons even competing in both marathons in the same month and right after leaving a tiring college basketball season."
"After more than three months of rest I think he's in great shape for today's marathon, and the two marathons he won were under 2 hours and 8 minutes, a really amazing result."
"He is certainly one of the best athletes in the world today and only 18, he is also the hope of the American people to win another medal in this World Championships in Athletics that has been having one of the worst performances of the American team."
As Jake had always started at the same pace that he ran in training, this steady pace was the key to winning marathons without wasting much energy, in the first few km he still encountered other athletes running at a pace more similar to his.
But after the 4km incredibly, the athletes began to slow down since the start of the marathon and Jake took the lead by running alone, with no athletes to run along Jake knew he would spend a lot more energy.
Still keeping the same pace was the most important thing for Jake and he was used to running much faster in training for 50 km and alone, after the 10 km race, Jake had already opened a big advantage of the second group and kept running.
"Jake is already well ahead in the lead running at the pace he normally runs in other marathons, the other athletes seem much slower than usual and so Jake had to run alone from the first few km, which could hurt him at the end of this marathon and lack of energy."
"He probably knows that well and yet decided to run at the same pace he's used to, we all know that pace is much more important in a long-distance race even to conserve energy."
"That's right, winning a lot of marathons Jake has already proven he has a lot of stamina and that he can beat this marathon even running alone from the start.
Jake didn't really care about that, all the elite athletes had their own race pace and the final time of the race winner for what Jake remembered wasn't that bad, but he would run at the pace he knew was the way to go that he always trained.
In the last km, Jake could preserve his stamina by running more slowly, but in the first km it was important for him to maintain a strong running pace, after the 20 km marathon Jake was 58 minutes long and was very much in the lead.
The runner-up was over 5 minutes behind him which was well over 1km, the other athletes who knew Jake was already getting anxious because they knew that Jake should be far ahead in the race.
Normally Jake only slowed down the last few km of the marathon, by then the other athletes would be many km behind him and even Jake's slower pace was the normal pace of the other athletes.
They could only hope that Jake would run out of energy for the last few km so that he could lose the first place, but that was hard to come by, Eva who was watching the race at home and Coach Davis were already quiet waiting for Jake to win in that race marathon.
After the 30 km, Jake had run in 1 hour and 27 minutes, the runner-up was 9 minutes behind which was almost 3 km away, realizing this and having expended a lot of energy in this marathon Jake began to slow his running pace slowly.
"Jake now, as in other marathons is already slowing down to manage the lead until he wins, he is almost 3 km ahead of second place, with an incredible advantage he can slow the pace at ease."
"Jake really is the best marathoner in the world today, it's amazing what he can do at just 18 years old, he wins the marathon at the last Olympics and is winning this marathon at the World Championships in Athletics, are the two main competitions for athletes and Jake is winning."
"He is also the current world record holder and has won 4 of the world's top marathons, and he has won in Chicago twice, no one can doubt that he is the best marathon player today."
"In this marathon, the other elite athletes from other countries have run at a very slow pace and so since the start of this race Jake has been leading the lead on his own from the start."
"This is something that does not happen in the marathons he competes in America, where athletes who know they have no chance of winning know that Jake has a very strong excellent pace and so they run with him for more than half of the marathon."
"It started a few marathons ago and in the last marathons that happened in New York and Boston the athletes who ran in Jake's group got great finishes at the end of the marathon."
"This could have happened in today's marathon, all athletes running today are the elites of the countries and can run up to 50 km at a fast pace with the right control, so athletes who know they had no chance of winning could try to keep up Jake's pace and maybe in the top 3."
"It's true, I don't know if anyone thinks about it, but if I was an athlete who didn't think about winning I would definitely run with Jake, everyone knows that running with him is to guarantee a stable race."
Jake didn't know what the commentators were saying and just kept running slowing down he enjoyed running in groups because it could save a lot of energy and stamina, and also because he had confidence that even running with a great athlete could win over the last few km by increasing the pace of racing.