Chapter 185 A Marathon to Enter History 6 (1/2)

After another day of rest Jake told his mother that he was going to take a quick trip and took a plane to Chicago, Tiffany had arranged the plane tickets back and forth for Jake and even booked the hotel for him.

Tiffany would go on another flight to Chicago, they were the employees of some of her stores in town that would help Jake with whatever he needed for the race, Jake was not affected by the trip that lasted just over 3 hours.

Jake went directly to the hotel and did not even think about touring the city after all this was the first time he had participated in a marathon, and it was not just to have fun but to win, so Jake was focused.

Jake was ready by 6 am he had arrived, it was very cold, but Jake did not even feel uncomfortable with that temperature, he took his kit and registration number and was ready to run.

Even though the shirt he got with the registration number took away a bit of the view of the brands of the companies that sponsored Jake, they had already thought about it and also had in the running shorts.

Even though Jake was very tall, on his face everyone could clearly see that he was a young man and he saw many looks that seemed to be scorning him, but Jake did not care about these people, besides, if it was not for the system he would probably have who only fight to complete the marathon.

While still missing a time to start the marathon Jake managed to find Tiffany who was the only person who came to accompany him in this race, John did not care about Jake giving preferential treatment to Tiffany who was the longest with him, but he would not come to Chicago just to give support in this marathon.

In fact, Tiffany also did not need to come, but after she had a good conversation with Jake she began to think of a corner of her mind that for the more than 4 years she's known him since Jake was a child, that Jake could really win this marathon

She herself thought this was crazy and even Clara who knows him and talked to Jake the longest with him thought so, but she really believed he could achieve this miracle.

After all, she thought that Jake would not ask if she wanted to make a uniform for her sponsors if he just tried to finish the race, but even if Jake did not win, she would not find it a waste to watch that race.

So Tiffany quickly told Jake at what stations her staff would be preparing water, then she said she wanted luck and waited for him at the end of the marathon.

After that Jake concentrated to try to stay in the best possible shape, he went to find a place in the starting line, Jake would not be in the front because he had to control his pace, when it passed from 7 and 20 in the morning everyone started to prepare for the start of the marathon.

The only person Jake knew best about the starting line of the race was what would originally be the champion of this event, Jake only became interested in the champions when he sought information about the marathon in his past life.

As in his past life, this man would be the winner in Jake's view he was his only competitor for this win, he was named Eamonn Martin and finished that marathon in just under 2 hours and 11 minutes.

So Jake had confidence in winning this event after a few more minutes finally began the 1995 Chicago marathon.

In the beginning, many started running quickly and took the lead in the race, the start of the race is a moment where you can see who had experience in marathons and who was new.

After all, it was not smart for anyone who wanted to finish this race in a good time to increase the pace early on after all these people would have cramps and would have difficulty finishing the race in a few kilometers.

And even those who were more experienced ended up having their race rhythm affected by these people and in the beginning, they increased slightly the race rhythm.

The main enemies of the marathon runners were the wrong pace, temperature, and unexpected muscle problems, after all the people who trained to win a marathon were confident to finish the marathon in just over 2 hours.

But these factors were some that could get an experienced marathoner out of the race, Jake did not feel in his body the temperature changes, he had also trained a lot using all the system's resources to accustom his body and his muscles to run that distance in those last months.

As for the pace being hampered by others, Jake was always observing the transparent screen that was in the upper right corner of his field of vision, in that transparent screen he could see that he was running at a rate of 1 km every 3 minutes.

So he could finish that race in just over 2 hours and 6 minutes with that speed, of course, Jake would make adjustments in the last few km of the race if other competitors were in front of him.