Chapter 188 A Risky Investment That Will Make It Right 2 (1/2)

”That's what makes him so special apart from the fact that he's only 16 when he won that marathon, Jake here as well as a marathon runner is also a basketball player.”

”But he's not an ordinary player, but the captain of his high school basketball team who was the national championship champion last year.”

”And there is more, Jake here was the MVP of the last national championship with a record of 16 games in a row making a Triple Double, and this record is now bigger because his team has won the regional championship, that record is 21 games now.

”Jake like you, does a basketball player get time to train for a marathon and still win this marathon?”

”As I said it is a dream of mine, I always wanted to run and I thought I could, I would train the team after school and after the basketball training I would do the training on the athletic field.”

”So you ran more than 20 km almost every day after attending classes and still attending your basketball team's training?”

”That's right.”

”Really incredible, an inspiring story for people who dream of running the marathon and say they do not have time to train, if you feel like doing it, you can do it.”

”But one thing before finishing the interview, have you decided whether to go to a university or go to the NBA if you have the chance?”

”I go to a university, I have not decided yet, but I want to continue studying after school.”

”Alright then, we'll soon see Jake at college games, the university he's choosing will have a basketball player and a marathon runner along, thanks for the Jake interview.”

”My pleasure.”

After that Chloe ended the interview and Jake took a ride and arrived in time to catch a plane to Miami, he wanted to rest at home today.

On the same night that Jake left Chicago, some of the station's sports newspapers and programs liked the interview and decided to run Jake's interview on their shows, after which even the CBS headquarters spent part of the interview across the country.

So Jake again became known to many people, much remembered Jake from the newspaper's television commercial, Jake's story was already known by people and if one day someone mentioned it again it would be easier to remember him.

The other day after resting well at home from the weariness of everything that happened in Chicago, Jake first tried to call Tiffany to try to figure out what had happened, but Tiffany did not answer the phone as she always did.

So Jake could tell that something was happening, but he had no way of knowing what it was and if he could help with something he was sure Tiffany would try to talk to him, so he decided to forget about it for a while.

So Jake decided to go to the restaurant to personally tell his mother and Anna about the marathon, even though many had seen this story about Jake, people often forgot about these things, so Jake was still stranger in the streets of the city.

Arriving at the restaurant Jake can see that Lola was busy and so went along to the kitchen to look for his mother, so he told Eva and Anna that he had gone to Chicago and had won the marathon there.

Eva was very happy for Jake as always and hugged him and Anna was also happy that Jake had won a contest, but Jake himself may realize that the two seemed not to know what it meant to win a major marathon like Chicago.

Thinking about it, it was normal for many people not to care much about athletics outside the Olympics, people usually only knew about sports better known to teams like basketball, but they only cared more about athletics when they got to the Olympics.

Of course, after the internet made all the information more accessible to everyone, people started getting more interested in other sports more often, but Eva and Anna only knew the sports that were most talked about on television.

So Jake was helpless as to this, he could not just teach them how great and important were the major marathons because that would be the same as showing up for winning, he was sure that if one day he could win a gold medal in the Olympics the two will realize just how important the marathon is.

After having relaxed a little talking to his mother, it was time to go back to normal training with the school basketball team, after all the state championship would soon begin and the team had to be ready to win.

David and Harrison were training very hard because they were really starting to be afraid of Nathan and Lucas, after all, everyone could see how the newbies were talented and improved very fast.