Chapter 204 A Little Crisis 3 (1/2)

”That's true, in the NBA teams play a lot of games a month and have to travel across the country, I don't think Jake would be released just to participate in a marathon.”

”This is if he gets into the NBA of course, even if he's a good player we'll have to wait a few years to see, seeing how well he goes in the marathon I find it hard to believe that God has given him so many talents.”

”But I think if he could choose for sure he would rather have the knack for being a basketball star than a marathon winning athlete.”

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Even commentators thought basketball was more important than athletics in the United States, but that was normal, so much so that in many countries athletes have no financial support from their countries to participate in athletics competitions.

Even so, talented people like Jake would choose other sports or even a normal job than being athletes and bringing medals to the country.

But more popular sports like basketball didn't need government support for the players because the companies and fans were moving enough money to pay the athletes' millionaire salaries.

As Jake approached the 39 km race he felt much more tired, so Jake realized that he was definitely having the same problem he had in the state championship final and couldn't make the most of his performance.

The problem was that Jake discovered this too late and ran more than half of the marathon with a faster running pace and his body in its current state could not stand as the marathon was him alone he could not count on anyone but him.

Even if that happened Jake was still very decisive, when he realized he couldn't complete the marathon at his current pace he slowed his running speed, luckily he was 1 and a half minutes faster than the last marathon.

So Jake remembered that German finished this race in his past life in 2 hours and 11 minutes, with Jake's current speed he could finish the marathon in 2 hours and 4 and a half minutes, so he was close to 7 minutes ahead.

Since Jake was just over 3 km away to finish the marathon, it was almost impossible for him to lose even if he slowed in half.

So he was decisive and slowed in half to finish this marathon first, and as Jake thought even commentators already thought of Jake as the winner.

”Just over 3 km to finish this marathon, if Jake continues at this speed he can, in addition, to win break the New York marathon speed record.”

”That's right, the current record is for Juma Ikangaa who in 1989 finished the race in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 1 second, but in fact, if Jake can maintain that speed he could even break the marathon world record.”

”Yeah, but it looks like it won't happen today, runner Jake now seems to be drastically slowing down his running pace, I think he might be in trouble right now.”

”It's really a shame, but he's still young so it seems he couldn't control his running pace well and so it looked like he could break all the records, but now he must have little energy.”

”This is really dangerous, for him to slow his pace whether it is a serious fatigue problem or even a muscle problem, Jake seemed to have control of his pace and has already slowed down the race once before halfway through the race.”

”He sure has talent, but since he's always running alone and without a group, he must have accelerated too much without realizing it and got tired.”

”That's right, after all, it's been just over a month since the Chicago Marathon and he was trying to run at a much faster pace, almost 5 minutes less.”

”Fortunately he has a lead of more than 7 minutes to runner-up so victory still looks guaranteed.”

Jake thought so too and ran a lot slower, but after another 1 and a half kilometers he saw that German who was second was approaching, meaning that in the end, he must have taken more than 2 minutes in that km.

What shocked Jake was that the system had warned that Jake should stop running now because he was at risk of injury.

This shocked Jake that even at his top training speed he was still able to go over 46 km before having a risk of a muscle injury, but now he ran the whole marathon much slower and shortly after 40 km the system said he could suffer an injury.

Jake was outraged by what was happening, he did not expect the unknown problem to affect his physical condition so much, after all, he could accept that it affected his skill in basketball which also required techniques but was now physically affecting him.

Jake was in a big dilemma now, if it was one of his workouts even if it wasn't urgent as soon as the system mentioned a risk of injury Jake immediately stopped and sat until he was recovered.