Chapter 263 Starting the Season for Sports 5 (1/2)

That meant running a normal road depending on the weather could be better than running on a professional track, and Chicago was a great track to race, proof of which was that the world record had been broken four times in this marathon.

After Jake had passed the 35 km he had not yet slowed down, Jake was feeling good and just a little tired, as he trained every day he knew his own body well and knew he could keep running like that.

”He has already passed the 35 km race, still maintaining a strong pace, now just over 7 km to finish this marathon, even if he slowed down he would still win this marathon.”

”That's true, it's amazing to see how Jake can keep a steady pace of running, it's like he's looking at a watch, he has little difference in his average running speed.”

”He just seems to slow down on the toughest stretches on the track to saving energy, he's not wasting too much time on the back-up, that's the benefit of being first in a marathon.”

”Jake is over 3 minutes ahead of the runner-up, I think it was better for him to slow down his running pace.”

”The problem is that he doesn't know how much advantage he has for his opponents, Paul also comes at a fast pace.”

”I think Jake may also be trying to break the world record in this marathon if he's trying to do that with his current time he can really do it.”

This commentator spoke only of the possibility, but soon they saw that it was really possible. Jake had just over 7 km of marathon and clearly seemed to be comfortable with his current running pace.

Even if he slowed the race too much he could still break the WR, so they were excited about that possibility and the viewers watching at home would be too.

Jake was really trying to break the world record in this marathon, he saw that his running pace was good and he was comfortable running for over 50 km at this pace, yet to be cautious he slowed down the running pace.

After all, it was just over a month since he was running at this pace and he didn't want to push himself too hard and risk repeating what happened in New York, commentators realized that Jake had slowed his pace.

After Jake passed the 38 km he had clearly slowed his running pace a lot, it was still too fast, but it was too big a difference to be a common thing, anyone who expected Jake to break the world record began to get worried.

After all, it was really amazing to see someone breaking a world record, it would be a time for history even if Jake's record was ever broken, and commentators, even more, wanted it to happen.

”Just over 5 km to the end of this marathon, Jake suddenly slowed his running pace a few kilometers back and we don't know why.”

”Jake always has this tendency to slow his pace in the final km of the race, but he seemed to be very comfortable with his previous race pace and he was noticeably slower.”

”He lost almost 30 seconds of time compared to the pace he was running normally, it's a little worrying and we hope it's just a running tactic.”

”If it's a tactic it's too risky, he may lose the chance of breaking the world record like that, breaking a record like this is something that can't be done just skillfully and has to be very lucky.”

”As I said before, he may not know he has a chance to break the record and if he slows his pace this way he can safely win, maybe that's the best winning strategy he has ever thought.”

Jake didn't know what the commentators were talking about, he knew very well what he was doing, he also knew the time it took to break the world record and also knew Paul's total race time was second.

So he consciously slowed down and was prepared to win by breaking the world record when he can relax his tense muscles by slowing down the race he felt he would surely get what he wanted in this race, this year's marathon was in the hands of Jake.

By the time he crossed the 42 km he was still a huge advantage to the runner-up and was in the final meters to finish this marathon, he saw that he had a great marathon time and was celebrating the victory internally.

”It's amazing, who's at home is seeing this amazing feat of Jake that is breaking the world record, he's only 17 years old and breaking that record he puts his name among the top marathoners in history.”

”I'm excited to see that too, the current world record belongs to Ethiopian Belayneh Dinsamo, and was set in 1988 on April 17 at the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands, with a time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 50 seconds.”

”It's been 8 years since this record was set and today it will be broken by Jake by a few more meters, 33 years since an American broke the record last time.”