Chapter 331 The Major Marathons 5 (1/2)

”I agree, I'm sure this is one reason why Jake likes to race more in America than other countries and another reason that happens is that it's so much easier for Jake to race in America than to travel to other countries just to run.”

”There is also the crowd at the venue, in America everyone is sure to cheer more for Jake than for the other athletes and that's an excellent motivation for an athlete.”

All the reasons the commentators said were things Jake thought before running, for all these reasons he realized that it was much better to race in America than in other countries, but he would still run sometimes if he wanted to and had time.

After 27 km the other athletes in Jake's group decided to slow down and move away from Jake who was in the lead, they could run longer with Jake, but if they did they would get very tired in the final kilometers of the marathon and could lose positions.

Now that they separated from the leadership group all 9 of these athletes were rivals for the top positions in this marathon, everyone knew Jake was first, but they could try to compete in the top 20 positions.

Jake's friends who were watching at home cheered for Jake and were happy that he was first again, they learned never to hear the negative things commentators said about Jake because he always surprised at marathons.

It was amazing to think that Jake could win this Boston marathon after a week of winning in London, and these two marathons were unusual and were hotly contested marathons around the world.

Besides, Jake had already won everything he could win in basketball season this year, so everyone could know that it was true what Jake said he hated losing, which made him always win.

It was strange how something as surprising as winning such a big marathon became expected when Jake participated, no one could doubt that Jake was one of the best marathon runners of the last decades.

After reaching 31 km of running Jake slowly began to slow his racing pace, he already knew he should not break any records in this marathon and agreed that it was better to save more stamina if he could.

Everyone who knew Jake already knew that he always did something like this at the end of every marathon and so they were quiet, some experts didn't know why Jake did it because it seemed like he could take a few miles longer if he tried.

But no matter how much they thought they would never guess that Jake did it on purpose so as not to push himself and excel in marathons, Jake thought he was still too young and so should show others that he was slowly improving.

And that was working so far, so many experts showed Jake's incredible progress in the last marathons, even now that he wasn't running at such a fast time as last year's last marathons the experts said it was because Jake was tired of the season of basketball

That's why Jake liked these sports reporters so much, they all wanted to get the audience's attention by telling fans about their theories and saying that was what happened to Jake, so Jake just had to pick what he wanted and give the credits to this reporter and no one would suspect him.

After going through the 41 km race Jake was already calmer with this marathon and saw that contrary to what everyone said he was not that tired and could still run several km.

”Really impressive, yet another marathon won by Jake Smith here in Boston, and just over a week after winning the London marathon, Jake shows how truly the best in the world in marathons today is.”

”That's right, many questioned whether it was right or possible for Jake to win two marathons in such a short time, but today we're seeing Jake really achieve what many thoughts were impossible.”

”This has been an amazing year for Jake as an athlete after all he won, he could wrap up this year with this marathon and everyone would still say he was great, but we are still at the beginning of the year in April, I'm sure Jake will try other marathons this year.”

”That's right, I just hope he rests for a while before the next marathon and doesn't try to keep proving that he has excellent Resistance, after all, Jake is still studying at university this month.”

”Hahaha, it's true, I hope Jake gets a little more rest now because he has achieved incredible achievements this year and is only 18 years old, he can relax because he is very young and can still win many more marathons in the coming years.”

Jake won the Boston marathon and soon after ate a stamina bar, he felt that he didn't need to and could even run further after that marathon, but it was better to prevent any injury and eat a stamina bar since he has so many in history.

After eating the stamina bar Jake felt every muscle in his body relaxing, he felt great and relieved about it, it had been a long time since he had eaten a stamina bar because he didn't think he needed it after 40 Resistance points.