Chapter 341 Busy Holiday 5 (1/2)

When Coach Davis said this to him, Jake agreed that he needed more difficult training, he had realized how good this training could be for him, and he also knew he could do more than that.

After Jake had become accustomed to swimming in the sea, these trials were no more difficult for him, he also enjoyed a challenge and thought it might be better for him to make more training gains.

Seeing that Jake had agreed to increase the difficulty of training, Coach Davis greatly increased the training load, swimming was 1 km at sea, cycling was 25 km and running in the sand 15 km.

Coach Davis trained to be harder for Jake instead of being more evenly balanced to compete in the triathlon that was not the goal of this training, running was the easiest for Jake who normally ran 50 km at a pace to break the world record every day.

So the 15km slow-moving sand wasn't a real challenge for Jake, it was harder because it was just unsteady terrain and after swimming and cycling, so Coach Davis thought it was right to Jake.

Riding the bike would be Jake's easiest and swimming would be tricky, even though Jake had become accustomed to swimming in the sea that didn't make swimming against the waves any easier, so swimming twice as far would be more challenging.

Seeing this training load that was almost double what the lifeguards had once again looked out to help Jake if needed, Coach Davis who knew what Jake was capable of did not think Jake would have trouble doing this triathlon.

Jake also went confidently to the sea because he knew he would only get tired when running on the sand, Jake had a harder time swimming the 1km in the water, even though he was used to swimming in the sea these past few weeks he tired his arms swimming in the sea.

After all, it was different from running and even though he was still too stamina it was tiring for him, after leaving the sea Jake had no trouble doing the 25 km bike ride, even if it was the 180 km ironman Jake didn't think he would have problems.

So the coach did not even insist on increasing the bike path, after all, Jake's daily training would only take longer on the beach and would not have much gain, when it came to the race part was much harder to run the 15 km on the sand.

Even though Jake managed to finish all the running in the sand and so ended all the triathlon training, Jake found it tiring, but not so much when his daily training running the 50 km, the sand running and the swimming part was the most difficult and the cycling route was the easiest.

While not striving for the best times Jake still managed to do the 1 km in 12 minutes at sea, 25 km in cycling in 30 minutes and 15 km running in the sand in 52 minutes, he didn't push himself to the sand and nor in cycling, but gave the best he can in swimming.

Jake thought he could run at a better time than this one on the sand, but he was in danger of getting injured if he tried to run faster and would get a lot harder to run faster on the sand.

Even though he thought this training was better than before, he asked Coach Davis to increase his running and sand swimming and to reduce the part of his cycling path so that he would have the best training possible.

Coach Davis told Jake to get used to this training first and then they would increase further, Jake accepted and was patient because they were still early June and had almost two months until the World Championships in Athletics.

Jake hopes that before that they would start training for the 10,000-meter and 5,000-meter modalities because after World Championships in Athletics Jake would have little time before he had to go to university.

Jake was well aware that he could have more time next year and years to train before the next Olympics in 2000, but he wanted to see what he was capable of running, Jake knew he could win, but even really running he wouldn't be comfortable with that.

Over the next few weeks Jake continued with the training and besides staying at home with his mother did nothing else, Jake wanted to hide a bit from the media after what happened with Kate and she didn't try to call him either.

Jake knew he would have to wait several months before he could talk to Kate again because of what happened last time, he just hoped it wouldn't take several years like last time.