Chapter 355 Back for the Sophomore Year 9 (1/2)

”More than 30 km of this marathon has passed and Jake's group is still in the lead, but we can see that some athletes in this group are already thinking of leaving the group and are very tired, others are tired but they can take it for a few more kilometers.”

”I think the image of this group of Jake in this marathon shows how Jake is the best marathoner in the world today, in this group all are elite athletes and some are already very tired and will leave the group.”

”Others are elite athletes who have already reached several marathons in the top 10, Jerry Lawson who has already won a marathon 4 years ago, and Todd Williams who has had 2 Olympics.”

”These athletes are the best athletes in the world and any one of them can win a marathon if it's on a good day or a lesser-known marathon, and these athletes are very tired too and can handle running at a pace for just a few km.”

”And in this group, there is Jake who is running smoothly with no sign of fatigue, looks like he's running the 10km race and is still in the beginning, and Jake finishes the marathons like that without looking tired.”

Jake didn't know that the commentators were analyzing his tiredness to know if he could run faster, but he didn't care that the others knew he could run faster.

One day Jake would still try to run under 2 hours to break his world record again, by which time everyone would naturally know that running in less than 2 hours and 6 minutes was very easy for himself in training.

After passing the 35km race almost all the athletes in his group were already behind and running at a slower pace, but Jerry Lawson and Todd Williams were still in his group.

They were both very tired and could be left behind at any moment, but they were resisting waiting for Jake to slow his running pace, everyone who saw Jake's last marathons would never expect to see that two athletes were running at the same pace as him afterward of 35 km.

Jake had expected it and slowed his running pace just as he had in Berlin, both of them relieved when they saw that Jake had slowed down before they got too tired.

Unlike Berlin Jake slowed his running pace even more because he did not intend to break his record if it was not necessary, they also slowed at the same pace as Jake and saw that they could continue running like this.

Jake thought that if they could keep up with him to the final kilometers he would just accelerate his race pace again and he was sure he could win, it was their merit to be able to race along with Jake in this marathon and he had to agree not to win with a great advantage. as in the other years.

”That's amazing, Jake has already slowed his running pace as he has done in every marathon he has run, in that 35 km he slowed down to run until the end of this Chicago marathon.”

”And even at this point Todd Williams and Jerry Lawson are still running in the same group as him, it's a historic moment for this Chicago marathon where three American athletes are running for first place and we can have the three American athletes in the top 3 at this marathon.”

”Yes, even though Jake had been running at a much higher than normal pace before, after that 35km he slowed down to less than the other athletes in this marathon are running, and that's what the two American athletes were expecting.”

”With just over 7 km to finish this marathon, I think it's quite possible that the three will continue to run together until the end.”

The two American athletes who were running with Jake didn't think that way, they just wanted to keep running at that pace until the end, but they didn't think that would be possible because the pace they ran for 35 km was so intense.

So they didn't even think about trying to beat Jake in this marathon that was still running smoothly even after 35km of the marathon, Jake noticed it too and kept running quietly.

He would be happy if they and the other two American athletes were in the top three in this marathon, Jake was practically doing the work of setting the pace for the other two athletes by the end of the marathon in which he would win.

While Jake was already getting ready to race the final kilometers of the marathon, Zack had not even reached halfway through the marathon, yet he had already been through the 15km for some time and was very happy with the pace he was running up to that time proof point.

Unlike Jake, Zack not only had a group of people running with him throughout the race, but he also had to switch between groups while preoccupying with maintaining his running pace, naturally several times he lost his pace following someone in a group.