Chapter 459 - Marathons and Business 3 (1/2)

Jake was being sincere saying he was very happy and proud to have won 4 marathons in Chicago, he couldn't say that, but in his past life as Jake was very fond of marathons he watched the Chicago marathon many times and always thought about what it would be like winning.

Now he had won 4 times and if he could he wanted to win that marathon more times, but he didn't know if the Los Angeles Lakers team coach would allow Jake to do this every year just before the season started.

So Jake wanted to break his world record in that marathon that he liked so much because in the future he might have to run other marathons when the Los Angeles Lakers team was out of the game season.

Chloe looked like she realized what Jake was thinking and soon decided what the next question would be, the problem that Jake had was what everyone in the sports media also thought that Jake could no longer run in marathons.

”Jake, many in the sports media comment that you are going to stop running in the marathons now that you have joined the NBA and become a professional player, is this really going to happen?”

”I heard it a lot in the last few days, and I have to say that this is really something complicated, from what I heard they said that I would not play anymore because I am rich now because I entered the NBA and I have to say that this is a lie.”

”But I think in the next few years I'm going to compete in fewer marathons, just like I've been in the past few years, and that has to do with the fact that I entered the NBA, but the reason is because of the long season of NBA games.”

”I have a duty to be in every game of the Los Angeles Lakers team in the NBA for the next few seasons, and even before the seasons start like the next Chicago marathons I may not be able to participate because of that.”

”I do intend to continue participating in all the Olympics and I am training to run in the 10,000 meters competition and in the 5000 meters competition in the next Olympics.”

”Also, I'm going to look for another marathon I can start running every year that's out of the NBA game season, and I'll continue to love the marathons and push myself, so I tried so hard to break my own world record today here in Chicago, because it may take time for that to happen again.”

Chloe didn't expect Jake to answer her question so completely, after that there would be no more rumors as to why Jake might not be in the next few seasons and the sports media would know that was true.

In addition, this news that Jake would compete in the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters modalities was very shocking in the world of athletics, historically athletes who ran well in the marathons also had good results in the 10,000 meters modality.

And if Jake said he would do that since he was the best athlete in the marathons and even had a world record, it meant that he was confident that he could win the competitions in the 10,000 meters and the 5,000 meters, otherwise, he wouldn't risk it just to be ashamed.

”It's a shame that you don't think about running here in the Chicago marathon anymore because of the NBA game season, but do you already know which marathon you plan to run annually if you're not going to run in the Chicago marathon?”

”I haven't thought about it yet, but in November of this year I will run the Athens marathon, it is an interesting challenge for me and I will try to win this marathon which is one of the most difficult in the world.”

”Thanks for the interview, Jake, and good luck with the upcoming marathons and your NBA career.”

”Thank you, Chloe.”

Chloe had to close because she didn't get much time from her station to do this interview and was not prepared for the direction the interview took, she hadn't prepared questions because she didn't know that Jake would reveal that she would participate in the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters.

Still, she was satisfied with this interview with Jake which could be her last interview with him if Jake no longer planned to run other Chicago marathons, yet she hoped that Jake would continue to be successful.

The other day Jake had lunch with his friends and they talked about various things that could happen in the future and kept saying that they wanted to keep in touch and remain friends even after the end of the university.

After that, Jake had to go back to Miami and Aaron had to go back to university because of the football team, and just the other day that Zack and the others would go back to university.