Chapter 187 A Risky Investment That Will Make It Right 1
After Jake returned to the hotel he finally can relax, Jake took a shower and then lay down to rest, but he still had to call his mother to give the good news, Jake tried to call several more times Eva was not attending so he had to give up.
In fact, Eva was not sure how to use the cell phone and only Jake and Anna had her number, when Jake had a game Eva kept the cell phone nearby because she knew he could call but usually she leaves in her office while working in the kitchen.
As Jake did not say anything that was running a marathon she did not even think he could call, Anna was even worse and had not brought the phone to work, but Jake did not bother with it, he would have to wait a few days before he could talk to them personally.
So Jake thought of getting some sleep to rest his body before it was dinner time with Tiffany at night, but the system did not seem to want Jake to rest.
[Congratulations to Jake for winning this Chicago major marathon, even if that was expected with the latest results from his workouts, it's still incredible that you can win even with all the pressure of a real marathon.]
"I'm really happy about it, it was a dream come true and now that I've won I want to continue to win other marathons and win the Olympics too."
[It's good to see that you keep trying even after you've won, I've talked to you even though you're tired to give your reward.]
[[For having won one of the 6 major marathons of the world you gain 1 point in Resistance and 1 point in Agility and greatly increased the proficiency in your abilities.]]
Jake really had an unexpected surprise, he did not think he could get statistics points in any sport other than basketball, with that point in Resistance he could have more confidence in basketball and marathon.
Even so Jake learned that the system statistics were not absolute, after all even though he could finish the marathon after a few months of training thanks to the system, but his Resistance is now close to the person in the world who has more Resistance in numbers.
Even though Jake is still away from those athletes who can run an Ironman, it was that same marathon that he did and more swimming and cycling, if it depended only on the system he could only do this with 50 or more of Resistance, but these people have neither more than 40 in Resistance.
After that Jake was learning not to rely so much on his statistics, even so, Jake was very pleased to gain a few more points in statistics because Jake was different from the others and could only rely on his statistics to get things.
If he had reached 50 in all three physical stats he was confident in winning any sport that relied more on his body with some training.
[I realized that you did not expect to score points with your third job, but you won one of the 6 major marathons in the world, after that there are only 5 major marathons, the Olympics and the athletics world that you could win statistics.
[And if you win all those stats by winning those competitions you could say that you've reached the top of the marathon, and if you think the stats are not the same as the others you're wrong.]
[The difference between you and these people is the technique and skill if you had the same stats as now and were SS in the Second Lung and Iron Body skills you could be able to finish an Ironman competition.]
[After all, even if it's not like basketball is important sports that count on skill and talent if you think it's that simple, it's wrong.]
So Jake realized that he missed out on many things with these people who had the talent to run and train for several years, it seemed like he had to think about how best his own abilities were.
"Fate, let me see my statistics window of my third job."
[Here it is]
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[Name: Jake Smith]
[Age: 16 years]
[Job: Runner]
[Height: 1.89 m]
[Weight: 87 Kg]
[Force 32]
[Agility 33]
[Resistance 36]
[Intelligence 58]
[Luck 99]
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Techniques
[Second Lung C]
[Iron Body B]
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So Jake can see that his stats increased a lot in almost 6 months, of course, this improvement is related to the 2 statistic points he won for the reward for winning the marathon, yet he could now understand why it had become easier for him run the 50 km in training.
His two skills also went up only one rank, but thinking that the system had said he thought it was good, after all the system had said that these skills were not the same as basketball, it did not have several levels and when it actually reaches SS rank it would be the most he could get.
In SS rank he could easily run an Ironman competition with a few more statistics, but even if Jake had an interest in that was not his final goal, he wanted to try to narrow the gap and get more into athletics in general.
Of course, this was a plan for 5 or 9 years from now that would be enough to greatly increase his speed and stamina, even if it was a long time Jake would only be 25 at that time so he could think long term like that.
After Jake finally could sleep for a few hours, when dinner time arrived a hotel employee said that Tiffany had come to the hotel hours ago and had said something urgent had come up and she had to catch a plane to Miami before.
Jake was curious to know what it was, but Tiffany must have thought Jake was very tired after the marathon and decided to leave without saying anything to him, yet the next day Jake would have enough time to talk to her in Miami.
So Jake dined at a nearby restaurant and returned to the hotel to rest for a while to catch the plane the other day, but nothing was going as Jake wanted, he received information that someone was waiting for him in the lobby of the hotel.
Jake had to go to see who it was because it could be someone from the race organization to say something to him, but coming to the salon he found an elegant woman waiting for him.
Jake did not know what this woman wanted, but it did not look like someone from the organization of the race.
"Hi you must be Jake, I recognize you a bit of the television commercial I saw, but you were younger and younger than now, my name is Chloe and I'm the WBBM-TV reporter who is from CBS."
"Hi Chloe, nice to meet you, I wanted to know what you wanted with me?"
"I know you're tired but I wanted to schedule an interview with you on television, it's exciting to see a young American winning the Chicago marathon after more than 10 years after the last time an American won, and you still have many interesting facts."
"I could even do this interview with you, but it looks like you did not get ready today and I have a flight booked for Miami tomorrow afternoon, so I do not think we'll have the time."
"You could go in the morning at the television station, then the station could pick up a car to take you to the airport, I wanted to even record it right here, but you chose a hotel that does not allow cameras to enter."
"Alright, tomorrow you have a car get me early and then take me to the airport after the interview is over."
"Combined then, see you tomorrow."
Jake thought about rejecting this interview, but thinking about what he would have to do in the future he could use that opportunity to get what he wanted more easily, using television to solve a problem was not something Jake did.
In the morning when the car arrived Jake was already ready with his things in hand, they arrived at the station quickly and Jake was taken to a studio to do the interview, luck would be recorded, if it were live Jake would not accept.
"Hi Jake, thanks again for agreeing to give me this interview."
"Alright, I just do not want to miss the flight later in the afternoon."
After a while, the staff set up the cameras and made a brief check and then began the interview.
"Hello everyone, I'm Chloe and I'm here today for a special interview with one of the most talented youngsters I've ever met, he's the winner of the Chicago marathon that happened yesterday."
"Jake is only 16 years old this year and he is an American from Miami, we are very happy to see an American win the Chicago marathon after more than a decade."
"Say hi to Chicago Jake."
"Hi, Chicago, I appreciate your invitation to be here."
"We who thank Jake, what motivated you to participate in the Chicago marathon which is one of the world's top marathons as your first marathon?"
"I've always loved running, and I've always had good resistance since I've been a kid I run a lot more than the others and I do not tire so easily, and since it's my last year at school since more than 6 months ago I decided to run this marathon."
"And as I had to run I wanted to win too, so I trained a lot for that day and everything went very well."
"It really is an incredible story, in his debut marathon with 16 years becoming now one of the top names in athletics is impressive, you say you trained for this marathon?"
"Yes, I ran whenever I could almost every day on my school's athletic field, at first I was running about 10 km, and over time I was increasing my daily running and increasing my confidence as well."
"Your school is Elite school, is not it, this school is not very well known for athletics, but many should know that in recent years this school has excelled in basketball, and this has a lot to do with our guests today."