"The new physiotherapist told me that it would take at least another 8 months for me to recover, which means that I would lose the first year of chances to play, not to mention that it will take longer for me to regain my fitness to can play again."

"Actually, I don't have any motivation anymore to keep playing football at this university, but I know that if I want to have any chance of joining the NFL I have to play there even if I don't want to."

"That's why I ended up being rude to you at the beginning of the semester, I apologize, I know I had no reason to do that, but I ended up stressing over the situation."

So Jake can understand why Aaron was like this at the beginning of the semester, he had already apologized and sympathized with Aaron, he didn't know if Zack and William could understand and be friends with Aaron normally, but Jake was optimistic that the 4 would be great friends.

"Don't worry about it, Aaron, I think when you explain your situation to Zack and William they'll understand your circumstances and forgive you and we'll all be friends soon."

"I hope so, I've missed my chance to play football at this university, if I can't make friends either, I see no reason to stay at this university."

Jake saw that Aaron seemed really mad at the university, Jake would probably be just as angry if something like that happened to him, luckily Aaron's dad could afford the surgery, otherwise, the situation would be even worse and his career would be even worse Aaron as a player would be lost.

"I understand you use anger at what the university did to Aaron, but I think you shouldn't think about quitting football because of that, you should use this first year to do your physiotherapy and fully recover from your injury."

"Then you have to take the rest of the time to fully regain your ideal physical strength and maybe even get stronger than before, so next season you'll be back playing without any risk of injury."

"I think it may even be a good thing that the university dropped you and took your scholarship, otherwise you would have more pressure to play again and could end up injuring yourself again if that happened your career would really be over."

Jake advised Aaron with what he thought was really the best solution for his friend at the moment, even if Aaron didn't listen to Jake he would at least remember that advice and could follow in the future.

They would be friends after that and so after a while, Jake would gather everyone from the dorm for dinner so maybe everyone would become friends, that was what Jake wanted most and the others seemed to want the same.

In the next few days, Jake went to train his race with Zack every day, just over a week before the Chicago Marathon and he couldn't relax if he wanted to win.

Jake had already gotten used to the new race pace and could run the 50 km without getting too tired, he was very happy to have taken those 5 minutes in the 50 km race time, Zack thought Jake was a monster and Jake never I would say that I ran 50 km and no less as Zack thought.

Zack was also getting better at training and was not getting so tired running the 4km every day now, but Jake didn't decide to increase his friend's daily running routine to 6km for now, because Zack's body hadn't strengthened so much quickly like that.

Zack's stamina and energy improved a lot in these training weeks, but his training at the gym couldn't keep up with his improvement in running, Jake couldn't suggest further training at Zack's gym because he knew it was his friend's limit.

Zack also realized that even though having managed to run the 4 km Jake had not increased his training again, he thought that Jake was giving him time to get used to it and was happy about it.

Some might run a marathon even without training before if they had a good physique, and with a few weeks of training Zack could try, but Jake didn't think that was right.

Many did not know it now, but Jake had lived at a time several years in the future in his past life, with the internet and curiosity. Jake may know that several people so lacking in fitness eventually suffered serious injuries and sometimes they ended up dying.

Running over 42 km is not something an average adult can achieve with training alone and can protect his body from having repercussions after the race, so Jake has always been so cautious about his training taking several months even though the system strengthened and strengthened. protected his body.

Still, when he didn't have a fully developed body, Jake nearly suffered several injuries if the system had not warned it shows how running without sufficient training could be dangerous.

Jake didn't want Zack to end up having an accident because of his training and was meticulous in scheduling his friend's training, so if Zack followed Jake's training he could even finish a marathon before 3 hours of the run.

In training with the basketball team, they also had defense training and Jake stood out again, he was not the best in defense but was among the best and certainly was the best among them in intercepting passes and steal the ball of the opponents.

Jake also lost only in rebounds, his teammates were far superior to him in that sector, yet when Jake had the advantage in positioning he could always get the rebound, with this year's Tar Heels team being one of the best in rebounds Jake It was still fine.

So Coach Smith thought that Jake was just left to do what to do in training in games and he would earn the respect of teammates, who might also get the position of team holder.

So the days passed again and only two days before the Chicago marathon, Jake warned Coach Guthridge that training would have to be missed these days, Coach Guthridge had talked to Jake before about it.

He talked about this with Coach Smith who allowed Jake to take a few days off training, they knew they couldn't just ask an Olympic champion to stop running, so he allowed Jake to miss those few days.

That day Jake still trained normally and went to Chicago in the evening after advising his friends, so the other day Jake would rest well so he could run in 2 days, Jake can rest peacefully in the hotel he had chosen.

The other day Jake had all day to rest and kept remembering the race track last year to run more efficiently this time, in the last 3 marathons Jake had learned a lot about how to make the most of his energy in the race.

Because of that, he can win more easily at the Olympics this year, Jake was very confident this time because he had gotten 2 points in Resistance and Agility stats and also because it was the first time Jake had ever run a track again.

With his photographic memory, he gained from fourth job skill Jake could remember perfectly every detail of the track, even if he didn't have the help of the Jake system he could still do some imagination training after doing it hundreds of times.

So Jake can imagine the best route to use and also where he would have to increase and decrease his pace to save energy, after this marathon Jake would have even more experience running in New York just the same.

In the afternoon of that day Jake was just resting normally, he had made all the preparations he could for the marathon the next day, in the afternoon John who was in town to support Jake in the marathon showed up to talk to him at the hotel.

"Hi Jake, how are you doing? Ready for tomorrow's race?"

"Yes, I don't think I will have problems running and I will try to win again."

"Well, I'll be at the finish line for you, I hope you can win too, but don't try hard to have no risk of injury."

If it was Tiffany or Clara he might think they were thinking of him and taking care of him, but as John was talking Jake understood that he didn't want Jake to get hurt because he still had the basketball games and the New York marathon for Jake to try.

"Did you talk to Tiffany and Clara to send someone to advertise for today's marathon?"

"Yes, I said, Tiffany, said she would send the same people last year to do this work for her and Clara."

Jake didn't care about Alan because the way he advertises a razor company was different, just commercials and having the company's brand name in uniform can have some impact on them.

The one who was making the most of it was John's company, it was an energy drink company that was popular with young and amateur athletes, not to mention that despite his shared attention with Tiffany's drinks company.

John's company was bigger and so it had a lot more sales, the one that profited most was Tiffany's company, but John cared about that because they weren't direct competitors, if it was Jake wouldn't have a contract with his company.

Many companies in the market partnered with other brands just to increase target audiences without losing customers, which is what John's company was doing with Jake's other sponsors.

The other morning Jake was getting ready for the marathon, October 20, 1996, Jake was getting ready to run the Chicago marathon again, this time, however, he was trying to win for the second time and was no longer an unknown marathon runner.

In fact Jake was the one who drew the most attention in this marathon, he was the absolute favorite after winning the Olympics and this year's race, everyone knew that Jake knew the track well and should be very confident for this marathon.

Also, the fact that Jake was a 17-year-old was remembered by everyone who saw Jake waiting for the start of the race, if nothing bad happened everyone knew that Jake could dominate athletics for many years to come.