Chapter 341 Busy Holiday 5

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 Champions.h.i.+ps in Athletics.

Jake hopes that before that they would start training for the 10,000-meter and 5,000-meter modalities because after World Champions.h.i.+ps 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.

As sports and normal media forgot about Jake, his fame was growing more and more popular among the public, the news of Jake helping in the Miami Beach crash made people have a better opinion of Jake.

Some people also remembered Jake because of his picture with Kate and others because of the various commercials in which he now appeared on television, Tiffany and Clara"s companies have already started promoting the ads they made a few weeks ago on television stations.

All this plus the news about Jake in the sport meant that the audience couldn"t forget him, many movie directors like Director Crowe were already thinking of inviting Jake to appear in their movie next year.

After a few weeks Coach Davis increased Jake"s training as he had requested, it was 2km of swimming and only 13km on the cycling path along with 30km of running in the sand.

Taking the cycling path was more than half an ironman triathlon, after doing this training Jake finally felt he was struggling, the lifeguards thought Jake really deserved to be called Captain America because he was almost a superhuman.

Several athletes were able to do an ironman triathlon and perhaps even more difficult races than that, but the lifeguards came to Jake doing almost half of the ironman in just over 2 months of training, which meant that if he had a few more months Jake could Compete in an ironman.

This is because Jake wore no special clothes to help him perform and still ran the 30 km in the sand, meaning that if he had all the right equipment and clothes to do the triathlon and would run normally he could even finish an ironman normally.

That was right because the normal run time for athletes in Ironman was just under 3 hours, Jake could run in just over 2 hours and 30 minutes even after swimming and cycling.

It wasn"t that Jake thought cycling was an easier sport than the others, but he tried to make the 180km route himself and didn"t get too tired, that should be the equivalent of a running marathon as it was more than triple the distance.

But for Jake, this was very easy for some reason, perhaps because of the system that improved all his physical statistics and stamina he was much easier with cycling than the other modalities of triathlon.

Just as swimming for Jake was more difficult even though it was only a few km away, many athletes preferred swimming over cycling and running, while Jake preferred running and cycling over swimming, so much more challenging for him.

After a few more weeks Jake had finally finished coach Davis"s different training, he had to prepare for the World Champions.h.i.+ps in Athletics, in those nearly 2 months of training Jake had felt that he had greatly improved his stamina and other things he wasn"t sure what.

Soon after he ran the 50 km again as he always did before and still managed to run easily without any problems, but this time he felt that he was less tired after finis.h.i.+ng running.

Mainly because he was running on a track and not in the sand like before, so it was much better to run without fear of injury, after seeing that it was okay Jake began to prepare to run the other modalities.

It would be almost the same as he normally ran, but he would have to run at a faster pace and for many fewer km, he would run a maximum of 12 km to do this training instead of 50 km so that the training would work out he would just have to run every km in 9 seconds less.

So Jake would run the 10,000 meters in 27 minutes and 30 seconds, that was just over 29 seconds from the Olympic record, not a great time, but it was enough to be in the top 10 in this World Champions.h.i.+ps in Athletics he would partic.i.p.ate for example.

For starters Coach Davis asked Jake to try running at a pace of 4 seconds less than he normally did, Jake thought that would be very easy and really it was, he managed to run the 10,000 meters with ease and ran up to 12 km before be stopped by coach Davis.

Coach Davis had hoped that Jake would be able to do that, but still, he couldn"t be surprised, with that time Jake ran the 10,000 meters in just over 28 minutes, in 28 minutes and 20 seconds, was a great time to an amateur athlete for example.

With this Jake"s time done naturally, he would be able to finish tenth of the 10,000-meter race at the World Champions.h.i.+ps in Athletics, which means that Jake was already a high-level athlete in all long-distance races without ever having trained to this before.