Jonas has been competing in the annual marathon tourney organized by his county every first week of December. Unfortunately, he has not been able to win it. He has not even come close to the top ten. This did not deter him from participating annually.
However, this year Jonas made up his mind to get something out of his participation in the whole thing. He needs to mount the podium as a prize winner. Why not!
To achieve such an immense success, Jonas took time to watch the skills of past winners. He even had to attend few of their training sessions. He watched about seven of them train but realized that the best thing for him is to take one more step if he intends to be among the winners. He needs to train harder.
That was exactly what he did. Jonas devoted more time to training and doing some endurance trekking. He did it for weeks while watching his steps and timing.
When this year's time.comes, Jonas braves himself for the tourney. The usual suspects were there too. But Jonas always not perturbed. When the game started Jonas applied both the skills of past winners which he had seen and the experience he got from the numerous endurance trekking.
Finally, Jonas came second and was called up to the podium. People could not believe their eyes as Jonas magnetically collected the runner's up winners table.
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