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Running

To commemorate long casts, here's a cast-by-cast telling of my final 1600m race.

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I take a shallow deep breath. It’s all I can afford as my right spike digs into the rubber track.

1400 meters down. 200 to go. Half a lap. One curve and the final stretch.

I’m winning.

I’m. Winning.

Incredulous.

I shouldn’t be here. Not in first place, anyway.

The force of gravity and muscular momentum propel me. I dig my left spike in and swing my right arm out in lockstep.

I’m racing the mile. The American classic.

Not a sub-4 minute mile. I’m nowhere close. My personal record is 4 minutes and 35 seconds. Cutting 36 seconds off in a single race would need an Act of God. I’m not interested.

I just want to qualify for the next race.

I need 9th place or better.

I’m seeded 39th of 42. These are the best athletes in the state. To me, they’re monsters. I need to cut off 17 seconds to have a shot. Crazy talk. Even three seconds would be impressive, let alone seventeen.

Not great odds.

Looking for Japanese advanced/native help with a literary bend available to help me polish this short piece of writing?

ChatGPT did a good initial job, but I'm my Japanese isn't quite good enough to judge some of the more obscure language choices.

Will tip 2000 in DEGEN.

Would like to send a draft and have you make comments on it, do some back and forth, etc.

Please comment if you're available and I'll mark the bounty in progress.

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