Today was the rooot beer mile. I came into it confident being the third returner, and I knew that I was capable of sub 8. The gun went off and I started drinking. The root beer was slightly warm so I was able to do the first can in easily sub 25 seconds. Walton got out to an amazing start doing his first can in 13 seconds or so and got out in first by seven seconds, followed by Marc, followed by me. It stayed in that order until on the third lap Marc passed Walton on the drink amd didn't look back from there, winning by 20 seconds. It's all kind of a blur now between the puking and the pain of running and all that, but I ended up third in 8:05. I was happy with the place but I know I could have gone sub 8 if I had pushed harder on the last 400 and drink. I beat Clayson and Lil Waarner by a good minute and a half.
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