[00:00] This is what it looks like to win the 400 at a high school track. First, they call out everyone in your heat to the start line so you can set up your blocks. The kid before me didn't use them, so I had to go grab it real quick and set it up really quickly. Then the guy waits for everyone to stand behind their blocks, and once they do that, he says, come to your marks, and I always do a quick little jump.
[00:13] Then this is where the nerves start to really kick in. I could always feel it through the video, but again, let me shut up while he says set, go. The plan for this race was just to get out really hard, and I was in the fourth lane, so I could see people in front of me, and I just wanted to catch up to them right away.
[00:26] And immediately, it seemed like I was making no progress, So I kept pace or maybe even sped up a little bit to try and catch up. And just by looking at my shadow, you could probably tell that at this point, I was almost full sprinting. And if you don't know, a 400 is a quarter of a mile, which is kind of a long way.
[00:38] And at this point, I was already pantsing and my split for the 200 was way faster than normal. And I knew this last 200 was going to hurt really bad. But at least I had accomplished my goal of getting out really hard because I made up the stagger. And at this point, I could not see anybody else in front of me. And coming around this corner, you can see just people jumping and watching.
[00:52] It was a pretty nice day. And this feeling on the last 100 is something the only people to do track would understand because of lactic acid hits so hard and you can barely move your limbs. At this point in the clip, you can see my hands and that's because I'm pumping my arms as much as possible so that I keep moving and don't get hawked down.
[01:05] And I was trying so hard, just listen to my breathing. And I'm coming to the finish, but I hear someone getting closer to me and I know they're about to beat me. But he ended up falling a little bit before the finish line. These are my last three followers, so follow up with the next video.