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[April 16] [Sports RPF] Barriers
Title: Barriers
Day/Theme: April 16/Time
Series: Sports (speedskating) RPF
Character/Pairing: Ireen Wüst
Rating: G
Call it women’s intuition or knowing yourself or whatever else, she knows this will be a good race. Her name is announced; she waves to the crowd. She feels good, happy, and predatory. She wants that world record.
‘Ready…,’ pang!. GO!
It’s a dream start, she knows at the first curve, but it’ll have to be an entire dream race. She doesn’t need to see any signs to know this is faster than she’s ever opened on a 1500m before. This is no time to get romantic, but it feels like flying anyway.
25:08
There’s a little commentator in her head, narrating her race, and currently it’s wondering if she’s going for the world record on the kilometre and forgetting this isn’t it. One more lap, Ireen! But no, thanks all the same.
27:23
Two more. She’s following the lap times of the world record and there are two ways this can go: she makes it and sets a new world record (it’ll be this one) or she’ll lost it in the final laps. There’s a risk in opening like a madwoman and see where it gets you when you get there.
28:26
It’s hers. 28.2 gives her an extra half-a-second margin on top of her already faster final lap. She can’t give this away anymore, not unless she falls. And when does that ever happen to her? Not now. Not when in the distance she can see the finish and the world record and the one-minute-fifty-second barrier looming in the distance.
29:44
Oh, Jesus. She did it. She did the world record and she did the diving-beneath-the-one-fifty. She cheers, and lets the applause wash over her, and hugs trainers and teammates and competitors. Yes.
1:49:97
She’d it would be a good race. Did she ever expect it to be this good? ‘No, of course not’, she says, ‘I would’ve done it for a tenth of a second! 1:51:79 was a great time, and this, yeah.’
She almost took two seconds off, did she realise? ‘Yeah, that’s a bit more than usual, isn’t it? No, this is amazing, really.’
That final lap? 'Syeah, I don't know either!'
Some people had said, after good races, that it was because they were in love. Was she? ‘I’m not telling,’ she says, grinning. Yes, she thinks, maybe I am.
Did that mean yes? ‘I’m really not telling.’
Day/Theme: April 16/Time
Series: Sports (speedskating) RPF
Character/Pairing: Ireen Wüst
Rating: G
Call it women’s intuition or knowing yourself or whatever else, she knows this will be a good race. Her name is announced; she waves to the crowd. She feels good, happy, and predatory. She wants that world record.
‘Ready…,’ pang!. GO!
It’s a dream start, she knows at the first curve, but it’ll have to be an entire dream race. She doesn’t need to see any signs to know this is faster than she’s ever opened on a 1500m before. This is no time to get romantic, but it feels like flying anyway.
25:08
There’s a little commentator in her head, narrating her race, and currently it’s wondering if she’s going for the world record on the kilometre and forgetting this isn’t it. One more lap, Ireen! But no, thanks all the same.
27:23
Two more. She’s following the lap times of the world record and there are two ways this can go: she makes it and sets a new world record (it’ll be this one) or she’ll lost it in the final laps. There’s a risk in opening like a madwoman and see where it gets you when you get there.
28:26
It’s hers. 28.2 gives her an extra half-a-second margin on top of her already faster final lap. She can’t give this away anymore, not unless she falls. And when does that ever happen to her? Not now. Not when in the distance she can see the finish and the world record and the one-minute-fifty-second barrier looming in the distance.
29:44
Oh, Jesus. She did it. She did the world record and she did the diving-beneath-the-one-fifty. She cheers, and lets the applause wash over her, and hugs trainers and teammates and competitors. Yes.
1:49:97
She’d it would be a good race. Did she ever expect it to be this good? ‘No, of course not’, she says, ‘I would’ve done it for a tenth of a second! 1:51:79 was a great time, and this, yeah.’
She almost took two seconds off, did she realise? ‘Yeah, that’s a bit more than usual, isn’t it? No, this is amazing, really.’
That final lap? 'Syeah, I don't know either!'
Some people had said, after good races, that it was because they were in love. Was she? ‘I’m not telling,’ she says, grinning. Yes, she thinks, maybe I am.
Did that mean yes? ‘I’m really not telling.’