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Default Tire success! starting on hurdles...

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Make it through the tires, and the next obstacle is the hurdles. If you fall, miss your target, or knock a hurdle down, you start over from the beginning.
Well, the third time really was the charm, at least for the tire run. Having learned from her (sometimes embarrassing) mistakes, Violet finally managed to make it to the end without messing anything up. Her elation evaporated quickly, however, as she looked down the hurdle course and tried to estimate just how many times it would take her to do it (probably quite a lot, was her guess). And now she was getting tired from the tire-running. Violet bent over, hands on her thighs just above the knees, and took a few minutes to catch her breath and center her mind again. Then she doggedly stepped to the beginning of the hurdle course.

The first hurdle was not that high and Violet managed to clear it without mishap. The second one was a bit higher and her back foot clipped it slightly, making it teeter slightly back and forth, but in the end it righted itself without going down. Violet chanced a quick glance behind her to check that she'd made it, but that glance, however brief, threw her off rhythm ever so slightly, so that she mis-timed her third takeoff and hit the third hurdle squarely with her right foot, causing both hurdle and Violet to go down. "Ouch," Violet said glumly, picking herself and then the hurdle back up and heading grimly back to the starting line...
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