The Last 20 Minutes

The last 20 minutes is always the toughest and easiest

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When you get down to 20 you split the time into 10, or, 4 blocks of 5.

Soon you’ll get down to 18.

You’ll think of blocks of 9, but really you are hoping to get to 15 as quickly as possible.

When you get down to 15 minutes you think of 3 blocks of 5 but really you dream of 12 minutes.

When you get down to 12 minutes you think about how the hour or hour and half before that seemed to maybe go quickly.

And then you think of 2 blocks of 6 and you think about how close you are to the 10 minute marker.

When you arrive at 10 minutes you know the end is near and wait for 8 minutes.

When 8 comes you think of 2 blocks of 4 or 4 blocks of 2.

At 6 minutes you think of 3 and 3.

When you get to 5, you once again feel that this was pretty easy once again.

4 minutes is one of the magic numbers.

Just 2 blocks of 2.

3 you don’t think about and when you get to 2 minutes you know it may suddenly change to 3 minutes because of the clearing of the chamber.

2 minutes.

Finally at 1 minute you guess how many times you’ll need to draw and return until you’re all done.

You’re all done.

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© 2025 David Greg Harth

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