Finally! Ever since my casual playthrough of this game, I had one goal in mind. Get a good run before the marathon due date! And this was a DAMN good run!!! The only levels of even somewhat noteworthy timelosses were sand (15 secinds), tarrowlisk (probs about 30 seconds), and cavern (1 minute MAXIMUM). Other than that, improving now is gonna be much more about optimization and cleaning up small mistakes rather than capitalizing on easy 3 minute timesavers. Best of all, this was only 1 week of playing the game, ever! This includes first casual playthrough, which preceded my first speedrun by 2 days, which was still over double the length of this run. I will probably be back in May to try and iron out these last few mistakes for a hopefully 31 minute run, but until then, I'll probably "chill" with some sm63 hundo btts, something I havent taken seriously in the past 3 years, but now that nabster has dethroned me, I think it's time to make a statement that it won't go unchallenged. Not to mention btt grinding seriously helped me get hundo wr in my prime, and I could sure use a similar buff considering my complete abscnece of sub 49 runs these days. My first target will be rainbow ride reds, then cruiser as those are IMO the weakest RR segments, then whatever looks improvable kinda like I did back then