The 2026 Morning Dash, led by commentator Mia!
by Mia Liu, San Jose
“Live from a peaceful and dark bedroom, welcome to the 2026 Morning Dash! The crowd goes absolutely silent, waiting as our athlete for the day, Mia Liu, prepares for her ultimate test. Trust me, these contestants are all very worthy and amazing, but no one has been able to make it in time to beat this game yet! And the only question, WILL SHE DO IT???
Wow, wow, everyone’s up today to watch the game, aren’t they? We’re all so excite– And there it goes! The alarm rings, there goes the opening of the eyes… And then they close again. Liu reaches out to go for a blind slap to shut the alarm up, and there it is!!! The first challenge of the day is complete! What accuracy! What timing! That was simply amazing!
However, the game is still going on! The alarm has been stopped, but the sleep hasn’t! Uh oh, here comes the first yellow card of the games! The door opens violently, a voice screams, “GET UP NOW! YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE!”in Chinese, and the contestant snaps awake, throws off the blankets, and rushes to her desk!
Her next challenge: The extraction for 20/20 vision! She snatches her orange plunger, applies eye drops in both her eyes, opens her right eye with her left hand, and pulls the contact out! Half complete! With extreme hand-eye coordination, both her contacts have been safely extracted! Now her vision for the day is perrrrrrfect! This challenge has been aced by Liu, but there’s more to come!!!!!
Mia rushes into the bathroom, opens her invisalign case, takes out her top and bottom retainer out of her teeth, and grabs them in her hands! There goes the wince! The disgust! But she endures it! She rinses her retainers with toothpaste without even grabbing her toothbrush! The precise finger actions as she washed them, then puts them back in the case, and she rushes again to the kitchen for her next challenge, The Breakfast Battlefield!!!!!!!!! Oh no! She’s still in her pajamas!!!! Liu’s face is filled with panic, and she slides into her bedroom yet again. She opens her dresser drawers, grabs a random t-shirt, a random pair of pants, pulls two socks out of its place, but oh no! She drops a sock in the process! She must put it back into the drawer or else her artistic score will be zero! She picks it up with flawless speed, puts it back into her dresser, and closes all three drawers at the same time! One with her foot, one with her left hand, and one with her right!!! Extreme skill! Then, she throws her clothes on, flings her pajamas onto her bed, and rushes to the kitchen, for the already mentioned challenge, the Breakfast Battlefield!
A plate is already on the table, with a hard boiled egg and some soy sauce to go with it! A cup of milk is also in front of her! She must battle these challenges and get to school soon!!! She dips her egg into the soy sauce, takes bites, winces, but stuffs it down! She sprints to the fridge, and pulls out… What is that? Two blueberries? Only two? Oh wow, never have I seen something so brilliant! To drink her least favorite thing, MILK, she must stuff down two blueberries to resist the flavor!!!! She chugs it down, spilling some down her chin in the process, and shoves the two berries into her mouth!
Then she rushes back into her bathroom and brushes her teeth within seconds! Electrical toothbrushes to the rescue!!!! Wow, she finished before a rapper could even say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!!!! She plugs her toothbrush back in, and hurries out the door, grabbing her lunch bag and flinging her heavy backpack over her shoulder!
Then, she checks the time on her apple watch! But wait, there’s NOTHING there! Oh no! Liu stays determined, rushing back into her bathroom, grabbing her Apple watch from its charger!! She rushes out the door yet again, tells her parents: “I’m going, have a good day!” and grabs her lunch bag and backpack yet again, stomps her feet into her shoes, and rushes out into the cross walk, but there’s still one last challenge! She has to put her apple watch on while running!
She flawlessly puts it on her wrist, checks the time, and sprints to school! Oh, the adrenaline rush, will she get there on time! It takes 15 minutes for her to walk to school, but there’s only 7 minutes left! She sprints, and so does the cameraman! They run to school, and Mia sprints towards the school! WOW, the timing, her little but determined steps, and finally, she’s about to make it!!!! Oh my goodness, could she really be the one????? She rushes into the school gates, and five seconds after she goes in, the bell rings!!!!!!! WOW! SHE HAS BEATEN THE UNBEATABLE RACE! THE WINNER: MIA LIU!!!!!”