welcome to the very last Greed WR run above 5 minutes - i timed this as strictly as i could just to check and yes, i was just 70 milliseconds above 5. no other way to slice it. i almost abandoned this run thinking i wasn't gonna hit 1000 and then remembered I had the volcano snake but couldn't quite get it in time - but i'll take it, because this is still a pretty impressive time. kudos to @pinewarbler for the advice to go after rat snakes and the value of the boomslangs vs the arrow snakes. wouldn't have gotten anywhere near this time without other runners.
new timing rules mean this run is now 4:55.45! sub 5 was real indeed