Emulator used: RAProject64

Note that I was playing with Keyboard, and some of the first sections you can tell I was slower than some previous failed runs...but for the first time ever in this track in the N64 version, not botching the last two sections [including missing the timing to Hydro Jump into the last red booster or somehow missing the pickup] ended up saving enough time to beat my previous PB which got me the First Responder achievement in RetroAchievements [but got second place].

I can tell you for sure I was surprised when by the fourth time extension, I saw I somehow had matched my previous best section right down to the milisecond...and then I knew I had gold when I noticed I was near first place as well as nailing the Hydro Jump.

and got first place in the track :]