Because you have to listen to stuff like this on your training rides…
Me: “Hey, I saw your results at Ironman X, I know you had a really bad bike failure, (chain drop/rear der bent up into the spokes) but looks like you had a great swim split!”
“Yeah. I was surprised, because until the very end of my race I did not know that someone got away from me. The pro wave started ahead of us, and I worked my way through what I thought was all of them on the first lap, but I had no idea Lessing was still up there somewhere”
Me: “Well, if somebody has to beat you out of the water, it can’t feel too bad to have it be him.”
Sigh…