Here we heard the guy in front of us was just 15 minutes ahead. Up until now he was increasing his lead to as much as 30 minutes at one point. Up until now we had resigned to the fact that he was going to smoke us. Now that we put a dent in his lead, that male competitiveness thing started to kick in. We had to keep reminding ourselves that the real race was with the sun and the 8:35 sunset.