"You offered to give me an ass whipping back then and you still haven't succeeded, and you never will. I'll make sure of it.", from Cargo last Sunday, (still pretending that remark was serious).
But yesterday I beat his time.
That he later was able to beat my time does not change the fact that I ......'beat his time'.
Whether that was for a minute, an hour, or a day is of little consequence as had I known he went and did a better time, while there was still time to play, I perhaps could have worried him again.
In any case, even while he was ahead of me at the finish (before I beat him) my blue line was right with him, when not in front of him. I congratulate him for having a better time than myself by race end, that's cool, but it doesn't change the fact that for a while I bettered him. To me that was all that mattered, that I succeeded in doing that.
And I am quite happy reading of any, and all, excuses why that happened.