Two o’clock. The same three names, the same corral, the same bell — this is the stretch of a backyard where the race stops looking like a race. Bib 6 back at 55:44, Bibs 7 and 10 together at 51:25, again. Nineteen yards each, 127.4 km. Every hour the clock resets, and they return to the corral to begin the same hour again.