How to Quit a Race

I've gotten lost to race. I have I wrote about this a long time ago. This was a small ultra. There was like maybe 30 of us that ran. And I was, you know, probably about a quarter mile from the finish line. But eventually just kind of ran out of trail into this road. So I flagged some car down and asked them where the campground was. They're like, Oh, yeah, you've overshot it by about five miles. so I happened in the back of their pickup truck and they drove me to the finished line. It'd be really easy to not do that. Right. Yeah. Couldn't you so cross and just say