For once it sounds like his foe was actually trying to race him. Therefore, in this thread, he actually did win a 'race'. These kinds of tug of wars do actually happen you know.

I was mountain biking on Sunday and me and this dude had a really really fun battle. The highlight was when I was going over this log, caught my rear wheel on it, looked like I was going to fall, and the guy decided to stop and unclip. But I actually got over the thing somehow and then opened up a gap. That beats dialing it up to 400W!