Query

You could easily ask:

Just why did you wait until after you had spent 181 hours covering over 2,800 miles in training to get the 3-D ultra bike fit done at The Boulder Center for Sports Medicine?

Just why did you buy new shorts, gloves, pedals, and biking shoes as you were almost done with your training?

At which point I would struggle, stammer, and stutter ... lamely offer some excuse about not planning ahead very well, or that I'm from Louisiana, or that I need a good excuse or six, just in case ...