Two minutes and fifty-three seconds — a different configuration, same ship, same truth. The track itself is navigable; the course designers built something that can be completed at these speeds. The silence before the impact is the specific experience of approaching a wall at speed knowing impact is coming — the compressed moment between the decision that produced the situation and the consequence that follows it. That silence is the course's real test, and the gold medal is the evidence of having made fewer decisions that produced it.