Has anyone had this happen to them before?

This past weekend myself and a few of the girls were out on a bike trek, when a group of guys rolled by laughing saying something about how we needed to "peddle faster" and how we can "do better than that girls." Of course that was irritating and made me furious.

The guys were all proffessional looking with their expensive bikes and their proffessional-looking bike jerseys and cycling bibs and spandex shorts and long tights and knee-length capri-knickers and cycling shoes and sporty helments and all that other stuff... all of them were in shape too. We just had on whatever we could scrounge up.

Me and the other 4 women asked each other should we do a race against them. We all agreed.There were 5 guys and 5 girls, both of equal age range (mid twenties). So we decided to battle it out.

We caught up with them and offered them the challenged. They laughed and said sure. These guys were obviously arrogant, pompous, overly-confident, and full of pride. One of the men said they've never been defeated in a race and that therefore this race would be a sinch for them.

Well, we both agreed to doing a 10-mile race. We were on a road that was wide enough and open enough and long enough. We estimated where the 10 mile marker was (a cross street). Anyway, we started and of course the guys took off and grabbed a great lead. We were way behind for a while until we hit the hill. We pushed up the hill and once at the top we could see the guys in front of us. This was about mile 8. They were obviously tired from pushing up the hill. We still had a lot of energy (perhaps from the anger and determination), so we decide to push hard and take advantage. By mile 9 they were only about 50 yards ahead. A couple minutes later we were neck and neck and these men were both shocked and nervous and began to peddle faster. We told each other to give it all we had and soon thereafter we broke away from them, beating them by at least a good 30 seconds. I don't know how we did it. Perhaps we paced ourselves and they just were overconfident and raced in streaks. We did our push after the hill.

It was a great scene to witness -- all that pride and ego and conceited attitude melted away -- the men were visibly broken, defeated, sweat-drenched, humiliated, shocked, and embarrassed. They had their hands on their hips staring at the ground in disbelief and some were arguing with one another. One was crouched on the ground saying "I can't believe we just got our butts kicked... by these girls!" They didn't even want to look at us or shake our hands! So we parted ways. It was definitely a sweet victory for the ladies that day.