People will call it luck. Let them. You know about the hundred practice runs.

Outcomes are visible and preparation is not, so people explain the first with whatever they can see. Calling it luck is rarely meant as an insult, it is just the only story available to someone who missed the years underneath. Correcting them costs energy and changes very little.

Let the misreading stand and keep your own record honest. Remember what it cost, because that memory is what you will need the next time something has to be built from nothing. The people who were there already know.