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Summary
My first year of climbing had been very frustrating. For the first time I was terrible at something athletic. My prospects for improving were poor. Menopause, lack of climbing partners, a less than ideal body type and joints stiffened by thirty years of endurance training all worked against me.
Then after the surgery and change of life and other unpleasantness, it occurred to me I could figure out a better way to go and started going out on my own. My style of climbing ignored the rules for acceptable, proper climbing. But I stuck to my guns and it paid off in spades. Over the next six years I worked out an optimal self-belay setup, built a dozen or more trails for accessing local crags, created new climbing routes, restored abandoned ones, and found my way in the hills.
Along the way were beautiful sunsets, sunrises, endless vistas of San Diego's rugged backcountry, and discovering that having faith in yourself is the best kind of faith.
Author Biography
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The author, then more commonly known as "The Osprey", is riding a Bike Friday around Qualcomm Stadium. It belonged to the person who took this photo. She and eight other volunteers would be loyal and unswerving crew members over the next twelve days in the 2012 edition of the epic endurance event, Race Across America. Yes, this is an older photo of me. I retired from ultra-endurance cycling in 2015.
Oh, the reason I was riding around the stadium was for the crew to get used to driving the van, rather different from a sedan, as well as practice direct follow, "leapfrog" follow, and other essentials of a support team. Much easier here than in traffic and busy streets.
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