Originally Posted by
chuckb
With some seriousness, this may even be real and a reasonable thing for a 54 year flatlander to do when tackling a ride at an altitude like that...
Bah! I'm 51 and have lived around 400 (four-hundred) feet all my life. A really big hill nearby is only 150 feet. Only 27 months after taking up cycling, 19 months after quitting smoking (for 35 years), on only three functioning lung lobes, and fueled with a waffle breakfast and some Gatorade along the way, I climbed Mt Evans.
Got it up 14,130 feet.
Had to be the waffles.