This reminds me of Jonathan Vaughters' guest entry to Rob Mackey's 'The Climb':

The Tourmalet and Hautacam are some of the toughest mountains ever paved. Conquered in a car, they are majestic and beautiful (as long as the engine doesn’t overheat), ridden on a bicycle, they are hell.

Now maybe Rob will tell us he’s doing this precisely because those mountains are hell. You know, the ‘just to see if I can….’ idea. Well, sure, I can try to shave a fully clawed, feral cat, just to see if I can, but the question here is WHY?!

Indeed. Well done.

As best I can tell, you did not finish DFL. That in itself speaks well for you.