Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
She's Z1 or low Z2, all the time. She is absolutely perfectly conditioned to do what she's doing, day after day after day. Send her to the Alps, and there's a 50/50 chance she'll blow up like a balloon with a grenade in it. She's climbed 109k feet in 47.5k miles-- that's 2.3ft/mi. I'm not a serious climber (over 200lbs and all) and I'm at 42ft/mi for the year 231k vertical feet in just 5,500 miles.
Her FTP watts/kg are in excess of 5 and her endurance is off the charts. I wouldn't put money on her "blowing up" on any climb.