Extreme Endurance Climbing!

Today I challenged myself to beat my previous 8 non-stop climbs at the 23% grade beach ramp in Redondo, CA. I don't know how but I pushed myself to the breaking point and did 15 climbs, non-stop! That's 6,450 feet up & down, and 3,225 in total climb distance. Did it on my KH 29er.

Took about 19 grueling minutes to complete, but for the video I sped up the descents and most of each climb in order to shorten it to just a couple minutes. Doing this many climbs in a row felt harder than climbing Fargo St! Thanks to Augie for the inspiration to go for it!

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We don't get many like you on an Over50's forum UniGeezer.
You must be as fit as a 20 year old to do stuff like that.

Well done you.

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Haha, thanks Carol. I don't know about today's 20 year olds, but know that I probably could not have done this when I was 20. Up until that exact age, I had been a smoker since the age of about 14, and progressed to 2 packs a day!

Then after quitting cold turkey at 20, I started drinking by age 21, and being a club DJ the booze was flowing non stop! It wasn't until 11/1987 that I quit that as well and have been sober ever since.

I didn't start unicycling until age 50, back in '06. So basically I just decided to start over and try to do things right and make up for lost time.

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Well done UG!

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Don't know about you Terry but my legs were aching after watching that!

Well done, that was quite an achievement!