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VC Uncovered · Samantha Klingelhofer, Infinity Ventures

Hitting the Wall at 13,000 Feet

“I thought I was going to fucking die... there's just a gear you click into where nothing else matters.”

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yourself. I distinctly remember the summer I was at a race in Colorado, and the big climb gets up to like close to 13,000 feet of elevation, and you're on a mountain bike. That is the highest I've ever, ever been ever, there is no accident up there. I thought it was going to fucking die, like actually it was, it was shareable,

people are passing me, people are off their bikes, it's like quite technical, and there's just kind of a level, there's a gear that you click into where you're like, nothing else matters, fuck it, this is the most important thing I need to get through this, and this

is temporary, and I'll look back in four hours once I finish this race and be so incredibly stoked that I got through that. I mean, it's, you know, it's funny, I do feel like there's so many parallels to

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