Good for your wife.
I saw plenty of ladies doing the Death ride last year. Many of them, especially the tiny, lightweight ones did very well.
There were also some "hefty" ones that we continued to pass for several hours into the ride. I started at the mass start at 5:30am and could not figure how in the world I was continuing to pass some of these people so far into the ride. Chatting with people along the way I learned that many people, having attempted to finish unsuccessfully in the past due to cut-off times, started the ride much earlier than the official start time. Some left as early as 3:00am in order to make the final cut-off and finish by about 8:00 pm.
There were even several kids, probably under 14 or 15 years old that finished all 5 passes.
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