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As a life long rock climber and also endurance athlete, I think Katie Hill lead climbing 5.12a (I don’t know that specific route but let’s assume the grade is accurate) is WAY better than running a 3:49 marathon, even at age 54. Just for comparison’s sake, the very first 5.12 in the world climbed by a man of any age was around 1960 (this could be argued but approximately), and only a handful of men in the world had done that by 1975 so it’s not like it was suddenly everyone doing it. Meanwhile, a 3:49 is so attainable (relatively speaking of course) that I’m sure we don’t even know the first time that was run - likely a thousand years ago or more. Lots of people (mostly Kenyan) could run a 3:49 off the couch, and many many people could train and run 3:49.