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00:00In the beginning, it was really just me and Wendy.
00:111976 and 77, I think she rode Mount Tam every day of the year.
00:17So she was really fit.
00:20It was really just more Wendy being Wendy.
00:24I loved riding with Wendy.
00:27She was the first woman to race repack.
00:29The first three races, I raced it.
00:33I crashed.
00:34I really seriously crashed.
00:37She also carried a camera with her.
00:40Whenever you see the photographers, hold on.
00:43You see them like where it's the most dangerous.
00:46And yeah, there would be Wendy.
00:50Krodo mountain biking was about as macho
00:52as skateboarding in the 70s, which is you
00:55don't see any girls at all.
00:59Someone's perception of what a woman is capable of doing.
01:03Oh yeah, I've been getting in shape all my life for it.
01:07Wendy's presence almost certainly shamed those guys.
01:11It's possible without Wendy, that longest running event
01:15in mountain biking would not still be running.
01:18I mean, as to ask what she did with her camera.
01:21People had to see it to believe it.
01:23All these places, all these people, all these things,
01:26all these adventures.
01:28She really kept the history alive.
01:32I think pretty much she's the only one.
01:36All these guys said, I bet you can't do that.
01:39So I had to prove myself.