Long Climb

Every morning before Boulder wakes up, fifteen-year-old Octavio "e;Tavio"e; Reinholt clips into his secondhand Specialized Allez and rides Flagstaff Mountain alone. Three climbs, sometimes four. No coach. No team. No data. Just the grade, his legs, and a conversation between them that has been the clearest thing in his life since he was eleven years old. He has never thought of this as training. H...