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www.MOSTmag.com || FITNESS MAG A ZINE || 35choose one piece to hang forever in a place of honor in your home, what would it be?SH: A large canvas painted by the American abstract artist Morris Louis.MFM: Have you ever considered, or decided about, what you want to do after you%u2019ve completed your athletic careers in mountain climbing and in CrossFit?SH: I have no plans to stop climbing or training functional fitness. But after the CrossFit games are over, and I don%u2019t need to train six days a week for the better part of every day, I will take my training back to %u201cnormal%u201d levels and return to mountaineering. There are some unclimbed 6000 meter peaks in the Himalayas that interest me. I also want to get my helicopter pilot%u2019s license recurrent so I can access some remote fly fishing streams. MFM: You%u2019ve had an amazing career in the world of both television and literature, having several books listed on Amazon.com - %u201cMountain: Portraits of High Places%u201d and %u201cFandango: Recipes, Parties, and License to Make Magic%u201d, and appearing in Vogue, Allure, Men%u2019s Journal, and Skiing, among other publications. What do you see yourself writing in the future, and will you ever be sharing your story about your struggles and accomplishments both in climbing and in CrossFit?SH: I will continue to write about my adventure travels as long as magazine editors are still interested in publishing them! As for writing about my CrossFit Games adventure, time will tell. But I am definitely interested in speaking publicly to people about it in the hope that I can inspire more people to discover the joys of living a physical life, at any age.MFM: You mention on your website that you like to surf, and that the locals consider you both a %u201chomie%u201d and a %u201cgrommet%u201d. Which beach has been your favorite surfing experience, and which beaches would you like to surf in the future?SH: My favorite break is %u201cOld Man%u2019s%u201d in San Onofre, California. That wave is small and forgiving, and the ride is long. I started surfing at age 50, so I am not a very good surfer. But Laird Hamilton says that the best surfer is the one having the most fun. By that definition, I am the world%u2019s greatest.MFM: When you are facing a major challenge or hurdle, what process or ritual do you do in order to prepare yourself to face, and overcome, that challenge?SH: I am best working in a total immersion. When I am on a project %u2014 writing a book, climbing a mountain, or planning a party %u2014 I do it at the exclusion of practically anything else and deliberately avoid distractions until I am finished. When facing a hurdle, I just explore all the options I have to work around it, and remain willing to alter my route toward achieving the result, but I do not lose sight of the goal.MFM: What failures have you had to overcome in your athletic career which helped you to reshape or better prepare yourself for future challenges?SH: I wish I had been born a decade later, after Title IX had been enacted. I would have had available to me such a wealth of athletic opportunities. But then, maybe because there were relatively few sport options available when I was a girl, I would never have found mountain climbing. In retrospect, I think I took to climbing because it was the only activity available to me.MFM: When you first started preparing for competition, you underwent a dietary analysis with Precision Food Works to identify the diet you%u2019d need to optimally tune your body for performance output and weight loss to >>>