This happened May 17...
Mizuki Takahashi, climber known for skills, smarts, dies at 36 in fall on Alaska peak
By Linda Shaw
Seattle Times staff reporter
PREV of NEXT
Mizuki Takahashi twice climbed Mount Rainier solo.
Mizuki Takahashi didn't start climbing mountains until she was in her 30s. But once she did, she quickly became an elite climber, admired for her athleticism, her smarts and her focus.
In seven years, she successfully reached about 50 peaks, almost never the same one twice. When she wasn't working, she was climbing, or training to climb. Her friends joked that she never sat down to eat a single meal at her kitchen table. Mostly, she dined in her car, on the way to a climb or back.
Ms. Takahashi and Brian Massey fell May 17 while climbing Mount McKinley in Alaska. Ms. Takahashi died at the scene. She was 36. Mr. Massey died the next morning.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003719746_takahashi24m.html
Monday, June 4, 2007
Racer Chicks
In surfing the web trying to find info about Kelly Sutton, I saw that her website is currently down - I betcha hits on it have gone through the roof thanks to Freeman's story and the site's bandwidth has been reached... -
and found this site called Racer Chicks, which apparently deals with all female racers.
So I share it here:
http://www.racerchicks.com/
and found this site called Racer Chicks, which apparently deals with all female racers.
So I share it here:
http://www.racerchicks.com/
Kelly Sutton
http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10212155
I'm not a fan of any kind of race car driving - my interest piques only when there's women involved and then only because I hope they do well - I still won't watch the races.
Which isn't to say that I don't know some women who aren't big fans of the.... well, I guess you have to call it a sport...
Anyway, Mike Freeman's column today was about Kelly Sutton, a woman driver on the "gritty, tough-guy NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series."
A woman with multiple sclerosis who spent a year in a wheel chair, but now thanks to the drup Copaxone is back to racing again.
Very inspiring story - and very interesting - as apparently she can't get any "big-time" sponsors....
I'm not a fan of any kind of race car driving - my interest piques only when there's women involved and then only because I hope they do well - I still won't watch the races.
Which isn't to say that I don't know some women who aren't big fans of the.... well, I guess you have to call it a sport...
Anyway, Mike Freeman's column today was about Kelly Sutton, a woman driver on the "gritty, tough-guy NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series."
A woman with multiple sclerosis who spent a year in a wheel chair, but now thanks to the drup Copaxone is back to racing again.
Very inspiring story - and very interesting - as apparently she can't get any "big-time" sponsors....
Criminitleys
Well, fantasy picks yesterday were a dead loss. Ichiro had 2 non-intentional walks - when was the last time Ichiro had 2 non-intentional walks in a game, that's what I'd like to know! And he was 0-3 and my streak is over again.
Well, I've chosen him again today, because he verrrry rarely does not get a hit in 3 consecutive games.
And the Red Sox lost to the Yanks. Darn them! So, today, will try to start a new streak with the Dodgers.
Well, I've chosen him again today, because he verrrry rarely does not get a hit in 3 consecutive games.
And the Red Sox lost to the Yanks. Darn them! So, today, will try to start a new streak with the Dodgers.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Book: Swimming to Antarctica
A book I'm reading and hope to review in the future:
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
2004
Inner flap:
*At age 14, she swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland
*At ages 15 and 16, she broke the men and women's world records for swimming the English channel
* At 18, she swam the 29 mile Cook Strait, was caught on a massive swell, found herself after five hours farther from the finish then when she started, and still completed the swim
*She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most teacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world.
*The first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the US/Soviet border for the first time in 48 years
*The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (and almost attacked by a shark)
In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.
... She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and recreates the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in 32 degree water without a wetsuit.
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
2004
Inner flap:
*At age 14, she swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland
*At ages 15 and 16, she broke the men and women's world records for swimming the English channel
* At 18, she swam the 29 mile Cook Strait, was caught on a massive swell, found herself after five hours farther from the finish then when she started, and still completed the swim
*She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most teacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world.
*The first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the US/Soviet border for the first time in 48 years
*The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (and almost attacked by a shark)
In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.
... She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and recreates the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in 32 degree water without a wetsuit.
Fantasy picks, June 3
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/index.jsp
MLB Survivor
My current streak is 1. I chose the Red Sox last night over the Yankees and they won. I have the Red Sox again today. Tomorrow, 6/04 I have the Dodgers over the Pirates. 6/05 I've decided to go with the Diamondbacks.
Beat the Streak
My current streak is 7. Yesterday, although I was hoping Ichiro could continue his hitting streak past 25 games, he didn't have a good history with the pitcher he was facing, so I chose Luis Castillo of the Twins instead. (Funnily enough, Castillo is the only one of the Twins who got a hit yesterday...)
Anyway, today I chose Ichiro...he's got a good history with the pitcher he's facing and, after having had his streak stopped at 25, hopefully he'll be able to start a new one.
MLB Survivor
My current streak is 1. I chose the Red Sox last night over the Yankees and they won. I have the Red Sox again today. Tomorrow, 6/04 I have the Dodgers over the Pirates. 6/05 I've decided to go with the Diamondbacks.
Beat the Streak
My current streak is 7. Yesterday, although I was hoping Ichiro could continue his hitting streak past 25 games, he didn't have a good history with the pitcher he was facing, so I chose Luis Castillo of the Twins instead. (Funnily enough, Castillo is the only one of the Twins who got a hit yesterday...)
Anyway, today I chose Ichiro...he's got a good history with the pitcher he's facing and, after having had his streak stopped at 25, hopefully he'll be able to start a new one.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Lou Gehrig began his streak today in 1925
On June 2, 1925, Lou Gehrig, who had been playing for the Yankees for two years, but never as a regular player, took over for Wally Ppp.
From Wikipedia:
On June 1, 1925, Gehrig was sent in to pinch hit for light-hitting shortstop Paul "Pee Wee" Wanninger. The next day, June 2, Yankee manager Miller Huggins started Gehrig in place of regular first baseman Wally Pipp. Pipp was in a slump, as were the Yankees as a team, so Huggins made several lineup changes to boost their performance. Fourteen years later, Gehrig had played 2,130 consecutive games
From Wikipedia:
On June 1, 1925, Gehrig was sent in to pinch hit for light-hitting shortstop Paul "Pee Wee" Wanninger. The next day, June 2, Yankee manager Miller Huggins started Gehrig in place of regular first baseman Wally Pipp. Pipp was in a slump, as were the Yankees as a team, so Huggins made several lineup changes to boost their performance. Fourteen years later, Gehrig had played 2,130 consecutive games
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