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Eco Challenge Resume
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My strongest sport and greatest experience is with running. While running isn't an aspect of the Eco Challenge, the strength and endurance gleened from my running will be a great asset. My three greatest running adventures (Thanksgiving Pilgrimage, C&O Saunter, Cape Cod Caper) and events like several 24-hour runs and the Colorado Relay testify to my endurance, energy, drive and tenacity. I am also good at doing something for days with little or no sleep which is why my friends call me a "machine" (just ask anyone at work too!). I have run about 15 marathons and one 50-miler. Within the next 12 months I hope to run the following marathons to reach my 7-continents goal: Great Wall of China Marathon, Two Oceans Marathon (S.Africa) (56km/36miles actually), Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Marathon and Antarctic Marathon. So I plan on being in great endurance shape this year anyway! Personal running records: 800m-1:58, mile-4:28, 10K-33:58, marathon 2:40, 50mile-7:08:08 |
I have built two cedar-strip/fiberglass canoes and hope to build a cedar-strip/fiberglass sea kayak someday. I inherited two homemade plywood kayaks after high school and still have one (the other one is in kayak heaven). I've organized canoe/camping trips in PA down the West Branch of the Susquehanna (and might again this spring) and down the Grand Canyon of PA. I also have paddled amongst the lesser-rapids (sorry, I don't know what class they are) on the Potomac below Great Falls, mostly in my canoes. The second canoe, I designed and built to use in triathlons that require canoes (eg. Gosh Billings Runaround in MA). As for pack rafting, I have rafted the Yough several times, once with rafts we rented ourselves (not with a guide), rafted the Colorado(?) river, and rafted the (?) river in upstate New York requiring a wet suit. (National Geographic has a COOL video of an Iceland Adventure!) |
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I do have experience and introductory training in mountaineering, but nothing extensive. In 1990 I climbed Long's Peak (14,256ft) the tallest mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. I got introductory lessons in mountaineering and the use of crampons and an ice axe which we used to climb up a small glacier. We were roped up into two groups of three for that section. I've also done some mountain day hikes in places like Yosemite (eg. Half Dome) and King's Canyon. I own two sets of rapelling/climbing ropes and the associated gear (carabiners, etc.). I haven't used an ascender, I haven't had a need to, but that should be easy to learn. I have been climbing/rapelling since 1975. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I am experienced and comfortable with it. |
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February 21, 2001 (updated May 22, 2003)