baggio248
10-08-2003, 08:31 PM
one good, one bad...
From ap.org
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHIZZINATOR?SITE=CALOS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
"Man Jogs Route 66 to Celebrate Birthday
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Geores Buttner-Clevenger can't escape the fact that he turned 66 last year - the road signs won't let him.
Buttner-Clevenger is jogging historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica in six months and six days as part of an extended birthday celebration.
He's been trying to cover six miles in the morning and six miles in the evening and is set to finish the 2,448-mile trek on Sunday at 6:06 p.m.
The retired radiation technician from Berkeley, now 67, says that along the way, he's been attacked by ticks and slowed by everything from arthritis to muggers. He had to dodge numerous cars and was robbed twice in Oklahoma.
"My adrenaline is keeping me going now," Buttner-Clevenger said, munching an avocado at a rest stop in San Bernardino.
Japan Snorkeler Has 19-Hour Birthday Swim
TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese man thought he would try something new - snorkeling - for his 70th birthday and ended up in a 19-hour swim for his life after being swept out to sea by a strong tide, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Hideo Murasugi set off on his first snorkeling expedition at noon Sunday at a reef on the southern Japan island of Ishigaki, about 1,000 miles south of Tokyo.
His family reported him missing when he didn't return that evening and authorities sent out a search party, according to Ishigaki Maritime Safety Department spokesman Kazuo Toji.
Murasugi swam ashore unassisted Monday morning after spending the night dog-paddling and floating in the water while he waited for the tide to turn. Nineteen hours after entering the water, he made it to shore, Toji said.
Murasugi told officials he had been swept out to sea but realized he was not far from shore when night fell and he was still able to see lights."
From ap.org
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHIZZINATOR?SITE=CALOS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
"Man Jogs Route 66 to Celebrate Birthday
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Geores Buttner-Clevenger can't escape the fact that he turned 66 last year - the road signs won't let him.
Buttner-Clevenger is jogging historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica in six months and six days as part of an extended birthday celebration.
He's been trying to cover six miles in the morning and six miles in the evening and is set to finish the 2,448-mile trek on Sunday at 6:06 p.m.
The retired radiation technician from Berkeley, now 67, says that along the way, he's been attacked by ticks and slowed by everything from arthritis to muggers. He had to dodge numerous cars and was robbed twice in Oklahoma.
"My adrenaline is keeping me going now," Buttner-Clevenger said, munching an avocado at a rest stop in San Bernardino.
Japan Snorkeler Has 19-Hour Birthday Swim
TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese man thought he would try something new - snorkeling - for his 70th birthday and ended up in a 19-hour swim for his life after being swept out to sea by a strong tide, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Hideo Murasugi set off on his first snorkeling expedition at noon Sunday at a reef on the southern Japan island of Ishigaki, about 1,000 miles south of Tokyo.
His family reported him missing when he didn't return that evening and authorities sent out a search party, according to Ishigaki Maritime Safety Department spokesman Kazuo Toji.
Murasugi swam ashore unassisted Monday morning after spending the night dog-paddling and floating in the water while he waited for the tide to turn. Nineteen hours after entering the water, he made it to shore, Toji said.
Murasugi told officials he had been swept out to sea but realized he was not far from shore when night fell and he was still able to see lights."