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(Message started by: Racer1_NC on Apr 6^th, 2005, 1:37am)

Title: My hero.....
Post by Racer1_NC on Apr 6^th, 2005, 1:37am

Flu snaps man's 20-year streak of skiing every day

Associated Press
Apr. 5, 2005 08:30 AM

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine - Paul Schipper's ski streak is over, but not forgotten.

For more than two decades he skied the slopes at Sugarloaf in Maine without missing a single day. That's nearly 4,000 consecutive days during ski season.

The 81-year-old skier's streak came to an abrupt end in January when he came down with the flu. But the folks at Sugarloaf are immortalizing The Streak, by naming a trail for Schipper and submitting his name to the Guinness people for a world record.

Schipper doubts anyone will be able to break his skiing streak. He says nobody's that crazy.

Title: Re: My hero.....
Post by Langa on Apr 6^th, 2005, 9:19am

LOL! 81 yo, skiing every day? You gotta give it to him cause I have to use every ounce of will power just to get on the treadmill 3 times a week.

Have you ever actually seen a Guiness World Record book? Some people are crazy indeed… :o

Langa

Title: Re: My hero.....
Post by sandie99 on Apr 6^th, 2005, 12:20pm

We all do need heroes, don't we? ;)

Title: Re: My hero.....
Post by lionsound on Apr 6^th, 2005, 12:29pm

There was a big article about this guy in the paper up here a few months back. Said that he even skied in blizzards, with a broken leg, and woke up at some crazy hour to ski before his son's wedding and made it back to ski the next day.

It also said that he is kind of relieved to be done with the record too.

Pretty incredible stuff.