Solo rower across the Atlantic returns to Ohio-used 4 iPods, 300 chocolate bars, audiobooks

[The Straight Story]

Solo rower across the Atlantic returns to Ohio
Sunday, April 18, 2010 9:58 AM

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio (AP) - A woman who became youngest person to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone says she got through the journey with four iPods, 300 chocolate bars and 100 audiobooks.

Katie Spotz spent more than two months alone at sea before completing her feat in March. The 22-year-old athlete spoke about the adventure at a welcome-home party Saturday in suburban Cleveland.

Spotz said her training included more than 100 hours meditating to help cope with the loneliness of rowing for 10 hours a day. She said the hardest part of the journey was sleeping in cramped quarters and battling sleep deprivation. She split the rowing into two-hour shifts and spent time sending e-mails and Twitter messages.

Spotz, from Mentor, Ohio, set out from Dakar, Senegal, on Jan. 3 and finished Mach 14 in Georgetown, Guyana.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/18/boat-row.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

[onehandle]

1. Oh, she decided to take the short path.

I would have started rowing in Ohio.

Wimp.

[alfredo]

2. I have a friend that sailed across in a bath tub sized boat.

http://www.godstear.net/ Read the articles in the media tab. They thought he was lost at sea, he nearly died, but Wayne is a survivor.