- Roz Savage
Infobox Celebrity
name = Rosalind (Roz) Savage
imagesize =
birth_date = birth date and age|1967|12|23
birth_place =Cheshire ,England
website = [http://www.rozsavage.com Roz Savage]
footnotes =Rosalind (Roz) Savage is a British amateur rower and runner.
Background
Savage was born on
December 23 1967 inCheshire . She took up rowing atUniversity College ,Oxford , and went on to gain two half-blues for representingOxford againstCambridge , and to win blades with the Univ Women's 1st VIII in 1988 and 1989.Fact|date=September 2008In 2003 she became a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society and took part in an Anglo-American expedition that discoveredInca ruins in theAndean cloudforests nearMachu Picchu . She then spent a further three months inPeru , travelling solo and researching her first book, "Three Peaks in Peru".Fact|date=September 2008She ran in the
London andNew York marathon s, finishing in the top 2% for women in each, and has run a personal best of 3 hours 19 minutes.Fact|date=September 2008She was previously a management consultant (Accenture and CHP) and investment banker (UBS), before realising at the age of 34 that there might be more to life than a steady income and a house in the suburbs.Fact|date=September 2008
Her story was filmed as "A Little Silver Boat in a Big Silver Sea" as part of the
ITV1 documentary television series "Is It Worth It? " first broadcast on MondayMarch 12 2007 in the UK. ['Pull of the ocean', "Yorkshire Evening Post",9 March 2007]Ocean Rows
The Atlantic
On
March 14 2006 she completed the first leg by finishing theAtlantic Rowing Race as the only solo female competitor, taking 103 days to complete the crossing. This she did unsupported, despite breaking all four of her oars and having to row with patched-up oars for more than half the race. Her cooking stove failed after only 20 days, then her navigation equipment and music player. She managed to maintain her daily weblog right up until day 80 when hersatellite phone failed, leaving only the movement detected by her positionaltransponder to indicate that she was still alive.Fact|date=September 2008Despite all this, and the danger of having to cut off the rope to her failed
sea anchor in 20 foot waves, she arrived safely at the finish inAntigua . She is only the 5th woman to row solo across theAtlantic from East to West.Roz's book of her Atlantic voyage, "One Stroke at a Time", will be published in autumn 2009 by
Simon & Schuster .Fact|date=September 2008The Pacific
Shortly after her successful Atlantic crossing, she announced her bid to become the first woman ever to row solo across the
Pacific Ocean from the US to Australia. Her intention is to complete it in 3 stages, starting from California in Summer 2008, and breaking her journey inHawaii andTuvalu .Fact|date=September 2008In the morning hours of May 25, 2008, she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, beginning the leg to Hawaii. [http://twitter.com/rozsavage/statuses/819512465]
She is using her endeavour to raise awareness of the environmental crisis facing the world's
oceans . Brocade, a network storage company in Silicon Valley, is Roz's title sponsor for the Pacific row.The TWiT Netcast Network is following her journey in a netcast called 'Roz Rows the Pacific'. [http://www.twit.tv/roz] Host Leo Laporte talks to her over satellite phone three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 1700
UTC . This is broadcast live at TWiT Live, and is also released in netcast form. ['Roz Rows the Pacific', [http://www.twit.tv/roz Netcast webpage] , TWiT.tv]At 6 PM on August 12, 2008, Roz met up with the raft "JUNK" [http://junkraft.blogspot.com] approximately 600 miles from Hawaii. Roz supplied the crew of two with much needed food and received 7.5 gallons of water and a manual water maker in return.
On September 1, 2008 at 5:55am local time, Roz crossed the finish line of the first leg of her trans-Pacific row, becoming the first woman to row solo from California to Hawaii. She completed the crossing from San Francisco to Waikiki in a time of 99 days 8 hours and 55 minutes. The total distance covered was 2,598 nautical miles and took approximately one million oar strokes.Fact|date=September 2008
References
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4804486.stm BBC News, Tuesday, 14 March 2006]
* [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006120132,00.html The Sun Online]
* [http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=7226 Merco Press, Thursday 16 February 2006]
* [https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://www.oceanrowing.com/Press/Catalogue/Press%20ARR%202005.htm&location=http%3A//news.ft.com/cms/s/e09d456a-57c6-11da-8866-00000e25118c.html Financial Times FT.comk, 19 November 2005]
* [http://www.oceanrowing.com/Press/RozSavage_June29.htm Interview by Ocean Rowing Society 29 June 2005]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek_20060412.shtml BBC Radio 4 Interview, 12 April 2006]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/sport/rowing/voyage.shtml BBC Oxford Sport, August 2005]
* [http://www.theoceans.net/news.php?id=1682 TheOcean.net 14 March 2006]
* [http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=4182&ArticleID=1592168 Yorkshire Post Today, 28 June 2006]
* http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070812/ts_alt_afp/environmentwarming
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/rowing/2344010/A-Life-in-Sport-Roz-Savage.htmlExternal links
* [http://www.rozsavage.com Official Website]
* [http://twit.tv/roz Roz Rows The Pacific]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/rozsavage?ob=1 Roz Savage YouTube Channel]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vlVUh-x5bY Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 1]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJSQ0XbfUA Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 2]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSjlhqGwaFg Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 3]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PzQxZZrgUk Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 4]
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