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Rosalind (Roz) Savage is a British amateur rower and runner.
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Background
Savage was born on December 23, 1967 in Cheshire. She took up rowing at University College, Oxford, and went on to gain two half-blues for representing Oxford against Cambridge, and to win blades with the Univ Women's 1st VIII in 1988 and 1989.[1]
In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and took part in an Anglo-American expedition that discovered Inca ruins in the Andean cloudforests near Machu Picchu. She then spent a further three months in Peru, travelling solo and researching her first book, Three Peaks in Peru.[2]
She ran in the London and New York marathons, finishing in the top 2% for women in each, and has run a personal best of 3 hours 19 minutes.[3][4]
She 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.[5]
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 Monday March 12 2007 in the UK.[6]
Ocean Rows
The Atlantic
On March 14, 2006 she completed the first leg by finishing the Atlantic 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 her satellite phone failed, leaving only the movement detected by her positional transponder to indicate that she was still alive.[7]
Despite 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 in Antigua. She is only the 5th woman to row solo across the Atlantic 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.[citation needed]
The 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 in Hawaii and Tuvalu.[8][9]
In the morning hours of May 25, 2008, she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, beginning the leg to Hawaii.[10]
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 followed her journey in a netcast called 'Roz Rows the Pacific'.[11] Host Leo Laporte talked to her over satellite phone three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 1700 UTC. This was broadcast live at TWiT Live, and is also available in netcast form.[12]
At 6 PM on August 12, 2008, Roz met up with the raft "JUNK" [13] 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.[14] [15]
References
- ^ http://www.ouwlrc.org.uk/Crews/crew89.htm
- ^ http://weboptimisernews.com/blog/?m=2499
- ^ http://results.london-marathon.co.uk/2001/list.php
- ^ http://www.nyrrc.org/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/5772.2.010754689316226790
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oct/28/sailing.features
- ^ 'Pull of the ocean', Yorkshire Evening Post, 9 March 2007
- ^ http://www.theblueproject.org/267
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1976465/Roz-Savage-in-solo-row-bid-over-Pacific.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oct/28/sailing.features
- ^ http://twitter.com/rozsavage/statuses/819512465
- ^ http://www.twit.tv/roz
- ^ 'Roz Rows the Pacific', Netcast webpage, TWiT.tv
- ^ http://junkraft.blogspot.com
- ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/01/BA3412MG2A.DTL
- ^ http://www.oceanrowing.com/statistics/index.htm
Further reading
- BBC News, Tuesday, 14 March 2006
- Merco Press, Thursday 16 February 2006
- Financial Times FT.comk, 19 November 2005
- BBC Radio 4 Interview, 12 April 2006
- TheOcean.net 14 March 2006
- Yorkshire Post Today, 28 June 2006
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/rowing/2344010/A-Life-in-Sport-Roz-Savage.html
- http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?tab=all&q=roz+savage
External links
- Official Website
- Roz Rows The Pacific
- Roz Savage YouTube Channel
- Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 1
- Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 2
- Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 3
- Solo woman rows the Atlantic: Part 4
Roz Savage - Eco-Adventurer - REV
An introduction to Roz Savage, Eco-Adventurer, Author, Speaker, including footage from her epic solo rows across the Atlantic (2005) and Pacific (2008).
Author: rozsavage
Keywords: roz savage rower adventurer ocean solo boat environmental pacific rowing speaker eco
Added: October 23, 2008
Rock Star
Roz Savage got recognized at the coffee kiosk in Bolinas this morning, and it's gone to her head...
Author: rozsavage
Keywords: ShoZu roz savage ocean rower book film bolinas california extreme
Added: October 22, 2008
Sunrise on Bolinas Beach
- Taken at 7:02 AM on October 22, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu Roz Savage's first experiment with uploading video from her Nokia N95 phone. Not bad!
Author: rozsavage
Keywords: ShoZu bolinas beach sunrise roz savage ocean rower san francisco california
Added: October 22, 2008
Roz Savage - Eco-Adventurer
An introduction to Roz Savage, Eco-Adventurer, Author, Speaker, including footage from her epic solo rows across the Atlantic (2005) and Pacific (2008).
Author: rozsavage
Keywords: roz savage rower adventurer ocean solo boat environmental pacific rowing speaker eco
Added: October 19, 2008
Roz Savage Showreel UK
Speaker Reel
Author: rozsavage
Keywords: roz savage brocade ocean rower pacific solo speaker rowing boat
Added: October 11, 2008