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| Cathy Tibbetts
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The Dispatches Satellite phone updates from the marathon
Post-Race Marathon Hints Tuesday, April 20, 1999 6:28 am (PST)
"Don't count on the highly touted Medical Team for anything whatsoever...bring everything no matter what the race organization tells you..."
And the Winner Is... Monday April 12, 1999 1:12 am (PST)
"This course would have been brutal at any altitude, rocky and treacherous most of the way, marathons just don't get any tougher..."
Dropping Like Flies Thursday, April 8, 1999 9:58 pm (PST)
"We had to put a woman in a Gamov bag this morning who's suffering from acute mountain sickness..."
Miserable with Altitude Sickness Wednesday, April 7, 1999 12:08 am (PST)
"Fellow American Jan Richardson and I spent the day laying around miserable with altitude sickness. Quite a blow to a couple a self professed hotshots like ourselves..."
Resting Pulses Rise Saturday, April 3, 1999 6:54 pm (PST)
"Sergio is annoyed that his resting pulse has shot up to 61. Like everyone else he's used to something closer to 40..."
Process of Elimination Saturday, April 3, 1999 1:55 am (PST)
"This afternoon we huffed and puffed our way along the last six miles of the race course..."
Day Nine at Namche Bazaar Friday, April 2, 1999 3:38 am (PST)
"We decided to hike only a half day and spend the afternoon relaxing, except by mid afternoon most were out on the trail running..."
Fun Runs & Drunken Card Games Monday, March 29, 1999 11:27pm (PST)
"With this group, daylong grinds up and down the mountains are followed by
an evening run before dinner..."
Into Clean Air Monday, March 22, 1999 12am (PST)
"Our band of marathoners has deserted jobs and families for a
month simply to run a trail among the peaks. Except we have been in Kathmandu for three days and haven't seen any mountains. The air is that bad..."
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