Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at lashua.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Lashua.
Examples
-
Saturday August 13, 2011 ACT drivers also enjoy a day in the sun Brad Leighton (55) of Center Harbor, and Donnie Lashua (08) of Canaan compete in the American-Canadian Tour Race Saturday morning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.
All Stories 2011
-
Lashua, who has run marathons in the United States, in Prague, and on the Great Wall of China -- as well as a 120-mile ultra-marathon last year through the Libyan desert -- said his travels are about more than running.
-
There were 70 finishers in total, whose ages ranged from 24 to 67, Lashua said.
-
The Libyan Challenge, a 200-kilometer trek through the Libyan desert that Lashua made in
-
Lashua, 46, had three weeks to prepare for his journey to the bottom of the world, but said his local runs this winter -- when the temperature hovered in the teens -- set him up well to run in Antarctica, where the summer temperature was about 30 degrees on race day.
-
Lashua, who worked as a corrections officer at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley and retired as a lieutenant in 2008, now has a flexible schedule doing consulting work in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, so he was able to pick up and leave.
-
The course was a muddy, somewhat hilly route, a little more than 10 kilometers run four times, to equal 26.2 miles, Lashua said.
-
The group slept every night on the ship, an older, Russian vessel, where Lashua shared a room with two other runners.
-
Lashua left with his marathon peers from Ushuaia, Argentina, on a two-day sail through the Drake passage, a route through some notoriously rough seas.
-
Australia is now the only continent Lashua hasn't seen, and he plans to make an extended visit around his eventual marathon there.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.