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BARROW JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
Barrow resident takes on Death Race’
By Blair Spiva Rivkin
mbspiva @ yahoo, com
The phrase “Death Race”
might raise a few eyebrows.
Not for Steve Power.
Barrow County's resident
extreme sports competitor
and trainer is taking the omi
nously sounding challenge on,
and he’s doing it going full
throttle.
Power will travel to Vermont
with his team of supporters on
June 15, 2012 to begin what
will be his first Death Race.
According to the local resi
dent, around 200 competitors
enter the grueling competi
tion, but only 35-60 people
actually cross the finish line.
“It's a 48-hour endurance
race,” Power explained. “It’s
just as much mental as it is
physical. The tasks and obsta
cles are different each year.
They try to break you men
tally.”
Power is constantly training
for various endurance races,
such as the Spartan Race and
the Beast Race that he has
also taken on in years past. He
said that he plans to gradually
add more and more tedious,
trying techniques to his work
out as the date for the Death
Race nears.
“If you see me walking
around at 2 or 3 a.m. carrying
a log and rock, that’s what I'm
doing: training,” he said. “The
biggest part of my training
will be to get myself ready
mentally. I need to get com
fortable with being uncom
fortable for long periods of
time.”
The never-satisfied endur
ance competitor said that,
even though he has studied
videos and spoken to past rac
ers, he’s trying not to dwell on
what obstacles the organizers
could be dreaming up for the
upcoming challenge.
“The theme for this race
is ‘Betrayal.' So, they could
STEVE POWER
even change the date at the
last moment,” he said. “I
believe that I will be bet
ter off mentally trying not
to anticipate what will hap
pen. That would be unwanted
stress. Every year has been
different. Mentally, I just get
used to doing the same thing
and learn to ignore pain, cold,
boredom, sleep, hunger and
thirst. I want be deprived of
these things and be pushed to
my limits.
“This is more of a mental
challenge from the informa
tion that I've gathered. If your
mind gives up, then your body
follows.”
Power admitted that he gets
some strange looks when he
tells friends and family that
he’s competing in a Death
Race.
“When I say ‘Death Race,’
I have a lot of explaining to
do,” he said. “Mainly about
why I would even want to do
something about this.”
For Power, it’s not about
simply completing a race or
even the competition itself.
He said that he is always striv
ing to challenge himself as
a human being, to discover
what he is truly made of and
to satisfy the continuous curi
osity of learning exactly what
he's capable of putting him
self through, physically, men
tally and psychologically.
“I’m never satisfied,” he
said. “That’s what keeps me
coming back to these chal
lenges.”
Power will be staring down
the challenge on his own.
However, he said that he will
have a team of supporters
there to keep him going.
“My girlfriend, Stacy
Shuler, my sister, Caroline
Power Evans, Kate Hovan,
Peggy Grimes and a couple
of friends from Pennsylvania
will be there for me,” he said.
“It will be just as tough on
them as it will be for me. I
couldn’t do it without them.”
Aside from his own person
al training and goals. Power is
always offering training and
support for all ages of Barrow
residents who wish to experi
ence such endurance contests
as the Spartan Race, which
will be held in March, or sim
ply to help people learn how
to embrace and enjoy living
a healthier lifestyle. He said
that his Power Thru camps
are currently planning to offer
special training camps in the
next few months to help inter
ested parties prepare for the
March Spartan Race.
Power said that his crew is
busy looking for sponsors to
aid with the financial burden
of making the trip to Vermont,
and that the group plans to
hold several fundraisers in the
midst of the rigorous training
schedule.
“Just to finish this race will
be a huge success,” he said.
“I’m doing this to show every
one that you can do anything
you want, no matter how big
or hard, if you set your mind
to it.”
For more information about
Steve Power's upcoming
Death Race, to sponsor or to
learn more about his Power
Thru camps, contact him at
770-307-7599 or via e-mail at
stevepower1969 @ yahoo.com.
AT ATTENTION
Color Guards from the Winder-Barrow High School and Apalachee High School
JROTCs present the flags at Barrow County of Board of Education meetings. This
WBHS Color Guard had the honor at the Oct. 11 meeting. Photo by Lorin Sinn-Clark
Barrow County begins its Celebration of
15 years of Hope Thru Relay For Life
2.2 million raised in 14 Years for American Cancer Society
Research and Programs
Show your Relay Passion at the Purple Passion Party —
everyone to come dressed in their favorite purple outfit or costume.
We will be recognizing the honorary chairs for the past 14 years
and or their families will be there to help us remember those we have lost thru the years.
Kick-off date November 1st, 2011
Constance Manor, Church Street
5:30 - 6pm food sponsored by Chick-fil-A • 6-7:30 Program
The community is invited to attend to help us celebrate this
milestone of 15 years of Hope, raising over 2.2 Million dollars.
Contact info for Relay to be a team, sponsor or just volunteer
Victoria Patrick, 770-307-7956 or Victoria.patrick@cancer.org
To start your team go to www.relayforlife.org/barrowga
2012 Relay For Life of Barrow County will be on May 11-12, 2012 at WBHS Football
Stadium
Other info below about Relay etc.
Relay For Life events are held overnight as individuals and teams camp out at an athletic track, park or
other gathering area, with the goal of keeping at least one team member on the track or pathway at all
times throughout the evening. Teams do most of their fundraising prior to the event, but some teams also
hold creative fundraisers at their camp sites during Relay. Relay brings together friends, families,
businesses, hospitals, schools, faith-based groups ... people from all walks of life - all aimed at furthering
the American Cancer Society’s efforts to save lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well,
by finding cures and by fighting back.
Relay For Life began in May 1985, when Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon, took the first step of his
24-hour walk around a track in Tacoma, Wash., and raised $27,000 to support the American Cancer
Society.
The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save
lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of more than three million volunteers, we
fight for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. We save lives by helping people
stay well by preventing cancer or detecting it early; by helping people get well by being there for them
during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and
by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities
worldwide to join the fight. As the nation’s largest non-governmental investor in cancer research,
contributing about $3.4 billion, we turn what we know about cancer into what we do. As a result, more than
11 million people in America who have had cancer and countless more who have avoided it will be
celebrating birthdays this year. To learn more about us or to get help, call us anytime, day or night, at 1-
800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.
THE GREAT BEYOND
The young members of the Barrow-Jackson Civil Air Patrol, GA156, participated in
an O Flight at the Athens airport recently. An O Flight is when a cadet goes up with
a CAP pilot in a Cessna or glider. The type of flight depends on how much train
ing the cadet has had and can range from watching and observing to co-piloting
the plane. During this particular O Flight day only two cadets got to go up due to
weather conditions. Cadet Daniel Dzimianski (top) is shown next to the plane he
went up in.
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