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Article: Carpenter is no longer sky-high for Ascent
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 17, 2002
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Matt Carpenter is one of the world's best skyrunners, a guy who
has dominated marathon races (26.2 miles) above 14,000 feet.
His lung capacity is legendary: In 1992, he recorded a VO-2 rating
(the maximum amount of oxygen that can be removed from circulating
blood and used by the working tissues during a specified period) of
90.2, the highest ever by a runner.
But nothing took his breath away like what happened July 9: his
wife, Yvonne, gave birth to daughter Kyla Carpenter.
"It's awesome. It's everything we hoped it would be," said Matt,
sitting on a sofa in his Manitou Springs home. "I stare at her for
hours."
It's telling that Carpenter can sit still for that long. It's
evidence that ...