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Another thing he’s been building up is
his endurance. He had a personal goal to
complete a full triathlon before his 40th
birthday, and he did so in 2011 as part of the
Revolution3 Triathlon Series in Cedar Point,
Ohio. It was a four-year odyssey of training,
he explained, interrupted by a pleasure-
boating accident three years ago that set
him back a year.
The 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bicycle ride
and 26.2-mile run left him “limping along by
the end!” he said with a laugh. But he made it.
After finishing, Senko sometimes found
himself wondering why he spent so much
time and a “significant amount of money”
— entry fees, hotel, food, transportation to
the venue, etc. — simply in order “to torture
myself.”
Senko, who has a 9-year-old son, Garrett,
remarried in January 2012. He expects to
stay in Baltimore for the long haul —but with
no plans for another Ironman in sight!
NYK Line began life as the Tsukumo
Shokai Shipping Company in 1870. Five
years later, the twice-renamed company
inaugurated Japan’s first passenger liner
service, with a route from Yokohama to
Shanghai. Then, in 1885, a merger with
Kyodo Unyu Kaisha (founded in 1882)
led to the adoption of the company’s
present name. The merged company had
a fleet of 58 steamships and expanded its
operations rapidly, first to other ports of
the East, and eventually around the world.
As the demand for passenger ships
dwindled in the 1960s, the company
expanded its cargo operations. But NYK
revived its passenger ship business in
1989, with cruise ships operated by its
newly formed subsidiary, Crystal Cruises,
which is now considered the world’s
premier luxury cruise ship company
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ABOUT NYK:
