Montana State News

By MADELEINE SHERRIER/Montana State News

After a 20 year battle with deadly criminals on the streets of Chicago, Jim Hanrahan fights a new fight – cancer.

This Bozeman resident has just spent an exciting powder day at Bridger after having been diagnosed with stage one throat cancer just three days earlier. He is happy as can be and out of breath with excitement as he sits down for the interview.

Hanrahan was born on the south side of Chicago in the 1940’s. He hitchhiked across the country in 1963 order to dodge the draft of the Vietnam War. After months of traveling the country with nothing, Jim found himself in Steamboat, Colo.

“I will never forget the first time I saw people skiing, I mean I had seen it in pictures and things, but being an Irish kid from Chicago it was unlike anything else. They looked like they were flying.” More

Trainer Lisa Lupo poses with her husband at their local Crossfit center.

By MICHELE McDONALD/Montana State News

Muscle-up. Say it. It just sounds hard. Learn what it is – an athlete must move from a position below a set of hanging rings to a supported position above the rings, with straight arms – and it sounds even harder. Try it—do a pull-up bringing your chest to the level of the rings; this is the easy part. Then push your body upwards ending with your arms straight at your sides. When you find yourself 10 feet off the ground, your suspicions about its difficulty will be confirmed.

The muscle-up is one of the most challenging movements Crossfit athletes are expected to perform, and it strikes fear into the hearts of even the best of them. Lisa Lupo’s accomplishment of one of the hardest moves in Crossfit is extraordinary because muscle-ups are not a strength of hers.

Lupo hasn’t suffered for lack of skill in too many elements of Crossfit. At 5-foot-1 and 115 pounds, the 34-year-old can clean-and-jerk 140 pounds, snatch 95 pounds, deadlift 230 pounds and back-squat 195 pounds. She can do handstand push-ups, pull-ups, single-leg squats and rope climbs to her hearts content. More

By MELINDA PEIRCE/Montana State News

If was a chance phone call that took Sheila Golie from her bank teller’s job to part-time gym “manager” at Total Fitness in Livingston.

Sheila Golie stands outside the Livingston fitness center where she works part time.

Carol Stern, the owner and her boss, openly claims Golie runs the place. Golie firmly disagrees with this notion, because although there are many tasks she helps Stern with, there are many more she chooses not to do under a manager’s title.

So how did Golie go from a bank teller to being told she runs a local gym?  Some may say fate, but she might say it was from believing in the scripture.

One day while she was working the drive up window, a phone on the nearby desk rang.  Golie was the only one there, and since she did not have customers at the drive up teller window she decided to answer it. More