SavageMan – The Weeks Prior

Two weeks prior to the race, a group of 10 Mid MD Tri Club members headed out to Frederick County for a training ride. I’d heard of others doing this so-called “Happy Happy Pain Pain” ride and knew it would be good training. At 7:30 AM wheels were rolling, and climbing right out [...]

I Walk a Lonely Road

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone
- Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
That’s not necessarily true but at times, when I’m training for events, it feels that way. I s’pose it all goes back to June 25, [...]

SavageMan Training and Fundraising

On August 15, a group of friends from the Mid MD Tri Club headed to Deep Creek Lake for some pre-race training. By 12:40 pm we had checked in to the campground and were heading out on our bikes to tackle the brutal 56 mile course.

I did the race in each of the first [...]