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, [...]

Immortalized in Brick?

From the Savageman Triathlon website:
While the Westernport Wall may have claimed many victims in the SavageMan Half Triathlon’s first year, many Savages attempted and conquered the Wall as well. And those who did are to be rewarded with triathlon immortality: personally engraved bricks laid in the Wall for future Savage triathletes to ride over and [...]

An ‘08 Challenge?

That is the question I now face. The ‘07 Challenge was a success and I have the desire to do something again this year. But it’s getting late in the year and I wonder if I have the time to train for a challenge. And if I do, will it have to [...]

RFL and RAAM

No, RFL and RAAM are not some hip IM or text-messaging words. At least not is this context.
RFL – Cancer doesn’t Sleep
The Relay for Life was held last Friday and Saturday (June 6 & 7) in Columbia, MD.  A member of the Mid Maryland Triathlon Club, Melissa Simmens, was to run for 12 hours [...]