SavageMan Race Report – 2009

Sunday, September 20, 2009
1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run
For me, training for my 3rd SavageMan race was by far the best. It helped to have so many Mid MD Tri Club members and friends training and racing this year. I had such a good time this summer along the way [...]

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 [...]

Another Brick in the (Westernport) Wall?

Savageman Race Report
September 21, 2008 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run
Deep Creek Lake, MD
The swim was delayed by 20 minutes due to fog but I was thrilled to get in the water and get the race started. A few hours earlier I awoke and couldn’t fall back to sleep as [...]

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 [...]