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Personal Narrative: My Savage Race

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Due to schedule conflicts, this was my first and only Savage Race for 2016 and I returned to Maryland, for what was one of my favorite races back in 2014. • Pre-race MC: This was my fourth Savage Race to date, but the first time Matty T was the MC and I came away very impressed. He clearly is not in the mold of Coach Pain or Sean Corvelle when it comes to his style, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t awesome, because he did a great job of firing up and motivating the two waves I ran Saturday and he gets everyone involved both vocally and physically and sends the waves out fired up and smiling. • The Course: Per my GPS, the course was just over 6 miles in distance (for both laps) and started out with a longer than I am used to sprint before arriving to the first obstacle. The course was about a mile a half in and at that point arrived to obstacle # 3. The initial trail run was through a nice and safe section of woods and the first obstacle on the course was Low Crawl, which was a barbed-wire crawl and then came another pretty long sprint back into the woods and eventually exited and came to Barn Doors, which was an 8-foot ladder wall climb up, and then back down. The course continued on for another brief sprint and made its way to if memory serves …show more content…

The course had another about half of mile sprint (mostly in the woods) and exited and then came to one of the newer Savage Race obstacles, “On The Fence”, which was a chain-link fence suspended over water and racers have to traverse across without falling in. I really liked this new obstacle because it’s a good challenge and also reminded me of my childhood running away from cops when my friends and I would get in trouble

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