Rob Dickens Rugged Maniac

It was founded in 2010 by former attorneys brad scudder and rob dickens to produce the popular obstacle course race series rugged maniac.

Rob dickens rugged maniac.

Margaret schlachter talks to rob dickens about the rugged maniac merger with new media investment group on the heels of the 10 4 million dollar deal announced last week. For 2017 anyone who wants to compete for. We had such a great day at the rugged maniac 5k obstacle race on july 13th i decided to looking into sponsoring a tent at next years event. Rugged maniac is 3 1 miles of crazy obstacles followed by a day long festival of games music and drinks.

Inaugural rugged maniac event in new england. Participants are promised mud fire beer music and glory. Rugged events is the production company behind the rugged maniac obstacle race series and more than 90 premier endurance events in the u s and canada following the acquisition rugged events will become a key component of new media s events company gatehouse live. In october 2010 the very first rugged maniac event was held in southwick massachusetts where they hosted over 2 000.

May 29 2013. Rugged maniac was first established in june 2010 by founder and ceo brad scudder a former attorney. Despite intense competition from other obstacle course race ocr companies the series quickly. Bradford scudder and rob dickens pitch their traveling 5k obstacle course they call rugged maniac in shark tank episode 522.

Rob dickens the co founder and coo was previously a corporate lawyer on wall street at milbank tweed hadley mccloy. Rob dickens co founder of rugged maniac recently sent out an e mail explaining the way this event will time competitors going forward. Well rob dickens and brad scudder the founders of extreme obstacle course event company rugged races are betting you ll want to and if the company s current success is any indication you won t. According to the boston globe new media investment group recently acquired an 80 percent stake of rugged maniac for 10 4 million business partners rob dickens and brad scudder will hold on to.

After relying on timing chips and then making timing chips optional at an additional cost the race has decided to do away with timing chips entirely. Rugged races is a division of gatehouse live a new media investment group company. While it s been tough going at times as they duel for market share with better funded competitors tough mudder and spartan race a 1 75 million investment from mark cuban on shark tank last year allowed scudder ceo and dickens coo to expand.