Rob Dickens Rugged Maniac

Rugged races is a division of gatehouse live a new media investment group company.

Rob dickens rugged maniac.

May 29 2013. Rob dickens co founder of rugged maniac recently sent out an e mail explaining the way this event will time competitors going forward. Participants are promised mud fire beer music and glory. 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.

Rob dickens rugged maniac interview. This led me to speak with rob dickens the coo of rugged races. 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. Rob dickens the co founder and coo was previously a corporate lawyer on wall street at milbank tweed hadley mccloy.

For 2017 anyone who wants to compete for. Rugged maniac was first established in june 2010 by founder and ceo brad scudder a former attorney. 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. 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.

It was founded in 2010 by former attorneys brad scudder and rob dickens to produce the popular obstacle course race series rugged maniac. 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. In october 2010 the very first rugged maniac event was held in southwick massachusetts where they hosted over 2 000. Rob dickens and brad scudder dug into their own savings to launch rugged maniac in 2011.

Despite intense competition from other obstacle course race ocr companies the series quickly. 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. Bradford scudder and rob dickens pitch their traveling 5k obstacle course they call rugged maniac in shark tank episode 522.