Annapolis Resident Attempting the Spartan Death Race

The name of the site alone may scare people away, www.youmaydie.com. Since 2005, endurance athletes have been traveling to Vermont from all over the world to test themselves in a race called Death Race.

An Annapolis resident, Fran Twomey, has registered for the June, 2014 summer death race to push his mind and body beyond anything else previously.

Taken from the Death Race site’s home page:

The Death Race is the ultimate challenge, designed to present you with the unexpected and the completely insane! Nothing else on earth will challenge you like The Death Race, both mentally and physically.

Every Death Race is it’s own uniquely brutal challenge, no two races are alike. The race, created by Ultra athletes Joe De Sena and Andy Weinberg, was developed as a way for athletes to test themselves both mentally and physically. The Death Races take place in the unexpectedly challenging terrain of the Green Mountains in and around Pittsfield, Vermont and have lasted over 70 hours. We provide no support. We don’t tell you when it starts. We don’t tell you when it ends. We don’t tell you what it will entail. We want you to fail and encourage you to quit at any time.

Asked why, he would join something like this, Fran explains, “I want to try different things outside of my comfort zone. I also wouldn’t train as much if I didn’t have events like this to work towards.”