Ironman dreams spark Vineman reality in Wine Country – Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Ironman dreams spark Vineman reality in Wine Country
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In 1989, Russ Pugh was a young man in Kansas with a crazy dream: “I wanted to put on an Ironman.” Back then, almost no one knew what an Ironman, or ultra distance triathlon, was. In fact, at the time there wasn’t an ultra distance triathlon (a 2.4-mile …