http://bencollins.org Confessions of the Highly Motivated Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:27:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I came down with a fever. I was nauseous, hot, and achy all over. Then it went away, I felt like crap for another day and didn't train, and then I felt awesome and gradually started getting back into a routine. Looking back, it wasn't gradual enough, but ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/03/dont-train-through-a-fever Last weekend I got to see Courtenay - which was awesome - but the bitterness of saying goodbye to her for the next few months marked the start of an unexceptional week. I had some knee pain that started after running in the snow in Boulder over the weekend, then ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/03/bathroom-humor I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Boulder right now with Courtenay Brown, Rory Seiter, and Mojdeh Hamidi. We've been spending the last couple of hours interrupting each other and getting stuff sort of done while at The Laughing Goat on Pearl Street. "Getting stuff done" consists of Rory ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/the-good-life [caption id="attachment_1625" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="BURRRRRRR!!!!! Ben Collins getting ready to bike in the snow"][/caption] A few weeks ago Courtenay got into a graduate program at CU-Boulder. This week they flew here out here to visit, so naturally I drove up from Colorado Springs to spend the weekend with her. I haven't ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/boulder-recruiting-trip This isn't the first time I've been to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, but it always seems to surprise me how awesome it is here! And now that I'm taking up residency at the Training Center, there's way more cool stuff that's open to me. I got here Saturday ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/my-first-week-as-a-resident-athlete It’s been a week now since I started the sneak peek  of my OpenSky Store. This week I’m still waiting for a bunch of my favorite recovery equipment to be sourced, so in the meantime I’m participating in an Opensky promotion with what I have – a jump rope! ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/cross-training-make-you-wanna-jump-jump I moved into the Olympic Training Center today as a resident athlete. Unfortunately, the resident dorms were flooded a few months back and repairs are not yet finished, so I have been relegated to the barracks. These three cinder block buildings – relics left from when the campus was ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/the-barracks This week I’m giving a sneak peak* of my new Opensky store. The Open Sky Project is a community of bloggers who share their favorite products with readers. Opensky sources, ships, and accepts payments for all the good that are sold through the community, and then shares the profits ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/opensky-for-the-highly-motivated-sneak-peak Monday morning I said Aloha to my Canadian friends after a relaxing dip in the ocean and a muddy last jaunt through the cane fields of Paia. I came back to Oahu and decided that I would basically repeat the workouts from the week because I felt strong and ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/02/a-week-alone-with-everyone Ok, it’s not really party time when everyone has just done three 30 hour training weeks in a row. We are slowly cleaning up the mess we’ve made in the rental house and getting ready to fly out tomorrow. Today was out last workout, a 14 mile run with an ... http://bencollins.org/blog/2010/01/party-time