It’s the fourth of July, which is my favorite holiday. I like it because the weather’s nice, and I have absolutely no obligations. If I want to see family, I see family, if I want to see friends, I’ll hang out with friends – and everyone else has the same lack of obligations. It’s the […]
Author Archives: Ben
One Of Those
It was one of those days. You know, where it’s 100 degrees, and you’re running intervals on a black track that’s so hot your feet start to burn through the soles. You decide to take extra rest after one of the intervals so that you can run to the far end of the soccer fields […]
Back in Colorado Springs
Well, I’m back in Colorado Springs after two weeks of mostly ups, and a big down to finish off the trip. Like I mentioned in my last blog, I had a lot of fun the first week in Seattle. Then I kicked my training into high gear, put in a solid week of training leading […]
Seattle
I wrote a race report for Hy-Vee, but then I was sucked into a whirlwind of fun during my visit home to Seattle – and now I can’t find it. The short version is this: I swam really well, missed a $5k bonus out of the water by 5s, rode with 50 or 60 other […]
Hy-Vee Preview
I was at the Hy-Vee race site yesterday and was interviewed by Zoom Performance. Click on the post and watch this video!
Des Moines
I really like the Midwest in June. Admittedly, I have spent very little time here outside of the month of June, but I still feel confident staying that June is the best month in the Midwest. Here in Des Moines Iowa it’s humid and warm, and there are birds and bugs and chirps and leaves […]
Madrid Race Report – In Transit
I Left Madrid this morning. Right now I’m somewhere in the sky above the Eastern United States on a United Airlines flight to Chicago, where I’ll continue on to Des Moines for the Hy-Vee World Cup on Sunday.  [photo credit: ITU’s Delly Carr – Taken in Madrid 2010] The Madrid World Championship Series Triathlon […]
Madrid Women’s Race
I’m sitting here in the hotel lobby with Matt Chrabot watching the women race on the internet. They’re physically about a mile away from us, but since it’s 90 degrees outside, neither of us wish to venture out before tomorrow’s race. So far I’ve seen that the swim was a sluggish 19 minutes with some […]
Madrid Preview
Hello from Spain! The hotel we’re staying in is short on internet service, so I’m writing this without wifi and it may be outdated by the time I am able to post. My apologies. It’s Friday night. I just had dinner with a friend of mine, Ben Neuwirth, who I swam with at Columbia. What’s […]
Drag Suits
Should we train with drag suits, or is there an advantage to swimming faster in practice? It’s an important question that takes me a while to qualify and even longer to answer. If you’re short on time, learn to skim. When I was growing up my swim coaches would always encourage us to train with […]