Author Archives: Ben

Courtenay’s family is all on Oahu for Christmas. It’s exciting!  Sunday I met Courtenay’s mom, Sally, for the first time, then Monday she took us to the Honolulu Zoo. Sally’s best friend from 1st grade, who she didn’t see for almost half a century before reuniting 5 years ago, works at the zoo and was […]

I’m in Honolulu! Courtenay and I are staying with her brother for the next few weeks, and training in the warmth and sunshine of not-Seattle. I’ve been trying to get Courtenay to document our trip by filming it, but so far all we have are a bunch of images of her trying to get away […]

This weekend is going to be exhausting. I leave on Tuesday for Hawaii, and really won’t be back in Seattle much for the rest of the year. That leaves me three days to clean up the gigantic mess of unsorted stuff I’ve collected from the past 40 races I’ve done. Basically I’ve taken over a […]

My pool is closing on December 31st. This is inexcusable given the state of recreational swimming pools in the Seattle area, and the growing interest in the sport of swimming (thank you Michael Phelps). In general, the Seattle area has very few public pools, and the pools we do have are old, antiquated and short […]

I leave for Hawaii in 10 days for a month of winter training before I head to Brazil for my third Fast Triathlon (or Triatlo Rapido as the natives call it). Matt Chrabot and I are finalizing our team and looking to upset the Brazilian team, which has thwarted our valiant attempts for the past […]

This is week #1 of training for the 2010 season. I have 48 weeks left until my last race, 16 until the first World Cup of the season, 16 until I race my first World Championship Series triathlon in Sydney… I look at these numbers and start to wonder why I’m sitting on my trainer […]

I feel like I have been playing catch-up on my blog for a year, and it makes for boring reading. So instead, I’m just going back to rambling about my day as if everyone reading knows all about the last few months of my life. Today I’m officially back into full-time training mode. Victor has […]

A lot of great things have happened this month. So much good stuff that a) I haven’t had time to write about it, and b) I don’t ever want December to come. Aside from my actual race, my 7th place qualifies me for USA Triathlon’s 2012 team, their second highest national team level. Hopefully this […]