View Larger Map Here is a map and elevation profile of my favorite ride. The loop part is my favorite anyway. The rest is kind of crummy with stop lights and traffic. It’s 8k up and 8k down with 500m elevation. Plus, at some point since I moved away from Honolulu they managed to pave […]
Author Archives: Ben
I’m Just Like a Baby
Yesterday I came back from my day’s workouts around 3:30-ish and was greeted by a worried Uncle Bob. Worried because I was home so late, and I he thought there was no way I could make it so long without a good meal. He made me a smoothie while I stretched and then started in […]
Two Holidays and a Memorial
Yesterday I celebrated the life of my friend Adam Havrilak, along with his Hawaii ohana. The service was done at a beach park in Hawaii Kai. It was sunny with strong trade winds blowing as we gathered around Adam’s ashes and a photograph of Adam, taken on the water just in front of where we […]
Rachel Ross is Stalking Me!!
Yesterday I arrived on the Island of Oahu. I flew 9.5 hours from Sao Paulo to Dallas on Monday night, had breakfast in the airport, then went for a second 9.5 hour flight from Dallas to Honolulu. Bob Havrilak (Adam’s father) picked me up. The trip was 31 hours door to door, which was pretty […]
Santos International Triathlon – race report
I had a strong race at my first Santos Triathlon. The swim was a beach start with two laps, requiring us to come out of the water and to go back in twice. Beach starts are not my forte, and I ended up spending the entire swimming portion of the swim trying to regain the […]
Waiting to Race
The past week has been so monotonous. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot things I’d dislike more than sitting around in Santos – where proper attire is a Speedo for men and a g-string bikini for women – trying not to get sunburned and waiting for Sunday to roll around so I can go […]
A View of Santos
I’ve been playing around with the “create panoramic image” feature in Windows Live Photo. It’s pretty cool. But for some reason, the program is a memory hog. Even with a gig of memory, I keep getting a low memory error when I try to put one of these images into a blog. I wanted to […]
Brazilian Massage
I overslept this morning and missed going on a ride with Paulo and Fabio. I’m a little bummed because we were going to take the ferry over to Guaruja on the other side of the river from Santos. The riding over there is much nicer because there are fewer cars and more rainforest. So, I […]
Santos is Great
I really like it here in Santos. The people are all friendly, and even though I have no idea how to communicate with anyone, I feel really welcome. This morning Paco (did you know that Paco is short for Francisco? I was wondering why everyone was calling him Paco….) and I called Fabio Carvalho, and […]
Santos, Brazil – We’ve arrived!
This is how two international triathletes fit two giant duffle bags, two bike cases, two bikes, plus backpacks and themselves into a small hotel room. It feels just like home!! We don’t have great internet access in the hotel (they say that it is being repaired “right now†but that was 5 hours […]