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Author Archives: Ben
All You Have to Do Is Open Your Eyes!
I’m snowed in by a whopping 1 inch of snow that ‘s caused the entire City of Seattle to shut down. Aside from no swimming today, that meant a run in the snow, an indoor bike ride, and some quiet time at home to notice some little things going on around me. This is a […]
Egg Nog Ice Cream – IT WORKED!!!
Mmm…. I just had a very small scoop of delicious egg nog ice cream. At 4:45 in the evening, this may have been a mistake. While I knew from the ingredients that the nog is around 20 proof, it seemed to me that once it was frozen it would be less potent. Wrong. This stuff […]
Snow Day!! and How to Turn Egg Nog Into Ice Cream
It’s supposed to snow a bunch in Seattle tonight, which is super exciting. We rarely get snow here, and when we do, the entire city shuts down. I know it’s going to stick because the last few days have been unusually cold with clear skies. Mount Rainier was crystal clear form my house, and so […]
House Guests Smell Like Chinese Food
Here’s a short rant about the only genre of food I completely despise. I hate Chinese food, but the other night after watching the Garfield High School Swim Team kick Ballard High School’s butt I found myself agreeing to eat the stuff rather than being a drag on the group. By group I mean Courtenay, […]
Base Performance and the Institute of New Medicine
Tonight I went to a talk by Chris Lieto. He founded Base Performance Nutrition, which has expanded from an amino supplement and water additive to include salt and a recovery pill. The recovery activator is what I’m most excited about. This was formerly distributed by The Institute of New Medicine, which is where I go […]
Weaning Off the Off-Season
This is officially my first week of base training. That means that my off-season was exactly four weeks long, during which time I spent three weeks preparing for a 10k running race, three days doing light recovery workouts, seven days getting my schedule sorted out, and finishing up my schoolwork (“sorting out my schedule†included […]
final’s weak
It’s always easy to see when I’ve been studying pretty hard. I have a tendency to run my fingers through my hair until it sticks straight out – afro style. I’m finishing up all the backlog of work I have due for the last day of the quarter, which is tomorrow. This includes, 2 case […]
What’s My Cheese?
Two nights ago on the daily show I saw an interview with Arianna Huffington, “a blogging evangelist†who wrote some book about how to be a great blogger. I don’t normally pay much attention to the interviews (and this was no exception), but I did hear her say that the key to a great blog […]
I <3 Seattle
I promised a full recap of my eventful weekend, but like my failure to write a recap yesterday, I also failed to have quite the eventful weekend on my schedule. Friday I planned to go for a hike, but ended up sleeping in until 10am, eating breakfast, going back to bed, eating again, laying around […]