Today I flew to San Francisco after teaching my last spin class until the 18th. I’ve made my classes progressively harder, and today I gave them a little gift to remember me by while they’re stuck with a sub. At the end of class every person in the room looked as if they might fall […]
Author Archives: Ben
Taper
In College I developed a theory about tapering. “No matter how little you’re doing, you can always do less.†This was particularly helpful for the three summers during my collegiate career when I swam only once a day and worked 45 hours a week (timing traffic signals in Seattle, which I apparently did so poorly […]
Giggling to Myself
All last week my parents were gone on vacation to the homeland (Missouri), which was great because I ended up with a great deal of alone time, which is something that has become increasingly rare for me. Here are some things that made me laugh out loud to myself. On University Avenue last week there […]
What Can a Blind Man See? by Aaron Scheidies
A Typical Day in the Life of Ben Collins: Through the Eyes of Aaron Scheidies You all have read Ben Collin’s stories and accounts of his life. Well, I have been hanging around and training with him for the past weeks and I think I can give a pretty good account of what a typical […]
Work Work Work Recover… PLAY!!!!
I’m finally cutting back on my training to prepare for my last race of the season, the San Francisco Pan-American Cup Triathlon At Treasure Island. (Why is it that races are getting longer and longer names? I mean, if this race were to receive a title sponsor, and if the tri-cal series had another title, […]
Happy Halloween!
Today is one the better holidays of the year. I had a Halloween spin class, and a bunch of people dressed up. Carrie took a picture, but I am not being allowed to publish the picture, and as an instructor I’m not allowed to photograph my own class (instructor’s handbook says so). Bummer. [Left […]
Spooky?
I picked up a copy of MixMeister Studio, a music mixing program that will allow me to make some sweet mixes for my spin class. If they don’t love me yet, they totally will. Now, my next project is to plan the perfect Halloween workout (for October 30th). I need some suggestions for Halloween music. […]
2008 University of Washington All-Comers Intramural Swim Meet
These are the Best Friends 4 Ever! (BF4 – only there are five of us) the 2008 Champion Team from the UW Intramural Swim Meet. Top from left: Brian Davis, Kurt Hardesty Bottom from left: Maryann B, Ben Collins, Marijana Surkovic We won the meet with only five people, which is awesome because I was […]
Training is Hard
I’ve been so busy the past week. it’s getting really hard to find time to sit and write a blog, but I’ll do some bullets of the awesome things that have happened that I will have to write more about later. The Rocket Ride – Herriott Sports Performance started a new group ride that managed […]
Head On
Thursday I had a head to head collision with another swimmer. we were both fine, but it hurt a lot. The girl I ran into said she was fine. It was just a confusion about where we should be in the lane. It was the same no-line-on-bottom double wide lane that made me so angry […]