Ok, I really didn’t think Iâ€d write again before October, but since my last posting I’ve had a change of fate. Unfortunately Aaron Scheidies still has a lost wallet and feels that the universe is conspiring against him, but I had a great weekend. Aaron stayed last night and we went to a Juju party […]
Author Archives: Ben
Wake Me Up When September Ends
I still haven’t written a race recap for the Portland ITU Pan-America Cup. I may just not do it. Here’s the short version, which is really the only version I have to tell: I swam hard. I thought I was doing really well until I realized that the group I was leading on the right […]
Red Alert!!
Troy is missing! We got home Sunday night and haven’t seen him at all. His food wasn’t touched while we were gone. He was in the TV room when my parents left on Friday and that’s the last we’ve heard from him. I’m going to go post pictures at the Sheridan Beach Club and hopefully […]
The Three Hour Tour
Yesterday I moved my sailboat from Tacoma, Washington to Seattle. It’s about a 30 mile trip at most, and I figured worst case scenario was about a 6 hour trip, but with the wind at our backs and a positive mindset I was hoping for much less. Wrong. Here’s what Chris Tremonte and I wrote […]
SNORING?!?
I went to physical therapy today. Nothing abnormal, I got my legs loosened up – my quads are all knotted up – and then I was hooked up to e-stim. Jake (the PT) asked if I’d like a magazine, and I told him I’d rather just pass out, which I did. But it wasn’t a […]
Is this Bad Luck?
Is it back luck to post two days in a row after being totally inconsistent about publishing for the past couple months? Just in case I set my post to publish tomorrow, and for today I’ll just put a link to my Garmin Blog post.
Sailing
A few months ago I bought a sailboat at a repo auction. It’s like buying a foreclosed house, only a sailboat is way more fun than a house, and costs much less. The boat had basically been abandoned, but is in nearly perfect condition. It’s a 1972 Catalina with a blue hull and a small […]
Gas Money Cleans Lakes
The past week in Seattle has been amazing weather. Temperate, sunny, clear skies, clean air… There’s no better place to be than summer in Seattle. Something is different this year, however, when I look out across Lake Washington. It’s quiet. There aren’t a lot of waves. There are twice as many kayakers and sailboats and […]
My Posse
From back to front: Ruth Ann Hodel (mom) Victor Plata (kind of a big deal) Ben Collins (possessor of posse)
Labor Day Weekend and the Grain of All Evil
So what are you doing for the long weekend? A hike? A scenic bike ride? An awesome music festival that used to be the highlight of your year when you were a teenager, but has since gone up in price by three-fold and now seems like way too much effort for what it’s worth? (That’s […]