About a month ago it occurred to me that Abby wouldn’t need to be in Chicago for about 6 weeks. She just finished her second year of medical school and has over a month to study for her Step 1 medical boards. After that she starts rotations and will never have another vacation until she’s […]
Author Archives: Ben
Racing Triathlons With A Running Watch
I just looked at my Training Peaks dashboard and realized that the Monterrey 70.3 file recorded by my Garmin 620 measured 70.6 miles – pretty accurate for a running specific watch! I don’t have one of the new Fenix 2 triathlon watches, so I used the Forerunner 620 – a watch meant just for running […]
Monterrey Ironman 70.3
I wrote a race recap a week ago on my flight home from Mexico, but at the time I was still really confused about my race and I didn’t know how to describe the race without sounding like I was making up excuses. Now that I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out what happened I’ll tell […]
Rice Cakes
For anyone interested the recipe for Nutella banana rice cakes I had on my Facebook page a few days back: I adapted this recipe from Bijou Thomas’s feedzone portables based on what I had in my kitchen. These are tasty and fun to make and use during training, but half my recipe or wrap them […]
On the Cobb
This year I have partnered with Cobb Cycling, which is a company run by one of my heroes in the sport of triathlon: John Cobb. John is an incredibly innovative engineer who has disrupted the cycling industry several times by creating products which break paradigms and force us to rethink what we look for in […]
Freezing Point
This has been a crazy month. The coldest of my life, in fact. While most of my peers are preparing for the season in warmer weather, I’m here in Chicago during a January so cold that even the natives are complaining. But despite the cold, life is pretty good. I’m taking a lighter course load […]
Getting Started
Here we are at the end of December. I have been taking some serious time off from training, but it’s time to start up again. This post is going to read a little scattered, which is a reflection of my mental status after a week of enthusiastic winter training. I went home to Seattle after […]
A Professional Triathlete Tries Bike Share
There I was, flying past hipsters and racing stoplights through Wicker Park in Chicago. Passing cars and drawing look of bewilderment from my bike commuting brethren. My legs were pumping like pistons and foggy breath streaming from my upturned lips like the smoke stack on a locomotive. It was my first experience with Divvy – […]
Miami 70.3 Race Video on YouTube
Here’s a video that City Bikes Miami 70.3 put out. There are a some great shots of me from the helicopter. (I’m the guy wearing mostly white on a black Cervelo P5. I’m also the guy without other riders near him.) If I had a dance remix soundtrack playing during the race I think it […]
UWC Triathlon a.k.a. my surreal Bahamian weekend
A few times in Triathlon I’ve been invited on trips that seemed too good to be true. Like in 2007 when I received an email from a former Olympian, Victor Plata, asking if I’d like to go an an all expenses paid trip to Brazil in order to race on live Brazilian television and in […]