Much to my dismay, but to the delight of anyone that has had to look at me wearing them, my $35 Serfas sunglasses broke today. Loren has been trying to break them himself for months, but I’ve kept my ugly frames under close watch. As you can see in the picture, the arm just sort […]
Author Archives: Ben
XTerra World Champs
Tomorrow is the off-road triathlon world championships on Maui. This race is brutal. Athletes going to compete expect flat tires, and few people cross the finish line without blood oozing out of something. Last year a bunch of my friends did this race, including Rory Seiter, who shaved an X into his head, and in […]
Dude behind the Camera
In Lausanne last year I was lucky enough to have a video documentary taken of my experience. The goal was to provide video footage for USAT to use in making a film about a first-timer’s trip to a world championship. It would have turned out really well, except that I crashed, and it’s not exactly […]
Faces in the Crowd
Check this out! Wow, Sports Illustrated is legit. I may have to visit the Davis residence for another weekly dosage of head shrinking insults from Marijana. (They keep me grounded, which is good, even if it makes me cry at night.) And here’s another photo, just because.
All-Comers Swim Meet
This pictures has nothing to do with the post. I just think it’s funny to see Jillian laughing as I tell her to hurry up and win us some beer money. Last night I raced in the University of Washington All-Comers Swim Meet. It was awesome. I did the fly leg of the 200 medley […]
Quitters Wanted
I swim on frequent occasion with the Husky Masters. This is the best masters group I’ve found in the Seattle area, because the coaches are attentive, work on stroke technique, and the regular members work hard and have talent. Every masters team, however, has a certain amount of apathy toward the really hard training that […]
Blind Reincarnate
I had a plan for a post of my own for today. Actually, I was hoping Brian could share how exactly he managed to break his wrist and end up owing me $85, but he can’t type (or ride a bike over railroad tracks, apparently). Last night, while my wrist ached with empathy pains, I […]
Peggy McDowell-Cramer: You are an Ironman!
[This is the third and final of a series of posts by Peggy McDowell-Cramer (Be sure to check out #1 and #2). She’s a masters triathlete from Santa Monica, and a pretty cool person to hang out with. While I was off trying to kill a blind kid, Peggy was taking on her seventh Ironman […]
Getting Home
I wanted to let Aaron’s accomplishments stand at the top of my recent posts for the time it deserves, but our trip home together has been a journey that I have to write about. Sunday afternoon, after celebrating with pros, Brian Fleischmann, Brandon Rakita, Chris Foster, John Dahlz, and Jillian Petersen (Above) Aaron and I […]
Aaron Scheidies’ Dream-Come-True (part 2)
With my last post I introduced Aaron Scheidies and my experiences with him leading up to the World Record attempt at the Toyota US Open Triathlon in Dallas put on by Life Time Fitness (a real mouthful of a name). This post is my race report. Aaron’s race from the perspective of the one person […]