Thursday morning I arrived at the airport with my bike case prepared for a weekend of fun in California. I knew it was going to be a good weekend when the airline lady told me that the ticket was accidentally made in my mother’s name, but she wouldn’t mind changing it for me. This immediately […]
Author Archives: Ben
Another First Time
This week I have another guest writer. Also a former Columbia swimmer, Ben Neuwirth (c/o ’06) is responsible for keeping me out of the 400 medley relay at my senior conference meet by being faster than me. While I was off crying in the corner, Ben pulled out a 48 low in the 100 fly […]
Back to School
I’m always surprised my first day back at school at how little is accomplished and how much more work I have than I expected. I was only planning to take honors organic chemistry, but since I just happened to show up to that class two days early. Having already claimed the best seat in the […]
B-Days, Travel, and my first day of School
Monday morning I woke up at 7:30. It was my rest day from training, so I ate breakfast and wrote my post about Sunday’s auction. After stretching and chatting with my parents I caught the 9:30 bus so I would be at University of Washington campus with 40 minutes to spare before my first class. […]
No noise, no vision?
Last night I went to my first ever “silent” auction. I was a little curious how an organization for visually impaired athletes would conduct a silent auction. I figured, maybe the exhibits would have a recording that says what they are, or possibly you were allowed to talk only if it was to help someone […]
Mike Bentley & First Impressions
This week I’m starting my first of regular guest written posts. I suppose Brian Davis’ posts are technically guest written, but he’s completely undependable when it comes to writing, so I can’t make promises for when I’ll have more of that. This week’s guest writer is Mike “Party Boy” Bentley. Mike currently lives in his […]
Healthy and Focused
My core subscribers are in an uproar. I’ve been ill for the first time in over two years. Brian’s wife, Marijana, said something nice to me. I think the world must be turning inside out. The past week since I returned to the US I’ve been taking a much needed mental break from competition, and […]
Safeway supports schools
If you shop at Safeway, check out your receipts for this month and next. Safeway will donate 10% of eligible products to a school of your choice. If there isn’t a school that you are particularly fond of, my Alma Mater, Garfield High School (school ID 5000005658) could really use the extra cash. You just […]
Recycle
I was just looking at the GU website, and I found that they have a pretty cool program to encourage us not to litter our empty packets. Save up all your old gels and mail them in, for every 10 you get a free new one. Or if you’re not quite as frugal as me, […]
My favorite workout
This month I was featured in the “My Favorite Workout” column of Inside Triathlon. I wrote the workout, but Melaina Junti (Staff Reporter) wrote the introduction. I knew she was a cool girl when I received my first email with the subject “love mail” (Ok, so maybe I force you to use that subject on […]