Well, the post-race stress has been slightly alleviated this week. I just got two new bikes from BH to replace the road bike I cracked at World Championships last year and the time trial bike that was stolen the day after Miami International three weeks ago. I’m finally calm enough to write a proper race […]
Category Archives: Races
Mooloolaba World Cup
I didn’t go to Australia, but I wanted to know what happened at the World Cup today. Here’s a graph that shows it all. There was a big pack on the bike, two small breaks, some people got dropped from the bike then picked up by Chris Foster (he was riding solo after the swim). […]
Clermont ITU Pan-American Sprint Triathlon
Saturday I started off my season with a draft-legal sprint race in Clermont Florida. It’s a race that Jarrod Shoemaker helped to organize, and it was a fairly well run event. This is my first time to Clermont, and I’m surprised that it is not the pancake flat expanse of nothingness that I normally associate […]
The Ben Collins Highlight Reel
Click over to this post and check out a highlight reel I put together in preparation for the 2011 season.
Super Sprint Grand Prix Video
This is the promo video that was made from the Super Sprint Triathlon Grand Prix – next year’s series will be amazing!
Amica 19.7 Race Report
The race was really fun in Phoenix last weekend. This video says it all:
Halloween’s Super Sprint Triathlon Grand Prix
Let me set the stage: Oceanside California. Just a few miles up the coast from San Diego, Oceanside is a small town that has managed to preserve the old-California feel that many believe to exist only in the writings of the beat generation. The town is lifted up from the beach by a tall bluff, […]
Mexico Part Tres – Pan-Am Race Report
Puerto Vallarta is really hot in October. It’s strange that I was able to go the entire summer without suffering through any hot races, and as soon as Labor Day rolled around every race required a buzz cut and an ice pack in my helmet. I came prepared with my ice vest and frozen drink […]
Mexico Part Uno – A partial race report (for a partial race)
This is the story of how I managed to burn the skin off my back on fast-moving hot asphalt, and why you should know more Spanish than I do for the Emergency Rooms of Mexico. I arrived in Mexico on October 7th with a bunch of other people. Matt Chrabot and I were on the […]
Mexico Training
I finished my homework and started writing about my last two weeks in Mexico. In the meantime, here’s a video that Rory put together. This is how you train when you’re missing skin on a quarter of your back and have to race again in a week. More on how I lost all that skin […]