Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Two things this week have led me to believe that there is another Ben Collins that’s getting himself confused with me. It’s not the race car driver or football player, and I don’t think it’s the computer hacker either (which is who you’ll find on Wikipedia), because both of them are too young to fit […]

I haven’t done much this week. Mostly relaxing. Until yesterday afternoon I pretty much felt like an airplane crash. The few beach runs I did were nice, but I’m actually looking forward to running on a flat non-sand surface when I get home. See, by the time I got back to transition on Saturday it […]

I pretty much vegged out Saturday after getting home from the Hospital. I laid around so much my butt felt bruised from not shifting enough. By the time midnight rolled around, I had been sleeping on and off for about eight hours (not including the time I was unconscious in the ambulance and at the […]

I’m finally in Mexico. I’ve never seen a flight with so many triathletes on board as the flight from LAX into Mazatlan tonight. The best thing? I took Barb Lindquist’s advice and scheduled a shuttle on King David Tours. I got to my hotel over an hour before some of the people on the same […]

Miami gave me a loving welcome from the moment I got off the redeye from Seattle Tuesday morning. First, my flight took an extra hour, so I was able to sleep a bit longer, plus none of my bags were lost (there was a bent spoke on one of my wheels, but I can credit […]

Last month Chris Lieto stayed with me while he was visiting Seattle. He just released the first two products from his new company, Base Performance, and after hearing about it I wanted to try it for myself. The benefits of the Base Amino were fairly easy to grasp – by adding amino acids to your […]

It has been six whole weeks since I have been out of Western Washington, and I’m getting itchy feet. When I got home from LA in February I was sick of travel and wanted nothing but to be home for a few weeks, where I could get on a regular schedule and enjoy my own […]

I’m going back to competitive swimming. Friday and Saturday nights I was able to watch the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way. I missed seeing the one event I really cared about seeing, thanks to the dilly dallying of a delinquent friend (it was actually another friend, but since Chris drove I […]

I spoke with half a dozen people in Los Angeles, and a couple people in Honolulu today. In both of those places it’s warm, but in Seattle, we’re experiencing what Brian explained to be, "a low pressure front that stopped, so all the cold air sank."  He works in atmospheric science, so that’s his way […]

Aside from a really cool talk on sports nutrition by Peter from Institute of New Medicine, held at Herriott Sports Performance, I didn’t, so I’m going to link to other people who did. I took Greg’s recommendation and watched King of the Grizzlies, a 1970 Disney movie that is sure to put a smile on […]