I really like the Midwest in June. Admittedly, I have spent very little time here outside of the month of June, but I still feel confident staying that June is the best month in the Midwest. Here in Des Moines Iowa it’s humid and warm, and there are birds and bugs and chirps and leaves […]
Category Archives: Travel
Madrid Preview
Hello from Spain! The hotel we’re staying in is short on internet service, so I’m writing this without wifi and it may be outdated by the time I am able to post. My apologies. It’s Friday night. I just had dinner with a friend of mine, Ben Neuwirth, who I swam with at Columbia. What’s […]
The Good Life
I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Boulder right now with Courtenay Brown, Rory Seiter, and Mojdeh Hamidi. We’ve been spending the last couple of hours interrupting each other and getting stuff sort of done while at The Laughing Goat on Pearl Street. “Getting stuff done” consists of Rory interviewing me for the Checkmate Triathlon […]
Leaving Honolulu
I’m leaving Honolulu tomorrow for the island of Maui. The Canadian National Team is over there training until the end of the month and I’m going to go join them (thanks to Andrew Russell, who put in a good word for me.). I don’t know yet if I’m coming back to Oahu afterward or if […]
My Garmin says There’s a Road Here!
Courtenay and I went into a bike shop in Waialua last week (Sugar Mill Bikes) to fix a sliced tire. The proprietor of the shop told us about a private road he likes to ride through the cane fields of Oahu’s North Shore. So the next day we rode to a locked gate with the […]
Moving?!
Yesterday I heard from the USAT Lords that I have been approved for residency at the Olympic training center. This means that I can live permanently on campus in Colorado Springs. There are OTC campuses elsewhere that hold quite a bit more appeal to me, but Beggers should not be choosers, right? Apparently USAT doesn’t […]
A Guide To Hot Races for Cold Climate Competitors
Yesterday I called my Huatulco race report the “short versionâ€, which is a bit of a lie. I did not leave out many details about the race itself. After the race I tried my best to rehydrate, so that I could enjoy myself at the athlete reception (read: “after-partyâ€). It seemed to work. After a […]
No More Training For 2009
Tomorrow is the Huatulco World Cup. It’s my second World Cup, but definitely my biggest ITU race as far as size and quality of field. Plus, this course is going to kill people. It’s hot, for one, but more importantly, there’s a gigantic wall that we ride up eight times followed by a not-so-flat run… […]
Buenos Noches
A wise man once said, “a little Spanish will get you a long way.†And tonight that couldn’t be truer. [Left: My Parents and I are celebrating the delivery of my new fan-club t-shirts – a big thanks to Taigraphx for the printing!] It’s been a long day of travelling, I left my house at […]
Finding a Pool to Train In while Traveling
This week I decided to stay in LA for a few days before heading to Dallas for the Toyota Cup Lifetime Fitness Triathlon this weekend. It was either that, or head back to Seattle right after the race, train at home for a few days, then fly to Dallas. The extra travel time would probably […]