Category Archives: Races

Last Saturday was the OKC Pan-Am Championships. The US has not hosted this race in several years, so it was no surprise to see all the USA Triathlon representatives bubbling with excitement before the race. It’s quite an advantage to the country which hosts, because the continental championships is worth 400 points – twice that […]

I raced a local Cat4 bike race today. While it was plenty of fun, the title of this post pretty much describes how my race went. I heard from the UW cycling team that they wanted to try to make something happen right out of neutral. It seemed like a good idea, since nobody in […]

Last week I raced in Miami for the second time. Last year I was up against some heavy hitters, Chris Lieto and Macca, and I ended up earning a second place. This year I brought my own big guns and won. I wish the two Chris’s were back this year, ‘cause I would have certainly […]

This weekend (and into this week) I have had an unexpectedly long time without internet. So long that I haven’t even been able to write a blog about how I won Sunday’s Nautica South Beach Triathlon! [Left: K-Swiss Athletes, Anna Kournikova and the far less famous Ben Collins at the K-Swiss after party] I’m getting […]

So my debut World Cup Triathlon is over, which is a relief. It was the hardest race of my life, and I’m really happy with my result. 17th – which is the second highest debut world cup finish by an American (Andy Potts was the first with 19th until last year when Ethan Brown finished […]

I had a strong race at my first Santos Triathlon. The swim was a beach start with two laps, requiring us to come out of the water and to go back in twice. Beach starts are not my forte, and I ended up spending the entire swimming portion of the swim trying to regain the […]

This weekend I started off the 2009 season with one of the most fun races in Triathlon. It was the 2009 Fast Triathlon in Brazil. The field consists of six three-man teams, each from separate countries. The countries invited were Brazil, France, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Our US Team of Victor Plata, […]

I finished up my season last weekend in San Francisco. This is my second year racing the San Francisco Pan-America Cup, and there were almost no similarities between the races. Last year an oil spill forced the race directors to cancel the swim leg of the triathlon and convert the race into a run-bike-run duathlon. […]

These are the Best Friends 4 Ever! (BF4 – only there are five of us) the 2008 Champion Team from the UW Intramural Swim Meet. Top from left: Brian Davis, Kurt Hardesty Bottom from left: Maryann B, Ben Collins, Marijana Surkovic We won the meet with only five people, which is awesome because I was […]