I’ve done a lot more learning in the past 24 hours about the Club national Championship race, and I’m really excited to say I made a hotel reservation yesterday. The race itself is kind of interesting in how it works. As with state and regional club championships, anyone can sign up to do the race [...]

Two big races yesterday and some even bigger results. First, Tyler Wright tackled IM Canada. Let’s set aside for a moment that this is a guy who is a former professional hockey player. His first triathlon is an Ironman, and he truly proved he was worthy of the title. His 2.4 mile swim was a [...]

Yesterday, I started laying out the next years goals. I’d like to share some of that feedback. From my wife: (on her facebook account) “Four Days after our HIM, Benny said the ‘I’ word.”. Because she’s waiting on a knee exam, she’s obviously a little less enthusiastic than her normal competitive self. But she later [...]

Before we get to the future, let’s iron out a tiny bit more about the past. – Some folks may be asking “Where’s the traditional picture of Ben with his finishers medal?”. As I mentioned in yesterdays post, the official photographer was no longer in attendance at the time of the my completing the race. [...]

Now that I’ve had a couple of days to celebrate learn how to walk again following my successful completion of Timberman 70.3, I’ve been doing sort of a post mortem on both how I did and the experience of participating in the race as a whole. I’m going to break this down as best I can [...]

As I drove home from New Hampshire today, I thought to myself how can I make this post express the proper amount of drama without overdoing it? “It was the best of times, it was the worst for times” Nothing against Dickens, but that’s way over the top considering anyone who visited yesterday and took [...]

NOTE: The Timberman Athlete Tracker link can be found here. Look for the link on that page for Timberman 70.3 athlete tracking. You can search by Bib Number or name. My bib is 1592, and Rach’s is 545. Of course you can just search by our last name (Berry) as well. Rach should be leaving the [...]

It’s here. Friday morning before Timberman. In just a few hours I’ll be heading home to put everything in the truck and head up to our hotel for the weekend. We’re getting out early to hopefully beat weekend traffic and to allow us to check in at the hotel and head over for race check [...]

It’s been slowly developing over the past few days, and it’s worse tonight than it’s been earlier this week. Not too surprising that I’m restless and having trouble sleeping, especially on days my energy doesn’t get sapped working out. Because we have to get up 2 or 3 hours earlier than normal for this race, [...]

It’s Wednesday of the work week that will never end. I have a significant amount going on for most of each day, so that helps pass the time. But it just seems like Friday afternoon is still so far away. And now that I’m feeling ready for whatever Timberman has in store for me, it [...]