I left sunny San Diego a couple of weeks ago for a short trip to Florida (which also happened to be warm and sunny – I know, my winter training this year has been tough). Anyways, I helped out at Sara McLarty’s “Train with the Pros” camp in Clermont, FL (along with Jarrod Shoemaker and […]
Oh hi. It’s been awhile but I’m back to blogging for 2009. Thanks for reading! So what’s new in the world of Kevin Collington? I know everyone is just dying to know. First off, I moved! I managed to acquire full-time Olympic Training Center ‘resident’ status for 2009 so I packed up and left Florida
Two national titles in three years! Gainesville = titletown. Although I’m on a bit of a break from the blogosphere, this is just too awesome not to post. The Gators won the BCS National Title game last night! Even though I wasn’t in Miami to watch it (or in Gainesville to storm midtown for the
I hope everyone is having a happy holiday season! The offices of KevinCollington.com will be closed for the holiday season…and by ‘offices’ I mean I’m going to stop going to Panera to get internet on my computer to update my blog. So thanks again for reading and I’ll see you in 2009! I’ll leave you
Has anyone noticed that the world economy isn’t doing so well lately? I think I read something about that in the news somewhere. Being a young, developing professional triathlete, I don’t really have any money of my own, but I’ve heard from people who do have money that they lost a lot of it recently.
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The Gator football team won the SEC Championship last Saturday, once again proving that athletes from my arbitrary region of the country are superior to those from other locations in the United States! The Gators will play the Oklahoma Sooners for the national championship on January 8th in Miami, FL, and despite my sarcasm, I’m
Yes, that’s a $1,000,000 prize purse at next year’s Hy-Vee Elite Cup in Des Moines, Iowa. Whoa!
Or, How I Ended Up in Kenya 45 Hours Later As I mentioned previously the San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island was a pretty good race for me. Yes, my run wasn’t nearly as it dominant as it has been throughout the year, and I know my ninth place finish might not look like anything
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I just got home from the last race of the season – the San Francisco Continental Cup – and I have to say it was probably the most solid performance of my entire race season! Speaking of the 2008 season, it’s been a long one. I started on January 6th in Chile and have done
To get right down to business, and to fill in those of you who watched the live coverage from this past weekend’s Huatulco World Cup on what exactly happened to me, I got dropped from the front pack 15K into the bike. To be more specific, I got dropped on the 20% grade climb we