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Location:

North Ogden,UT,U.S.

Member Since:

May 23, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 14:58, 10K- 31:05, 1/2- 1:06:47 Marathon- 2:23:29

3rd- Park City Marathon 2008

3rd and 4th Ogden Marathon 2010; 12'

5th, 3rd, and 7th- Utah Valley Marathon 2011;14'; 16'

9th, 3rd,11th, 8th, 5th, 8th St. George Marathon 2010, 11',13',14',15'16'

2nd- Deseret News Marathon 2015

1st- SandHollow Marathon- 2016 (CR***)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 POTENTIAL RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

                                                                          -Helen Keller

              

 

Personal:

Married to Nikki we have 4 children. Jaerdan, Korver, Grady and Lyla McKell

Head XC/Track Coach at Weber High

Graduated from Weber State with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Athletic Therapy.

 

 

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Race: Winter Racing Circuit 10 mile (10 Miles) 00:58:14, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
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Beautiful day for a race. Showed up to Weber State and like always good to see most people up there. Warmed up w/ Steve Shepherd for a little over 2 miles then took a gu and went to the start line. Noticed that Bryant Jensen wasn't there which means that moved me up to 1st place overall in the series. Which I feel guilty for winning by default, but that's what a circuit is I guess.

Started out with a 5:33 mile and had seperated the group, but still could here foot steps behind.

Mile 2 is a way steep down hill and hit 5:00 flat, by now steve and this other guy from Oregon was right there. So mile 3 I set back behind Steve and this other guy and went with the flow

mile 3 was 5:25, now me and steve had seperated the guy from Oregon

mile 4- 5:36 still just me and steve

mile 5- 6:28 now I am in 3rd!!! the guy we dropped was an animal on the hills passed steve and I like we weren't even running.

mile-6:32 caught steve, both of werent feeling to hot. I had a terrible gut ache, and steve had been sick. By mile 7 and the last huge climb, Finally belched out a ton of air and felt great.

Mile 7 was 6:56 no more hills for a couple miles at least.

Mile 8 and 9 were 5:11; 5:37. and had left steve by now

Mile 10 another big climb with fast downhill managed a 5:51.

Overall 2nd place, first in age. Legs are coming back, I was about 45 seconds slower than last year, but honestly I wasn't even planning on breaking 60 today. Now another 3 weeks of training for the WRC Half. Excited to run this race, always way competitive and humbling at the same time.



Saucony Kinvara Miles: 10.00LunarEclipse Miles: 2.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Seth on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 20:41:38 from 75.169.127.138

Great job man! You should do awesome in the SLC half. I'm running it as well, but am shooting for the 1:20 range or below. Good luck the with rest of the WRC series!

From Ben VanBeekum on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 20:59:06 from 67.169.246.116

Hey thanks Seth!!! I haven't ran the SLC half before, but I have heard it is a PR course?

What you think?

From Jon on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:04:42 from 98.84.73.73

Hey, good job, Ben. Looks like you're getting in shape and should have a great half.

From jtshad on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:32:55 from 69.20.183.178

Great race!

From Seth on Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 16:35:58 from 75.169.112.94

Yeah, it's a fast course for sure. Mainly flat or slight downhill grades, but there are a few turns that slow you down, and a decent uphill towards the end of mile 12. Overall I think it's a great course. Just make sure you get to the start on time to start out front or else you could end up behind a wall of people.

From Little Bad Legs on Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:29:55 from 68.186.75.3

Hey Ben, I didn't realize that you were on the blog. Great job and good luck with the rest of the series.

From Maurine/Miles on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 18:15:14 from 63.255.172.2

Good job on 2nd and the AG win. Oh - and on belching while running.

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