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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 257.46
Race: Hot Pursuit 5K (3.11 Miles) 00:16:38, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.550.003.110.0012.66

Hot Pursuit 5K. 

Well last race technically for the year for myself. I didn't really feel like running today, because I felt like my hamstrings were only back to 70%. Still tightness when the pace is pushed and especially on the uphills I feel it the worst.

Goal today was to try to place at least 5th in the USATF circuit. Its funny this year has been the most humbling year of running I have had PRs in every distance but the marathon and I didn't even win ONE race!! Hopefully that will change next year. So for me to take 5th in the Circuit or even 4th I needed to beat Hornock and Albert Wint. I beat Albert I take 5th beat Hornock I take 4th.

Well 4th didnt happen, Hornock is in amazing shape right now and even after his marathon last week he looked great.

So in the race. My first mile was 4:38, mile was short, at this point Nate and Ken were right on my tail. 2nd mile had a steep climb and pace dropped dramatically, felt the tightness come on and there was nothing I could do. Ken dropped me and so did Nate. Immediately the climb went to a flat then down hill, I ended up catching Ken and stayed with him for the rest of the race. Mile 2 was 5:15. During the 3rd mile I could here Riley coming up because he was spitting up his flem!! For myself I haven't beaten Riley at all this year and this was my shot. So I kicked as hard as I could! Managed to drop Ken and Beat Riley Cook!! Ya I beat Riley Cook! Haha! But he only has ran 2 marathons in the last 2 weeks for me to take him down. I suggest that he should do that more often.

Didnt get my third mile split but oh well, glad to be done racing with no injuries. Today team UtahRunning.com took 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th! Not to bad. We were supposed to win Jazz tickets but the director gave them to some group of ladies. I went and asked her about why we didnt get them, all she said was "ya sorry, you guys didnt win" I said hmm so 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th doesnt win. Interesting. She said, "ya sorry". oh well.

 4.15 miles easy on the TM in the evening.

Asics Hyper Speed 4 Miles: 3.11LunarGlide 3 (Black) Miles: 9.55
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:26:24 from 67.177.11.154

You ran 1.5 marathons during that same time frame! :-)

Good cap to the year.... Get those hammies back to 100% now

From Superfly on Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 19:42:51 from 74.211.21.81

Yeah three races in three weekends is hard... when STG is the first one on that list it gets really hard after. Still a great race. Way to finish off the year... or are you coming down for the Snow Canyon half?

From RileyCook on Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:05:57 from 132.3.57.68

Nice race Ben. You actually started the year with victories over me in the Strider's 10k and 10 miler and now you end the season with one! Thanks for the motivation moving forward ;-)

Congrats on 5th in the circuit!

From Steve on Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 07:45:11 from 66.87.66.103

Time to take a break! Good run. That team thing was pretty funny. Sounds like a stacked deck..

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