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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.120.000.000.0015.12

FARTLEK WORKOUT ON THE TM 1.5% INCLINE

2 mile warmup 

Workout was 40 minute fartlek with 1 min on/1 min off @ 5 min/pace/6 min pace

Ended up getting 7.33 miles during the workout. 4 miles @ 5 min/pace and 3.33 @ 6 min/pace.

Felt pretty good for the most part. The last 10 minutes was getting a little rough. But managed to gut out another solid workout.

2.75 mile cooldown

Many of you know or have raced against Tim Wight in the past.

Tim was involved in a  mulitple car accident in Idaho on Sunday night and lost his life.

Tim was one of my running hero's when I started running, he was always giving me advice on how to be a better runner.

I remember my first ever win was because of Tim. It was the winter circuit 5K race in 2008. The whole goal of that race was to keep up with Tim. I ran the first 2 miles with him and he was like, Benny, you are looking strong, try to get up there and go for the win. Ahead was Jon Allen, Chad Derum and Cody Draper at the time we thought of them as the BIG BAD RUNNING BLOG GUYS and wanted to beat them oh so bad! Haha! I said, no way man, you go get them! No, go get them Benny! You never no til you try. So I took off and ended up beating Chad by less than a half second. Tim gave me the biggest hug after and all he said was, See I told you!

I will never forget Tim, I will miss the runs that we had together when he was in town visiting family. I will never forget all the running advice that he gave me. He was so positive and uplifting all the time. I will miss you Tim more than you know. Love ya Mighty Mouse!

PM

3 mile easy on the TM

SKECHERS GOMeb Speed 3 Miles: 12.12
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From RileyCook on Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:19:52 from 172.56.15.63

Great workout Benny! That's basically a 7.33 aerobic builder at 5:30-ish pace!

From Ben VanBeekum on Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:22:41 from 67.128.146.68

Thanks Riley. The last 5 @ 5 min/pace was pretty grueling! But fun overall workout.

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