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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
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LONG RUN/POWER RUN

Now that I am finally back into a rhythem my legs are feeling good, getting strong. So enough about that. All I can hope for is to stay healthy, hopefully the hamstring will stay healed and I will have no complaints.

Today was a good run!! With good friends!! Since we were unable to make the trip to St.George to run Painters we decided to do a POWER RUN. A power run probably can be explained many different ways or it might be something completely different depending on the person that you talk to!!

What I have been told a power run is about 10 seconds slower per mile than Marathon Pace. So today we decided to run 10 miles @ around 10 seconds slower than our last marathon pace. The idea was to just she where we were at right now for workout purposes.

2.75 mile warmup, then straight into the POWER RUN.Goal for the day was 5:55 pace

Splits- 5:48;5:58;5:51;6:00;5:57;5:52;5:51;5:52;5:54;5:48

1.70 mile cooldown

Overall average pace was @5:54 so exactly where I wanted to be. Overall legs felt good. Solid workout for January, and couldn't hae asked for better weather.

Total miles--


LunarRacer 2 Blue Miles: 14.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jtshad on Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 18:15:33 from 69.20.183.178

Glad the hamstring played nice and allowed you have a strong run. Looking good...nice to have friends to run this type of run with.

From todd kelly on Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 20:51:13 from 75.220.109.17

Nice job Ben. Pace looks awesome.

From Ben VanBeekum on Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 23:53:01 from 67.169.246.116

@jeff- Jeff it is a killer workout you should honestly try it!! Mentally it is a killer for a marathon, just make you stronger.

@todd- hey what is going on?? Haven't heard or seen ya for awhile. You still doing the tri stuff or are you hitting an early spring marathon??

From Jon on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 13:30:26 from 98.71.181.194

Nothing like a good run with friends.

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