45: Ben Rosario - Train Hard, Race Fearlessly

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

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🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Carrie catches up with Northern Arizona Elite head coach Ben Rosario! Ben discusses the early days of starting NAZ Elite and shares the latest news about his athletes. He also offers advice for beginning runners, and he emphasizes the importance of getting involved in a running group to stay motivated.

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Ben Rosario

Ben was a Division II All American at Truman State University, before landing a spot on the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project team in 2003. There he became the youngest qualifier for the 2004 Olympic Trials Marathon where he finished 37th. He returned to his hometown of Saint Louis in the summer of 2005 and that fall finished second at the U.S. Marathon Championships at the Twin Cities Marathon. He ended his career with personal bests of 4:03 in the mile and 2:18 in the marathon. Ben has coached everyone from third graders, to beginning adult runners to World Championship performers. His motivational skills and training knowledge have translated to success at every level. Ben has been just about everything in the running industry; elite athlete, special events director for a big city marathon, running store owner, marketing director, elite athlete coordinator and of course…coach. His number one passion though, has always been the competitive side of the sport and he brings a healthy obsession for success to his role as coach/president of Northern Arizona Elite.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the SeaTalry Run podcast.
0:11.5	My guest today is Ben Rosario.
0:13.5	Ben was a Division II, All-American, and later went on to run for the Hansons Brooks Distance Project.
0:19.0	He's a husband, father, and the coach of Northern Arizona Elite.
0:23.3	In this episode, we talk about his coaching.
0:25.8	And what I love is that he gives so much of himself to his athletes.
0:28.9	I mean, in the last month, six of his athletes ran fall marathons, and they all nailed them.
0:34.2	Ben also chats about his training philosophy, the business side of running, and how I have to
0:38.6	get my butt going if I want to break 18 minutes for the 5K. Let's get after it.
0:46.2	How you doing, Ben? I'm really good. So let's talk a little bit. I mean, we got to just kind of
0:52.7	jump right into where you're, you know,
0:54.6	you've left off here in the running world. As coach of the Northern Arizona elite, you have had
1:00.2	a really good month. I mean, your guys ran so well in Frankfurt and now your women ran really well in
1:06.6	New York. So before we get into like your history, I just want to hear like how much of a buzz you're on right now.
1:13.1	Yeah, it's great. I mean, we started, it really started in Chicago. So we had Aaron Braun finished 12th in Chicago in 21 and then we had the three guys run so well in Frankfurt. So Scott Smith, 212, 21, Scott Falbl, 212, 35, and then Matt
1:30.0	Yano, 213, and then in New York, Kellan was 8th and 229 and Steph was 10th and 231. So, yeah, I mean,
1:38.1	I'm just riding high. It's awesome. I'm a little exhausted, but it's been really fun. Do you get to go
1:42.9	to every race? I went to all of. Do you get to go to every race?
1:45.8	I went to all of those.
1:54.0	I haven't been to every race this fall because, you know, I shouldn't say the fall.
1:57.3	I've been to everything in the fall, but I didn't go to all the lead-up races in the summer because of budget issues and because, you know, honestly, like, I can't go to
2:04.0	everything. They've got to get the job done by themselves sometimes. And so the big ones, the
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