Zack Beavin
QT: 2:18:26
Residence: Lexington, KY
Hometown: Louisville, KY
College: University of Kentucky
Age on Race Day: 25
Affiliation: Brooks
Qualifying Race: CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon 2018
Marathon Best: 2:18:26
Social Handles: Instagram - @zbeavin Twitter - @beavinz
Favorite inspirational quote: "If you can fill the unforgiving minute/With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run/Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!" - Rudyard Kipling
Favorite movie: Inception
Favorite vacation spot: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Of Note:
- Buyer and Race Director at John's Run/Walk Shop
- Both parents come from big families; has 100+ first cousins
- Graduated with a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in the spring of 2017; quit on his fourth day working an an engineer and returned to running store where he worked in college
- Won both the 2016 Rough Trail 50K and 2019 Yamacraw 50K trail races and ran the second-fastest Strolling Jim 40 Miler time in history
