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News article from "The Times Recorder" on 11/18-19/07
Jason Hillis, 35, of Zanesville, finished 259th in 3:15.21
Jason Hillis, manager of Dunham Sports in the Colony Square Mall runs briefly with his 7-year-old twins, Ali and Brooke at Mile 22 for the Columbus Marathon last month. Hillis, thanks to training at Custom Design Fitness Studio in Zanesville, qualified for Boston by 39 seconds.
If 35-year-old Jason Hillis and Phillip Arthur of Zanesville have anything to say about it, the craze is back.Arthur-owner of Custom Design Fitness Studio-trained Hillis since July, sponsored him through Brooks and helped him take 27 minutes off his time and qualify for his second Boston.
"He wants to improve the local running community, and I want to work with him to get interest up in the area," Hillis said. "We are talking about having a 10-k race every year."
"I feel bad for Pat; he runs with our group on Sunday at Jim Slack's house," Hillis said. "We usually have anywhere from five to 12 or 15 people. You get in the habit of running on Sunday mornings, so you don't let the group down."
In June of this year, Hillis ran the Lake Placid, N.Y. Marathon in 3:43. Then he hooked up with Arthur.
"I trained even harder than when I was a kid," he said. "Dropping weight was the key, I lost 18-20 pounds. He put me on a strict diet with supplements and vitamins, controlling my diet with a lot of chicken and structuring what I eat. I dropped weight, but kept the energy."
He did a lot of muscle repetitions on weight machines, with one speed workout and one tempo run per week. After Lake Placid, he also took up biking, cross- training on the bike two or three times a week which will become four or five times indoors during the winter. He's targeting a Half Ironman (56-mile bike, 1.2-mile swim, 13.1 mile run) in Benton Harbor, Mich. next August and eventually, the full Ironman (112-mile bike, 2.4-mile swim, 26.2-mile run). Hillis had wanted to run under three hours in Columbus, but it didn't quite work out.
Phillip (Arthur) had me pumped; I went out in 4:48 for my first mile, and my three mile split was 17:14; I had to try and slow down," he said. "I kind of shut it down about 12 miles; it wasn't in the cards that day." He qualified for Boston with a 2:52 in Columbus in 1992 and ran Boston in 3:20 in 1993.
"At Boston next year, I want to run around 2:50," Hillis said. "My new philosophy is, 'why not?'"
Why many runners aren't successful:
- The training is not appropriate for the different types of races and marathons such as10k, 5k, etc
- Dietary intake for each race or marathons is vital to success
- Runners fail to balance anaerobic and aerobic exercises
- Runner’s put excessive mileage for training and race shoes, which cause injuries and long term debilitation
- Over short and long periods of time some runners do not balance nutrition may become anorexic which creates an inability to sustain endurance, power, performance, and recovery.
