Bentonville Half Marathon Pacers
We are excited to be the Bentonville Half Marathon pacers for 2025! It's so much easier to let someone else set the pace and follow along! The excitement and energy of the group can help you conserve your energy and it's a lot more fun to tackle this challenge with others. Our pacers will likely keep you entertained as well as on track for your goals.
We have a team of all-stars with proven running backgrounds in their pacing time and positive personalities. They have been carefully chosen and promise to do something a lot of races don't--set a smart pace given our course terrain to increase the likelihood that you will achieve your goal finish time. On race morning, they'll be easy to spot in their Pacer shirts with their pace signs.
We have pacers for the following time goals: 1:25, 1:30, 1:40, 1:45, 1:50, 1:55, 2:00, 2:10, 2:20, 2:30, 2:40, 2:50, 3:30
Meet our pacers below!

Grant Skelton
Sub 1 hour 25 min
Average Mile - 6:29

Mark Himmelberg
Sub 1 hour 30 minutes
Average Mile - 6:52

Mitchell Curtis
Sub 1 hour 40 minutes
Average mile - 7:38
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John Griesse
Sub 1 hour 45 minutes
Average mile - 8:01

Nathan Fridley
Sub 1 hour 50 minutes
Average Mile - 8:24

Les Shaeffer
Sub 1 hour 55 minutes
Average Mile - 8:47

Adam Fortin
Sub 2 hours
Average mile - 9:10

Derek Lee
Sub 2 hours
Average mile - 9:10

Zach Stevens
Sub 2 hours 10 minutes
Average mile - 9:55

Steven Lykins
Sub 2 hour 20 minutes
Average mile - 10:41

Vanessa Phipps
Sub 2 hours 30 minutes
Average Mile - 11:27
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Alicia Lockard
Sub 2 hours 40 minutes
Average Mile - 12:12
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Stephanie Oram
Sub 2 hours 50 minutes
Average mile - 12:58
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Steve Sager
Sub 3 hours 30 minutes
Average mile - 16:01


















