Blake Bennions running

Drove down to saint george with my parents before I started off on my journey home, ran on the hotels treadmill.

30 minute run in oklahoma, nice and warm.

Officially the first day of marathon training in Ohio. Ran 4.25 miles at 6:53 pace. Then increased to 6:27 for the last mile and 5:56 for the last quarter mile. Felt tough, my legs will be sore. Overall great first day, it was tough to push through the middle miles today. But it'll only get easier from here on. Well today was on the treadmill at .5 incline, so maybe not all easier. But its a good start.

Got out the door with the plan of doing 2 miles, my knee and achillles felt tight at first but felt fine within 10 mins of running. At some point I just decided to run all the way to the track. Once I was there I was feeling great so I ran 5 laps and headed back to my place. I felt like I could have gone a lot longer, it was a great run. 7:10 pace today.

Ran 4 miles and ended at the gym where I did back day with Ian. Currently walkint home. Todays pace was just under 7:00. I'm tentatively planning on running again tomorrow, should be good weather.

Went out for a run, didn't have much time today. Was going to judt do 4 easy miles but the pace got away from me and I was feeling good so I ended up doing 36 minutes at 6:44 pace.

I think my allergies or asthma must be acting up because I couldn't breathe at all today when I ran ar planet fitness. Went with Izzy which is good because then I do some core and rowing after I run.

But geez, today's run was rough. I kept the treadmill at 6:49 and lasted all 4 miles, but it was not an enjoyable run today haha. That's okay, the great part about running is that even if it sucks during it, the feeling after is nice. I also don't think I've eaten today, that might be a factor.

It was in the low 40s today, was looking forward to it all week. I wanted to run tuesday but I was just too busy. Today I didn't have too many pressing things to do between 3 and 6 so plenty of time for a quality run.

Unfortunately the wind was pretty rough, over 25 mph. But overall pretty good run. I felt pretty tired fighting against the wind starting in mile 3/4 but I pushed through well. About 7:40 average for the run.

I've got a long ways to go before being able to run 26.2 miles at 6:50 per mile. I'd say doing that 3 months from now is ptetty ambitious, especially on 3/4 runs per week. But I'll give it my best shot!

Quarter of a marathon at 6:45 pace. It's in the 20s today, so it was pretty cold. One of those days you wish you'd worn thicker underwear. Been a while since I had a good below-freezing long run just for training.

The nice thing is that as my shape improves it will get warmer outside, so the tough part is right now. I just need to get through the next 5 weeks and be able to do this pace for over half a marathon by then. I think I could have done it for 10 miles today if I'd gone for it. I felt great today outside of never really getting warm.

Plan was to run from my apartment to planet fitness, do 2.5 miles on the treadmill, and run back.

Instead I accidentally took a really long route to planet fitness, was at 3.5 miles when I got there. So I just took a shorter route home. Planning on doing 4 easy grass miles behind the track on Wednesday, maybe another short run on thursday, and then an 8-10 mile run on saturday.

4.25 easy miles at 7:30 pace on the treadmill. Treadmill miles aren't fun, but I found myself wanting to continue on for more by the end. I had to get back home to teach a recitation though, and I wanted to get to some core and rowing so I stopped where I'd planned. I'll be doing 8-10 miles this weekend. At least half of it will be at marathon pace, but maybe all. I'll see how I'm feeling the day of. If it's as cold as it's been all week, I'd lean towards all of it at marathon pace.

Been a while since I ran a 10 miler and felt fine afterwards. I feel great right now, could have easily gone on to finish 13.1 miles. Today I ran 6 miles easy and then 3.5 miles hard and cooled down around half a mile.

I decided doing a few marathon miles towards the end of the run would better train my body to run at marathon pace when it's tired. As per usual my ankles were a little sore at the beginning but feel fine now. My knees felt cold after the run today.

Even with 65% of the run at easy pace I averaged 7:11. I think my half marathon at goal pace in 2 weeks will feel good. My current training schedule is working really well for me.

Time to go get some food and do some work.