Blake Bennions running

I got sick a few weeks ago and my lungs have still been recovering, the track workouts I've done haven't gone well because of that. I'm finally starting to feel better. Did 7.5 today, did about 8-11 each day this week and biked 45 minutes 3 days. Tomorrow I'm running a mock meet with Brian, sage, and Brady. We are going to race the 800m, then mile, then 60m-400m. We haven't decided yet on the last one haha. But we are going down to St George to do it at sages high school. We are all wearing our high school stuff so it's pretty cool. 800m I just want to go under 2:05 cause it's been almost a month since Ive done much speed. For the mile I want to run faster than I did a byu, which would be really good. Then for the last one, it's really just a joke so whatever is good as long as I'm not last haha. Hopefully I'll represent Alta well!

Meet was lots of fun, times weren't too good, 2:09 for 800m and 4:50 for the mile. To be fair I haven't done any speed workouts, I did one on Tuesday but it was slower than I've done anything.. Ever hahaha, and we only had 30 mins between the two, for the 800m I ran the first lap in 63 and had already been gapped pretty well by Brady and Brian so I eased up for the last 300m or so. Then on the mile I led for most of it until the last lap Brian passed me, I tried to make a move to pass him but didn't quite get it and let off again for the last 200m, 77 seconds for the last lap was pretty bad haha. But in comparison to how my lungs have been holding up for me recently, the mock meet was great! I took 3rd 2nd and 3rd and tied Brady for 2nd place at the meet overall :p. Then we went to Olive Garden, so yesterday was lots of fun, I love hanging out with my teammates!

Lungs still recovering, didn't feel great on todays run.

Felt better today, still a long way to go but I'm getting there.

Warm up and then 9.5 with Sage on cross hollows. Felt alright today, might try the workout tomorrow, we'll see. I have my track schedule figured out, I'm not sure if I will do all of the meets. Depending on how much school work I'm dealing with I might only go to one of the first meets. The Last three are after school ends so that's perfect, won't have any schedule conflicts, and those are the three that really matter. And there are no meets the last two weeks of school so that will be good. But I have about 6 weeks before the first meet and i'm just getting out of this big drop in my running caused by getting sick, so I think the timing is going to be great. Hopefully I can get some good PRs before I go into summer training. I think when I get back next week I will finally be ready to run some fast workouts.

I ran 5 with Jake, went alright, closed in a hard 200.

Then I ran 4.5 with sage, we did 60 second strides and I did 4:20 and 4:10 pace for the last two (not sure about first ones) and then I was feeling good so I ran a 400m on the track in 58, was going to cool down to 10 but was having a big asthma reaction after the first lap so I just stopped there.

Ran to the CV mountain with Jake and ran up a really steep path, we were going sub 6 on the way there and then we went back to the school. I was still asthma problems during the run and decided to take the last 4 miles off. I might put off increasing mileage for a little, lungs are still recovering and motivation isn't super high. I've been thinking about the extra time I would have to do a research project or something like that if I didn't run so much but I think its just because its been a cold long winter and my running has been in a little bit of a rut since I got sick. I just need to work throught this phase and try to hit some PRs to motivate me this spring.