Blake Bennions running

Ran some steep trails with Jake, very icy- I was slipping and sliding all over. Had a couple of welcome miles on the road to end.

Easy night run, time to get back into a good rhythm after a lousy start to the year in terms of my running.

Couple of stroller running miles and then a short run afterwards.

Easy run

2.2 stroller miles with Whitney

6 miles with 4 strides. Felt pretty good but air quality kind of sucked.

2 stroller miles jogging over to get the bandage taken off my eye from where Whitney gouged me over the weekend.

2 mile jog with 4 strides.

Felt pretty drained the first half of the run and then better towards the end.

Easy run

Marathon pace, felt pretty good. Going to be warmish the next couple weeks so that's nice.

2.5 stroller miles running, 2 walking

6.5 easy miles with 7-8 strides.

One of my friends runs a comedy club in Boston, I've really been wanting to go visit him and see him perform. 10 hours is a lot further to drive when you have a baby though, so I'm not sure when we'll mow it happen. If I qualify for the Boston Marathon then I'll have a safety date to make sure I get out there to see him, so as strange of a reason to try to run a sub 3:00 marathon as that might be... That's my current reason.

I know I could run 15 miles at 6:45 pace right now if I had to. I don't think I can get in good enough shape to run any of the qualifiers located here in Ohio... There's one in Pennsylvania thats far enough out and still before the 9/15 deadline, but it's a 3.5 hour drive.

Current plan is to start doing long runs every weekend and run until my body says it's time to stop. We'll see how it goes. If I'm feeling really good in April maybe I'll jump into the Cincy or Cleveland marathon. If I can run 22 miles without bonking out in April I think I'll be good, but I think it will take longer for me to get there than 2 months.

Really nice night for a run, it was somewhat cloudy with a full moon- bright enough that you could see all the clouds clearly. Perfect temperature and no wind as well.

Half marathon at goal marathon pace around my big neighborhood loop. Felt amazing the first 8 miles with a few moments where my legs felt it. Miles 8-10 I started feeling a little more drained, then mile 11 I hit a bit of a wall. I'd built up plenty of a cushion to go sub 1:30 but my goal for the workout was to stay at or under 3 hour pace the whole time after mile 1, so I pushed pretty hard to stay at 6:53 or faster the last couple miles. I was at 6:50-6:52 for miles 11-13 and then I did a stride to finish up the last .1. Finished the run in 1:27:30.

Lot of endurance to build in order to be able to do todays run twice in a row- especially if I want to enjoy the race and not suffer for the last hour of it. I had pretty consistent 6:30 miles for a while in the middle of the run, I think that's a good pace to use as marathon pace going forward. I'll sign up for a marathon when I can do 20-22 miles at marathon pace with a few at marathon pace miles at the end of the run.

Easy run with 6 strides.

Stroller miles. Reflecting about how good a February this has been. Typically it's my least favorite month, but in Grove city we've had a bunch of days in the high 50s and 60s. Yesterday and today were high 60s and we'll hit the 70s this weekend. I'm just going to say it, the weather in Columbus Ohio is better than Santa Barbara. There's no ocean and a little more bugs, but the actual temperature and such is better here on throughout the year. That may be somewhat biased by sb only having like 15 total days in the year where it's warm enough to swim, which I found disappointing.

Beyond the weather life is generally just good outside of being far from family. Whitney makes our life pretty joyful, although I definitely miss sleeping in and could do with a little more free time.