Blake Bennions running

Not a good workout for me. I've been in a rut since I got sick, my lungs have been messed up and my motivation has been low.

Great talk with coach today. It always raises my spirits about running when I meet with him. We talked about my running and everything and decided that I'm going to cut back on mileage and take a little time to run on my own and figure out whats going on with my running. So my plan right now is to kind of reset my running and build this week and then next week hopefully start doing a little more hard stuff but just as I'm feeling it. I'm really just trying to get back in touch with my motivation and drive for the sport. Then when I come back if I'm feeling more like I did before I got sick I'm going to try running with the fastest group and see if that helps pull me along. I'm still hoping to hit some PRs this season, I just need to go at the right pace for now and get in the zone when races start happening.

5 tired miles, would have gone a couple more with a break at the rec center park except I had to get back home for an extended family dinner.

I'm going to post all of my runs this week. This week is kind of a week to just get out every day and see what my body wants to run. Today I ran while my parents biked up the mouth of the canyon and back, well I started behind them because I had been warming up and got there first running about 6:00 pace and then waited for them but on the way back they beat my by a bunch because it's downhill, but I got in some fast miles. Then I ran with my brother for a little over a mile. Pretty good run. I think that's it for today, maybe I will do 3 more tonight if I get bored but I think I will just wait for tomorrow and maybe do a gully long run.

I was highly unsuccessful in my goal to post all of my runs last week. Hopefully that will change this week, today I did my first speed workout in over two weeks. It went alright, all things considered I'm not dissapointed, it was a very hard workout. Not sure if I'm going to be ready to race at UVU, thats pretty soon and my level of fitness isn't very high. I think I'd probably run somewhere in the 4:teens for the 1500 if I did race. I'm really just trying to build and get some confidence going into summer training for cross country next year, the team is going to be really competitive and I want to be at my best. My new goal is to run like 70-80 miles per week in may and june and hopefully build on that in july and then when cross country comes in august be able to hold the mileage that is expected of the top guys on the team so I can train with them. I've been having some weird lung/throat problems for a while, probably need to see a doctor about it. I also want to start putting in a weekly long run on saturday that is much longer and slower than the rest of the week. A lot of times this year I've ended up having saturday as my shortest run and I think that hasn't been good for recovery or base building. I cut my mileage and am rebuilding it but I think I should do a little less during the week and then a really good long run every saturday morning where I just enjoy it and let my body recover. I also want to eat healthier and drop some weight because I am back up to 150 and I definitely feel a difference when I'm closer to 140 at longer distances. There's also the whole core thing that I need to do a better job of doing on my own. I used to be really good at that.