Blake Bennions running

I got in from Montreal last night and then I got to run with my old team, it was amazing to see everyone again, still feels like a dream but I had a lot of fun. I've been losing weight and haven't been getting much sleep or eating the past little while so that along with the altitude adjustion made todays run harder haha. I was fine the first 20-30 minutes and then I just had to push through the rest. But it felt really good to be back running, especially with my team! Hopefully I can get into shape fast, I think tomorrow I will do just 4-5 miles, maybe run up to the Brighton track and then hopefully I can go check out the copper hills meet, I'm going up to provo but hopefully I will get back before they finish!

Had a lot of fun on the gully longer run today, so good to run with those guys! My body is pretty destroyed from the last month of my mission so I didn't run the fastest gully run of my life but I had a good time and its one step closer to getting back in shape so its awesome. Depending on how sore I am tomorrow I might just do an easy run, probably want to give my body another week before I take on an Alta track workout, I don't want to know what kind of times I would right now haha

A hilly 4-5 miles but I will just say 4, I ran from Brighton through a neighborhood and eventually I ended up at the rec center and then I finished that loop back to Brighton with the giant hill going up 2300e which was tough. Nice run, really need to start taking asthma medication!

I ran a nice 4 miles or so with Cubby Zach and Aaron, it felt pretty good, I was tired but it was easier than the past few days haha. Then I ran a 300m hard with Read and Brandon, that was fun! It felt good to go fast even though fast right now isn't so fast, it will be soon! As I run consistently it will get easier and feel better. The plan right now I to just do aerobic workouts and getting my base back. As I was leaving the school today I walked past a group of my favorite freshmen from last year who have grown and changed a ton, hardly recognized them, but that was really fun!

HUGE NEWS:Coach Murphy is going to be featured as one of the 12 best high school coaches for track and cross country in 2016. I'm really happy about that, he deserves it! Can't wait to read the book he will be in!

I'm grateful I've been able to be coached by him, he's helped reach some huge goals. If any runner follows his instructions they're going to end up with a lot of success and more than that, a lot of skills to stay healthy for the rest of their lives!

Pretty easy run, I ran at the track at Brighton for part and a park for the rest. Its a very beautiful night and perfect temperature!

20 minutes of swimming and then 3 miles on the tread mill and low 7:00 pace. It felt good. I've run a bit over the weekend but I don't really know how long or far because I ran new places and my watch broke during my mission. Oh well. Coach Houle instructed me to keep it to 3 miles per day for now so I will do that. Its important to remember that I'm an inexperienced 19 year old that's lucky to be on the team and he's trained many very success athletes and raised up a lot of national championship teams and Conference Champions, and Cam Levins and others like him. So its easy for me to accept his wisdom and without thinking that I know what I can do better. I'm excited to get in shape and have all kinds of fun running this summer, the plan is that I will be back up to 60-70 per week when I get to SUU this fall. Sounds good to me!

I can't help but reflect on how lucky I've been with the coachs I've had/will have. Coach Murphy is an amazing coach and without him there's no way I could've made it to the division 1 level! I guess I will just do warm upsand stuff at practice for awhile, I will come tomorrow, hopefully I can also learn all the coaching wisdom possible from Coach Murphy during this time when I can go to practice alot!

I ran with Read, Cubby, and Brandon and Ian (not sure on last 2) for the top part of the best buy loop until I turned down and they continued to 12300. About to go swimming!

Later: Running > Swimming.

I ran up to the rec center and ran around the park on my way back. I've had a lot of appointments today. I am leaving to Hawaii tomorrow so I'm going to have some fun running in that beautiful location!

No Garmin and first time at Kauai Hawaii so I took my phone and set a 25 minute limit to keep it to about 3 miles. So beautiful here!!! I absolutely love it, the ocean is warm, the sky is bright and blue, everything is much and green, I love this place! I went to a farmers market and tried a bunch of cool fruit, we drove to this view over a mountain, we went swimming/snorkeling and hiked to this awesome plase called the queens bath, really beautiful but muddy. Then I went running from there to the beach to the end of the golf course and on the way home I hit 25 minutes so I walked in the last 10 minutes. So nice!!! I need to figure out how to post pictures on here.