Blake Bennions running

Went to the park with my sister and did a good solid run, everything felt great. Wanted to do more but thought it best to start out easy.

So hot today, over 90 degrees for my run. I hot tubbed before too so my body was already extra hot. I stopped for water in the rec center to make sure I didn't overheat. Also I ran a mile and a half on the road to get home, my ankle is complaining a little bit but its pretty good! It was mostly all downhill which I thought would be good, I think downhill is easier than up for my Achilles. Tomorrow could be anything from a rest day to a 7 mile day depending on how my ankles feel over the next day. But I would like to have do an 8 mile run next week. If my ankles feel good the whole week maybe I could even make 50 miles, but I'd say 40 miles is my goal. If I can average 7 miles per day and run 6-7 days of the week. But that's very optimistic. If my ankle feels good every day that will happen.

Solid 5 miles at a strong pace.

Jeremy ranch is even more beautiful than o remember it being. My new job in park city is really close to the trail so I will likely be doing Jeremy ranch pretty often this summer, hopefully the whole thing by sometime on July. The road was a little harder than I remember it being but my Achilles aren't complaining too much, I will find out the real damage in the morning. But yeah solid day, if I can keep this up I can get a 40+ mile week!

Easy run at the pari, ankles weren't feeling too grey and it was very hot.

Took the day off because my ankles weren't feeling good and I've been learning I need to listen to and take care of my body better. I iced 3 or 4 times as well as hot tubbed.

Awesome run with tayte, my first back to mountain running, I held up ok! Tayte is doing a lot of awesome things and I'm really excited to see him compete internationally this year! We ran up bell canyon, it was challenging, its always great training when we run up there. My ankles held up very well, in part because of my nifty mountain running shoes haha. Great way to start off the day! If my ankles are feeling good enough I might to the gully long run tomorrow, I might even go for a couple easy miles later today! Feeling good! Feels like I'm finally back to running. 5 year anniversary of my first sub 5:00 mile!

Pretty good run, ankles felt slightly weak.

Ran at the park, my ankle is kind of hurting now which is bad, but its lower like the upper heel bone where it connects to the Achilles. Whatever, I iced the crap out of it when I got home. I've been averaging mid 6 minute range on my runs which has been good, trying to be ready to train with the guys. I've been make sure I do easy runs too. My goal for this week is 40+ miles, so either 7 days of about 6 miles per day or 6 days of about 7 miles per day. Hopefully 7 days of 7-8 miles a day, that would be best case scenario. Need to hot tub more but the rec center has been really letting me down with never being open lately.

Nice morning shakeout with Zach and Ian, it was really nice to see Zach again before he goes on his mission to Tahiti! Gonna miss that guy. More miles on the way as I'm going to run with sage later today. Has potential to be my first double digit mile day of the summer.

Gully longer run with Sage, it was fun to run with him again! My ankle was bugging me pretty bad during the run, but it wasn't the Achilles, it was more the side of my ankle where the big bone is as well as the heel. Good news is that the achilles felt good, bad news is that there's a weird new ankle issue. Not sure what's going on, all I can do is nuke it with hot tub and ice multiple times per day and try to go easy on it. Other good news is that I got 11 miles today and I'm still feeling fresh! I feel like I could still go do another 5-6 at the park. I won't though because that would be obscenely irresponsible of me with ankle and all.

Fortunately I wasn't stupid enough to run yesterday on my busted ankle, but it was feeling healed enough today I tried it out for 5 miles and it felt alright.

Nice day, it was really busy but good busy. I saw the doctor and they gave me inserts which feel really nice to run on. Sounds like it was probably the switch to more minimalist shoes that sparked the injury. They told me to wait to start pt to switch shoes, but pt won't start for almost a month and hopefully I will be doing lots better by then. I think these inserts will do fine and if my ankles are better in a few weeks I can just candle and get a pair of either brooks adrenaline or saucony omni, those two have worked very well for me in the past. Anyways today I got in 4 miles before the appointment and over 3 after date, I ran the 3 pretty fast which was good. 3 races planned for July, sandy classic, draper days, and D news 5k, the last one is really just because Jimmer Fredette is racing in it and it would be fun to beat him.

Easy run today except for when I ran to the Brighton track I just was so happy to be on a track I ran mid 5 minute range mile haha, it felt nice though so that's encouraging. Hopefully I will be in good enough shape for sandy classic I can battle for sub 17:00, it's a slow course so I think that's a reasonable goal. I'm also trying to run on the road more to get my legs used to it, they don't like terrain that isn't grass very much right now. Which is great for cross country, but for training when I get back to cedar they need to good on the roads too. My ankles felt fine on the roads and track today, which accounted for 2.5 miles of the run. The only time my ankles hurt was at the beginning of the run.

Ran to get to 40 today. Next run will probably be Tuesday. Want to give my ankles a rest. Then hopefully try for 5 days 8 miles each. Its ok it ends up being 6-8 depending on day.

6 miles and 2 tennis matches in 100 degree weather. Pretty intense day. Now I'm at work, hopefully my ankles will be ready for the sandy classic.

Its hard to increase mileage in this heat. I did 6 miles in 98 degree temperatures, at least its great heat training. I work until 10 or else I'd run in the evening, I should just wake up earlier and run then. I also ran about 3 of todays miles on the road and my ankles held up just fine! So thats good news. Now I need to get used to running fast on the roads.

First speed workout of the summer, 10x1 minute hard with 1 minute rest in between. I felt pretty good and I ran past a speedometer that said I was at 12 miles per hour for what thats wort. That would be averaging 5:00 which is ok for first workout. I also ran almost 4 of the miles on the road with minimal complaint from my ankles. I think I'm finally getting over this thing! And I'm getting new, more cushioned shoes tomorrow! And I will hopefully begin doing 2 a days soon, that will help boost me up to 50-60 miles a week with more ease.

Am- 3 shakeout miles after racquetball

Pm- 5 miles feeling pretty good. I need to get in the mode where running miles is natural and I just go do it when i have time.

Good long run. Should stay up at 7-10 miles from now on. I'm feeling back to running, next week i need to hit 50+ miles, hopefully i can get 60. I really need to try to push for 75-80 miles per week by august. Then during the season i can try and increase to 90.

Another solid run with the route I've been doing now that I'm off grass.

Same route. Ankle is feeling a little sore so I will give it rest. I got some new omnis, I think if I put the inserts in them they will be perfect, they do a fine job without extra though. Then I'm planning on 8 straight days of running 7-12 miles per day. Maybe a day off somewhere in there, Sandy Classic is a few days away, hopefully I can break 17:00 there but we will see. No clue what shape I'm in. I won't be too discouraged if I'm in the 17:00-17:30 range, slower than that would be frustrating, faster than 16:45 will be incredibly motivating, especially on that course. If I could get 16:45 I could probably run under 16:00 at draper days.