Blake Bennions running

Ran after a walk with Becca and Whitney, ran from the top of pleasant view down to my house for part of it. Averaged 6:18 for the last 7 miles of the run including 2 miles at 5:44 average.

Warmed up a little over a mile and a half with Jake and then did 6x800m at goal 5k pace, 2:30 rest between. Averaged 2:31 and hit that pretty consistently (2:31, 2:31, 2:31, 2:30, 2:33, 2:31).

Felt harder than I'd been hoping, but yesterdays run was at a fast pace and downhill which definitely took a bit out of the legs. I also haven't run anything at this pace besides strides in months. Even training at 5:20 pace does not replace faster efforts. I need to be doing 1 marathon pace workout and 1 mile-10k paced workout every week, I think if you don't do faster end stuff then everything starts to slip.

Tried out salomon aero glide 4, very nice shoe.

Got moved up yet again, now I'll be pacing the 2:50 group at the Utah valley marathon. 6:29 pace down a mountain isn't too bad, but it is starting to make me a little nervous- partially because it's tomorrow. Mostly just excited, this is a perfect training run.

First marathon and wound up the pacer for the 2:50 group. Had a really good time overall but it was super hard to get fueling down while carrying a big sign, and also because my pace band fell off in mile 3 and I had to hold that the last 23 miles too. They had specific paces I was supposed to hit every mile and I hit them pretty accurately until mile 24, I had to stop in the porta potty and generally had 0 energy from being under fueled. Grinded out the last 2-3 miles after that feeling like poop.

But hey, I ran a marathon and qualified for Boston! Even got a Boston qualifier shirt. And all for free, so I'm a huge fan of all this (outside of having to hold all that crap for 26 miles). I'm confident I could go sub 2:40 with good fueling at Des News, I think sub 2:30 isn't there yet.i think if I get a few months of good quality workouts and 65-75 now I could be there- which makes me wonder if I should do the 10k at Des news instead and focus on training for a while. I feel like races and a couple of injuries have really interrupted my training schedule since March.

Besides a couple blisters my legs and feet held up great today. Aero glide 4s are awesome.

Mowed the lawn and did 10 minute shake out and 20 minute sauna.

Recovering pretty well, I'll do 3-4 miles tomorrow.

Easy run to Harrisville park and back. Legs feel flat and sore on the outer thighs, but overall pretty good.