Blake Bennions running

Better than Tuesdays run but still feeling pretty beat. Been a busy 2nd half of July. I think I'll have an easier week or two now that the house is all ready and we're just waiting on someone to buy it.

Started running and felt a little better than the other days this week but not a lot better, decided to do a hard effort 5k to break out of the funk. It went pretty well, ran about 17:50- my Garmin was off on distance and at one point I paused it for a second while trying to view my total run time instead of lap time since my laps weren't synced with my distance- but it was sub 18 which has eluded me for a long time.

I think this is the first sub 18 5k I've run since 2020... so 4 years... I'm getting back there. I also have realized maybe I shouldn't race with a watch. I started out in 5:30 and felt great- part of me thought great let's go sub 17, but part of me also thought cool I can chill out and cruise to sub 18. If I hadn't seen the time it would be easier to just keep cruising. Also just a tough thing about solo efforts.

Definitely broke me out of my funk, just been physically exhausted trying to get everything ready for the move and to show the house. I also ran a hard 800m after a couple recovery laps, the first 200m must have been pretty slow because I picked it up a lot the 2nd half and still only ran a 68.

Excited to start regularly working out with Jake starting next month, gonna get a lot faster.

Easy run, but went a little faster than planned. M

Another easy run, felt good and pace was pretty quick by the end.

Wrecked my leg on a hurdle back on Wednesday at the very start of my run. I hit my shin on the top of it and it seems like I might have a bone bruise, still swollen and sensitive but it felt fine on the run today.

6x200m and a 400m at 800m pace. 32-33 on the 200ms and 65 for the 400m.

Ran to the track and ran a few 400s, just trying to get the legs more used to faster paces. Ran 72, 69, 72, 66.

Easy run

4 miles at 10k pace, moving to Utah this coming week. Will be kinda stressed until our house here sells.

Easy run with a couple strides

800m at mile pace, 4 400ms and some strides. 800m was a little slow at 2:27, 400m were all over the place at 69, 72, 75, 70. Good to get out and run fast.

Last week in Ohio, so time to strengthen my segment records in the neighborhood. Nice and peaceful run tonight after a long day of packing and selling stuff.

Ran to drop off and pick up my car from oil change.

The 2nd Ohio chapter of my life is finished, I didn't realize my most recent run was last Friday... oof.

I also wouldn't have run today but my cars instrument cluster did it's annoying thing where it shuts off so I took it in to the shop to get fixed and ran home after picking up a uhaul to go dump some of our junk at the landfill. It was 100° and the truck did not have ac so the landfill experience was rough lol. Then I dropped off the uhaul and ran over to pick up my car.

Becca is driving the car back because she has family along the way she wanted to see, which left me to take Whitney on the plane. We survived, although somebody jacked my phone in security and TSA had to hunt him down and bring him and his bags back for a search... was awkward but I got my phone back just in time to make my flight. Grateful to the mighty TSA.

Between that and the water heater going out Sunday it's been an eventful week.

Ran over and did the thanksgiving 5k course and then ran around that area for a while and came home. The difference between what's supposed to be an easy long run in Ohio vs Utah is kinda wild, partially because I'm a little out of shape and have not acclimated to 4500 ft yet- but mostly due to the hills.