Blake Bennions running

10 miles with Jake including a 4x 4 on 3 off, 4x 2 on 2 off.

Paces for the 4 minutes were: 5:49, 5:36, 5:21, 5:27.

Paces for the 2 minutes were: 5:26, 5:23, 5:32, 5:49. That last 2 minutes that we did at 5:49 pace was all uphill and easily the hardest effort but felt really good.

After the run I drove up north and played 80 minutes of tennis with Adam, I'm counting that as 2 miles but it definitely felt more like 5-6 in terms of energy spent.

After all that I stopped by starbucks and got my free venti pumpkin spice latte breve... only day of the year I'll willingly go to Starbucks. It's a little scary I'm officially to my last year before 30, but this was a perfect start to the first day of 29.

Was already dark at 8:30 tonight when I started my run

Premeet with Jake. He is only racing peach days and did 8x400 at 79-80. I did every other 400 with him. Felt pretty good. Hoping to win both park city open race and peach days 5k tomorrow and Saturday!

Warmed up and then left to find a toilet and unfortunately missed the start of the race. I thought it was at 8:30 and apparently it was 8:10. So I started on the course around the 10 minute mark, so I finished like 21st of 27 competitors in the coaches race with a time of like 26 minutes and I caught Joy right at before the line. Was a fun meet!

Course record for the peach days 5k! Most years it's won in like 16:30-17:30 and this year there were 7 people sub 17 and 2nd place was also sub 16. So a little harder to win than I'd expected.

I went out with Jake and Spencer before they continued on to the 10k route and I turned off for the 5k, and to my surprise like the entire pack of guys that were right behind us all followed me for the 5k. I kept hoping to drop them but just managed to put a few seconds of distance on 2nd place per mile, which did the trick.

I've now won 3 races this year which has been a lot of fun. Probably would have been 4 if I'd made it to the starting line yesterday... I'll get it next year haha.

Ran up to the golf course and back while my dad biked.

Am- 4.5 with Jake and Henry, we did 12 30 second hill sprints

Afternoon- 20 minutes of hourglass strides on the grass with Jake. Basically stride 100-150 meters jog 40-50 on repeat for 20 minutes. Hurt quite a bit.

Evening- real fun began when my top soil delivery guy told me he couldn't dump the top soil in my yard without cracking my concrete. So I had somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of dirt dumped in the street in front of my house and was also notified by the city that I needed to move it out of the street by Wednesday morning.

Spent 5 hours tonight moving the dirt throughout the yard. 53x loading the 8 cubic foot capacity wheelbarrow with 500 pounds of dirt, pushing the wheelbarrow around the yard and then dumping it.

Ouch

Not sure how much mileage to count this for

Am- 1 hour 45 minutes doing 18 loads of dirt

Afternoon- About an hour doing 10 more loads of dirt

Evening- 2 hours 45 minutes with the help of Jake and Paul. I must have done an additional 30-40 loads but I didn't keep track. Those guys really saved our butts.

So incredibly tired and sore.

Technically took 4 days off from running, but the first of those days I burned about 2500 calories moving dirt and the day before that I burned over 3000 calories between running and diet moving. My lungs were absolutely shredded after the first day of moving the dirt because I didn't wear a mask, mostly over that today but I didn't want to upset my throat and lungs by running too early.

Anyways, we had a great group out today. I ran 6 with Jake Paul Henry Kolten and Sammy. Then I ran an additional 3.5 with Jake after that.

Tennis with Adam

Warmed up 2 miles and then did a 2 miles in 11:06 (5:31, 5:35), 3-4 minute rest, 1 mile in 5:25.

Lungs still aren't feeling great but they're improving.

Easy run with 1 downhill mile at 5:40 pace. I'm thinking I'll jump into the Huntsville half marathon this weekend, not sure what to expect. I think I'll just go out with the whoever takes the lead and either hang on as long as I can or make a move a few miles in if I feel like I can run faster. I think 72-75 minutes is realistic right now. Before my ankle injury I think I was getting to the point I'd want to take a crack at sub 70 on a course like this but that's will have to wait for next year.

Warmed up with Jake and then ran back to my car. Picked up to 5:36 pace for a out a kilometer.

Shake out

Most painful race of my life by a wide margin. I started having to poop around mile 5 and it just got worse. I started pulling off at every porta potty I could find, I should have just called it a day and relaxed in hindsight but I didn't realize just how bad it would get.

I spent the next 2 hours after the race in a porta potty and eventually started puking and feeling nauseous. Ouch.

The first 5k felt pretty good, ran 16:40 and was feeling it a little in my quads but overall pretty great. First place opened in a sub 5 mile so I just let him go, but he slowed down to finish in 1:11. I think I could have made it pretty close on a better day.

Warmed up 1 mile, did a 10 minute tempo at 5:50 pace with Jake before he did the rest of his workout. Cooled down to 4.

Still not in the clear from whatever but has been wrecking me but things are improving. I think I was going to get a 73 minute finish at huntsville had things gone smoothly. If I can put in a winter at 50-60 mpw I think I'll have a strong chance at sub 70 at the Ogden Half.

Ran into Henry at millennium Park and finished my run with him

Easy miles

Warmed up and did dynamics with Jake, did a 10 minute tempo at 5:40ish pace on the canal road and then headed home because I ran out of time.

Ran with Jake and Henry. Felt tired today but twas fun.

Easy with Jake and Henry

Typical Sunday route. Felt pretty good, quads are somehow still a little sore from last weeks half marathon. I need to start getting getting higher mileage and doing a better job with core and yoga, also should include a couple cross training sessions each week.

Am- Phone is dying out and didn't charge overnight so I slept in to 7 and missed most of my run with Jake. Got the last 3.8.

Pm- 4.4 circling the track while cheering on the team, plus some hill sprints chasing Whitney.