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800m time trial no.1

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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2013

Gender:

Male

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Other

Running Accomplishments:

Ran for SUU on their Cross Country/Track and Field teams

2015 Alta Track Athlete of the Year

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and and build mileage

Get faster

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running

Run the Boston Marathon at least once

Personal:

Married, we have one daughter so far. I ran for Alta high school and was trained by Rob Murphy, he is a great coach, one of the best there is. I also ran for Southern Utah University.

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Miles:This week: 10.00 Month: 143.05 Year: 1271.30
Race: 800m time trial no.1 (0.5 Miles) 00:02:00, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.000.000.503.00

Made an attempt at sub 2:00 today, but was too sick. I decided to run it anyway because I've been doing premeet for a while and haven't raced in 2 weeks and I wanted to stay sharp. Pulpy, Austin, cubby, and Mikey paced me, each paced me for a 200m. I started feeling really bad at the 2nd lap, I ran a great 58 for the first lap, but the second lap I started having trouble with my lungs, each breathe kind of rattled my lungs, kind of like wheezing, breathing through mucous. I kept going hard, I didn't think I was on pace but I kept pushing, on the home stretch I thought I heard someone yell 1:55 with about over 50 meters left and I kind of thought I was done, I still strided in strong, but when I realized how close I was it was just a little too late and I didn't get it. After I finished, breathing started hurting, normal breaths hurt just a little, but when I breathed in deep it hurt quite a bit. So for being this far off of 100% and running my PR, I am going to rip that sub 2:00 barrier apart next week once im healthy, I know I can get 1:58, maybe 1:57. So im excited about that. I was planning on running once I got up to the cabin... But from the way it looks, not tonight. I will run tomorrow, and try to go home tomorrow night instead of Sunday morning. I think the only thing here that I dont feel horrible about eating are bananas, I think pizza is the next healthiest thing haha. I guess I will find a trail to run tomorrow, im going to try for 10-14 miles tomorrow. Then Sunday will either be full rest or a few easy miles, and then I want to race the 800m on Tuesday again, but I need to talk to Coach Murphy and see when I should race, how much rest I should give myself.

Comments
From Rob Murphy on Fri, May 29, 2015 at 22:15:56 from 24.10.247.181

Sorry I missed tonight Blake.

Maybe God is trying to tell you that your heart will EXPLODE if you run 1:59 and you need to focus on trail running. :-)

From Blake Bennion on Fri, May 29, 2015 at 23:00:58 from 172.56.17.222

Hahaha I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case! It will be interesting to see how I do at Leadville. I think I will have to walk on to USU, haven't heard back from them since Davis Invite. It'd really be nice if they just told me though. Maybe I'd have more success and fun trying to become a top level trail/mountain runner! But I can break 2:00 when im healthy next week!

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