Blake Bennions running

16x400m with Jake and Kolten with 60 seconds rest. Averaged 75. It was snowy and cold.

Pretty good workout today. I think I could have gone a little harder for the first 10-12. I started with a 79 and then was hitting a lot of 76s with a few 75s and 74s and my last 4 were 74, 74, 73, 72. I was pretty exhausted after the last one so really I think it was pretty good. More than anything I need to get my reps more consistent, I always start faster than I finish. I think my 2nd 200m of most the reps were like 39s.

Tomorrow I'm going to double with a stroller run and then easy 7 with 2 miles at about 6:00 pace. Wednesday will be easy stroller. Thursday will be another workout with Jake and then another easy run Friday and long run Saturday. Should easily get over 50 again this week.

I'm going to try and be consistently around 40-55 miles over the winter and then in March/April I'll start getting some weeks over 60.

5 stroller miles. Then is took a short break and went back out on my own, warmed back up a bit for a mile and then did 2 miles in 12:30. Felt really good and loose today. 6:15 pace felt really easy which is a good sign. I felt like I could maybe do that pace for a full marathon.

Workout with Jake. 2.5 miles warm up and then 6x3 minutes on with 2 minutes at sub 7 pace between each rep. Average paces for the 3 minutes went 5:50, 5:45, 5:41, 5:37, 5:32, 5:25. I forgot my watch so I had to extra motivation to keep with Jake for the full workout and I did. The last rep was really hard but overall felt great!

Had to take yesterday off because I strained my coccyx or something doing bridges during my yoga session. Not sure exactly what it is but my tail bone hurts when I bend down. Running felt fine today but I shall proceed with caution.

Long run with Jake. Took Friday off as well and now my tailbone feels 100% better, as does my throat. I think cutting out 2 runs runs totalling 10 miles to preserve my health was the right choice. Now I'm entering a long weekend feeling ready to go and ready for some big miles. Planning to do 10 tomorrow and then whatever workout Jake has on the schedule on Monday.

I ran the fastest mile I've run since I was at suu today by a wide margin. We ran up big rock (was a mistake, very icy) and then around the city for a while and spontaneously decided to do a hard downhill mile. Jake finished maybe 1 second ahead of me but our watches got very different splits for our mile times, his was 4:33 and mine was 4:42. So we ran somewhere between those numbers. I felt great though, pretty sure I could go 20 seconds faster in a race down that street. Was highly enjoyable. We'll find out if I'm sore tomorrow I guess but I feel great, think I could go for another 13 miles now. I've got the Saint George Marathon in my sights for this fall, would like to go sub 2:40. Lots of fun races to focus on before then starting in March though.