Blake Bennions running

8 miles, its really annoying that my pelvic muscle is still hurting whenever I run. Kind of makes every run suck. I don't know if I will be able to run at BYU on Saturday, or even the oval next week at the slow rate it's recovering at, bur there's no chance I'm taking more time off with cross training, I doubt the huge change in my diet is going to help either. But whatever, im sure it will get better sooner or later.

Ouch, well I shouldn't have done hills today, bad call on my part. My paraphormus wasn't feeling bad until after though so it was hard. The first two repetitions felt good but the last two I couldn't breathe, I had really bad shortness of breathe both during the repetitions and during the recovery. This contributed to my muscles not getting enough oxygen and I nearly cramped up 3 or 4 times about half a mile after the hill workout. Luckily I'm very experienced when it comes to getting muscle cramps so I know how to stop them a lot of the time now. I struggled through the rest of the run in pain and lacking energy because I haven't been eating enough, I probably am very low on carbohydrates too. Food is no longer enjoyable. I might not be able to run at BYU on Saturday, I need to be thinking of Simplot with only a month to go. My goal for indoor is 4:26, if I do this I will have all my goals for the year lined up and ready to hit. But I'm ok with 4:29 too, what's really important to me is running 4:23 at Pineview and then running sub 4:20 at Arcadia. After that, I will set big goals for BYU, region, and state. I know my hip/pelvis will get better, I just need to be patient, work through it, and soon enough I will be ok.

I just came back from the hot tub and I'm feeling way better, almost pain free! I will definitely go again tomorrow, BYU is looking probable right now.

I ran with the rest of the team on and off today, probably 2 with the team, 6.25 on my own. The first few miles were painful and hard to get through but by mile 5 I was feeling good. I'm going to hot tub again, it will probably help out!

Long run today, ran with the team and then after a few miles, Davis and I started running faster, like sub 7:00 pace but it was still feeling good and it was pretty easy. No pain today! There was pain earlier on in the day but none during the run! I am using the hot tub again and will stretch more later tonight. I will register for BYU tonight but I'm only going to race if my back is feeling completely fine tomorrow

Trying to get registered for BYU invite, yesterday I was going to but my house had a black out. If it doesn't work in going to do a 1600m race at Alta with Read. 4 miles easy today.

My body is messed up right now. I think I'm going to start eating wheat and gluten again, this season is too important to risk that kind of thing, I will talk to a sports nutritionist to see what seems like the best option first. Also my throat hurt a lot during the race, bad asthma. Bad cough at the meet too, something deep in my throat.