Blake Bennions running

Plan was to run from my apartment to planet fitness, do 2.5 miles on the treadmill, and run back.

Instead I accidentally took a really long route to planet fitness, was at 3.5 miles when I got there. So I just took a shorter route home. Planning on doing 4 easy grass miles behind the track on Wednesday, maybe another short run on thursday, and then an 8-10 mile run on saturday.

4.25 easy miles at 7:30 pace on the treadmill. Treadmill miles aren't fun, but I found myself wanting to continue on for more by the end. I had to get back home to teach a recitation though, and I wanted to get to some core and rowing so I stopped where I'd planned. I'll be doing 8-10 miles this weekend. At least half of it will be at marathon pace, but maybe all. I'll see how I'm feeling the day of. If it's as cold as it's been all week, I'd lean towards all of it at marathon pace.

Been a while since I ran a 10 miler and felt fine afterwards. I feel great right now, could have easily gone on to finish 13.1 miles. Today I ran 6 miles easy and then 3.5 miles hard and cooled down around half a mile.

I decided doing a few marathon miles towards the end of the run would better train my body to run at marathon pace when it's tired. As per usual my ankles were a little sore at the beginning but feel fine now. My knees felt cold after the run today.

Even with 65% of the run at easy pace I averaged 7:11. I think my half marathon at goal pace in 2 weeks will feel good. My current training schedule is working really well for me.

Time to go get some food and do some work.