Blake Bennions running

At the doctors office, resting heartbeat is below 40!!!!!! It was at 39 and then dipped to 38 for a second. Now lets shoot for 35. I think we've solved the problem, I've been trying a new asthma medication and my lung today were a ton worse than before, so I'm getting back on dulera and will use albuterol on race days. I have been trying to force good races to come and haven't been feeling it at all, hopefully this will help change it. I also need to have more fun, just wanting it a lot isn't enough.

8.3, I ran 1.5 on the treadmill and ran 6:15-6:40 pace for the run, it wasn't hard. My back hurt again today, so I will hot tub tomorrow, I really thought that was over a while ago but its ok, I just need to overkill it with hot tub and stretches all week to make sure it gone for good. I have another appointment, this one to renew my military ID that I get for being my dads son, it gets me free food at air ports and is a form health insurance identification or something for when I go on my mission, but luckily the appointment is in the morning so I won't miss practice, also I have two more appointments on Friday, one for a pass port, and another at 7:30 in the morning to follow up on for the dentist appointment today because I don't have a cavity but a tooth that is notorious for getting cavities hasn't gotten one and they want to make sure it doesn't get one while I'm on my mission so I guess its probably a good idea. So yeah, 5 appointments this week... If I have any more for rest of February I'm going to go insane. I'm just glad I won't miss practice the rest of the week.

6x400m with 200m walk jog recovery between them. It was 3200m pace so pretty easy, I ran 78 for the first and then 70-73 for the others. Felt a little better today.

We did a mile, including the track team warm up. Then everyone wanted to do a weight room thing so we did that until almost 4:00, I got in a good workout. And then we did 5.5 more while playing Smurf, the person who was it had to do a strider while the rest of us decided what Smurf was so it helped us do those too. I wanted to do more like 8-10 today, especially 10 but I stuck with the team instead. I think on Saturday I am going to do a long run somewhere cool that I haven't been for a while, or maybe somewhere new, I haven't decided. And Friday if we don't have practice I will do something like 10 miles on porter Rockwell and get kneaders afterwards with anyone from the team that wants to. Also my creative writing teacher says I'm good at writing, especially at sports stories, and I'm learning a ton in that class. I'm writing a short story about when I broke 5:00 in the mile for the first time. I think I might start a hobby of writing stories about running or something, I like writing, especially about running!

Track team warm up, everyone was gone today except for me and pulpy. We did 70 minutes, pulpy really wanted to run to Waterford and Jordan, I told him he'd regret it but he didn't believe me. We ran to Waterford and looked around there for a little and then we started running to Jordan, we got down to 400th but we were at 37 minutes so we decided to start heading back instead. We went through the neighborhoods and smaller roads because the huge roads were getting really old. It was a good run, except for as I predicted, the route we did really sucked. Its way to much running on bigger roads, not a very nice place to run.

Ouch, getting a filling thing or whatever I got was a lot different than I remember. Its swollen and still hurts, my jaw cramped up when I was was eating something, it only hurt a little at the time because I was still really numb. And my tooth is hurting quite a bit too, i cant even open my mouth all the way because of my jaw. But oh well, it will be better in a few hours, Zach, Read and I came to practice today, we did a track workout. 1x1200 at 3200m pace, 1x800m at 3200m pace, and 1x400m at 1600m pace. It was very windy today so it was pretty tough, I ran 3:50 or so for the 1200, pretty slow. Then I ran 2:29 for the 800m, better, and then 65 for the 400m which was good. My mouth is hurting though, I feel kind of weird/tired too, maybe they did something wrong at the dentist, maybe next time I won't have them play a movie during the procedure haha.

12 miles in the gully, the run took me a less than an hour and a half so the pace was under 7:30, that's good. I ran the lower loop backwards to start off, then I did the longer run with 4 extra loops at the park, then I did the Gully's secret bonus level of pain. Then when I did some more around the parking lots when I finished to get to 12, I also stopped at Smiths and grabbed a powerade when I was done, it was a great way to finish off the run. I was considering doing a time trial, but then I remembered the words of Murphy not to force races, so I did a great long run. It felt perfect for today! I had a really good time and I'm feeling great! I'm going to relax the rest of the weekend, next week is going to be fun! Also congratulations to Conner Mantz on winning the USA Junior Cross Country Championships today, and by 25 seconds!