Blake Bennions running

Warmed up and ran a mile time trial with Jake. He killed it, ran a 4:24! I had a less successful attempt, ran a 4:50. I started with a 68 and then kind of just cruised and couldn't get back in gear. Laps 2 and 3 felt too easy and lap 4 hurt but I think could definitely have ran it harder. Splits were approximately 68, 74, 75, 73. I feel like I could have gone a lot faster. Good to get a race in though. I really need to get some new spikes.

1.1 miles at home

Easy stroller miles, felt really good. Nice to have some warm weather.

Warmed up a couple miles and then did 1600, 4 mins rest, then 8x600m with 2 mins rest.

Splits were 5:12, 1:54, 1:55, 1:58, 1:59, 1:59, 2:00, 1:59, 1:55. Averaged of 1:57. So about the same pace for the mile and 600s. If this is indicative of 5k pace then I'm very happy, if it's more of a 2 mile pace workout then that's not quite as exciting.

Either way, it was a good tough workout on sore legs in the wind.

Easy stroller miles. Also walked about half an hour. Good core and yoga session tonight, have been slacking on these lately.

Ran with Jake the first 11 miles or so, lots of technical hills and off trail exploration. Very fun day. After he had to go I ran up 500 and did a downhill mile at half marathon pace, I just let gravity pull me along- I could have gone faster without trying any harder if I'd just leaned into the downhill more but for some reason I thought that if I ran the downhill a little slower it would take longer distance wise and I wouldn't have to run back uphill as far. Obviously I knew that wasn't true but it was hard to convince my legs. Ended up being 5:42 over 230 feet elevation loss, felt super easy which is encouraging. I need 13 of those downhill miles at 5:34 pace to get a free entrance to Saint George, I think I could do that this month honestly.

Tempted to run a few more miles today, if I hadn't burned a hole in my sock and worked up a need to poo I would have kept going on the canal road for a few miles.

1.6 with a similar amount of walking with Becca and Whitney over to the park. Mostly on flat grass. Legs are tired. Considering trying for my all time high monthly mileage of 250 in March and try to do my first 20 mile run as well.