Blake Bennions running

9.5 in the gully on my own. Then I went to Wasatch and picked up the best thing I could get for racing on Thursday. I also played racquetball later, its good for acceleration haha, my jaw is hurting but I got my teeth fixed today so I should be feeling good soon. No more dentist appointments for 2 years! And the construction in the gully has worked its way to the trail we run on, but they left a gap for us so its ok.

Josh Collins is in my qualifying heat! Scary, and there are 3 other guys with times of 4:21-4:23. After that I should be able to beat everyone. The next fastest is Chris rushing, then me, and Chris and I are pretty even in the mile so its nice to have him in my heat! There are to guys who've run just under 4:30 from Oregon and California but they're from Oregon and California so... Yeah. Then there a few other guys who've run sub 4:35 but and the bottom half of the heat is mostly upper 4:30s or low 4:40s. So good competition, but also a few incredibly fast guys. My plan is to get into about 7th place and wait until the sea level kids die off, and then try to catch Mark Summers. He's run 4:22 and has signed with USU, I beat him at USU but I bet he's in better shape now. I will need to race very well in order to finish in the top 5 of my heat. I'm excited but I need to catch fire.

7 slow miles with the team. I was going to do some more but it gets really old when everyone else does the bare minimum for the workout given...or less. I just need to be strong and do what I know is right for me. Tomorrow is pre-meet, I'm gonna kill it at Simplot!!!

I ran down to Nam and looked around there for a while, I came back to Alta after I had run a bit over 30 minutes and then did 4 striders. I felt pretty good. Tomorrow will be fun, East is an awesome team and Simplot is the biggest meet I've competed at! I really want to qualify for finals!

I had a very rough race. It was the first time I've ever taken last. All you can really do is keep going. I dont know where its all gone, but I need to forge something new in order to make it onto USU. I can't really do any worse than I did today, I can't suck worse or sink lower so I guess the only way is up!

I guess its going to be a low mileage week.

I meant to do 10-12. I ran with Zach and I had a really hard time just doing an easy long run. Zach's stomach was hurting so we had to turn back at 4. We also turned on the road coming back so it was a little shorter than 4 coming back. I was going to go do more on my own but its just not in me. I could do it, but I don't think I should. Maybe I will do another run later tonight to get to 40. The rest of the day I guess I will just try to relax and get my mind off of Thursday. I dont know how long its going to take to get back.