Blake Bennions running

Treadmill today. Warmed up a couple miles and then did 5 miles at 10.1 miles per hour. Felt hard. Need to get more used to this pace. I also need to work on not overstriding when I speed up and increasing my turnover instead.

Gully long run in somewhere between 42:55 and 43:15, I can't remember what the marker for the end was. It was fairly icy/slushy today, I had to go pretty slow down at the bottom of the gully. I sped up the last couple miles and closed in 5:35 for the last mile. Felt pretty good today, pretty sure I could break 40 in good weather at a race effort right now.

Did 4 hill repeats afterwards and then cooled down a bit after those.

Felt great today and this was pretty confidence building. It was a fairly spontaneous gully run, pleasant view/harrisville area has like 8/10 inches of snow all over but my parents neighborhood has pretty much no snow... I figured I'd take advantage of conditions down there when I went over to visit my parents.

Didn't have much time today. I ran up as far as the roads would let me go in pleasent view and then I bombed down a 5k. Tried working on a little higher turnover and shorter strides. Ran 16:47 for the 5k, my goal was to average sub 5:35 so 5:24 was great. Got some work to do before my quads will be able to handle that for 13 miles.

I haven't done a true easy run in too long, I'll take the rest of the week easy. Might do a shake out tonight. Tomorrow will be hard to get out to run.

Kind of a funky down week but I enjoyed it. Time to get back into middle distance workouts.

Haven't signed up for Saint George or the drop 13 yet and am now considering doing big bear and a trail race instead. Been addicted to finding bargains on shoes lately, got a pair of new balance ld-x spikes for $30 and I'm going to get some $140 Adidas trainers for $60.