Blake Bennions running

Still shooting for 4:18. But I need to take steps. We don't have a meet until march 21st so I have some time to get ready. A nice break from racing, and now we are beginning to start doing track workouts, I'm going get a huge amount faster in the next 4 weeks. And I'm going to work hard to make sure I get where I want to be. I'd like to do a time trial before the first invitational, I haven't been racing like I used to and I want to run a 1600m where I dont have to worry about positioning to get back on my feet, not for a while though. Right now I'm just excited to start working on my speed again! We did 8x200m at 1600m goal pace. So I ran 32s and 33s to average out at 4:18. I accidentally ran a 30 because people in the way and I was a little annoyed. And I ran a 31 for the last one, so a little fast. But the others were good. I walked until we regrouped after the 200s and then we jogged the rest of the recovery. I think I'm good to go again after Thursday, its not the end of the world, you've got to fail hard to succeed, I'm going to be ok and will achieve my goals as long as I work hard and trust in the workouts Murphy gives me.

7 miles with 6 striders and core. Feeling sick, but hopefully I will have a good time with the track workout tomorrow.

Well when I heard we were going to do a hard mile today I started feeling even more sick, I really didn't want to do a time trial thing for a while, I felt like throwing up by the time we got done with the 20 minute warm up. I started the 1600m and took it out at a fairly easy 74 second pace, I was just going to do a little under five minutes but my body just wasnt working like its supposed to, it felt like I wasn't getting enough blood places even though the pace felt easy. My calves started cramping up after the first lap and by the 600m mark I knew I would have to quit or else they'd explode. I've been cramping up really easy lately too, I dont know what's wrong with my body but I hope it will pass.

I ran to the library and back a little while after I got home. I didn't run at all to cool down at school because I didn't want my calves to cramp up so I just walked about a mile. But I wanted to make sure my muscles didn't get tight so I did a little more at home. My feet feel really screwed up too, not sure whats going on, I guess it doesn't really matter.

10 miles and 4 striders. I ran faster the last 5 miles, probably mid to low 6 minute pace. So an ok run, didn't really plan on running faster, I just started, it felt good though.

Ran in the gully today, I felt worse than yesterday. I almost threw up a couple of times. Lots of horses and people with dogs. I also came across a battle/gathering of pioneers vs revolutionary war militia (I think?), ninjas, a ninja turtle (with a sword and sheild), hobbits, and what appeared to be a Jedi creeping through down a hill to join them. Lots of construction today as well. I wanted to do 12 and get 50 for the week but I wasn't feeling it, didn't want to make mt health worse than it is. I'm going to do core and some exercises to help my kick.