Blake Bennions running

I ran the best buy loop on my own today after the warm up. Everyone else wanted to do 3-4 miles and they weren't stopping for Garmin so I ran on my own. It gave me a chance to concentrate on my form and strike the ball of my foot. I ran into Zach on about a quarter mile from the school and turned around and did the lower loop with him. He said they ended up doing 5 miles, I was proud that he did an extra 2 miles to get to 7! We watched son pretty awesome flotrack videos before running! I think I need to relax on race days and not worry or think about the race too much, its like this thing in psych we are learning in which if you aren't engaged in something enough you will do bad because you dont car, but I you're too preoccupied with it, you will do bad because you're so anxious.i need to be a little less anxious and relax.

6 miles easy and then 2 hard effort miles. I was gave a pretty good effort but made sure not to race it. Didn't feel super good today but I think I'm getting better. I had an appointment with the allergist today, she said that my asthma medicine might be causing the cramps, so I'm on a new one, unfortunately its also might cause cramps. I've decided to stop taking my heartburn medicine because even though it just cuts down on acid to reduce the pain, I think that if something is giving me heartburn, it might be harming my body in other ways so I want to know if its causing heartburn so I won't eat it. I got a nose scope and my nostrils have lots of spots that have been bleeding and is very dry, I need to use my allergy nose spray better so it goes where its supposed to. I also found out Ive had a chronic sinus infection since before the 5th grade, so I will get that fixed hopefully. I dont think that the sinus infection thing is affecting me because I had a few good races over the past few years.

Ran to the gully and did a good hill workout, something in between .15 and .2 long, we did 7 of them, I felt good about my effort and alright about how my body was holding up. I started cramping up after the workout at the beginning of the 40 minute run just a bit but I don't mind as long as its afterwards, and I was able to do the 40 minutes just fine although pretty tired, but that's the point of the workout so I felt good about it! I think im starting to feel a little better than I have been the past few weeks, hopefully that will continue.

Flying 40s today, I felt ok, probably another gully run tomorrow, maybe 10 miles. This was Fridays run and Fridays run on here was Thursdays run.

10 miles on porter Rockwell, pretty good pace. I feel a little bit better today than yesterday, I'm pretty happy and confident that I'm finally getting out of this very low stretch of running, I think I'm just about ready for some fast running to begin. The first meet is the same day as prom so that will be interesting. But if I just do the 1600m, or 1600m and 4x800m (If enough people come) it wouldn't be a problem. I'm interested to see how I do in tomorrows workout.

I'm going to split today into two 5 mile runs because I have lots of stuff to do and slept in this morning, or maybe a 5 mile run now and the gully long run if I have time to stop by when I go near there. 5.1 around the neighborhood, not the most enjoyable place to run, more later.