Blake Bennions running

Easy quarter of a marathon. Beautiful sunset today, it was very purple. Race shoes still aren't in, so that's too bad. I decided to do the 15 miler Tuesday because I want to do it in those shoes. Another 7 weeks of training and some super shoes could get me to a sub 3. But even if I'm feeling good and on pace I'm going to step out the second I feel a ache or possible injury starting up.  Better to dnf and take a week off than finish and lose all my fitness right afterwards.

Half marathon in the alphaflys. Awesome shoes, but I think mine have slight defects. It felt like my right foot feels kind of angled in the shoe. Maybe that's on purpose? The first 8 miles felt great but then I tanked hard at 9/10. It was really hard to keep running the last 2 miles. I walked the last mile and half barefoot after I finished to half a marathon. But anyways I barely made it to my recitation on time afterwards and now I'm getting food.

I think a big issue that I run into and need to stop doing is that I will go out too hard and that always blows up my run. I need to ease into things and my first mile should be like 7:40-8 minutes for every run.

Found a weird tender bump on my hamstring. Seems like a muscle strain maybe? Will proceed with caution. I've been considering just concentrating on running easy 4-10 mile runs a few times a week and feeling healthy. Maybe just get back into a good running rythym and try running some fast races aftee that rythym has been established for a while.

Garmin reported 5.6, but I'm pretty sure it was 5. Just an easy shake out. My legs have been pretty shredded up since the half marathon in alphas. Sending em back. But it was nice to get out again.