Blake Bennions running

Canal road with Jake. Easy 6.5 miles or so and then a 2 mile tempo at 5:50- I slowed down to easy pace on the hills and then caught back up after them to be a little careful on my soleus.

According to garmin my vo2 max has dropped 5 points in the past week, I'm pretty sure because I've adjusted my form for most of my running this week to avoid stressing the soleus. Really need to break that habit and get my old form back and then I think I'll be just about 100%. My calf was feeling weak and just a hint of sore/achy after the 2 mile tempo so I kept it really easy on the way back to the car.

Overall huge success.

In other news the biting gnats at antelope island might be hatching early this year and if they do my race this weekend will be cancelled so that would suck.

Easy miles with Jake, I ended with a little over a mile at 6:15 pace. Felt great, heart rate peaked at 150. Today was mostly about getting my form back to normal, and my calf had no problems. I think everything is sorted out and I'm ready to do some fast running after a rest day tomorrow.

Track with Kolten Henry and Jake, lots of fun despite being a little sick and calf not f great.

Plan was 6xmile with 2 min recovery and I got through half before my calf was complaining too much, hopefully I didn't overdue it. Calf is pretty sore now, got worse during cool down and after I stopped running.

Splits were 5:16, 5:18, 5:19. Outside of my calf and a bit my lungs I felt great, definitely could have finished this workout if my calf was healthy and maybe even averaging like 5:15 pace. I think sub 33 at salt lake 10k is very doable.

Easy on canal road during the sunset followed by 20 minute sauna.

Still feeling sick but calf felt totally fine today.

The race this weekend got cancelled because the biting gnats have hatched at antelope island... probably for the best not to push my calf that hard yet anyways.

Easy with 2 strides, the 2nd stride was more like a quarter mile push. Still a little sick and also didn't get out until 9 so I felt drained today- calf was complaining just a little so I decided to cut it short. It felt fine on the strides.

It's weird that I think a 9pm run is too late nowadays, having a kid really changes your life. I'm also a lot faster as a dad than I was as a childless adult.

Easy with Jake and Henry. Barely felt my calf today but glad I wasn't risking a 16 mile trail race, and I definitely would have succumbed to the temptation of racing it if it hadn't been cancelled. I do feel like it's been way too long since I've raced and I think finally being at 100% is just around the corner. I should probably just focus on getting a few good weeks at 55-60 mpw without pushing too hard and keep focused on SL10k and crossover/Ogden but I also really want to get racing and I don't really want to have to wait another 4 weeks. Maybe the answer is to try to finish a suu progression run next weekend on the track.

5 87 laps, 6 85 laps, 4 80 laps, 79, 78, 77, 76, all out mile. I know I can make it to the mile cutting down from 79-76 but I should also be able to do that mile and then stay around 5:20 if I'm going to be running sub 70 at Ogden half.

Afternoon

Mile home from dropping off my car

Mile back to the shop to pick it up

Big o did my maintenance inspection for free so that was nice.