Blake Bennions running

The gully long run is officially closed off, kinda sad. We ran in the lower gully, 20 minutes easy, 20 minutes hard, 20 minutes easy. I ran with Davis for the 20 minutes hard and finished at well under 6:00 pace. I am feeling good, I could break 10:00 in the 3200m if I raced it right now. I'm thinking maybe break 10:00 and run the 800m on Wednesday and then PR with sub4:30 on Saturday if conditions are good. But maybe I will race the mile on Wednesday because it would mean more rest. I'm feeling fast!

Warm up and then 15 minutes easy with 6 striders. Tomorrow I will probably race the 1600m, the 400m or 4x400m, and the 3200m. It will be fun! I think I should go for the lower half of 4:30s for the 1600m, just win the 2 mile, and hopefully surprise myself in the 400m! I think I can win the 1600m at Copper Hills invitational.

Ran the mile, just won the mile, I wasn't feeling it at all. Then I ran a 200m in the sprint medley and then Murphy had me run the 3200m in 11:00 minutes, I absolutely hate not giving my all in races. Now everyone on the team thinks I'm slow. Hopefully that's the last time I have to do that.

10.5 today, I ran with Davis at about 7:25 pace or so. It was a good run and i felt good about the pace, its kind of funny to think 10.5 is really easy to do now but if you told me to do 10 miles 3 years ago I would have freaked out haha. Being in shape is fun. I'm down to do the 1600m, the 800m, and the 3200m on Saturday and possibly the 4x400m if we enter one. It will be a full day, i have a lot planned for the meet.

Premeet, 2.5 warm up miles, 4 200s at race pace, and then a mile cool down. There a kid from Syracuse tomorrow who ran 4:35 last week so I will need to work hard to beat him, this race will be fun.

I WON THE MILE!!!!! I'm so glad! I ran a tough race and had to work hard to win. I ran smart and gave it my all. My problem is that if I start loosing a race I give up, I need to stop doing that and just do my best. Luckily I was able to win today, it was really hard but I'm very glad I did it. I'm getting faster again. I was having a lot of asthma problems and I forgot to bring my inhaler so I was still really dead by the 800m, no points haha. Also I'm in the slow heat of the 3200m and still having asthma problems so I think I should call it a day, go home and run 4 miles easy. Good meet! Need to race like I did today every day, giving it my all.

Oof, really tired. But I'm so happy I won!!! I was so tired I didn't do all 4 miles, I ran 2.3 and then walk jogged home because i was going to just lie down and sleep somewhere if i didn't haha. I want to run sub 4:30 before the big invitationals start. Today we went out at 68, slower than I usually do. I think I'm running the 3200m at Alpha before the 1600m so I want to break 10:00, maybe even a little more. Then in the 1600m I will try to get under 4:35, it will be a good hard meet!