Blake Bennions running

10.5, warm up and then 10 miles at porter Rockwell, felt good today. We brought the pace down to 6:55 and then Davis started running faster and it felt easy so I went with him and started going 6:25 or so, after a while I was on my own so I don't know what pace I was going, it felt easy and good, Davis almost caught up in the last mile with 6:05 so it was probably wasn't faster than 6:20 pace. So it was a good run.

Easy 20x200ms, I'm ready to kill it at the meet on Saturday. I've been feeling crap for a long time, but I'm ready to destroy the mile at taylorsville, no more pansy 68 second first laps, I'm going to go out in 65 hold on for laps 2 and 3 and then run the last lap in 65 or better. I need to get in the good heat at the Davis Invite so I need to improve my PR. I'm feeling real energy and fire, I'm going to finally do it.

Warm up and then 6 miles in the snow. Some guy started wearing high heels to school...why couldn't I have been born 10 years earlier?

Warm up, then 3 miles more warm up, then 4x200m at 26-28 seconds. I ran 27 and 26 for them all, maybe 28 on the first. The last one was good, solid effort. They were a little bit hard but not bad, my arm started hurting a significant amount right above the elbow, so thats weird. I'm really grateful that I'm not doing the 3200 at Taylorsville so I can be free for the 1600m. I'm going sub 4:30 this time, I'm going to PR!

Pre meet, easy 20 minutes of running and 6 striders. Need to get 8 hours of sleep tonight.

Long meet, I didn't race until 12:30, more than 4 hours after we got there. I started out ok, didn't run in lane 1 as much as I would've liked, I settled in on the first lap and was surprised to hear I only ran 67, but the next lap I got into 5th or 6th place and started trying to get ahead of this kid from Wyoming cause he was falling back a bit and was in my way but each time he would close the gap and start elbowing me, I elbowed back but he wouldn't move, this happened a 3 or 4 times until I just decided to let it go. He probably cost me 3 or 4 seconds, but I was getting pretty tired by the end of lap 2 which was 69 seconds or so, but I worked through it and stayed with the pack, I kicked past the little jerk but he came back. But if hadn't been messing up my race I would've killed him and maybe gotten 4th. But I gave a good effort and handled the situation well, probably going to be in the fastest heat of the regular meet at Davis Invitational, but I will still run sub 4:30 there! After that I had two hours before the 800m, I was the last seed of the fastest heat so I was in lane 3 or 4 for the first hundred which added a second or two but once I got up there I was fine, I ran a good first lap and got 60, Murphy told me to go for 59 so if you take the first turn into account I probably did get 59, but the 2nd lap was hard, I was tired and worked through it respectably but I only ran a 66 to get 2:06. Then I had a decent break in which I cooled down a little and eventually got to the 4x400m, Andrew gave it to me with the lead and I opened the gap further so we were far ahead and hung on for the win, I think I ran 54 or 53, it was a good effort. After my 400m I ran to iceburg with Andrew and got a shake, I wanted to get small but all their sizes are pretty big! Goodmeet though, I had fun, got a medal, and I'm going to break 4:30 and 2:00 soon, probably 10:00 at some point too haha. I think a sub 2:00 could happen at practice, after my 1600m at BYU, or maybe the 2nd day of racing at region, or maybe after the season. I'm going to improve a lot atthr Davis Invitational, its going to be a good PR!