Blake Bennions running

AM- about a half mile at red rock

PM- Warmed up a half mile and started a mile repeat workout. Plan was to meet Becca over at walmart/planet fitness. I discovered the sidewalk doesn't connect all the way.

Workout went pretty bad. First mile was a struggle to get 5:40 but I managed it. Then I jogged half a mile for recovery. 2nd mile repeat was really tough. I ended up witb something like 5:55. Then I ran out of sidewalk and kinda gave up on doing a 3rd repeat. My body was feeling like crap today. But I got very little sleep and was in the car 5 hours today, and I probably didn't warm up enough- so I also picked a bad day for a hard workout. I'm kind of feeling like just doing an easy run tomorrow and then coming back and trying to redeem myself tuesday, but that might be a lot of days running in a row for my achilles. I'll take it one day at a time. Today disheartened me in terms of running a 17:30 in Seattle in 2 weeks. But I'm not entirely ready to back off of it just yet. I want to see if I don't have a better workout later this week before lowering my goal. Kind of in limbo with workout goals right now. I don't have any super exciting goals besides keep running without hurting my achilles and just lifting in general. The Spartan race in Colorado Springs seems like a good goal for me to focus on.

4.2 miles at just unser 7:00 per mile. Felt pretty good!

Very windy today, over 20 mph. Still wanted to get one more mile repeat workout in before the race.

Started with a mile warm up, but actually ran just under 7 minute pace for it. I did a couple strides and then started the first mile, I went out too hard, like about 5:00 pace. I tried to slow down to 5:40 pace, and I think I did because I ran 5:30 for the full mile. So if my first quarter was like 75 and the next three were 85s, that's 5:30. I need to really chill the first quarter mile of the race next week, going out like I did for today would probably kill my 5k.

Then I did half a mile recovery and low 7 minute pace and did another mile in 5:38 I think. It felt tough. Too be fair I'm at almost 6000 feet elevation and today was very windy. I think next week at sea level I can definitely run under 18 minutes, and sub 17:30 is a possibility.