Blake Bennions running

Circling the track with Jake, getting kinda hot. Quads and glutes/hips are mild-moderately sore today.

Soreness mostly gone but feeling flat, stuffy, short of breath on today's run. At least partially do to bad air quality and either allergies or a minor but. 4x800m tomorrow and then nothing but easy and strides until the race.

With Jake Kolten and Henry. Warned up 2 miles and then did 3x800m at race pace plus a couple of strides. 2 of the 800ms were slightly downhill and the last was slightly uphill. Splits were 2:46, 2:43, 2:47. If I can do the first 4 at just under 5:30 and then cut down to 5:15 average for the downhill there's a small chance of sub 70.

Legs felt better today, felt my quads a little bit on the 800ms and strides but not too bad. I think 72 more hours with a couple easy 3-4 milers and I'll feel great for race day.

Easy run. Legs are feeling mostly recovered from crossover but I am dealing with some sort of minor bug/allergies. I'll do 2-3 easy in the morning and then try to stay off my feet the rest of tomorrow.

Easy + 2 strides with Henry

Rough day on the roads, I'm definitely sick. My head and lungs felt like trash, my legs felt pretty good. I tried going out properly but 5:37 pace was feeling worse than 5:25 pace was at salt lake 10K, and then around mile 4/5 once we got to the downhill I just felt like crawling under a rock and falling asleep. Just kept the legs moving until I got to the finish line.

Still a fun morning but hampered by generally feeling kinda crappy. Legs feel pretty fresh though, once this bug clears up I'll be able to get back to training. Part of me feels a blow to my confidence because this is two road half marathons where I've become physically ill and had crap races in a row, but I think I've just gotten super unlucky.

It does make me either want to add another half marathon before Des news or maybe just so the 10k/half at des news because I feel like I should execute a good road half before I move up to the full... I also still don't understand how people get down enough liquid during marathons- when I grab cups during these races I'm lucky if a 3rd of the liquid gets into my mouth and the rest splatters all over my jersey. And it's not like amateur marathoners get the personal bottles. Maybe I'll become a camel back guy.