Blake Bennions running

Mile repeats with a mile recovery jog rest. Reps were 5:29, 5:23, 5:19. Felt awful to start the workout, I had shortness of breath for the entire first 2 reps, it cleared up a bit for the last one. Was a bit windy but nice and cool in the high 60s.

Even without feeling great it was a lot more fun than the mile repeats I did before going to Utah where I averaged like 5:40, although I was giving a bigger effort today. Sub 17 doesn't seem out of reach if I can do 30-40 mpw this summer and keep doing workouts like this. I'd like to break 16 in a track meet next spring.

Nice easy run after watching Conner Mantz defend his title at the bolderboulder, that was really fun to watch. Definitely inspires me to run more. Also kinda want to go run it next year and be part of that huge crowd. My old SUU teammate Aiden Reed won the open race as well in the 3rd fastest time ever!

2 stroller miles at the track during the morning walk, a little extra running on the way home.

Didn't have much time today so I cut it short. I warmed up a mile and did a few reps at mile pace trying to get more used to running faster, I did an 800, 400, and 600m. I was 1 second slow on everything compared to where I wanted to be, 2:25, 73, 1:49.

The pace did not feel good, but to be fair I haven't been training for faster stuff outside of strides. I think I've been lazy and only getting up to like low 5:00 pace and I need them to be where i want my mile pace to be. Doing timed 100ms for strides will probably help with that.

I should also do some mile specific workouts but I've noticed anaerobic workouts like that mess with my breathing an congestion long term, so I prefer limiting that. I'll have to figure something out. I can do 10k and even 5k pace workouts and I feel okay, but sub 5 minute pace workouts mess up my whole system. From my understanding it's pretty much just the mucus my asthma creates comes up and wrecks my nasal passageways and what not. On the other hand I finished with a 77 getting to a 5:19 mile for my last of the mile repeats last week so I think faster paced are getting more comfortable to an extent, I'll start with just giving better efforts on the strides and throwing in a few mile pace efforts here and there. I do yearn for the 400m repeats, and I know that's what would truly help.

I definitely have some work to do before I can run sub 4:50.

Easy run with 6 timed 100m strides, they were all 15-16 seconds with 1 14.