Blake Bennions running

Ran at the park, my ankle is kind of hurting now which is bad, but its lower like the upper heel bone where it connects to the Achilles. Whatever, I iced the crap out of it when I got home. I've been averaging mid 6 minute range on my runs which has been good, trying to be ready to train with the guys. I've been make sure I do easy runs too. My goal for this week is 40+ miles, so either 7 days of about 6 miles per day or 6 days of about 7 miles per day. Hopefully 7 days of 7-8 miles a day, that would be best case scenario. Need to hot tub more but the rec center has been really letting me down with never being open lately.

Nice morning shakeout with Zach and Ian, it was really nice to see Zach again before he goes on his mission to Tahiti! Gonna miss that guy. More miles on the way as I'm going to run with sage later today. Has potential to be my first double digit mile day of the summer.

Gully longer run with Sage, it was fun to run with him again! My ankle was bugging me pretty bad during the run, but it wasn't the Achilles, it was more the side of my ankle where the big bone is as well as the heel. Good news is that the achilles felt good, bad news is that there's a weird new ankle issue. Not sure what's going on, all I can do is nuke it with hot tub and ice multiple times per day and try to go easy on it. Other good news is that I got 11 miles today and I'm still feeling fresh! I feel like I could still go do another 5-6 at the park. I won't though because that would be obscenely irresponsible of me with ankle and all.

Fortunately I wasn't stupid enough to run yesterday on my busted ankle, but it was feeling healed enough today I tried it out for 5 miles and it felt alright.

Nice day, it was really busy but good busy. I saw the doctor and they gave me inserts which feel really nice to run on. Sounds like it was probably the switch to more minimalist shoes that sparked the injury. They told me to wait to start pt to switch shoes, but pt won't start for almost a month and hopefully I will be doing lots better by then. I think these inserts will do fine and if my ankles are better in a few weeks I can just candle and get a pair of either brooks adrenaline or saucony omni, those two have worked very well for me in the past. Anyways today I got in 4 miles before the appointment and over 3 after date, I ran the 3 pretty fast which was good. 3 races planned for July, sandy classic, draper days, and D news 5k, the last one is really just because Jimmer Fredette is racing in it and it would be fun to beat him.

Easy run today except for when I ran to the Brighton track I just was so happy to be on a track I ran mid 5 minute range mile haha, it felt nice though so that's encouraging. Hopefully I will be in good enough shape for sandy classic I can battle for sub 17:00, it's a slow course so I think that's a reasonable goal. I'm also trying to run on the road more to get my legs used to it, they don't like terrain that isn't grass very much right now. Which is great for cross country, but for training when I get back to cedar they need to good on the roads too. My ankles felt fine on the roads and track today, which accounted for 2.5 miles of the run. The only time my ankles hurt was at the beginning of the run.

Ran to get to 40 today. Next run will probably be Tuesday. Want to give my ankles a rest. Then hopefully try for 5 days 8 miles each. Its ok it ends up being 6-8 depending on day.