Blake Bennions running

Workout plan for the week:

Sunday: 4-5 miles

Monday: 3 miles

Tuesday: 1600m, distance run to get up to 10 miles

Wednesday:10-15 mile long run

Thursday: 6 miles

Friday: 3200m race with a long run to get a 10 miles

Saturday: 10-16 mile run

About to go on a run, tomorrow will be in a car for 12+ hours, so its a good idea to do premeet. Should be a 60 mile week.

Didn't feel super good today, a lot of heartburn and kind of sick. But I got out for a run. Tired.

A little running when we stopped during the drive. 27 minutes of fast good running on the road along the beach at night. feels so good! I dont know if I will have access to a track tomorrow :/.

Surfing this morning. I will have to alter my week plan slightly, I need to figure out a way to get to a track. So in the mean time I will go on a 10-12 mile run tonight, 70-85 minutes, and then tomorrow will be the same, then Thursday will be like 6, and Friday will probably be a 3200m. Probably no mile race this week :/. But its ok, I'm trying to get a lot done in a just a few weeks before my mission.

New plan!!! I'm going to race tomorrow, I finally found a track to race on but its too late now, I will go there and race tomorrow morning. So a premeet today. After surfing we went to the Griffeth J. Griffeth observatory science place, it was pretty cool!

I ran a little over 25 minutes by the beach. Tomorrow I will race a 1600m in the morning, I will run up to a track about a mile from my house for a warm up, stretch and do striders, and then I will run in the mountains about 7 miles later in the day. Maybe up to 10 miles in the mountains because I did less today, I might cut out the race on Friday and concentrate on mileage, not sure.

Bad race, then I did a 54 second 400m after it which was ok for a post race. Then I ran over 57 minutes along the beach trail at a fast pace, I kept picking it up to put bikers in their place. I ran past a group of French girls on bikes and was like Je parle Francais aussi! But I don't actually speak French that well yet and am horrible at understanding it so I didn't really understand anything they said and they were biking at like 9 minute mile pace so I kept going haha. But there were also a lot of bikers who were just talking to themselves... Los Angeles is a very weird place. Also a lot less people wave back at you when you wave at them, I did see a few serious runners though, and they were pretty cool. Also I think the number of handicapped people here is very high because A LOT of people act very...unusual around here. It was very beautiful to run along side the ocean with all the mist coming off of it from the hurricane (I think), it was a very good run, lots of fun! Too cold and then tide is too strong to surf today I think, probably just gonna hang out on the beach and play volleyball.

Long run of over 115 minutes in the Santa Monica mountains. Very beautiful run, lots of hills. I ran fast and it felt good. Going to go surfing after lunch. The mountains here are different from Utah, it was very misty in the canyon I was running along, it looked really cool. I ran through a few different mountains and peaked a couple of different places. I'm going to be fine at the Leadville Marathon as long as I handle the elevation well.

Later did a lot of stuff at the ocean, also I walked a few miles to and from bubbagump shrimp for dinner, I've always wanted to go there because of the movie! Its one of my favorite movies! Tomorrow will be a 10 mile run.

Another run up the same trail, a little over 72 minutes today. It was so misty and foggy that I could only see out about 5 to 10 meters in a lot of places, 20 in clear areas, there's only one marker for distance, there's this weird place at 4 miles that they call a park, yesterday I was a total beast and ran to it in 27 minutes, the first 3 miles are pretty steep uphill and the last mile is half up and half down. So sub 7 pace was really good, I think I might have actually done up to 17 miles yesterday. Today I still ran pretty well, I reached the mark in 30 minutes, I was pretty tired but still running decently fast. I ran 8 minutes past the 4 mile mark to make sure it was a mile, it was half downhill and half uphill. Then I ran back, the run back took me 34 minutes so that was sub 7 minute mile pace. Tomorrow will probably be a day off, we leave pretty early, stop to race these really fast cars, and the drive home. We might not be home until 1am. So I might just run to stretch my legs when we stop. The Sunday I will do Wasatch pepperwood or something, maybe something higher elevation. I need to talk to Coach Murphy about what I need to do the week of the marathon. Last day of beach and surfing!

I'M GOING TO SUU!!! They said they will definitely have a spot for me after my mission, I will have to work hard to keep it though, and I will! I'm so happy and grateful for this opportunity, it is such a huge blessing!

Just a little running when we stopped in Nevada, didnt get home until midnight so I decided to go to bed.