Blake Bennions running

2 easy miles to keep keep warm for the gully time trial tomorrow, but I didn't want to do too much. I'm taking my first crack at sub 40:00 in the gully long run. I don't know what to expect but I will bring some sunglasses and a watch and run my best!

We just ran the gully today, no race. Cubby, Davis, Ashton, and I ran it in 48 minutes and it was pretty easy. After we ran the gully, some of the new kids who we sent to do the bridge and back weren't back yet so we waited a little and then went searching for them, some people went to the lower gully, some went to the top train and I went from the parking lot to the road after the bridge and got picked up by Davis. So that was an extra 2.5 or so but I stopped a few times to look around because the girls said they saw him in the bushes or something when they were running. I ran that pretty slow too. I will do another 3 or 4 miles tonight. Tomorrow we have our first speed workout of the summer at cottonwood complex, that will be good.

Something is very wrong with fastrunningblog. More people than I expected showed up today, we had 2 freshman! 4 boys showed up, I did, read, hunter, and the new aaron. And 6 girls showed up, sarah, julia, maddy, Julias freshman sister, a new sophemore, and kristen. The 4 new runners each ran 2 laps of the region course, aaron ran all 3 laps though. We ran the course really slowly, about 10:00 pace but some of the runners are just really new. They will get into it by mid july for sure. We have some rookie runners coming to alta ski resort tomorrow, like ones that can only run 2 miles right now. I'm glad coach is going to be there tomorrow! We also did the hills, and everyone got through those fine. We did drills and core as well. We did the core for 45 seconds for all of them but a minute for the sit ups. I don't think we worked the freshman too hard today, but they got a taste of what running is like. I will do another 5 miles later on. maybe at 3, or maybe after work. If its after work i might cut it to 4.

Really good alta run today, I felt really good the entire time. Kramer and I had to slow down for cubby and we stopped twice which kind of annoyed me because I wanted to get more mileage, but it's just a fun run and the first alta run of the year, but this is quite the contrary of my first alta run before sophomore year two years ago when I couldn't make it up to the campground without stopping to walk a lot and was the slowest person on that run, or even the first run last year when I had to stop on the way up I think and was completely dead at the top. I'm at a new height of aerobic fitness and I need to put in my summer mileage so I can dominate in cross country. 4-5 miles later. I need more mileage.

later I ran to work. I didn't intend to, but I ran it fast. I left at 3:43 or 3:45 and got to work at 4:07. Work is 4 miles away. It didn't feel like 5:30-6:00 pace though! I thought I was going a little fast just so I could get there by 4:15, but honestly if someone had told me I was running 7:30 pace I would have believed them, I thought it was more like 7:00 or maybe a little under. So it's good that I'm in really good shape already, probably bad that I ran as fast as I did. I walked for over an hour at work again, I do every shift, and I was able to take a nice shower at work so that was good too...4 showers today hahaha, they were all pretty short though. I feel really good about fast I currently am, possibilities are endless! 55-60 miles this week. 10 tomorrow, unless we do more than 10 in the morning, 8 on Friday, 8-14 on Saturday. Maybe we will go to jeremy ranch?

I warmed up about .4 miles or so, then we did ten minutes of warm up followed by 40 minutes of  fartleks, I got ahead of everyone and ran back on the easy part and found Ashton a ways back, cubby and read weren't in sight so we just kept going. The only other times I saw those guys were when they came to the park, but they came through the gully, not the longer run way, they did 1 lap, and when I was finishing, last quarter or half mile. The did a little under 7 probably, Ashton did 8 in those 60, I did 8.3 about, maybe more, like 8.5, but I will just add .3 from running back after each rep. We circled the park two times I think, I don't think 3. It was a good workout, I will be sore! Especially after yesterday. I think I will do another 2 or 3 miles tonight. I just realized I added .6 on by regrouping with Ashton each time, because I didn't just run back to him, I had to run the part I just ran back as well. So 8.6 in the hour, .4 from the warmup.

Good, nice paced two a day. I had to cut my run to 6 miles before work, then I ran 2.4 on the tread mill at work. Pretty fast running, feels good! Maybe more detail later.

I ran to the rec center, ran 2.05 on the tread mill, ran to Brighton high school, back to the Rec center, back to home, did a 2.1 mile loop followed by a .25 mile loop and had my 10 plus an extra .1 which is nice. 55 mile week, I'm tired right now after that run but I ran it kinda fast. I really need to take some days easier haha. But I feel comfortable with the mileage, work is another story haha. I might do 2 easy miles tomorrow, or maybe a nice short bike ride. Also I changed my availability so now work won't be as annoying. Next week should be over 60 miles, longer alta run, and 2 a days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Along with 20-24 miles on the weekend. Maybe one of these weeks I will just take a week of from work to relax and run, maybe the last week of summer, to give myself a little boost going into the school year and season.