Blake Bennions running

5 miles of steep hiking and climbing, my achilles held up pretty well. Massage guns might be magic. Also played some pretty intense pool ball yesterday.

Calves were still kind of tight from yesterdays steep climb but I decided to go for a run anyways. Ran up to wasatch blvd while my parents biked, I ran almost 40 seconds faster per mile (6:39) than I did last time I did it a few weeks ago and felt a lot less dead. It's somewhat demoralizing how much of a difference my asthma medication (cingular) makes, but I'm grateful that I have it. I won't be going without it again in the future if it can be helped. The massage gun and asthma medication are helping me a lot, so maybe I'll be able to get back into some pretty decent shape. I might also get a nose surgery to help with my breathing issues. We'll see. Overall a great day.

Oof that workout hit me hard. I've missed a couple days of asthma medication but got back on it today. I averaged a pretty quick pace at 7:15 while doing my typical run to the park and 6 spartan workouts. I do:

Warm up to park

Side climb on the outside of the rope bridge 3 times back and forth,

two thirds of a mile,

same rope climb,

two thirds of a mile,

Monkey handles with climb up and around the end of the bars to keep off the ground and then back the other way with 7 pull ups at the end.

Longer run of about a mile.

30 burpees

Third of a mile

Army crawl

Two thirds of a mile

Monkey bars with 4 pull ups after going through to the end of the course, going backwards through the course with 3 more pull ups at the end.

Run home

Full workout of 4.2 miles and those 6 workouts took 39 minutes.